Levante UD Logo — The Levante Unión Deportiva (also called Llevant Unió Esportiva in Valencian) is a club football in Spain. In 1909 it founded the Royal Gymnastic Club Football and Football Club Levante, coinciding with the founding of Valencia Football Federation. The two merged in 1939 with the name of East-Gymnastics Sports Union and renamed Levante Unión Deportiva in 1941. The team is named after the east wind, the wind from the east to enter the city of Valencia on the beach where it was located your playing field in the early twentieth century.

The Levante Unión Deportiva is a club of football, the city of Valencia. In 1909, the creation of the Valencian Federation of Football, is founded the CF Gymnastics (heir to the University FC) and the Lift FC (FC Cabanyal heir). In 1915, the Lift FC stop playing games to come back in 1917. It must be remembered that football in the early twentieth century, provided amateur and little known at that time, had existed since 1903 in Valencia as early as 1907, the Cabanyal FC (predecessor of Levante FC) played their games in front of a field the beach at Las Arenas.

On the other hand, the CF Gymnastics, on September 16, 1909, it published a notice of incorporation Gymnastic playing in a field given by the Board of Youth Workers in the neighborhood of Campanar. During a regional exhibition of 1909, they played an exhibition soccer tournament, in the grounds of the Exhibition, in a field known as “The Big Track.”

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