A title in the First National of national baseball; champions of Spain in billiards or fencing; constant fight in categories with fewer spotlights… Valladolid has elite teams in modalities where the spotlights illuminate easily, such as football, basketball, handball, rugby and even in others, with less brightness but many successes , such as inline hockey and wheelchair basketball. But it is also represented in others with less media presence, such as baseball, billiards, fencing, badminton, karate or judo…
They are the other clubs in Valladolid.
Some in League mode, others in national tournaments and some in Provincial, Regional and State (or National) Championships.
Salvador Díez, Ronald Rivera, Javier Herrero and Mario Rodríguez, from the Valladolid Billar Club.CBS Five Valladolid has been one of the last to achieve success for the province. At the end of September he won the title of Spanish champion in the final phase of the National First Division Baseball League. This milestone gives them the right to play in 2025 in the highest category, the Spanish Baseball League, although it will depend, as the club points out, on the aid they receive since, since they do not have an approved field, they should play their matches at home in Madrid. or Gijón. And, by always having to play while traveling, the budget is much larger. Recently, representatives of the entity were received by the City Council, which congratulated them for being the first team from Castilla y León to achieve that achievement. Founded in 2021, it has 60 members, they have played in Soto de la Medinilla the last year and have a project to do so in the future in a facility in San Isidro.
CD Billar Valladolid plays this season in the Second Division of the National 3-Cushion Billiard League. In total there are 29 teams divided into five groups in the third category of this sport (above are First and Division of Honor). Their debut could not have been better, winning easily on the first day (the second will be played in mid-November). The club, with headquarters and facilities on the Villabáñez road, has two Spanish 5-keel billiards champions, Javier Merino (this September) and José Ignacio Merino (in 2021). Although they have not been his first successes, since we must add the medals in the Spanish Championships from Sergio Callejo in Maracena 2020 (bronze), José Ignacio Merino in Burguillos in 2022 (bronze) and another bronze from Javier Merino in Valladolid in September 2022 Its history began in 1982 and now there are around 40 members.
The Valladolid Fencing Club organizes this weekend the I National Ranking Tournament for women’s epee, with 150 fencers. Among them several of its components. The entity was created in 1989 and, since then, it has grown to be one of the best on the Spanish scene, with representatives every year at European and world events. Every weekend some of its members will be current protagonists, competing in national M15, M17, M20 and absolute tournaments, always with the weapon of the sword as their flag (its women’s team is the current champion of Spain). It is not the only Valladolid fencing club, since in Arroyo, led by Dóra Kiskapusi; and in Medina, with El Duque, there are also representatives.
Fencers from the Valladolid Fencing Club, one of the reference clubs in this sport, in the sword weapon.The Valladolid Athletics Club is one of the oldest in the city, with 58 years behind it (it started in August 1966 with the Medina SF Club, precursor of the current CAV). The women’s team is its flagship, competing in the Honor Division, the highest club category, of the Iberdrola League, although in 2025 it will do so in the Second Division, after being relegated from the First Division last June.
The Universidad de Valladolid-Valladolid Club Volleyball is playing this season in the men’s Primera Nacional, the third category of national volleyball, after being relegated from Super League 2 last year. The VCV, founded in 2018 and which has 300 licenses, took over the sports rights of the UVa last year, maintaining the name and playing in Fuente La Mora, and is already a reference for this sport in the city and the province .
Like the Lourdes Aspasia for judo or the Budokan for karate. Martial arts have always left good news in Valladolid. And both Lourdes and Budokan usually bring medals from regional and national events. In both cases there are no regular competitions although there are Spanish Cups, Super Cups and Spanish Championships.
Image of the current season of the Universidad de Valladolid-Valladolid Volleyball Club, which is playing this campaign in the Primera Nacional.Table tennis, in which Valladolid had one of the most powerful teams at the national and European level, this season has a club in the Second Division, the fourth category of this sport, CD Pisuerga, which plays in Huerta del Rey.
The CD Universidad de Valladolid badminton team will start a new season in January in the Primera Oro of the National Club League, the second category with twelve teams in the running. With 27 years of history, it has 17 players this year.
The Pisuerga Triathlon, Tripi, the Valladolid E-Triathlon and the Laguna de Duero Triathlon stand out in a sport, which encompasses triathlon or duathlon, with many individual results to achieve a collective one.
Several of the members of the Lourdes-Aspasia judo team.Like Unión Esgueva for rescue and lifesaving, El Cisne or Racing Valladolid, for canoeing; or the Rolling Lemons of skating, one of those that most appears in international inline freestyle competitions.
There are also others, in better-known sports, such as Ponce basketball, Hand Vall handball, Atlético Tordesillas, Mojados, Laguna or Parquesol… and a long etcetera. They are the other clubs.
