Lorca Deportiva CF

the current team
Defunct Spanish association football club

Lorca Deportiva Club de Fútbol, S. A. D. was a Spanish football club in Lorca, in the autonomous community of Murcia. Founded in 2002 it was dissolved ten years later, they held their home matches at Estadio Francisco Artés Carrasco, which seats 8,000.

Lorca Deportiva was founded in 2002, right after the defunction of Lorca Club de Fútbol which had been born eight years earlier. The new club started in the fourth division after acquiring the place of CD Balsicas, and was promoted to the third level at the first attempt. As rookies in the third tier, Lorca qualified for the play offs after occupying the second place in the regular season. Next season the team finished fourth, but this time managed to promote to the division two: with Unai Emery – who later managed Paris Saint Germain, Arsenal F. C. and Aston Villa – in the position of manager, it narrowly missed on a new promotion, finishing just five points behind last La Liga promotee Levante UD. After Emery's departure, with many first team players also leaving, Lorca was relegated the following campaign. In the middle of 2009, although it had just finished second in its group, economic issues led to another drop, to the fourth division. For the 2010–11 season, the club was relocated to nearby Totana and renamed LD Olímpico. On 18 October 2010, amidst serious economic problems, it retired from competition and folded, without chairman or players – all 93 points that the team would lose for not showing up in the remaining 31 fixtures of the season were equally distributed by their opponents, and Lorca was finally dissolved in 2012.