CF Sporting Mahonés explained

Clubname:Sporting Mahonés
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Fullname:Club de Fútbol Sporting Mahonés
Founded:1974
Dissolved:2012
Ground:Bintaufa, Mahón,
Balearic Islands, Spain
Capacity:3,000
Season:2011–12
Position:2ªB – Group 3,
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Current:2011–12 Segunda División B

Club de Fútbol Sporting Mahonés was a Spanish football team based in Mahón, Menorca, in the autonomous community of Balearic Islands prior to its 2012 dissolution. The club has a successor called Sporting Mahón in the local Menorcan league.[1]

C.F. Sporting Mahonés resulted from the merger of two other Mahon teams, Club Deportivo Menorca and Union Deportiva Mahon, in July 1974. They began life in the regional divisions of Balearic football before progressing to the Spanish Third Division in 1977–78.

On 24 January 2012 the team announced it was withdrawing from the Segunda División B – Group 3, in mid-season, due to the fact that practically all the professional squad had left the club. With debts of over 230,000 euros and a transfer embargo in place, the club could not raise a team for the remainder of the season. Their final game was a 0–6 defeat at Sant Andreu,[2] and just one year after the club withdrew from all competitions, on the 20th May 2013, the directives of the club agreed to dissolve Sporting Mahonés.

Between formation and 1978, Sporting played at two locations close to the centre of town, starting out at the former home of CD Menorca, the Campo Municipal de San Carlos. The following season saw the club play at the Estadio Mahonés, which had been the home of UD Mahón. More latterly home matches were played at the 3,000 seat capacity Estadio Bintaufa, situated to the south of the city, close to the Aeronautic Club.[3]

Just only a month after Sporting Mahonés disappeared, old directives of the club created a phoenix club named CF Sporting de Mahón, which currently plays in the Regional Preferente de Menorca, the regional league of Menorca. Despite the efforts done by the current directives of Sporting de Mahón to make their team able to be promoted, the club has never been promoted to Tercera División/Tercera Federación in its history of 11 years. However, Sporting de Mahón plays in the exact same location as Sporting Mahonés, in an artificial field located just few meters of Estadio Binitaufa.

Season to season

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
1974–774Regional
1977/78414th
1978/79411th
1979/8045th
1980/8144th
1981/8244th
1982/8348th
1983/8446th
1984/8546th
1985/8644th
1986/8741st
1987/8832ªB14th
1988/8932ªB5th
1989/9032ªB8th
1990/9132ªB12th
1991/9232ªB12th
1992/9332ªB19th
1993/9446th
1994/95410th
SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
1995/96414th
1996/97410th
1997/9843rd
1998/99411th
1999/0045th
2000/01414th
2001/02416th
2002/03414th
2003/04416th
2004/0544th
2005/0644th
2006/07413th
2007/0849th
2008/0942nd
2009/1032ªB14th
2010/1132ªB15th
2011/1232ªB
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Last squad

According to Futbolme. Updated on 29 July 2011

Notable former players

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sporting Mahon Menorca Football. 7 November 2019. Menorca Football. 16 October 2020. 21 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211121090347/https://www.menorcafootball.com/club/sporting-mahon/. live.
  2. http://www.menorca.info/deportes/453888/sporting/echa/cierre El Sporting echa el cierre (Sporting closes doors)
  3. Web site: Mahón – Estadi de Bintaufa . Chris . Clements . 8 December 2011 . estadiosdeespana.com. 17 December 2015 . 23 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151223045031/http://www.estadiosdeespana.com/posts/mahon-estadi-de-bintaufa/ . live .