After
Club Deportivo Logroño, the new
Club Deportivo Logroñés saw the light of day after the
Civil War, on 30 May 1940. Until 1950, it played in
Tercera División, after which it achieved a
second level promotion. After falling short of reaching the
top flight in 1952, Logroñés fluctuated between various
levels of Spanish football. On 14 June 1987,
already promoted Valencia CF visited
Estadio Las Gaunas, and were defeated 1–0, as the
Riojans gained first division rights for the first time ever. In
1989–90, the team finished an all-time best seventh, just two points short of a
UEFA Cup qualification, and would remain in the top level until 1997, save for a short return to level two in
1995–96, after it
finished last the previous season with just 13 points. After a double relegation in
1999–2000 (on the pitch and off it), it quickly returned to the third level, but new and worse economic problems arose, and the club was again relegated to
Tercera in July 2004. At the end of 2007–08, Logroñés returned once more to the fourth division due to its substantial salary commitments, in spite of the club's 13th-place finish in
the season. Financial troubles continued into the first weeks of 2009, as only nine players took the field for its 4 January 2009 match against
CD Arnedo, in protest against still overdue payments. This was Logroñés' last match in the competition, as the side did not present itself at all for the next match, against CD Tedeón, and were therefore retired from the competition, being consequently relegated to
Regional Preferente de La Rioja by the
Royal Spanish Football Federation. ==Season to season==