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Club Esportiu Manacor is a Spanish football team based in Manacor, Mallorca, Balearic Islands. Founded in 1923, its first team plays in the Tercera Federación – Group 11, the fifth tier of Spanish football. Moreover, Manacor's first women's team is active in the Femenina Autonòmica, and the club has around a dozen of teams in its youth academy. The club's ground is the Estadi de Na Capellera, located in the same city, holding 4,000 spectators.

The highest category in which Manacor has played is the extinct Segunda División B, doing so during five seasons divided over the 20th century. Moreover, the club has participated in around 60 editions of the Tercera División/Tercera Federación.

In 1908, football arrived to Manacor for the first time with the creation of Foot-Ballista Club Manacor, related to the local agricultural syndicate. Later, a new club was founded after splitting from the first club: Foot-Ballista Club Alfonso XII, but both clubs disappeared one year later. The members and players of both teams created Club Manacor de Foot-Ball in 1909, a club that would be active for a decade, but also ended up disappearing.

On 23 June 2023 in the Teatre Principal in Manacor, a new club was founded: Futbol Club Manacor, which became the new representative club of the homonymous city and registered at the Catalan Football Federation. Quickly, Manacor would turn into one of the referents of football in the Part Forana (the parts of Mallorca outside of Palma), together with CE Constància from Inca.

In the 1924-25 season, Manacor debuted in the Primera Categoria of the regional Campionat de Mallorca de futbol after one season of absence due to the lack of a stadium that complied with the competition rules. One season later, the club obtained the second place after the excision of many teams from the competition. The 1925-26 final was played against RS Alfons XIII FC (currently RCD Mallorca) in Felanitx and was won by the Palma team. It would be the only second place that Manacor would achieve in this competition.

During the second celebration of Easter in 1925, the Estadi de Na Capellera was inaugurated with a friendly against RS Alfonso XIII FC. Interestingly, Manacor played with a blue-red shirt during its first years, imitating FC Barcelona, a team that had many followers on the island.

Around 1930, Manacor started to suffer severe financial problems, leading to the club being relegated, the stadium being sold in August 1934, and the entity disappearing a few days later. That same year, Club Deportivo Nacional de Manacor was founded, formed by ex-players of the recently disappeared club. The new club changed its colours, which became red and white vertical stripes and black socks (which turned blue in the 1970s), while they maintained the stadium of the previous club. In the beginning of 1935, Nacional changed its name to Racing Club de Manacor.

Initially, it seemed like Racing would be able to return to the heights that FC Manacor had reached before, but the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War caused the temporary complete paralysation of the club's activities. In the beginnings of 1937, Francoist directors took over the club and refounded it as Club Deportivo Manacor, incorporating the base of players of Racing.

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