Levante UD
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Levante Union Deportiva is a football club that has won promotion to the Primera División (First Division) of the Spanish Football League for the 2004–2005 season as champions of the Segunda División (Second Division).
Levante UD, or Llevant UE to give the team its name in the Valencian language, is the second team of the city of Valencia, Spain.
Always in the shadows of Valencia, CF, Levante has been around since the early 1900s and originally played in their modest stadium Campo de Vallejo. In the early 1970s they moved into their current stadium, the 27 792 seater Ciudad de Valencia.
Before 2004, Levante UD had only been in the First Division for two seasons (1963–1964 and 1964–1965), although they came very close in 2003. The two most illustrious players to play for the team are Johan Cruijff and Caszely. Levante fans are known as Granotas, or frogs.