Club de Fútbol Virgen de Lluc (popularly Verge de Lluc) is a football club from Palma (Balearic Islands, Spain), founded in 1969.
| Full name | Club de Fútbol Virgen de Lluc | |
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| Nickname(s) | Virgen de Lluc | |
| Founded | 1969 | |
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The club was one of the most representative entities in the neighborhood, of a humble and popular nature. It was created at Mare de Déu de Lluc neighborhood, built in 1957 on the outskirts of Palma as a group of social housing, basically populated by peninsular immigrant population.[1]
History
editInitially there was a children's team (1958-59 season) and a youth team (1961-62 season), but it was not until 1969 that the club achieved stability. Then it began to compete his first men's team and, since 1970, the youth and women's teams. Her best years came in the early 1970s, with the women's team, and in the early 1990s, when the men's team reached Regional Preferente.
In the mid-1990s the club's activity began to decline due to the poor condition of its playing field. From 1997 first team stopped competing and in 2002 the club was sportingly inactive due to lack of adequate playing field. Between 2014 and 2016 an attempt was made to regain the club's activity with grassroots football teams,[2] but the initiative was unsuccessful.
Despite everything, the club did not disappear and was able to maintain a basic structure. It resumed activity during the 2024-25 season, following the reopening of its pitch in the summer of 2024.[3]
Season to season
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- 2 seasons in Reg. Pref.
- 15 seasons in 1ª Reg.
- 11 seasons in 2ª Reg.
- 1 seasons in 3ª Reg.
Honours
edit- Segunda Regional
- Winners (1): 1981-82
- Runners-up (1): 1974-75
- Tercera Regional
- Runners-up (1): 1972-73
- Mallorca Women Championship
- Winners (1): 1971
Women's team
editThe club has a women's section, becoming one of the oldest clubs in competition in Balearic Islands. The club achieved great importance in the early 1970s thanks to women's team, one of the first ones organized in Mallorca and the one with the greatest sporting potential in those years when the competition was organized for the first time in Balearic Islands, despite which was not consolidated. The team won the Championship of Mallorca organized in the 1970–71 season, against CE Constància, and remained the most representative team until the disappearance of women's football in Balearic Islands, around 1973.[4][5]
With the recovery of the club's sports activity following the reopening of the playing field, the women's team was also recovered, which was active from the 2024-25 season.[6]
Stadium
editThe club's playing field, formerly known as Campo de Fútbol José Sempere, is located in the same neighborhood of Mare de Déu de Lluc. It was privately owned until 2002, when Palma City Council acquired it for reforming the field; which was very dilapidated and had already ceased to function due to its poor condition.[7]
Some maintenance work was undertaken in 2015 and reform was planned, but nothing was done.[8] In May 2018, the first phase of reform was executed with the demolition of outer wall, bleachers and construction of a new wall.[9][10] The second phase was halted and was not completed until 10 July 2024, when the field was reopened.[3]
References
edit- ^ Centre d'Estudis i Documentació Contemporània (CEDOC) (ed.). "2 April 1957" (PDF). Cronologia de les Illes Balears del segle XX. El franquisme, 1939-1975 (in Catalan). p. 131.
- ^ "El campo de fútbol de Verge de Lluc reabrirá para los deportistas de la barriada". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 22 July 2015.
- ^ a b "Inaugurado el nuevo campo de Verge de Lluc, habilitado para la práctica de fútbol y hockey sobre hierba". Europa Press (in Spanish). 10 July 2024.
- ^ CIHEFE, ed. (1 June 2021). "Notas para una historia del fútbol femenino balear. El campeonato de 1971". Cuadernos de Fútbol, 132 (in Spanish). ISSN 1989-6379.
- ^ "Pioneras del fútbol balear: la historia de las jugadoras del Verge de Lluc". Última Hora (in Spanish). 8 March 2022.
- ^ "CF Virgen de Lluc. Femenina Regional Mallorca". Federació de Futbol de les Illes Balears (FFIB) (in Catalan).
- ^ "Cort compra el camp de futbol de Verge de Lluc per 500.000 E". Diari de Balears (in Catalan). 24 October 2002.
- ^ "La zona deportiva tiene problemas desde el año 2002, cuando aún era privada". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 22 July 2015.
- ^ "Arranca la primera fase de la reforma del campo de fútbol de Verge de Lluc, presupuestada en 28.870 euros". Europa Press (in Spanish). 30 May 2018.
- ^ "Cuenta atrás para el nuevo campo del Verge de Lluc". Última Hora (in Spanish). 31 May 2018.