In 1980, Club Deportivo Salud (founded in 1961 and registered in the Federación Tinerfeña de Fútbol in 1967) was acquired by CD Tenerife, being made its reserve team alongside CD Tenerife Aficionados (founded in 1960 as CD Tenerife Atlético). It first played in the third division in 1989–90.
In 1992, the team was renamed Unión Deportiva Tenerife Salud, competing for the second time in the third level in the 1995–96 campaign, already as Tenerife B, and again being relegated immediately back. It spent the vast majority of the following decades in division four.