Early years The club was founded in 1946 as a merger of two clubs: Fortuna and Reconquista. In 1965 and being Mr. José Ramón Elvira Sastre the president, UC Ceares promotes for the first time to
Tercera División, but finished in the last position, being subsequently
relegated. Ceares continued playing in regional divisions until 1986, year that the team returned to
Tercera División and played in it two years.
2000s: Comeback to Tercera División In the seasons 2001–02 and 2002–03, Ceares achieved two consecutive
promotions from Primera Regional to
Tercera División with Rogelio García as head coach. He would coach UC Ceares during six consecutive seasons, with a break in 2007, remaining in Tercera starting the longest streak of the club in this division. In 2007, former
Real Sporting footballer
José Antonio Redondo replaced him until 2009, when he resigned. With Redondo at the helm, on 5 April 2008, Ceares earned a 1–1 away draw in the last minute against Asturian powerhouse
Oviedo and qualified for the semi-finals of the
Asturian tournament of the RFEF Cup, where they were eliminated by
Langreo. Rogelio would take the team again until the end of the 2008–09 season. After that season, Florentino Angulo was hired as new manager. Angulo managed Ceares until 2012.
2010s: "People's football" project and promotion playoffs Before the 2011–12 season, a new board takes the control of the club and gives it a new philosophy based on a claim of social and people's sport and criticism the actual business in football. For this philosophy, Ceares board inspired on English football and clubs like
St. Pauli or
United of Manchester. The
2013–14 season was the 14th of the club in this league (the 11th consecutive one) and the second of Nacho Cabo as manager. Ceares started the season with only one defeat in the first fifteen games, earning 34 points, which allowed the club to lead the table during two weeks, after a win at
L'Entregu CF by 1–3 in its 500th game in Tercera. Finally, Ceares qualified for the
promotion playoffs to
Segunda División B in the last week, after winning by 0–3 to
Luarca CF. The team finished in the third position with 74 points, 21 wins, 54 goals scored and only 31 allowed. All these numbers were records in the history of the club. In the first round, Ceares dropped
Águilas by 2–1 in the aggregate. In the first leg, the
brickers earned a draw by 1–1 thanks to a goal of Pablo Martínez in the 87th minute. Martínez also scored the only goal in the second game. This was the second time La Cruz registered an attendance of 1,500 fans. The first one was in 2003, when
Oviedo visited the field for the first time. Ceares faced
Trival Valderas, the champion of the group of Madrid, in the second round, but was widely defeated in the first leg, played in Gijón, by 0–3. The team earned a 2–2 draw at Alcorcón, in a game where Borja Noval missed a penalty when the game was 2–1 for the
brickers. On 30 August 2014,
Bryan Jiménez became the first Ceares player who played an international game. He made his debut with the
Dominican Republic national team in a lost friendly against
El Salvador. In 2015, Ceares signed a collaboration agreement with women's football club
Gijón FF for sharing La Cruz stadium and to create a youth academy for boys and girls.
2020–present: Tercera División title and first promotion In the
2020–21 season, the one with a two-staged format, Ceares ended the first leg of the regular season as champion of one of the two subgroups. On 2 May 2021, Ceares had the option to directly promote to the newly created
Segunda División RFEF, currently called
Segunda Federación, that would replace the Segunda División B, by defeating
San Martín at home. However, they had to wait one more week as they were widely beaten by 1–4. Seven days later, Ceares clinched the Tercera División title and promotion after beating 0–2 in a do-or-die match at
L'Entregu. The first win in the new league arrived at round 3, after defeating
Arenteiro by 2–0. However, a long streak of losses quickly demoted the team to the last position. On 30 November 2021, Ceares made its debut in the
Copa del Rey, by facing local powerhouse
Sporting de Gijón. The match was played at
El Molinón, as La Cruz did not meet the requirements of the RFEF for hosting matches of this competition, and finished with a 0–1 defeat. However, Ceares finally could not avoid relegation and finished in the last position in their first experience in a league with teams out from Asturias. On 1 May 2024, Ceares qualified again for the
promotion playoffs to Segunda Federación with two rounds left, but this time was eliminated in the first round by
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