16th August 2025
The History of CF Intercity
Welcome to another FluentFutbol article! We hope you enjoyed our previous article on the birth of CF Fuenlabrada. Today, we will cover the history of another one of our partners, CF Intercity!
Spanish Article:
Link: https://cfintercity.com/historia/
Tras un acuerdo con el GCD Sant Joan, el 17 de junio de 2017 se pone en marcha el engranaje de un proyecto 2.0 bautizado con el nombre de CF Intercity.
La directiva, presidida por Salvador Martí junto con Javier Mira, inicia la historia del que se convertiría, nada más nacer, en uno de los clubes referentes dentro de la provincia de Alicante.
El Intercity entró en la historia del fútbol español al convertirse el 29 de octubre de 2021 en el primer club de fútbol español en cotizar en Bolsa, concretamente, en el BME Growth.
La entidad dio otro paso fundamental al unirse a la Fundación Lucentum, histórico equipo de baloncesto de la ciudad de Alicante, y crear así un grupo deportivo que aspira a competir en las ligas profesionales de diferentes deportes.
Reference Translation:
After an agreement with GCD Sant Joan, on June 17 2017, the machinery of a 2.0 project was set in motion, baptized with the name of CF Intercity.
The board of directors, presided over by Salvador Martí together with Javier Mira, began the history of what would become, from its very birth, one of the reference clubs within the province of Alicante.
Intercity entered the history of Spanish football by becoming, on October 29, 2021, the first Spanish football club to be listed on the Stock Exchange, specifically on BME Growth.
The entity took another fundamental step by joining with Fundación Lucentum, a historic basketball team of the city of Alicante, and thus creating a sporting group that aspires to compete in the professional leagues of different sports.
15 Useful Words
- Acuerdo-agreement
- Directiva- board of directors
- Historia- history
- Provincia- province
- Reference- reference/benchmark
- Cotizar- to be listed (on the stock exchange)
- Bolsa- stock exchange
- Entidad- entity/organization
- Paso-step
- Fundamental- fundamental/key
- Unirse- to join
- Histórico- historic
- Equipo-team
- Competir- to compete
- Liga- league (football)
10 Useful Phrases
- Tras un acuerdo con- After an agreement with
- Se pone en marcha- is set in motion/ gets underway
- Bautizado con el nombre de- baptised/named with the name of
- Presidida por- presided over by/ chaired ny
- Nada más nacer- from the outset
- Entró en la historia- entered into history
- Al convertirse en- upon becoming
- Dio otro paso fundamental- took another fundamental step
- Al unirse a- upon joining with
- Aspira a competir- aspires to compete
Cultural Context
Ownership of Clubs in Spain:
In Spain, most clubs are Sports Corporations (Sociedades Anónimas Deportivas) which was a legal model created in the 1990s which forced clubs to become companies with shareholders. This was in response to numerous financial scandals to avoid such issues going forward.
Despite this, a few historic clubs such as Real Madrid and Barcelona were allowed to stay as the member-owned ‘socio’ clubs as we previously discussed.
Above: Real Madrid President Florentino Perez with the club’s members
Cross-Sport Integration:
In England or the US, sports teams across different sports such as football and basketball are quite distinct. For example, Chelsea FC is only a football club and the LA Lakers are only a basketball team. This is often not the case in Spain with football clubs also having other sports teams as seen through the example of CF Intercity above. This is also the case with larger clubs like Real Madrid and FC Barcelona who both have had successful basketful teams, with broader sporting identities beyond football (FC Barcelona even have handball and hockey teams!)
Below: FC Barcelona Basketball Team
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