Ferroviaria, founded in 1918, and one of the senior youth teams in Madrid, visited the Málaga CF facilities this Saturday, represented by president Javier Puig, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of La Rosaleda taking place in three days.
The president of Agrupación Deportiva Ferroviaria presented the Club with a team shirt, the main sponsor being RENFE, which coincidentally is also celebrating eight decades of existence in 2021.
The first match
On 13th April 1941 La Rosaleda hosted its first ever match, although on that day the official inauguration was unable to take place. At that time, Club Deportivo Malacitano played their matches at Baños del Carmen, which had been hit by a storm a few days before the match, corresponding to the return leg of the Second Round of the then Copa del Generalísimo.
CD Malacitano’s rival, in an as yet unfinished stadium, was Agrupación Deportiva Ferroviaria. A team who that 1940/41 season played in the Third Division (Zone A, Group 2), ended the league with Second Division promotion.
Malacitano, dressed in white shirt and black shorts, defeated Ferroviaria by 1-4 in the first leg, held at the Chamartín stadium on 6th April 1941. The Malagueño outfit went on to win the return leg, on this occasion by 6-0 with a stellar performance from Manuel Fuentes who scored five of the goals, amongst them the first ever goal to be scored at La Rosaleda. Tomasín scored the other Malacitanista goal.
An old acquaintance
The Málaga fans knew the rival from Madrid, having already played against FC Malagueño and Málaga SC in the 1932/33 season in Group B of the Campeonato Mancomunado Castilla-Sur, which Ferroviaria went on to win. The following season, Malagueño and Málaga merged to become CD Malacitano.
Malacitano again locked horns with Ferroviaria in the Campeonato Mancomunado, playing their first official away game under this name against Ferroviaria on 22nd October 1933 (0-0 at Las Delicias); a week later, on 29th October, they met in Málaga (victory for the Malacitanistas by 3-0, with goals from Meri, Tomasín and Pequerul).
The second time these rivals played each other in Málaga in an official match was in the 1939/40 season, in the Spanish Football Federation’s President's Cup, a tournament between the five teams that finished second in the Second Division at the end of the season (made up of five groups of eight teams).
CD Malacitano, who played the competition having finished the league in third place after Racing de Ferrol dropped out, ended up winning the trophy following a 5-2 victory (Tavilo -3- and Mesita -2-) against AD Ferroviaria. The match was held at Baños del Carmen on 5th May 1940.
Present
Since 13th April 1941, when the third match between these teams took place, this time at La Rosaleda, AD Ferroviaria has not played another official game in Málaga.
Ferroviaria, who played in the Second Division for three seasons, and won the Campeón de España de Aficionados twice (1946 and 1947), stopped playing in 2007, but didn’t disappear, returning to competition in 2019. During this unusual 2020/21 season, ‘Ferro’ as it’s known, competes in Group 10 of the Tercera de Aficionados de la Comunidad de Madrid, playing home games at Campos de Fútbol Ernesto Cotorruelo.
80 years later, AD Ferroviaria, where Joaquín Peiró played at ‘Juvenil’ age as well as González - Lucas Alcaraz’s grandfather - Patricio, Bermejo and Larrubia (also CD Málaga players), visits La Rosaleda, a stadium that will always be linked to the history of the team from Madrid, represented by president, Javier Puig,
Málaga Club de Fútbol wishes all the best to Agrupación Deportiva Ferroviaria.
