Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. (Spanish), also known as Llevant Unió Esportiva (Catalan), is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, the oldest of the two city ones. They currently play in Segunda División, after being relegated from La Liga in 2007-08, their fifth season of top flight football.
The club was originally formed in 1909 as Levante FC, taking their name from the beach "Levante" in La Malvarrosa. Their local rivals Valencia CF wer...
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Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. (Spanish), also known as Llevant Unió Esportiva (Catalan), is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, the oldest of the two city ones. They currently play in Segunda División, after being relegated from La Liga in 2007-08, their fifth season of top flight football.
The club was originally formed in 1909 as Levante FC, taking their name from the beach "Levante" in La Malvarrosa. Their local rivals Valencia CF were not formed until 1919. In 1937 Levante FC won the Copa de la España Libre, a cup competition organised in the Republican area of Spain. They adopted their current name in 1942 following a merger with Gimnástico FC. During the early 1980s Johan Cruyff briefly played for the club.
Levante FC was originally formed in 1909 and was one of the pioneering football clubs in Valencia. However, another club, Cabanyal FC had been playing since 1903. The club’s earliest games were played at La Platjeta, near the docks on a plot of land owned by a...
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