CD Boiro · History

Club Deportivo Boiro was founded in 1966 in Boiro, a seaside town in the Barbanza area of the province of A Coruña, in Galicia. The club plays its home games at the Campo Municipal de Barraña, a natural-grass ground. Its youth sides use the artificial pitches at Vista Alegre. Over six decades Boiro has climbed from Galicia's regional leagues to the Tercera División. In 2016-17 it played one season in Segunda División B, the only one in its history.

Regional football and a first promotion

Boiro spent more than ten years in Galicia's district and regional leagues after its founding. By the late 1970s it had settled in the Regional Preferente, and a fourth-place finish in 1979-80 earned its first promotion to the Tercera División. That first stay lasted a single season: the club finished 20th in 1980-81 and went down. Back in Preferente, it won the title in 1983-84 and returned to Tercera.

Seven seasons in Tercera and a long spell in Preferente

From 1984 to 1991 Boiro played seven straight campaigns in the Tercera División. The best was the first, ninth place in 1984-85, and the team also finished tenth twice. It came last, in 20th place, in 1990-91 and dropped to Preferente. Two years later, in 1993, it fell to Primera Autonómica. Getting out took five seasons, and second place in 1997-98 brought the team back to Preferente. It then stayed there for fifteen straight campaigns. In that time it finished second in 2002-03 and third in both 2011 and 2012.

Back in Tercera and the 2016 title

The Preferente Autonómica title in 2012-13 ended twenty-two years away from Tercera. In 2013-14, its first season back, Boiro finished third in Group I and played in the promotion play-offs to Segunda B for the first time. Náxara, from La Rioja, knocked it out in the first round. After finishing 15th in 2014-15, Boiro won Galicia's Group I in 2015-16, its first Tercera División title. As champion it went into a direct tie with Caudal Deportivo of Mieres, won it, and in the summer of 2016 reached the third tier for the first time.

A season in Segunda B and an administrative relegation

Boiro played in Group I of Segunda División B in 2016-17 and finished 14th, its highest league finish. That season it also played in the Copa del Rey for the first time. On 31 August 2016 it hosted Guijuelo at Barraña in the first round and lost 1-3 after extra time. Staying up on the pitch was not enough. In June 2017 the club could not pay what it owed its players, and the Spanish federation demoted it to the Tercera División. That summer it was left without a president or a coach and lost much of its squad.

Rebuilding and another drop to Preferente

With a rebuilt side, Boiro finished tenth in the Tercera División in 2017-18. It came 19th the next year and went back down to Preferente in 2019. The team finished third in 2019-20 and second in 2020-21. The 2021 restructuring of Spain's national divisions created Segunda and Tercera Federación and pushed the Galician Preferente down to the sixth tier. Boiro finished seventh in 2021-22 and third in 2022-23.

A cup tie with Mallorca and promotion to Tercera Federación

In 2023-24 Boiro played in the Copa del Rey again. On 12 October 2023 it won 1-0 away at CD Monte in the preliminary round. On 1 November 2023 it hosted Mallorca of LaLiga at Barraña in front of around 2,000 spectators and lost 0-4, with three goals from Abdón Prats and one from Cyle Larin. In the league it finished second in its Preferente group and went up to the Tercera Federación. In 2024-25, its first season at that level, it finished ninth in Group I, and in 2025-26 it came eighth.