Match Preview: CD Jávea vs CD Almoradí

CD JÁVEA vs CD ALMORADÍ
Saturday 14th December, 6.30pm
Camp d’Esports Municipal, Xàbia

OUR OPPONENTS

CD Almoradí represent the town of Almoradí in the heart of the Vega Baja del Segura and is located some 37 kilometres south-west of the city of Alicante.

Almoradí CF was formed in 1953 and played its formative seasons under the jurisdiction of the Murcian Football Federation. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the club competed in Group 10 of the Tercera División, which was then step 3 in the national football pyramid in Spain. At the end of the 1958-59 season, it finished 7th with 30 points from 30 games, the club’s highest position in its history.

In 1961, the club changed its name to CD Almoradí. At the end of the 1962-63 season, it finished bottom of Group 10 and suffered relegation back into the regional leagues before returning to the Tercera División after a major restructuring which created a new Group 13 (Federación de Murcia) which was Step 4 in the national pyramid. After just two seasons, it dropped back into regional football again, returning briefly for one season (1987-88).

By the late 80s, CD Almoradí was playing its regional football organised by the Valencian Football Federation. At the end of the 1994-95 season, the club finished second in Group Sur of the Regional Preferente to win promotion to the Tercera División again, joining Group 6 (Federación Valenciana) but lasted just two seasons before falling through the Regional Preferente to the Primera Regional. A championship season in 2000-01 started a yo-yo existence between Tier 1 and Tier 2 of regional football until its final appearance in the Tercera División in 2016-17 when it finished second from bottom to suffer an immediate return to the lower leagues.

At the end of the 2022-23 season, CD Almoradí finished in the bottom half of Group 4 of the Regional Preferente and missed the cut with regards to the last restructuring of football in the Comunidad Valenciana, dropping down to the newly-formed Primera FFCV, the second tier of football in the region. Last season, the club finished fourth with 48 points from 30 games.

HEAD 2 HEAD

CD Jávea and CD Almoradí first met in October 1988 in the Vega Baja del Segura with the ‘rojiblancos’ crashing to a 1-3 defeat. The return match, in February 1989, produced a 1-1 draw. At the end of the season, CD Jávea finished 8th whilst CD Almoradí claimed 17th position.

The following campaign – 1989-1990 – the two sides drew 0-0 in both games, two of only three draws that CD Jávea recorded in a championship winning season in which the ‘rojiblancos’ recorded 22 wins in 34 games to win promotion to the Tercera División.

The biggest victory for CD Jávea was in March 1999, a 4-1 victory in a season in which the ‘rojiblancos’ completed the first of only two ‘doubles’ over CD Almoradí, winning the away match 2-0 earlier in the season.

CD Almoradí have won just three times in 18 matches against the ‘rojiblancos’ – and have never won in Jávea.

PRIMERA FFCV – Group 4

FIXTURES – JORNADA 11

Saturday 14th December
16:00 – Catral-Castrum CF v Mutxamel CF
16:30 – Benferri CF v CF Intercity ‘B’
16:45 – CD Betis Florida v CD Murada
18:30 – CD Jávea v CD Almoradi
Sunday 15th December
11:30 – CF Sporting de San Fulgencio v Santa Pola CF
11:45 – Villajoyosa CF v Callosa Deportiva CF
16:00 – CD Montesinos v CD El Campello
17:00 – Novelda CF v Villena CF