Lleida CF, the historic club in Lleida, is facing definitive liquidation after years of financial and institutional crisis. Marc Torres, the club’s adjunt to the presidency, said there is “no future” for the 86-year-old entity, according to Segre.
The latest blow came in May 2026, when the club believed it had found a solution in a supposed French hotel investor with a British passport. The man had promised immediate capital, but Torres alerted the Mossos d’Esquadra on 20 May after spotting irregularities in the documents. Police later arrested him at Torres’s office and found that his identity was false, with an arrest warrant from the Audiencia de Barcelona already in place.
The club’s debt now exceeds €5 million. That figure includes about €1.7 million owed to the tax authorities and €2.3 million to social security. Lleida CF had already exhausted other options after a creditors’ meeting was filed in the summer of 2025, following the dismissal of the entire squad and a budget of €600,000 for survival in the fifth tier.
The crisis deepened after months without pay for players and staff. In March 2025, Segre reported that some foreign players had no daily resources or means to return home, while others relied on family support or sold valuables to get by. The club later released its squad, and the RFEF ordered administrative relegation to Tercera RFEF because of unpaid debts.
The problems at Camp d’Esports have also been shaped by a long dispute with Lleida City Council, known as the Paeria. Since January 2022, the relationship has been marked by legal conflict over the use of the stadium. The council, then led by Miquel Pueyo, agreed to end the agreement for the ground, and in August 2023, president Luis Pereira accused the municipal government under Fèlix Larrosa of discrimination after it rejected a sports city project.
Further tension followed in July 2024, when Lleida CF renovated the pitch without council authorisation and the Paeria demanded that the club cover the cost. Earlier that year, in March 2024, a challenge forced the club to change its name from Lleida Esportiu to Lleida CF, its third name after Unió Esportiva Lleida. Fan groups later launched the Lleida 1939 project as a possible plan B if the historic entity is liquidated. More Catalonia news
