Las Palmas Sports League, together with Alavés sports and Granada football club, successfully upgraded to La Liga in the 2023/24 season. In the last round of the 2022/23 season, Las Palmas tied with the upgrade direct competitor 0-0 Alavés, and finally gained the qualification of direct upgrade by pressing Levante with the advantage of winning the goal.
This is the first time Las Palmas has returned to La Liga since 2018. They have played in La Liga for 34 seasons. As a Spanish team with a long history, Las Palmas has cultivated many talented players and has performed well in the European arena.
The goal of the merger is to retain local players.
After experiencing the pain of losing local excellent players, the five clubs in Canary Islands decided to join hands to retain those potential players. On August 22, 1949, Real Club Victoria, Club Deportivo Gran Canaria, Atlético Club de foultbol, Arenas Club and Marino foultbol Club merged to form the Las Palmas Sports Alliance.
After the merger, Las Palmas achieved their goal and became the only team that had been successfully upgraded within two years of its establishment. More importantly, they sent four players to the Spanish team who won the 1964euro championship.
At the same time, benefiting from Las Palmas’s youth training system, many players have achieved success in La Liga, including the legendary club player Juan Carlos Valerón, as well as Barcelona Nova pederry and Villarreal Nova Yeremy Pino.
He once achieved a brilliant record in La Liga.
As early as the 1968/69 season, Las Palmas scored 38 points in 30 games. At that time, a victory accumulated 2 points, and finally they achieved a record of 15 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses. In that year’s standings, they ranked second, second only to the champion Real Madrid.
Less than ten years later, Las Palmas was close to winning the King’s Cup. After eliminating Málaga, Spanish, Cadiz, Atletico Madrid and Royal hijon sports one after another, Las Palmas entered the final of the 1977/78 King’s Cup. However, in the final held in April 1978, they lost 1-3 to Barcelona and missed the chance to win the championship at the Bernabeu Stadium, which was also their best record in the King’s Cup.
Experience of European war Arena
After Las Palmas won the runner-up in the Spanish league in 1968/69, he won the European war qualification for the first time in history and participated in the International City Expo Cup. Unfortunately, they were eliminated Hertha BSC Berlin in the first round, with a 0-0 draw at home and a 0-1 defeat away.
A few years later, they participated in the UEFA Cup competition in the 1972/73 season. After the elimination of Turin and Bratislava, the non-enemy winter football club was eliminated. Las Palmas participated in the European war for the third time in the 1977/78 season of the UEFA Cup. They defeated Tuzla free football club in the first round, but then they lost to Ipswich City football club.
Once had the opportunity to sign Maradona
Back in 1978, Las Palmas tried to persuade the 18-year-old Diego Maradona (Diego Armando) to join. Spanish journalist Julio Maldonado (Julio Maldonado) once revealed that Las Palmas officially offered an offer to the Argentine youth club where Maradona is located, hoping to win the legendary Argentine star. Unfortunately, the transfer didn’t come true in the end. Maradona stayed in his motherland, although he set foot on Spanish land in 1984. In Las Palmas’s game against Barcelona in the King’s Cup, Maradona successfully broke the door in the penalty kick war, helping Barcelona successfully advance to the next round.
Nicknamed Canary’s cry
Las Palmas has many nicknames, but one of them seems to be different, that is, “Pío-Pío”, which is related to the melodious singing of Canary. This unique nickname is not only related to birds.
This nickname comes from the witty response of the passionate Las Palmas supporter Fernando El bandela (Fernando El Bandera) in a derby battle in the Canary Islands. In the noise of Tenerife fans, bandela has been responding with the cry of “Pío-pío. This humorous response has gradually become the slogan of enthusiastic Las Palmas fans, and has been circulating since then. In order to reflect this theme more, the mascot of Las Palmas today is a canary named “pāo-pāo.
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