Levante UD
Categories: Spanish football clubs
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| Full name | Levante Union Deportiva |
| Nickname(s) | Granotas |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Ground | Estadio Ciudad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain |
| Capacity | 25,570 |
| Chairman | Pedro Villarroel Guzmán |
| Manager | Jose Luis Oltra |
| League | Segunda División |
| 2004-05 | La Liga, 18th |
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Levante Union Deportiva is a football club that has won promotion to the Primera División (First Division) of the Spanish Football League for the 2004–2005 season as champions of the Segunda División (Second Division). They were relegated later that season and were sent straight back down to the Segunda Division.
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History
Levante UD, or Llevant UE to give the team its name in the Valencian language, is the second team of the city of Valencia, Spain.
Always in the shadows of Valencia, CF, Levante has been around since the early 1900s and originally played in their modest stadium Campo de Vallejo. In the early 1970s they moved into their current stadium, the 27 792 seater Ciudad de Valencia.
Before 2004, Levante UD had only been in the First Division for two seasons (1963–1964 and 1964–1965), although they came very close in 2003. The two most illustrious players to play for the team are Johan Cruijff and Caszely. Levante fans are known as Granotas, or frogs.
After gaining promotion, Levante had a postive start to the season, quickly gathering several points to challenge among the top ten for the first half of their season. But things went suddenly downhill as the season went on. A poor run of form saw them slip alarmingly down the pecking order until they found themselves needing a win to stay up on the last day. They didn't get it, and were relegated straight back down again, a surprise considering their earlier form.
Current Squad 2005/06
The numbers are established according to the official website:www.levanteud.com and www.lfp.es
As of September 1 2005
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Squad changes during 2005/06 season
In:
- Image:Spain flag large.png Javi Rodríguez - Signed From Pontevedra CF
- Image:Spain flag large.png Nagore - Signed From RCD Mallorca
- Image:Ghana flag large.png Image:Norway flag.png Riga - Signed From Sparta de Rotterdam
- Image:France flag large.png Image:European flag.png Courtois - Signed From Istres
- Image:Spain flag large.png Carmelo - Signed From UD Las Palmas
- Image:Brazil flag large.png Lombardi - Signed From Paraná
- Image:Spain flag large.png Tello - Signed From Real Madrid B
Out
- Image:Spain flag large.png Rivera - Transfered To Real Betis
- Image:Spain flag large.png Mora - Transfered To Valencia CF
- Image:Spain flag large.png Pinillos - Transfered To Racing de Santander
- Image:Spain flag large.png Jofre - Transfered To RCD Espanyol
- Image:Spain flag large.png Sergio Garcia - Transfered To Real Zaragoza
- Image:Switzerland flag large.png Image:Flag of Italy.png Celestini - Transfered To Getafe CF
Statistics 2005/06
| Second Division | Position | Pts | P | W | D | L | F | A |
| Levante UD | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 0 |
- Top Scores:
- Courtois - 1 goals
- Reggi - 1 goals
- - - 1 goals
- Top Goalkeepers
- Cavallero - 0 goals In 1 Matchs
- - - - goals In - Matchs
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| Spanish Second Division B - Group 3 |
| Badalona | Sabadell | Terrassa | San Andreu | Peralta | Reus Deportiu | Alicante | Figueres | Alfaro | Gramenet Alcoyano | Levante B | Huesca | Vila-Joiosa | L´Hospitalet | Osasuna B | Benidorm | Zaragoza B | Barcelona B | Logroñes |
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