Cultural Leonesa

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa (Spanish pronunciation: [kultuˈɾal i ðepoɾˈtiβa le.oˈnesa]), better known as Cultural Leonesa, is a Spanish football team based in Leon, in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. Founded on 5 August 1923, it currently plays in Primera Division RFEF – Group 1, holding home games at Estadio Reino de Leon, with a capacity of 13,346 seats.

Ahead of the 2014–15 season, the club released a kit designed to look like a tuxedo. The kit, which attracted huge attention in the media and social networking sites, was worn in a pre-season charity match in support of local charities for mining families.

History

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa was founded on 5 August 1923.

In 1926, Cultural Leonesa won the Regional championship and in 1929 Cultural played the Segunda Division B and promoted to the second division.

In 1931, the club ceased activity and several teams were created in the city with the aim to replace them, but after the Spanish Civil War, Cultural Leonesa came back to the competition.

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