About CD Tenerife

Club Deportivo Tenerife is a Spanish football club from Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, founded on 8 August 1922. Playing in white shirts and blue shorts at the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López, the club spent its early decades in the regional leagues, reached the Segunda División in 1953 and made a brief first appearance in La Liga in 1961–62.

Under president Javier Pérez the club rose from the third tier to La Liga in 1989 and began a ten-year stay in the top flight. Coached by Jorge Valdano, Tenerife finished fifth in 1992–93 and reached the last 16 of the UEFA Cup the following season; under Jupp Heynckes it finished fifth again in 1995–96 and went on to the semi-finals of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup, beating Lazio, Feyenoord and Brøndby along the way.

Tenerife returned to La Liga for single seasons in 2001–02 and 2009–10 and has otherwise competed mostly in the Segunda División. Together with Las Palmas, with whom it contests the Canary Islands derby, it is one of the most geographically isolated professional clubs in Spain.