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| Full name | Unió Esportiva Lleida | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Els Blaus (The Blues) Els de la Terra Ferma (Firmlanders) | ||
| Founded | 1939 (as Lérida Balompié-AEM) 1947 (as Unión Deportiva Lérida) | ||
| Dissolved | 10 May 2011 | ||
| Ground | Camp d´Esports, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain | ||
| Capacity | 13,500 | ||
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Unió Esportiva Lleida was a Spanish football team based in Lleida, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. It was founded as Lérida Balompié-AEM on 30 October 1939, and became Unión Deportiva Lérida in 1947, after a merger with CD Leridano. It held home matches at Camp d´Esports, with a 13,500-seat capacity. It was dissolved in 2011 due to debts of €28 million, then acquired by a local entrepreneur and renamed Lleida Esportiu.
Lleida adopted the Catalan version of its name in 1978. The club spent most of its history in the lower divisions, but in the early 1950s and early 1990s, the club won promotion to La Liga.
During the 1990s the club was managed by Mané, Juande Ramos and Víctor Muñoz, all of whom subsequently became successful managers with other clubs. From 1987 the club organised its own summer trophy, the Ciutat de Lleida Trophy.