A.D. Alcorcón and C.D. Leganés will face each other this Sunday (18:15) at Santo Domingo in a derby in the south of Madrid, which will be played for the twentieth time in an official match. Yellows and Blue and Whites have faced each other in Second Division, Second 'B', Third Division and Regional Preferente.
The first derby of which there are records in the 'alfarero' territory was played 45 years ago, in the 1975/76 season, when both clubs played in the Madrid Preferente, and the result was a draw (0-0). Two years later, the duel climbed up to the Third Division, a category in which it became a classic of the 1980s.
A classic of the eighties in the Third Division and of Second Division 'B' in the first decade of the 21st century.
Of the eight derbies played in that decade, half fell on the Pepinero side. The first victory came in 1980, with a 2-0 win with goals by Pino and Juan. Leganés would string together three consecutive wins in Alcorcón between 1985 and 1987: 0-1 in 1984/85, with a goal by Benjamín Moreno; 1-4 in 1985/86, with goals by Abel, Panocha, Emilio and Quini; and the same scoreline a year later, this time with goals by Mariano I, Diego and a brace by Quique Herráiz. With the turn of the century, the derbies moved to Second Division 'B', with six consecutive duels in the second half of the first decade. Leganés won two of them, both 1-3 in 2008/09, with goals from Nacho Aznar, Quini and Javi Vicente, and 2009/10, with goals from Carlos Martínez, Aníbal Zurdo and, again, Quini.
Two derbies in LaLiga SmartBank without luck for the pepineros
The last two precedents came in LaLiga SmartBank, in 2014/15 and 2015/16, with wins for the alfareros. In total, nineteen official matches have been played between the two teams, with a balanced balance of six wins for Leganés, six draws and seven wins for Alcorcón.
