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UD Las Palmas Atlético

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7864280 ↗
Source-derived summary

Las Palmas Atlético is the reserve team of UD Las Palmas, club based in Las Palmas, in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. They play in Segunda Federación – Group 4, holding home games at Anexo del Estadio Gran Canaria, which holds 2,000 spectators.

The team is officially known as Las Palmas Atlético on the club's official promotion and website, but the rules of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional prohibit B teams from having different names to their parent.

Club background

Unión Athletic Football Club / Unión Atlético Club de Fútbol – (1954–59)

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas Aficionado – (1959–77)

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas Atlético – (1977–91)

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas B – (1991–2008)

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas Atlético – (2008–)

Season to season

As a farm team

As reserve team

13 seasons in Segunda División B

3 seasons in Segunda Federación/Segunda División RFEF

32 seasons in Tercera División

3 seasons in Tercera Federación

Current squad

As of 7 September 2026

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

Reserve team

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

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “UD Las Palmas Atlético” is football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Palmas, Atlético and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1959, 1977, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959. For this dossier, Palmas, Atlético and football is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7864280. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1959, 1977 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “UD Las Palmas Atlético” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.