CP Mérida
association football club
Club Polideportivo Mérida was a Spanish football team based in Mérida, in the autonomous community of Extremadura.
Having played twice in La Liga (1995–96 and 1997–98), the club was dissolved in 2000, due to serious economic debts. Its successor was renamed Mérida UD.
History
The team founded in 1912 under the name Sportiva Emeritense. It became one of the first teams from Extremadura to play professional football. The club first began playing football in 1943, when it was admitted to Tercera Division. They spent four years there, after which the team was relegated to regional leagues for two years. Merida returned to Tercera division in 1949. Following 12 years in the third tier, Merida was again demoted to the fourth tier in 1961, but only for one year. Until 1980, the team kept bouncing between the third and fourth tiers.
In 1980, Merida first promoted to the newly created Spanish third tier – the Segunda Division B. They returned to Segunda B in 1989, where they stayed for two seasons.
“CP Mérida” enters the record as association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mérida, association and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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