| Full name | Lorca Deportiva Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. |
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| Founded | 2002 | |||
| Dissolved | 2010 | |||
| Ground | Francisco Artés Carrasco, Lorca, Murcia, Spain (Capacity: 8,064) |
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| 2010–11 | 3ª - Group 13, (R) | |||
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Lorca Deportiva Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. was a Spanish football club based in Lorca, in the autonomous community of Murcia. Founded in 2002, it was dissolved eight years later, and held home matches at Estadio Francisco Artés Carrasco, which seats 8,000.
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Lorca Deportiva was founded in 2002, right after the defunction of Lorca Club de Fútbol, which had been founded eight years earlier. The new club started in Tercera División, and was promoted at the first attempt.
As rookies in the "silver category", Lorca qualified for the play-offs after occupying the second place in the regular season. Next season the club finished fourth, but this time managed to promote to the second division. With Unai Emery - later of UD Almería and Valencia CF - in the position of manager, the club narrowly missed on a new promotion, finishing just five points behind last promotee Levante UD.
After Emery's departure, with many first-team players also leaving, Lorca was relegated the following season. In the 2009 summer, although it had just finished second in its group, economic issues led to another drop, to the fourth division.
For the 2010–11 season, the team was relocated to nearby Totana and renamed LD Olímpico.[1][2] On 18 October 2010, amidst serious economic problems, the club retired from competition and folded, without chairman or players.[3][4] All 93 points that the club would lose for not showing up in the remaining 31 fixtures of the season were equally distributed by their opponents.[5]
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