This article is about the successor club of FC Cartagena founded in 1940 as UD Cartagenera. For the original club from Cartagena founded in 1919, see Cartagena CF. For Cartagena CF's second successor club and this club's former parent club founded in 1995, see FC Cartagena.
Cartagena Fútbol Club is a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the autonomous community of Murcia. They were formerly called UD Cartagenera. Founded in 1940, they are focused on youth football, and hold home games at Ciudad Deportiva Gómez Meseguer, with a capacity of 3,500 seats.[3]
Cartagena FC
Full name
Cartagena Fútbol Club UCAM
Nickname(s)
Efesé La Cebra (The Zebras)
Founded
25 February 1940; 84 years ago (1940-02-25) as Unión Deportiva Cartagenera
The club was a reserve team of FC Cartagena, during 2002–2009 and 2011–2014. In 2022, after suffering relegation from the Tercera División RFEF, the club closed their senior football department, only keeping their youth sides.
In the 1983–84 season Cartagena was nearly relegated to Segunda División B. The club finished 16th, just one point more than Linares and Algeciras, which moved one division down.[4]
