CDA Navalcarnero · History

Club Deportivo Artístico Navalcarnero was founded in 1953 in Navalcarnero, a town in the south-west of the Community of Madrid, and in August 1961 it registered with the Castilian Football Federation to compete in the regional divisions. Known as «Naval», the club plays in red-and-white striped shirts, blue shorts and red socks, and its crest combines the town’s two church towers, a ball and the red-and-white stripes. Its home ground is the Estadio Municipal Mariano González.

The regional years

For its first decades the club moved through the Castilian regional leagues. In 1973-74 it won the Tercera Regional Ordinaria, and a year later, in 1974-75, it also took the Tercera Regional Preferente, two titles in a row that carried it up the Madrid pyramid. The step up to national level came in 1987: Navalcarnero made its debut in the Tercera División, then the Spanish fourth tier, in 1987-88 and stayed there until 1993, when it finished 20th in 1992-93, its lowest placing in the division.

Settling in the fourth tier and a first promotion

The return did not take long. The club finished runner-up in the Madrid Regional Preferente in 1994-95 and won it in 1996-97, and from 1997 it put together a long run in Group VII of the Tercera División. It finished third in 2001-02 and second in 2002-03. In 2004 it earned its first promotion to the Segunda División B, the Spanish third tier, after beating Norma San Leonardo in the final phase. The debut season, 2004-05, ended in relegation in 19th place. Three years later, as group runner-up in 2007-08, it went up again by knocking out Atlético Granadilla, but it finished 17th in 2008-09 and dropped back. Later it even fell to the Regional Preferente, which it left as runner-up in 2013-14.

The Mariano González ground

The stadium is named after Mariano González, the owner of the land, who handed it over to the town council. The current ground was built on the site of the previous pitch and opened on 13 April 2005 with a friendly against Atlético de Madrid. It has an artificial pitch and seated stands, including a main stand and a five-row north end cut into the hillside. Its tight dimensions and the closeness of the crowd have been mentioned by higher-division opponents visiting Navalcarnero in the Copa del Rey.

The Segunda B years

After finishing second in its Tercera group in 2014-15 and 2015-16, Navalcarnero won its third promotion to the Segunda B in 2016 by beating SD Tarazona in the non-champions play-off: 2-2 away and 2-0 at the Mariano González. This time it held on. Placed in Group I, it spent three straight seasons in the division between 2016 and 2019, and in 2017-18, coached by Julián Calero, it finished sixth, its best result at that level. After one year back in the fourth tier, it won Group VII in 2019-20, its first Tercera División title, in a season cut short by the pandemic, and returned to the Segunda B for 2020-21, the last season of that division.

A Copa del Rey last-16 run

The 2020-21 Copa del Rey produced the club’s best run in the competition. Navalcarnero beat CD Badajoz 1-0 and, on 6 January 2021, second-tier UD Las Palmas, again 1-0 at home. Eleven days later, on 17 January, it defeated top-flight SD Eibar 3-1 to reach the round of 16 for the first time. There it lost 6-0 to Granada CF on 28 January 2021.

In the Segunda Federación

Its 2020-21 league finish earned a place in the new Segunda División RFEF, later renamed Segunda Federación, the Spanish fourth tier. Navalcarnero finished third in 2021-22 and 2022-23, eighth in 2023-24, sixth in 2024-25 and tenth in Group V in 2025-26. In that period it won the Madrid stage of the Copa RFEF in 2021-22, a title it had already claimed in 2004-05; its academy had taken the Juvenil A side into the División de Honor in 2008-09. In the 2025-26 Copa del Rey it beat AD Mérida 2-1 on 29 October 2025 and went out in the second round on 2 December 2025, losing 3-2 after extra time to Getafe CF.