RCD Carabanchel
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| Full name | Real Club Deportivo Carabanchel |
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| Nickname(s) | Carabancheleros, blanquinegros |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Ground | Campo de La Mina, Madrid |
| Capacity | 2.000 |
| Chairman | José Luis Amador |
| Manager | Óscar Montalbán |
| League | 3ª – Group 7 |
| 2011–12 | 3ª – Group 7, 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
Real Club Deportivo Carabanchel is a Spanish football club from the Carabanchel district in the city of Madrid, Spain. It is the third oldest team in the capital, after Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, and the thirteenth oldest in Spain.
The highest level reached by the club was the Segunda División B and on various occasions the team has come close to promotion to the Segunda División.
Real Club Deportivo Carabanchel was officially founded on September 8, 1906. It started playing sports teams friendlies against others in the capital city in the Alto and Bajo quarters of the district.
In 1916, Pedro Arranz became president, who gives the team a charter officers. Carabanchel also signed the same year Castellana in the Federation Cup, which began as a regional tournament. In 1927 amounts to the First Regional club, and proclaimed champion Castilla at amateur level in 1936, before the start of the Civil War.
In 1955, Carabanchel was promoted, for the first time in its history, to the Third Division to become a champion of the regional division. In season 1966-67, the Madrid team was crowned champions of their group in the Tercera earning the right to play CD Badajoz in the first play-off round, which it lost 12-1 on aggregate.
During the 1970s and 1980s the team went through various sporting crises, which were not resolved until 1988 when it returned to the third division. Carabanchel then improved, and finished in third place in the Madrid group in 1990. After several varying seasons, in 1994-95 Carabanchel qualified for the second phase of promotion to B, eventually losing to Cultural Leonesa.
Finally, in the 1995-96 season, Carabanchel were promoted to Segunda División B to finish third in regular season champion and its group for promotion. The club spent two years in the category of bronze in its first season, the team from Madrid to enter into a good season when finishing eighth, but in 1998 consume their descent to the finish next to last group.
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