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ABOUT CD JAVEA
The Rojiblancos

Club Deportivo Javea has been in existence in one form or another almost 90 years, serving as a community football club for all the people of Javea. Its continued existence is very much down to a small but dedicated group of volunteers who give up a huge chunk of their spare time to run this semi-professional football club for no reward other than seeing the rojiblancos remain a mainstay in the community. As that community has become more international over the last few years, the club harbours hopes of bigger things in the future with an immediate target of consolidation at Third Division level to be followed by a longer term target of regular Segunda Division B football for CD Javea. And then? Well, who knows? Clubs like Villarreal CF and Getafe CF have lifted themselves into the limelight in recent years, clubs with no previous experience playing in the upper echelons of the Spanish football league.  It may be a mere pipe-dream but CD Denia were recently promoted to the Segunda Division B and, with the right determination, there is no reason why the rojiblancos can't do the same one day.

However football at this level is in a very fragile position, not just in our region but across Spain as a whole. As local government funding is reduced, a traditional form of income for many years, more and more provincial football clubs are finding it difficult to keep their heads above water. It is a double-edged sword for many that often causes irrecoverable damage and CD Javea has been no exception in having to make the right decision for the future: do the directors 'go for broke' and live beyond the club's means to achieve short-term objective or do they work to create a stable financial platform on which to build for the future?

CD Javea has rarely sampled life outside of the Valencian Regional Leagues (in all their different forms) but did have two short spells in the Third Division in the late 60s and the early 90s. The rojiblancos last came close to claiming a Third Division spot in the 2002-03 season when they finished runners-up behind Hercules CF 'B' in Group IV of the Regional Preferente but lost in the promotion play-offs to SD Sueca. Two seasons later CD Javea finished fifth, four points adrift of the play-offs after a late surge brought the club to within a whisker of the top three.

CD Javea had a brief run in the Copa del Rey, a competition normally dominated by clubs from the upper echelons of the league pyramid but with a few token places in the preliminary rounds for clubs from the lower reaches. The rojiblancos met Villarreal CF in the First Preliminary Round in lost over two legs to a side that would rise from the depths of regional football to the Champion's League is barely two decades.

In 2005 the club's first international supporter's club was formed under the banner of the Peña Javeamigos, a focal point for all the communities of Javea to learn more about their local football club.

In early 2006 the club played 'in exile' in Denia whilst a new state-of-the-art artificial pitch was installed at the Municipal Stadium in Javea. Later that year, the club was on the point of self-destruction as promising manager Alberto Araujo was unceremoniously sacked by the board of directors and players threatened to walk out club over unpaid wages. After recording almost three months without a win, the rojiblancos slipped down the league table and would eventually escape relegation by the skin of their teeth, thanks to a last-day 4-2 win over CD Polop in front of some 800 noisy fans at the Municipal Stadium.

In the summer of 2007 local businessman Mark Catlin received the majority vote from the club's socios to take on the role of President and handed the task to create the foundations to take the football club into a new era. The last 18 months have been crucial for that progression to take place; time-frames have been adjusted in acknowledgement of the economic crisis that swept across the globe in 2008. There is less money about and the rojiblancos are no exceptions. In 2009 the club proposed big cuts to the 2009-2010 budget in an attempt to reduce an overall debt of some 110.000€. The proposal was accepted by a majority vote at the club's AGM in August 2009 and the junta directiva was charged with hauling CD Javea into a more stable future.

2009-10
The new season gave much promise, despite an unfortunate opening day defeat to pre-season favourites UD Horadada. Two successive victories, including a resounding 4-0 home win over Aspe UD, lifted the club into the leading pack at the top of the table and, for the moment, the financial concerns that hampered pre-season preparation were forgotten. But, at the end of September 2009, coach Kenny Brown left Javea to join English side Grays Athletic, struggling at the wrong end of the Blue Square Premier Division. Within days, Javea announced that former player Jose Luis Bisquert was to take over the reins, a popular choice. But the economic turmoil of the summer returned with a vengeance as president Mark Catlin claimed that financial promises given to him in the summer had not been delivered and called an EGM on November 2nd in which he resigned as president with much of his junta directiva following suit. Javea's cash-strapped council continued to pledge to support the rojiblancos but could not guarantee when any grant would be paid to relieve the financial pressure on it. On the pitch, results were difficult to come by as Kenny Brown's squad fragmented with many key players opting to leave CD Javea, some to join him at Grays Athletic, others to take up much-needed job offers away from Javea. As injuries also took their toll, coach Jose Luis was forced to select a number of youngsters from the youth section to fill the gaps and the club slid away from the leading pack despite determined performances of his patched-up side. However, confidence rose steadily and a resolute performance at Mutxamel in late November demonstrated just what the young squad could achieve, condemning the hosts to their first home defeat of the season with a solid 3-1 victory which included a debut goal from youngster Alex Mata. Another strong performance in the rain at the Campo d'Esports gained maximum points over top-three side Santa Pola CF but a miserable run of just four points from a possible 21 saw the rojiblancos slide slowly towards the wrong end of the table.