Club Deportivo Marino Playa de Las Américas, known simply as CD Marino, is a semi-professional Spanish football club based in Playa de Las Américas, Tenerife, in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Founded in 1933, the club hails from the Tenerife tourist hotspot of Los Cristianos, moving to its 7,500 capacity Estadio Antonio Domínguez Alfonso in Playa de Las Américas in 1969. It currently plays in the Tercera Division RFEF - Group 12, the fifth tier of the Spanish football pyramid, following its relegation from the now-defunct Segunda División B last season.
History
Formation years
Formed in 1933, by fishermen in the then small community of Los Cristianos, Arona, as Marino Fútbol Club, Club Deportivo Marino is the oldest football club in the south of Tenerife. The club came to be known as Club Deportivo Marino upon its registration with the local authority on 13 June 1947, with Segundo Fumero being named as the club's first president. At the time of its official formation, the club played its games on the El Guincho salt flats, which were located near one of Tenerife's now most-popular beaches, Las Vistas. In 1948, the club moved its games to Campo de El Quinto.
1975 & Onwards: Becoming members of the Spanish football pyramid
In 1975, the Spanish football league system was expanded, which saw the formation of the Canary Islands Group of the Third Division, which held the title of being the third tier of Spanish football until the formation of the Second Division B in 1977, and the formation of the top tier Preferential Inter-Island leagues of Las Palmas and Tenerife, which, at the time were the fourth tiers of the Spanish football pyramid until 1977, when they became the fifth tier. CD Marino became founding members of the Tenerife inter-island league, joining the league upon its formation in 1975.
At the end of the 1979-80 season, CD Marino were promoted to the Third Division Canary Islands Group after finishing 2nd. CD Marino would spend eight seasons in the fourth tier of Spanish football before Valentin Toste guided the club to promotion to Second Division B at the end of the 1987-88 season, with Marino being crowned as champions. The club enjoyed a good start to life in the third tier, achieving its best-ever finish of 10th in its first season. However, in its fifth and final season in the third tier, CD Marino began to experience significant financial difficulties, which saw the club suffer a slump both on and off the pitch. Its financial difficulties contributed massively to the club's subsequent departure from the Second Division B, with it dropping down two leagues to the Tenerife Preferential Inter-Island league. It wouldn't, though, be the clubs only relegation - instead suffering back-to-back relegations at the end of the 1993-94 season to the Tenerife First Inter-Island league, the sixth tier of Spanish football.
Post-2000s: Making its way up the Spanish football pyramid once again
After beginning a period of stabilisation in the sixth tier, it was the club's fourth season, the 97-98 season, that it achieved promotion back to the top tier of regional football after finishing as champions in first place. In its first season back in the Tenerife Preferential Inter-Island league, the club achieved a respectable fourth place finish.
In the 2006-07 season, CD Marino's eighth season in the fifth tier, the club managed a second place finish, defeating Unión Deportiva Balos of the Las Palmas Preferential Inter-Island league to win promotion back to the Third Division Canary Islands Group just under twenty years since it last played in the league. Finishing in the 16th place in its first season, the club began pushing up the league over the course of the next few seasons, before ultimately finishing first in the 2011-12 season, which pitted the club in a promotion play-off against CF Fuenlabrada. Over the course of two-legs, CD Marino won 4-2 on aggregate.
CD Marino began the 2012-13 season with a Tenerife island derby against CD Tenerife on 26 August, a game which they went on to lose 2-0. It was the first time that CD Tenerife, the island's most successful football club, had faced another Tenerife-based side in a league fixture. The opening day defeat would be a sign of things to come from the club, which ultimately suffered relegation at the end-of-the-season after finishing at the bottom of the table.