Júpiter Leonés
| Full name | Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa B Júpiter Leonés S.A.D. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1929 (re-founded in 2014) |
| Ground |
Estadio Puente Castro, León, Spain |
| Capacity | 5,500 |
| League | Regional Aficionados |
| 2015–16 | 1ª Provincial, 1st |
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa B Júpiter Leonés S.A.D., also known as Júpiter Leonés, is a Spanish football team based in León, in the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Founded in 1929 and re-founded in 2014, it is the reserve team of Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa.
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa B was born from the team Jupiter Leonés, founded in 1929 and originally wearing red or claret t-shirt and black pants. Between 1929 and 1936, Júpiter was not registered in the Regional Federation and only played friendly matches. It did not have its own stadium, so it played in different pitches depending of its availability.
With the disappearance of Cultural Leonesa, in the years of the Spanish Second Republic and the difficulties during the Spanish Civil War, Júpiter became the first team in the city of León, over the other main team of the city in the 1930s, the Deportivo Leonés. During this period, the club won 98 of the 117 games that it played, scoring 498 goals.
Júpiter registered in the Federation for the first time in 1952 and it started playing official matches in the second provincial league. As the club was achieving great success, president Antonio Amilivia began the first contacts to merge Júpiter and Deportivo. In 1954 the presidents of both teams, Antonio Amilivia and Demetrio Villalón (that in the 1960s would be president of Cultural Leonesa) signed the first agreement of affiliation. Since its signature, Júpiter changed its colors to white, reaching Tercera División while Cultural Leonesa, as the main team of the city, was playing in Segunda División with a one-year presence in La Liga.
With the descent to Tercera de la Cultural in 1958 the agreement broke down and during the 60s they became legally different clubs, although for all the soccer people the union continued. The loan of players was constant and the fans of both clubs were the same, there was no rivalry, Jupiter was still "the little brother" and all the people in Leon understood it as well. The 1960s can be considered the "golden age" of Jupiter. The club was in Third Division (a Third equivalent to the second B of today but harder) with a strong economy and a good policy of quarry that took advantage of the jewels that the modest clubs of the city removed from its rows. At the head of Jupiter was Agustín Álvarez "Cachús" who was always linked to the Culture but without giving up the best for his Jupiter, trying even in the middle of the decade (in the time of Operation Scrap) to convert Jupiter in the First team of the city to the detriment of the Cultural.
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