Júpiter Leonés

Júpiter Leonés

Full name	Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, S.A.D. "B" Júpiter Leonés
Founded	1929 (re-founded in 2014)
Ground	Área Deportiva de Puente Castro, León, Spain
Capacity	5,000
Owner	Aspire Academy
Chairman	Tariq Abdulaziz Al Naama
Head coach	Ramón González
League	Tercera Federación – Group 8
2023–24	Tercera Federación – Group 8, 4th of 18
Home colours Away colours

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa "B" Júpiter Leonés, 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, they are the reserve team of Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, and play in the Tercera Federación – Group 8.

History

Origins

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa B was born from the team Jupiter Leonés, founded in 1929 and originally wearing a 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 on 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.

First contacts with the Cultural

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 (who 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.

Separation and Golden Age

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 the 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.

Definite union with the Cultural

In these 60's Cultural and Jupiter were at the same time being Next to the Ponferradina the "gallitos" of our group of Third. In 1970 with Ángel Panero to the front of the Cultural in Second Division contacts were resumed to reconvert to Jupiter in filial, condition that will have until 1974 when it happens to belong of form officially to the structure of the club, happening to call "Cultural Promesas".

During these years 60 and 70 Cultural and Jupiter were united even in the smallest details; There were card modalities to be members of both clubs, discounts, games that were played in a row, training and preseason joint and what they liked most in the hobby: it was usual for the Cultural to coincide outside the home the day that Jupiter did As local, so that both parties were put at the same time so that, while the fans saw the Jupiter, they would listen by the radio the party of the Cultural.

It is worth noting that in the 1985/86 season the Cultural and Cultural de León play in the third division. The subsidiary makes an exceptional campaign under the orders of Arlindo Cuesta. Winning the majors in the go 2-0 and tying in the return with a few steps to overflow. The lineup of Carlos, Pin, Tobi, Roberto, Paquito, Raúl, Cacharrón, Javi, Losada, Canseco and Pachi will be remembered.

Refounding Júpiter

After the season 2009–10, the reserve team was dissolved as Cultural Leonesa was relegated to Tercera División due to its financial trouble.

Cultural Leonesa B was refounded in 2014, recovering its original name "Jupiter Leonés". It started playing in Segunda Provincial, the seventh tier, and it finished its first season as champion of the league and was consequently promoted.

With the entering of the Qatari Aspire Academy in the board of Cultural Leonesa, the intention was to promote Júpiter to Tercera División immediately. In its first season managing the club, Júpiter achieved promotion to Regional Aficionados, only one tier below Tercera División, and two years later, in the season 2017-2018, Jupiter reached the goal of being promoted to Tercera División (the fourth tier in Spain's football leagues system).

Club names

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1929–1952 — Regional — 1952–53 4 1ª Reg. 1953–54 3 3ª 10th 1954–55 3 3ª 11th 1955–56 3 3ª 3rd 1956–57 3 3ª 8th 1957–58 3 3ª 9th 1958–59 3 3ª 12th 1959–60 3 3ª 16th 1960–61 3 3ª 9th 1961–62 3 3ª 16th 1962–63 4 1ª Reg. 1st 1963–64 3 3ª 9th 1964–65 3 3ª 12th 1965–66 3 3ª 12th 1966–67 3 3ª 9th 1967–68 3 3ª 9th 1968–69 3 3ª 17th 1969–70 3 3ª 18th 1970–71 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1971–72 3 3ª 13th 1972–73 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd 1973–74 4 Reg. Pref. 10th 1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 5th 1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 15th 1976–77 5 1ª Reg. 4th 1977–78 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1978–79 5 Reg. Pref. 5th 1979–80 5 Reg. Pref. 8th 1980–81 4 3ª 13th 1981–82 4 3ª 10th 1982–83 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1983–84 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1984–85 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1985–86 4 3ª 5th 1986–87 4 3ª 15th 1987–88 4 3ª 10th 1988–89 4 3ª 14th 1989–90 4 3ª 20th 1990–91 5 Reg. Pref. 1st DNP

Season Tier Division Place 1991–92 4 3ª 4th 1992–93 4 3ª 13th 1993–94 4 3ª 16th 1994–95 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1995–96 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd 1996–97 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd 1997–98 4 3ª 8th 1998–99 4 3ª 11th 1999–2000 4 3ª 6th 2000–01 4 3ª 15th 2001–02 4 3ª 14th 2002–03 4 3ª 10th 2003–04 4 3ª 8th 2004–05 4 3ª 9th 2005–06 4 3ª 8th 2006–07 4 3ª 15th 2007–08 4 3ª 13th 2008–09 4 3ª 17th 2009–10 4 3ª 20th 2010–2014 DNP

Season Tier Division Place 2014–15 7 2ª Prov. 1st 2015–16 6 1ª Prov. 1st 2016–17 5 1ª Reg. 3rd 2017–18 5 1ª Reg. 1st 2018–19 4 3ª 8th 2019–20 4 3ª 12th 2020–21 4 3ª 3rd / 6th 2021–22 5 3ª RFEF 6th 2022–23 5 3ª Fed. 13th 2023–24 5 3ª Fed. 4th 2024–25 5 3ª Fed.

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• 43 seasons in Tercera División
• 4 seasons in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 31 August 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ESP	Javi Holgueras
2	DF	ESP	Carlos Luengo
3	DF	ESP	Edu Mendoza
4	DF	ESP	Marcos Cano
5	DF	ESP	Santi Prado
6	DF	ESP	Jairo Domínguez
7	FW	ESP	Diego Fernández
8	MF	ESP	Óscar Gallego
9	FW	ESP	Ian Martínez
10	MF	ESP	Kirian Ramírez
11	FW	ESP	Adri Álvarez
12	DF	QAT	Motaman Mohamed (on loan from Al-Wakrah SC)

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
13	GK	ESP	Joel Ruiz
14	MF	ESP	Adri Castroviejo
15	DF	QAT	Awab Hussain
16	MF	ESP	Canito
17	FW	QAT	Jamil Friakh (on loan from Al-Gharafa SC)
18	DF	ESP	Espi
19	MF	ESP	Dani del Cerro
20	FW	ESP	Arturo Suárez
21	FW	ESP	Choco
22	MF	ESP	Jorge Motta
23	MF	ESP	Marcos Fuentes
25	FW	ESP	Juan Sánchez

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)