Match Preview: CD Jávea v Villajoyosa CF

CD JÁVEA v VILLAJOYOSA CF
Sunday 15th September, 6.00pm
Camp d’Esport Municipal – Xàbia

OUR OPPONENTS

Villajoyosa Club de Fútbol was formed in 1942 as Sociedad Deportiva Villajoyosa and has played much of its football at regional level, first under the jurisdiction of the Murcian FA and then under the organisation of the Valencian Football Federation.

The club had a brief spell in the Tercera Divisón in the late 1950s, then the third tier in the Spanish pyramid, but didn’t return to the national system until the 1983-84 season, spending nine seasons in the Tercera Divisón, by now the fourth tier in the pyramid.

In 1991, the club changed its name from SD Villajoyosa to Villajoyosa Club de Fútbol.

The beginning of the 21st century was a special time for Villajoyosa CF. Winning promotion to the Tercera División in 2001, the club would triumph in the play-offs two seasons later to reach the Segunda División ‘B’, the third tier, where it would stay for five seasons before dropping back into the Tercera, winning an immediate promotion back to the Segunda ‘B’ as champions, crashing back out again and suffering a second successive relegation to return to regional football in 2011.

In 2019-20, Villajoyosa returned to the Tercera Divisón but remained just two season before falling back into the regionals, missing the cut for the inaugural Lliga Comunitat in 2023 and forming the new Primera FFCV Group 4 in 2023 to drop into the second tier of regional football for the first time since 1980-81.

Last season, Villajoyosa CF finished 12th, narrowly missing out on relegation to the murkier depths of regional football.

HEAD 2 HEAD

CD Jávea and Villajoyosa CF have met 22 times since their first meeting, a 1-1 draw in February 1979, in the Primera Regional Grupo Sur. At the end of the season, Villajoyosa finished 3rd whilst the rojiblancos claimed 6th spot in a campaign in which they suffered one of the biggest defeats in their history, a 0-9 reserve away at Rayo Ibense CF who would finish runners-up, two points behind champions UD Aspense.

The rojiblancos have won just four games since 1979, most of them at home, whilst the clubs have drawn ten times, mostly 0-0 stalemates.

The clubs last met in the 2000/2001 Preferente Valencian Grupo 4 when Villajoyosa would win promotion to the Tercera División via play-offs after finished in second spot behind Atlético Dénia, a side that no longer exists. CD Jávea would finish 5th that season, well off the pace having chalked up 13 draws in 32 games.

The last competitive game was in April 2001 when CD Jávea took all three points in a 2-1 win at home.

PRIMERA FFCV – Group 4

FIXTURES – JORNADA 2

Saturday 14th September
18:30 – CD Almoradí v CD El Campello
19:00 – CD Montesinos v Benferri CF
19:30 – CD Betis Florida v Castral-Castrum CF
Sunday 15th September
11:30 – CF Sporting de San Fulgencio v Mutxamel CF
11:30 – Santa Pola CF v CD Murada
17:00 – Villena CF v CF Intercity ‘B’
18:00 – CD Jávea v Villajoyosa CF
18:00 – Novelda CF v Callosa Deportiva CF