CD Ebro · History

Club Deportivo Ebro is a football club from Zaragoza, based in the La Almozara neighbourhood, that has competed in the Segunda Federación, Spain’s fourth tier, since 2025, when it went up as champion of Group XVII of the Tercera Federación. The club wears a blue and white harlequin shirt, which gave it the nickname «Arlequinados», and its history has two starting points: an original club founded in 1942 and the 1961 refoundation from which the current club descends.

Foundation and refoundation (1942-1980)

The first CD Ebro was created in 1942 under the presidency of Ismael Calavia Murillo. It took part in the Spanish Amateur Championship until the 1948-49 season and folded after playing its last match in Ayerbe in September 1949. In late 1961 a group of local residents and former directors formed a new team under the same name, and its board was formally constituted on 1 January 1965. During the 1970s the club played at several grounds around the city, including Picarral and Miralbueno, and moved through the Aragonese regional leagues. It won the Tercera Regional in 1973-74, and in 1979-80 it finished runner-up in the Segunda Regional and went up to the Primera Regional, only to drop back the following year.

La Almozara and the Tercera División (1987-2014)

Second place in the Primera Regional in 1987-88 and the Regional Preferente title in 1989-90 took Ebro into the Tercera División, where it made its debut in 1990-91. On 9 September 1990 the Campo Municipal de Fútbol La Almozara-El Carmen, a council-owned ground with an artificial pitch, had opened, and it became the club’s home. Over the next two decades Ebro moved between the Tercera and the Regional Preferente, finishing runner-up in the latter in 1995-96 and 1998-99 and winning it again in 2009-10. It spent nineteen seasons in the Tercera, all in Group XVII, the Aragonese section, where it shared the league with Real Zaragoza’s reserve side.

Tercera champions and six years in Segunda B (2014-2021)

With José Luis Loreto as coach, Ebro won Group XVII of the Tercera División in 2014-15. As group winners they faced CD Varea in the champions’ play-off and got past them, earning in 2015 the club’s first promotion to Segunda División B, then the third tier. Under Emilio Larraz the team finished tenth in its first season, with a 5-0 home win over SD Leioa as its biggest victory, twelfth in 2016-17 and sixth in 2017-18, its best league finish. That summer of 2017 the club took on CD Robres, from the Monegros area, as its reserve team. Ninth place followed in 2018-19 under Manolo González, then eleventh in 2019-20 and fourth in 2020-21 under Manolo Sanlúcar. Between 2019 and 2021 Ebro played its home games at the Pedro Sancho stadium under an agreement with the Aragonese Football Federation. In those years forward Gabarre scored ten goals in 2016-17 and Loscos reached 115 appearances for the club.

Copa del Rey runs

In October 2018 Ebro beat Lleida 2-1 at La Almozara to reach the round of 32, where they were drawn against Valencia CF. They lost the first leg 2-1 on 30 October, with Jonan Amelibia scoring for Ebro, and went down 1-0 at Mestalla in the return on 4 December. In January 2020 they knocked out SD Ponferradina in extra time, with Adrià de Mesa scoring in the 114th minute, and reached the same round again: on 23 January 2020, at the Pedro Sancho in front of 1,800 spectators, they lost 1-0 to CD Leganés. In 2021-22, after reaching the semi-finals of the Copa RFEF, they fell 5-0 to Celta in the first round at La Romareda. On 29 October 2025 they beat SD Tarazona on penalties (4-3, after a 1-1 draw), and on 2 December 2025 they lost 5-3 to Osasuna in the second round.

Relegation and return to the Segunda Federación (2021-2026)

The 2021 restructuring of Spanish football placed Ebro in the new Segunda RFEF, where they finished ninth in 2021-22 under Raúl Jardiel. Javier Genovés took charge in 2022, and in 2022-23 the club ended eighteenth and bottom of its group and dropped to the Tercera Federación. There it finished third in 2023-24 and won Group XVII in 2024-25, a title that sent it back to the Segunda Federación. In the same period the women’s team was promoted in 2023-24 to the Tercera Federación Femenina and played national-level football for the first time in 2024-25. Back in the fourth tier, the first team spent the 2025-26 season in Group II of the Segunda Federación and finished it in eighth place.