Article updated: 24/09/2025
Logroño is a city with a population of 150,000. Ever since its most successful club, Club Deportivo Logroñés, faced financial trouble in the early 2000s, several teams have vied to attain the status of the city’s premier club. A couple, Asociación Deportiva Fundación Logroñés and Logroñés Club de Fútbol, arrived on the scene, only to quickly depart. Two clubs, however, Unión Deportiva Logroñés & Sociedad Deportiva Logorñés have achieved a degree of permanence and relative success.
Sociedad Deportiva Logroñés was established as a fan-based organisation in June 2009, a matter of weeks before CD Logroñés was formally dissolved. They played their first matches at the Estadio Las Gaunas, which had opened in 2002 and was around 200 metres south of the original Campo de Las Gaunas. At the end of their first season, however, the municipal council changed the terms of the tenancy for the stadium, and whilst UD Logroñés got to stay, SD Logroñés had to move out. Yes, I know it’s all quite confusing, but reading the other posts on Las Gaunas might just make it a little clearer!
At the start of the 2010-11 season, SD Logroñés found themselves out on the eastern edge of town, next to the Rio Ebro at the Estadio Mundial 82. They also found themselves in the Tercera after winning the championship of the Regional Preferente in their debut season. Given the number of clubs that have tried to make a go of it in Logroño over the past decade or so, it’s not surprising to learn that Mundial 82 has some form. Both ADF Logroñés and Logroñés CF (under the name of Club Deportivo Recreación de La Rioja) also played at the stadium before joining the ever-growing list of former football clubs from Logroño.
Football has been played on the current site since 1970. The main stand opened in 1982 using funds from a legacy package that was part of the deal that brought the World Cup to Spain. It is owned by the Ayuntamiento de Logroño and managed by the Federación Riojana de Fútbol. To be honest, there isn’t a huge amount to get excited about with the ground. It features a full-length, raised cantilevered stand on the northern side, and with hard standing around the three other sides of the pitch, has a capacity of 3,500. This was tested at the end of the 2010-11 season with SD Logroñés’ participation in the end-of-season playoffs. However, defeat at the hands of Gimnastica Segoviana saw the club remain in the Tercera for another year. A year on, and SD Logroñés won the Tercera division and edged out Peña Sport in the playoffs, to earn a place in Segunda B for the first time. The club’s stay in the third tier lasted for two seasons, and home matches were moved back to the Estadio Las Gaunas.
Relegation to the Tercera followed in 2014, and in 2018, SD Logroñés had to leave the Estadio Las Gaunas again, following the promotion of Club Deportivo Escuelas de Fútbol de Logroño to the Women’s Premier League. With the main grass pitch at Mundial 82 being used by another of the city’s wannabe teams, Racing Rioja CF, SD Logroñés used the artificial surface behind the main stand and erected temporary stands for the 2018-19 season. SD Logronés returned to Segunda B and the Estadio Las Guanas in 2020, following a play-off victory over local rivals CD Varea. Their good form continued, and following the reorganisation of the Spanish league system at the end of the 2020-21 season, SD Logroñés was promoted to the new third tier, the Primera Federación. After three seasons in the third tier, SD Logroñés dropped to the Segunda Federación in June 2024.
As of the 2025-26 season, the Estadio Mundial 82 hosts lower-level regional football (Tier 6 & below) and the representative matches of the Federación Riojana de Fútbol. SD Logroñes remains one of the higher-profile fan-owned clubs in Spain. This growing trend sees fans tired of the financial mismanagement and arrogance of club owners, take over control of, or set up a rival to, the original outfit. SD Logroñés has yet to reach the heights attained by CD Logroñés, but I’m sure that their determination and love for the club will ensure they do not experience the lows either.
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