CD Tenerife


Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Founded in 1912, it plays in Segunda División, holding home matches at the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López, with a 22,824-seat capacity.
Tenerife has a history playing in the top flight of La Liga. They have been promoted to the top tier on 4 occasions, including a 10-year stint from 1989 to 1999. The club managed to finish as high as 5th in the league table on two occasions during that period, which qualified them for the first round of the UEFA Cup. They most recently played in La Liga in 2010.
Being based on the offshore Canary archipelago, while playing its away games on the Spanish mainland, it and rivals Las Palmas from Gran Canaria are two of the most geographically isolated European professional clubs. Tenerife and Las Palmas contest the Canary Islands derby.

History

Club Deportivo Tenerife was founded in 1912 as Sporting Club Tenerife, which had come about as a merger between two or more previous football clubs on the island. The club changed its name to Club Deportivo Tenerife in 1922. La Liga started in 1928, but the team played in regional divisions until it was promoted to the Segunda División in 1953. It first reached the top flight in 1961, being immediately relegated back and, in the following 27 years, played almost exclusively in the second level, also spending three years in Tercera División and six – five in a row – in Segunda División B, the newly created division three.
In 1985, when Tenerife were relegated to the third division for a second time, Javier Pérez became president of the club. The side was promoted this year to the second level and, two years later, returned to the first, after winning the promotion playoff against Real Betis.
In 1991, Jorge Valdano took charge of the club as manager, and the Argentine would help rob former side Real Madrid of two consecutive league titles in the last round, to the benefit of Barcelona. In the first season, the Canary Islands outfit barely avoided relegation, but would finish in a best-ever fifth position in the following year, eventually reaching the round of 16 in the subsequent UEFA Cup, losing to Juventus 2–4 on aggregate.
German Jupp Heynckes became head coach of Tenerife in 1995, leading the club to another fifth-placed finish and the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey. In the 1996–97 UEFA Cup, the islanders fared better, reaching the last-four after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv, Lazio, Feyenoord and Brøndby, only bowing out to eventual winners Schalke 04.
Tenerife then went on a downward spiral which eventually led to relegation to the "silver category" in 1999, prompting various managerial changes within the club. In 2001, the club was again promoted, led by Rafael Benítez, who promptly left to take up the manager's job at Valencia; the promotion was achieved in the last match of the campaign thanks to a goal from Hugo Morales.
, in 2008
Pepe Mel became the new trainer but the first division season never took off, as Tenerife were beaten heavily at home by Barcelona 0–6, which cost the manager his job. Javier Clemente, formerly with the Spain national team, took the reins, but could not help prevent the eventual immediate relegation.
Tenerife suffered from serious economic problems in the following years, owing more than €40 million. President Pérez was replaced with Víctor Perez de Ascanio, who resigned due to bad management, leaving his position to Miguel Concepción, who negotiated with local politicians and businessmen, also creating a construction company as a subsidiary of the side.
On 13 June 2009, Tenerife secured a top flight return after a seven-year absence after a 1–0 win at Girona. In the following season, even though the team held on until the last round, another relegation befell, after the 0–1 loss at third-placed Valencia.
2010–11 brought with it three coaching changes, as Tenerife eventually suffered another relegation, returning to the third division after 24 years. On 2 June 2013, the club, led by Álvaro Cervera, returned to the second level after winning the promotion play-off against Hospitalet.

Other sports sections

Academy in China

On 16 October 2017 it was agreed to start the CD Tenerife Academy in China. Thanks to the agreement between International Football Academy Hong Kong and CD Tenerife, the club starts the internationalization of its training. The director of the academy is Roberto Mickel. On 23 April 2018, the academy began its activity, with boys and girls between four and eighteen years old, in the city of Shenzhen, in the province of Canton. Initially, the first steps were aimed at creating the structure of the technification academy and promoting the CD Tenerife methodology and competition values, but with fair play. The collaboration agreement between the International Football Academy and the CD Tenerife was signed until 2021. In this way, in Shenzhen, with the CD Tenerife shield and the white and blue colors that represent the club, training methods developed in the base football area run by Sesé Rivero.

Seasons

Season to season

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
1928–53—Regional—
1953/5422ª6th
1954/5522ª9th
1955/5622ª9th
1956/5722ª13th
1957/5822ª2nd
1958/5922ª4thRound of 32
1959/6022ª10th1st round
1960/6122ª1stQuarter-finals
1961/6211ª16thQuarter-finals
1962/6322ª10thRound of 16
1963/6422ª5thRound of 32
1964/6522ª11thRound of 32
1965/6622ª8th1st round
1966/6722ª11thRound of 32
1967/6822ª9th1st round
1968/6933ª5th
1969/7033ª2nd1st round
1970/7133ª1stRound of 32
1971/7222ª9th4th round

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
1972/7322ª14th4th round
1973/7422ª4thRound of 32
1974/7522ª12th4th round
1975/7622ª7thQuarter-finals
1976/7722ª6th1st round
1977/7822ª19thRound of 16
1978/7932ªB6th2nd round
1979/8032ªB3rd2nd round
1980/8132ªB5th2nd round
1981/8232ªB13th3rd round
1982/8332ªB2nd
1983/8422ª15th1st round
1984/8522ª11thRound of 16
1985/8622ª19thRound of 16
1986/8732ªB1st2nd round
1987/8822ª12th4th round
1988/8922ª3rdRound of 32
1989/9011ª18thRound of 16
1990/9111ª14th5th round
1991/9211ª13th5th round

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
1992/9311ª5th3rd round
1993/9411ª10thSemi-Finals
1994/9511ª15th3rd round
1995/9611ª5thQuarter-finals
1996/9711ª9thRound of 16
1997/9811ª16th2nd round
1998/9911ª19th4th round
1999/0022ª14th2nd round
2000/0122ª3rdRound of 16
2001/0211ª19thRound of 64
2002/0322ª8thRound of 64
2003/0422ª8thRound of 64
2004/0522ª9thRound of 32
2005/0622ª18th1st round
2006/0722ª7th2nd round
2007/0822ª11th3rd round
2008/0922ª3rd3rd round
2009/1011ª19thRound of 32
2010/1122ª20th2nd round
2011/1232ªB2nd1st round

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey
2012/1332ªB1st2nd round
2013/1422ª11th2nd round
2014/1522ª17th2nd round
2015/1622ª13th2nd round
2016/1722ª4th3rd round
2017/1822ª11thRound of 32
2018/1922ª16th2nd Round
2019/2022ªRound of 16

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Honours

Reserve team

Out on loan

Current technical staff

International players

Notable coaches

Fans

Fans of Tenerife are called Chicharreros because in early days, the inhabitants of a small fishing village called Santa Cruz consumed "chicharros" as a main part of their diet.
Other inhabitants of Tenerife and the Canary Islands used the moniker as a pejorative name, but finally the inhabitants of Santa Cruz accepted it affectionately.