UD Logroñés · History

Unión Deportiva Logroñés is a football club from Logroño, in the Spanish region of La Rioja, that has played in Primera Federación since 2026, when it returned to the third tier of Spanish football after three seasons in Segunda Federación. Founded in June 2009 as a sports public limited company, it plays its home games at the Las Gaunas stadium and wears red-and-white shirts with black shorts and socks. Its biggest sporting achievement is promotion to the Spanish second division in 2020.

Founded in 2009

The club was born in June 2009, after the dissolution of Club Deportivo Logroñés, the side that had represented the Riojan capital for decades. Businessman Félix Revuelta, owner of Naturhouse, set up a new sports company and bought the Segunda División B place of Club Deportivo Varea, which had just been promoted to that level. Varea sold its rights and dropped to the Regional Preferente of La Rioja. UD Logroñés therefore started straight away in the third tier in the 2009-10 season, in Group III, where it finished ninth.

Eleven seasons in Segunda División B

Between 2009 and 2020 the team spent eleven straight seasons in Segunda B, moving between Groups I, II and III. It was sixth in 2010-11 and fifth in 2011-12, and in 2014-15 and 2015-16 it finished fourth in Group I, a position that gave access to the promotion play-offs. In the Copa del Rey it reached the round of 32 in 2010-11 against Valencia and in 2015-16 against Sevilla, losing both ties to top-flight opponents. The step forward came in 2018-19, when it finished runner-up in Group II, the club’s best league position up to then.

Promotion in 2020

The 2019-20 season brought the club’s Segunda B Group II title. The team was top of the table when the competition was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and promotion was settled in single-match ties played behind closed doors. On 18 July 2020, at La Rosaleda in Málaga, UD Logroñés drew 1-1 with CD Castellón after extra time and won the penalty shoot-out 3-2, earning promotion to the Spanish second division. FC Cartagena and CE Sabadell also went up that summer. In that same campaign the club met Valencia again in the Copa del Rey round of 32.

From the second division to Segunda Federación

Its debut season in Segunda División, 2020-21, ended in 20th place and relegation. The club moved to the newly created Primera RFEF, where it finished fifth in Group I in 2021-22. The 2022-23 campaign was harder: it ended 18th in Group II and its drop to Segunda Federación was confirmed with three rounds still to play. That season it also hosted Real Sociedad at Las Gaunas in the Copa del Rey round of 32 and lost 1-0. In Segunda Federación it finished third in 2023-24, sixth in 2024-25 and third again in 2025-26. In 2023 it won the La Rioja regional stage of the Copa Federación.

The 2024-25 Copa del Rey

The 2024-25 Copa del Rey paired the club with two top-flight sides. In the second round it knocked out Girona FC after a 0-0 draw and a 4-3 penalty shoot-out. In the round of 32 it hosted Athletic Club, with more than 5,000 tickets sold in a single day, and went out on penalties, 4-3, after another goalless draw.

Las Gaunas and the training ground

The team plays at Las Gaunas, in the south of Logroño next to the Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja. The stadium opened on 28 February 2002 with a friendly between CD Logroñés and Deportivo Alavés, holds 15,952 spectators and has a 104 by 66 metre pitch. Work on the Valdegastea training ground began in February 2022; the complex, with three pitches and a cost of around €7.7 million, opened on 17 March 2023. The rivalry with Osasuna was inherited from the old CD Logroñés, while the local rivalry is with SD Logroñés, the city’s other club.

Return to Primera Federación

After finishing third in 2025-26, the team entered the promotion play-offs, beating Getafe CF B in the semi-finals and UD San Sebastián de los Reyes in the final. The tie was decided on 31 May 2026, and UD Logroñés became the first club to secure a place in Primera Federación through that route, three seasons after losing it.