CD Tropezón · History

Club Deportivo Tropezón is the football club of Tanos, a village in the municipality of Torrelavega in Cantabria, Spain, and has played in the Tercera Federación since 2022. The club was founded on 5 June 1983 and plays at the Municipal de Santa Ana, a ground with an estimated capacity of 1,500. Its first kit is yellow with green trim and its second kit is red with white trim. Tropezón has spent four seasons in Segunda División B and one in Segunda RFEF, and has won the Tercera División league three times.

A neighbours’ club

A group of young people from Tanos founded the club in 1983. They meant it to be a cultural, sporting, social and gastronomic society. It was registered as Peña Tropezón de Tanos, carrying on from a supporters’ group that had existed for two years. In 1986 it changed its name to Club Deportivo Tropezón. The team spent its first years in Cantabria’s Primera Regional and Regional Preferente, around seven seasons in all, before it reached the national divisions.

From the fourth tier to Segunda B (1990-1998)

Tropezón made its Tercera División debut in 1990-91. It played its first promotion play-off to Segunda División B in 1994-95. It then won the Cantabrian group of the Tercera División in two consecutive seasons, 1996-97 and 1997-98, and the second title brought promotion to Segunda B in 1998. The club also won the Cantabrian stage of the Copa RFEF in 1995-96 and 1996-97, and reached its final in 1997-98.

Santa Ana and the first spells in Segunda B

Tropezón reached the third tier without a ground of its own. It started the 1998-99 season on a rented pitch while the new stadium in Tanos was being finished. The Municipal de Santa Ana opened on 29 November 1998 with a goalless draw against Gimnástica de Torrelavega, the town’s other club, in a Segunda B league match. That season Tropezón reached the second round of the Copa del Rey, its best run in the competition. It finished 19th and went down in 1999, but came straight back: in 1999-2000 it was runner-up in the Tercera División and beat Arenas Club in Getxo in the deciding round of the play-offs. Its second Segunda B season, 2000-01, also ended in 19th place and relegation. That year the club also won the Cantabrian stage of the Copa RFEF, reached the national final and finished as Copa RFEF runner-up in 2001.

Twelve years in the Tercera División (2001-2013)

After going down in 2001, Tropezón spent twelve straight seasons in the Cantabrian group of the Tercera División, usually near the top of the table. It played in the promotion play-offs in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2010 without going up. It won the regional Copa RFEF again in 2001-02 and lost the final in 2006-07 and 2007-08. In 2012-13 it won its third Tercera División title and returned to Segunda División B for the 2013-14 season.

Back in Segunda B (2013-2015)

In 2013-14, its first season back, Tropezón was in the same Segunda B group as Racing de Santander, so Santa Ana hosted a Cantabrian derby. The team avoided relegation, which is the only time the club has lasted beyond one season in Segunda B. In 2014-15 it finished 19th and dropped back to the Tercera División, although it won the Cantabrian stage of the Copa RFEF again that season.

From the Tercera División to Segunda RFEF (2015-2022)

After relegation the team finished ninth in 2015-16 and second in 2016-17. Second place took it into the 2017 promotion play-offs, where it lost 5-1 on aggregate to Atlético Astorga. It went on to finish fourth in 2017-18, third in 2018-19 and fourth in 2019-20, and won the Cantabrian stage of the Copa RFEF in 2019 and 2020. In 2021 Tropezón earned a place in Segunda RFEF, the new division created by the reorganisation of the Spanish national leagues. It played there in 2021-22, finished 15th and was relegated to the newly created Tercera Federación.

Tercera Federación (2022-2026)

In the Tercera Federación, Tropezón finished third in 2022-23, sixth in 2023-24, second in 2024-25 and third in 2025-26. In 2025-26 it also played in the first round of the Copa del Rey, where it was knocked out. In June 2026 it met CD Arnedo in a promotion tie for a place in Segunda Federación. Tropezón won the first leg 1-0 in Cantabria and lost the second leg 1-0 in La Rioja. Arnedo went through on penalties on 20 June 2026.