Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia Club de Fútbol[1] was founded in 1999 and had previously a team which played in Tercera División from 2000 to 2005.[2] In parallel was founded in 2004 the Club de Fútbol Los Garres, making its first appearance in Tercera División in 2008–09 as Murcia Deportivo Club de Fútbol. In 2009 a businessman from Beniaján, Murcia, acquired the club and moved it to his local town; one year later the club relocated again, now to Sangonera la Verde, and, in 2011, UCAM became its new owner.[3]
At the end of the 2011–12 season, after Orihuela suffered relegation from Segunda División B due to irregularities, UCAM Murcia took its place.[4] After suffering relegation, the club bounced back to the third level immediately, and achieved a respectable second place in his group during the 2014–15 campaign; it missed out promotion in the play-offs, after being knocked out by Bilbao Athletic B, which would later achieve promotion.
The first season of UCAM in the second flight would be short-lived, as they ended in the 19th position, and subsequently relegated to the third tier, after being defeated in a do-or-die game by Gimnàstic de Tarragona in the last matchday. In the 2018-19 season the club finished 5th with 66 points in the Segunda División B, Group 4.[5]
Club names
Murcia Deportivo Club de Fútbol (1999-2005)
Murcia Deportivo-Rincón de Seca Club de Fútbol (2007-2008)
Murcia Deportivo Club de Fútbol-UCAM (2008-2009)
Costa Cálida-Beniaján Club de Fútbol (2009-2010)
Costa Cálida-Sangonera Club de Fútbol (2010-2011)
UCAM Murcia Club de Fútbol (2011-2015)
UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia Club de Fútbol (2015-)
UCAM Murcia’s highest home attendance is 5,877, in a 2016–17 Segunda División match against Rayo Vallecano. The club’s two main supporters groups are Los T-UCAM who were founded in 2015 and Los Blue Gold who were founded in 2016.[6][7]
