Celta Fortuna is now a Second Division team. The Celta youth team made history at Abanca Balaídos after defeating SD Ponferradina in the play-off final and reaching, for the first time in Celta’s 103-year history, the second tier of Spanish soccer.
This is a historic promotion for the club, for A Madroa, and for the entire Celta family. It’s a major milestone that also makes Celta the first Galician club to take its youth team all the way to professional soccer.
The final image of a packed Abanca Balaídos, celebrating alongside the players, perfectly sums up what this success means. Because this promotion belongs to everyone: to the players who defended this crest on the field, to the coaching staff led by Fredi Álvarez, to the professionals who work every day at A Madroa, and to the fans who never stopped believing in this project.
Celta Fortuna has reached LaLiga Hypermotion while staying true to its identity. The club has committed to homegrown talent, to the values instilled at A Canteira, and to a development model based on accelerating processes and placing trust in young players. Many of the players celebrating this promotion today arrived at A Madroa when they were just children. Others are still in the youth ranks. All of them are part of a generation that has proven that talent, hard work, and a sense of belonging can open any door.
These young men have earned top honors, putting the finishing touch on a spectacular season that represents a huge step forward for both the present and the future of the club. Because this promotion confirms that we’re on the right path. That the talent “Feito na Madroa” is ready to compete at the highest level. And that the dream of any young Celta player now has a new milestone at home.
But if there’s one image that will remain forever in everyone’s memory, it’s that of the united Celta family filling Abanca Balaídos to support a group of young players as they fulfilled a dream that is now part of Celta’s history.
