Football in the Canaries faces the ever-growing prospect of both main clubs being relegated this season.
CD Tenerife have been looking certainties for the drop from Division 2 for most of the season and, despite putting in their best performance for a long time in beating fifth-placed Huesca 2-0 at the weekend, remain a massive 14 points from safety.
Meanwhile, UD Las Palmas, the region’s only top-flight club at present, continued their miserable run, losing 1-0 at Betis. The defeat means that the yellow and blues from Gran Canaria have picked up just two points from a possible 27 and have not win since before Christmas.
With eleven games left to play, the alarm bells are sounding loud and clear at the club, which now stands three points off safety in La Liga, a position that would be much worse were it not for results that have gone their way among the group of four sides just above the drop zone.
Relegation would prove financially disastrous for a side which only won promotion back to the top flight in 2023 and had high hopes of a sustained presence in La Liga. Las Palmas’ ranks this year include Scottish players Oli McBurnie (striker), who joined in July 2024 after being released by Sheffield United in England, and Scott McKenna (defender), who previously played for English premiership side Nottingham Forest.
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