CD Puerta Bonita · History

In the 1945-46 season, three years after it was founded, Club Deportivo Puerta Bonita won its group in the Castilian Tercera Regional. It was the club's first title. The club was formed on 21 April 1942 in the Puerta Bonita neighbourhood of Carabanchel, Madrid, by a group of supporters led by Julio Barragán. Its home kit is a white shirt and white shorts with blue socks. The triangular crest shows a door, the symbol of the neighbourhood, along with the initials C. D.

Early years in the Castilian regional leagues

The 1945-46 title was followed by the Copa Primavera in 1946-47 and second place in the Segunda Regional that same season. The team withdrew from competition during 1948-49 and did not play again until 1954. It came back in the Quinta Regional, which it won in 1955-56, and in 1959 it was registered with the Castilian Football Federation. The Copa Comité followed in 1961-62, and the Segunda Regional title in 1965-66 took the club up to the Primera Regional. It finished runner-up in that division in 1967-68. The 1970s brought a decline, and by the end of the decade the club was playing in the Tercera Regional Preferente.

From the Preferente to the Tercera División

The recovery began with the Primera Regional title in 1983-84, which took the club up to the Regional Preferente. After five seasons there, it made its debut in the Tercera División, the Spanish fourth tier, in 1989-90, but finished 18th and went down. It was Preferente runner-up in 1991-92. In 1994 it returned to the Tercera and stayed there for ten seasons in a row, usually near the bottom of the table. Its best finish in that period was eighth in 1998-99, and it was relegated after finishing 20th in 2003-04.

Through those years the team played at El Hogar, a dirt pitch that held around a thousand people and was used as a location for the film El penalti más largo del mundo (The World's Longest Penalty). The club also built a youth system with teams at almost every age group and a women's section. Its affiliated clubs were CD Montijo-San Antolín de Carabanchel and the women's side Oroquieta Villaverde.

The Antiguo Canódromo de Carabanchel

Puerta Bonita won group 2 of the Preferente in 2005-06 and went back up to the Tercera. The following year it moved ground. The Antiguo Canódromo de Carabanchel, on Vía Carpetana, had been a greyhound track, and Madrid City Council turned it into a multi-sport venue. It opened on 15 May 2007, the feast of San Isidro, with a match against Real Madrid Castilla. The council owns the stadium, which has an artificial pitch and holds 4,000 spectators. The team went down in 2008-09 and won the Preferente again in 2009-10, a season in which it also took the Madrid Preferente Champions Cup.

Promotion to the Segunda División B

Back in the Tercera, the team finished 12th in 2010-11 and third in 2011-12. Third place earned it a promotion play-off spot, but it went out in the first round. In 2012-13 it won group VII of the Tercera División and the Madrid regional stage of the Copa RFEF. That summer it knocked out AD San Juan of Pamplona to earn the club's first promotion to the Segunda División B, then the Spanish third tier.

Its only season at that level was 2013-14, in group 2. The first win came on 21 September 2013 away at Peña Sport, with a goal from Cano. The team finished 18th on 36 points, from 7 wins, 15 draws and 16 defeats, with 35 goals scored and 52 conceded, and was relegated. That season it also played in the first round of the Copa del Rey.

Relegation, dissolution and refoundation

After finishing 14th in the Tercera in 2014-15, Puerta Bonita came 18th in 2015-16 and dropped to the Regional Preferente. The 2016-17 season began with financial problems and the stadium temporarily closed, so the youth teams had to move to the Polideportivo Las Cruces. On 19 September 2016, a day after failing to turn up for its first-round match, the club announced that it was withdrawing from competition. The dissolution was completed in 2017.

In 2018 a new club, Club Deportivo Nuevo Puerta Bonita de Carabanchel, was founded and started in group 9 of the Madrid Tercera Regional. It won group 13 of that division in 2019-20. In 2021-22 it finished second in group 7 of the Segunda Regional, which earned it promotion to the Primera de Aficionados for the 2022-23 season.