Orihuela CF
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| Full name | Orihuela Club de Fútbol |
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| Nickname(s) | El Escorpión (The Scorpion) |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Ground |
Los Arcos, Orihuela, Valencia, Spain |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Chairman |
 Antonio Felices |
| Manager |
Miguel Ángel "Aroca" Sánchez |
| League | 3ª – Group 13 |
| 2013–14 | 3 – Group 6, 3rd |
Orihuela Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Orihuela, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1993 it plays in Tercera División, holding home games at Estadio Municipal Los Arcos, with a capacity of 6,000 seats.
On 4 August 1993, the chairman of Orihuela Juventud y Deportes, Pedro Albarracín, received a notification from the Valencian Community Football Federation, allowing him to change the name of the club to Orihuela Club de Fútbol. A few months before, when the youth team of Atlético Orihuela was promoted to Liga Nacional Juvenil de Fútbol, the presidents of both clubs, Albarracín and Francisco Polín González, agreed on a merge, which created Orihuela Club de Fútbol.
The first club home kit was orange shirts and white shorts, as former Orihuela Juventud y Deportes, because the historical Orihuela Deportiva CF (founded in 1944) was still competing. Once the latter disappeared in 1994, Orihuela CF adopted their colours (yellow and blue) and became the most important local team.
From 1993–96 the club played in Primera Regional, obtaining promotion to Regional Preferente at the end of the third season. At the end of the 1996–97 campaign, new chairman Ángel Fenoll "acquired" the place of Club Deportivo Los Garres in Tercera División, and Orihuela began their new era in Spanish national football.
It was with Paco Gómez as club owner that the side reached Segunda División B for the first time in its history in 2002–03, after being defeated several times in the play-offs. However, a very bad season ended with the team back in the fourth level.
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