CF Sporting Mahonés

Sporting Mahonés
Full name	Club de Fútbol Sporting Mahonés
Founded	1974
Dissolved	2012
Ground	Bintaufa, Mahón,; Balearic Islands, Spain
Capacity	3,000
2011–12	2ªB – Group 3, W
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Club de Fútbol Sporting Mahonés was a Spanish football team based in Mahón, Menorca, in the autonomous community of Balearic Islands prior to its 2012 dissolution. The club has a successor called Sporting Mahón in the local Menorcan league.^[1]

C.F. Sporting Mahonés resulted from the merger of two other Mahon teams, Club Deportivo Menorca and Union Deportiva Mahon, in July 1974. They began life in the regional divisions of Balearic football before progressing to the Spanish Third Division in 1977–78.

On 24 January 2012 the team announced it was withdrawing from the Segunda División B – Group 3, in mid-season, due to the fact that practically all the professional squad had left the club. With debts of over 230,000 euros and a transfer embargo in place, the club could not raise a team for the remainder of the season. Their final game was a 0–6 defeat at Sant Andreu,^[2] and just one year after the club withdrew from all competitions, on the 20th May 2013, the directives of the club agreed to dissolve Sporting Mahonés.

Between formation and 1978, Sporting played at two locations close to the centre of town, starting out at the former home of CD Menorca, the Campo Municipal de San Carlos. The following season saw the club play at the Estadio Mahonés, which had been the home of UD Mahón. More latterly home matches were played at the 3,000 seat capacity Estadio Bintaufa, situated to the south of the city, close to the Aeronautic Club.^[3]

Just only a month after Sporting Mahonés disappeared, old directives of the club created a phoenix club named CF Sporting de Mahón, which currently plays in the Regional Preferente de Menorca, the regional league of Menorca. Despite the efforts done by the current directives of Sporting de Mahón to make their team able to be promoted, the club has never been promoted to Tercera División/Tercera Federación in its history of 11 years. However, Sporting de Mahón plays in the exact same location as Sporting Mahonés, in an artificial field located just few meters of Estadio Binitaufa.

Season to season

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1974–77	4	Regional	—
1977/78	4	3ª	14th
1978/79	4	3ª	11th
1979/80	4	3ª	5th
1980/81	4	3ª	4th
1981/82	4	3ª	4th
1982/83	4	3ª	8th
1983/84	4	3ª	6th
1984/85	4	3ª	6th
1985/86	4	3ª	4th
1986/87	4	3ª	1st
1987/88	3	2ªB	14th
1988/89	3	2ªB	5th
1989/90	3	2ªB	8th
1990/91	3	2ªB	12th
1991/92	3	2ªB	12th
1992/93	3	2ªB	19th
1993/94	4	3ª	6th
1994/95	4	3ª	10th

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1995/96	4	3ª	14th
1996/97	4	3ª	10th
1997/98	4	3ª	3rd
1998/99	4	3ª	11th
1999/00	4	3ª	5th
2000/01	4	3ª	14th
2001/02	4	3ª	16th
2002/03	4	3ª	14th
2003/04	4	3ª	16th
2004/05	4	3ª	4th
2005/06	4	3ª	4th
2006/07	4	3ª	13th
2007/08	4	3ª	9th
2008/09	4	3ª	2nd
2009/10	3	2ªB	14th
2010/11	3	2ªB	15th
2011/12	3	2ªB	W^[2]

9 seasons in Segunda División B
26 seasons in Tercera División

Last squad

According to Futbolme. Updated on 29 July 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ESP	Eloi Rubio
12	GK	ESP	Oliver Fernández
2	DF	ESP	Carlos Barreda
3	DF	ESP	Biel Medina
4	DF	ESP	Camacho
5	DF	ESP	David Sánchez
6	DF	ESP	Jeroni Fullana
13	DF	ESP	Lluis Micaló
14	DF	ESP	Raúl Capó
7	MF	ESP	Berto Vaquero
8	MF	ESP	Iray Pérez


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
9	MF	ESP	Joan Barber
10	MF	ESP	Jose Moyano
11	MF	ESP	Nacho del Moral
15	MF	ESP	Ton Alcover
16	FW	ESP	Arkaitz Miguel
17	FW	ESP	Antonio Corbella
18	FW	ESP	Genís Solduga
19	FW	ESP	Ignasi Sintes
20	FW	GAM	Momodou Lamin
—	M	ESP	Joan Esteva

Notable former players

References

^ "Sporting Mahon | Menorca Football". Menorca Football. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b El Sporting echa el cierre (Sporting closes doors) Archived 26 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Menorca Info, 19 January 2012 (in Spanish)
^ Clements, Chris (8 December 2011). "Mahón – Estadi de Bintaufa". estadiosdeespana.com. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.