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Elche CF Makes It Back to La Primera
- Elche CF returned to LaLiga EA Sports on June 1, 2025, by defeating Deportivo de La Coruña 4-0 at Abanca-Riazor Stadium.
- The promotion followed a two-season stay in the second tier after relegation 761 days earlier, with Levante securing the top spot the week before.
- Elche dominated the match with goals by Mourad, John, Germán Valera, and Pedro Bigas, supported by over 2,000 traveling fans and a strong team performance.
- Coach Eder Sarabia called the match part of Elche’s history, while Germán Valera said, "We played with a lot of personality," highlighting the team’s character.
- The club’s seventh promotion sparked widespread celebrations in Elche, marking a healed scar from relegation and a united return determined to remain in the top flight.
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Elche CF makes it back to La Primera
On June 1 2025, thousands of Elche CF supporters flooded the town centre to transform La Glorieta into a festival of horns, flares, fireworks, and chants as they celebrated the team’s promotion to La Primera of La Liga. The green and white faithful had already begun the festivities before the match ended, with Elche leading by three goals at half-time, pretty much securing their return the best… Source
One year after his departure from Sturm Graz, David Affengruber and Elche made their way to the Primera Division in Spanish football!In the last round, the 24-year-old defensive player made an assist in the 4–0 victory at Deportivo La Coruna.Elche finished the Segunda Divison two points behind Levante in second place.The third climber is scored in a playoff of the teams ranked 3 to 6.
The Second Division of Spain—now called Hypermotion League—a category famous for leaving everything for the end, was once again “the Hypertension League,” as many fans began to call it when it adopted that new name. Three teams were competing this Sunday for a direct ascent square—Elche, Oviedo and Mirandés—after the Levante got it last week after an agonic dating back to El Plantío, Burgos stadium. Three other teams were playing two places for …
With the Levante in First Division since last weekend, Elche, Oviedo and Mirandés came to the last day of Second Division League with options to celebrate the direct ascent, although only the Ilicitans depended on themselves to be able to rise. Achieving a triumph in Riazor before Dépor assured the team trained by Éder Sarabia the return to the elite and the Franjiverdes, very superior from beginning to end, did not fail. They beat the Galicians…
More information: Elche CF has another challenge in Riazor beyond the ascent With the recent promotion of Elche CF to Primera División, Eder Sarabia has not taken long to move tab. The Basque technician, the architect of the return of the franjiverdes to the top category of Spanish football, has already transmitted to the board his first request to strengthen the staff. It is Iker Losada, a young Galician attacker who belongs to Real Betis but w…
Although it has not had a direct impact on this ascent, the ex-red Nino has reason to be one of those who has been most pleased as he is part of the Elche.
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