presidents

Luis Cornide Quiroga
Monforte de Lemos, Lugo (1884)
Madrid (06/11/1946)

3

Years

(1906, 1907, 1908)

Secretary of the League of Friends, he was appointed as the first president in Deportivo’s history. A lawyer, politician, electricity sector businessman and member of the Royal Galician Academy.

presidents

Laureano Martínez Brañas
Unknown place (24/12/1860)
A Coruña (25/12/1941)

2

Years

(1908,1909)

A construction contractor and commercial broker. Shortly after giving up the Deportivo presidency, he held the same position at their fierce rivals, Real Club Coruña, and later, between 1923 and 1924, served as mayor of A Coruña.

presidents

José Longueira Díaz
Unknown place / Unknown date
A Coruña (7/06/1945)

6

Years

(1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914)

The accountant of the executive board, he was president when the Club won its first national senior title, the Spanish Cup of 1912. A customs agent, he was serving as deputy mayor when he died.

presidents

Rogelio Fernández Conde
Unknown place (17/11/1876)
A Coruña (07/08/1957)

5

Years

(1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918)

A city councillor of A Coruña, president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the League of Friends, and a company director at Fenosa, he served as president of the Club during the split from Real Club Coruña, during which the Civil Governor banned football matches between the two teams.

presidents

Virgilio Rodríguez Rincón
A Coruña (15/02/1890)
A Coruña (02/06/1978)

5

Years

(1918, 1919, 1920, 1945, 1946)

Founding member and player of the first Deportivo team, with whom he won the Spanish Cup in 1912. A key figure in the 1918 reunification. President during two different terms: in his second spell, the Club was promoted back to the First Division, in 1946. Awarded the Deportivo gold and diamond medal He passed away in 1978, on the same day as Santiago Bernabéu, and held membership card number 1.

presidents

Juan Casal Rey
Unknown place (20/01/1889)
A Coruña (01/08/1961)

3

Years

(1920, 1921, 1922)

University professor and vice-director of the School of Commerce. Secretary of the Sporting Club Casino and president of the Gathering of Artisans.

presidents

Carlos González de Ancos
Unknown place (29/02/1891)
A Coruña (12/06/1975)

2

Years

(1922, 1923)

A Deportivo player between 1908 and 1919, also serving as club captain. President of Deportivo Auténtico, and later of Deportivo. After serving a term of little more than a year, he emigrated to Cuba, running his businesses there and also writing as a sports journalist.

presidents

Maximino Fernández Gago
Unknown place (01/05/1890)
A Coruña (29/12/1956)

3

Years

(1923, 1924, 1925)

A doctor specialising in sports medicine, he was linked to the Coruña Athletic Grouping and the Yacht Club, captaining a trainera rowing boat. The first president to raise the need to build a stadium.

presidents

Arcadio García Tizón
San Fiz de Navío, Ourense (1884)
A Coruña (28/01/1961)

2

Years

(1925, 1926)

A noted furniture, porcelain and glassware dealer, he was deputy mayor, executive of the Employers’ Association and of the Chamber of Commerce.

presidents

Guzmán Rodríguez Rincón
Unknown place (07/09/1887)
A Coruña (08/06/1963)

2

Years

(1926, 1927)

Hermano de Virgilio. Fishing boat owner. Director for almost the whole of the 1920s. He was president when Deportivo won their first Galician championship.

presidents

Galo García-Baquero y Sainz de Vicuña
Luanco, Asturias (31/05/1881)
A Coruña (01/01/1969)

3

Years

(1927, 1928, 1929)

An ENT doctor (he qualified in Madrid in 1908, and was the first to open a practice in A Coruña), he was also a physician for the Municipal Beneficent Organisation, and president of the Royal Academy of Medicine. He married Ángeles Méndez-Gil, Picasso’s platonic love during his time in A Coruña.

presidents

Luis López y López-Rioboo
Unknown place (30/10/1895)
Unknown place (12/05/1951)

1

Year

(1929)

Lawyer and city councillor of A Coruña. He was a competitive pigeon shooter. President of Deportivo on its League debut.

presidents

Carlos Allones Roffignac
Unknown place (08/03/1876)
Unknown place (25/08/1949)

4

Years

(1929,1930, 1934, 1935)

Court agent. One of the few presidents who held the position more than once, although both terms were brief.

presidents

Víctor Mateo Malumbres
Navarra (12/10/1894)
A Coruña (01/05/1955)

2

Years

(1930, 1931)

Born in Navarre, he settled in A Coruña because of his job as a representative of Papelera Española. Twice city councillor of A Coruña.

presidents

Manuel Negreira Gosende
Negreira, A Coruña (06/22/1877)
A Coruña (18/02/1934)

1

Year

(1931)

He emigrated to Cuba, where he served as president of Club Iberia in Havana, and ran a number of businesses. On his return, he married a local woman and settled in A Coruña, building a house in the neighbourhood now known as Calle Villa de Negreira.

presidents

Eugenio Barrero Muñoz
Unknown place (17/03/1893)
A Coruña (15/12/1967)

1

Year

(1931)

Presbyter and benefice-holder of the Collegiate Church of Santa María del Campo. Conductor of the El Eco choir. He served as president of Deportivo for four months.

presidents

Felipe Rodríguez Fernández
Unknown place (01/06/1900)
A Coruña (06/12/1947)

4

Years

(1931, 1932, 1933, 1934)

Son of the German consul in A Coruña. President of the Deportivo team that knocked the unbeaten First Division champions Real Madrid out of the Cup. He was known as Felucho.

presidents

Francisco Portela de Fano
Unknown place (01/01/1891)
Unknown place (02/08/1963)

1

Year

(1935)

Court secretary. City councillor of A Coruña during the Second Republic.

presidents

José María Salvador y Merino
Herrera del Pisuerga, Palencia (13/11/1904)
Madrid (02/06/1958)

7

Years

(1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941)

Lawyer and legal commander in the Army. He was in charge of the Club on its first promotion to the First Division. Adopted son of the city, he had a street named after him, up until application of the Historical Memory Act.

presidents

Ramón de Llano y Martín
Jovellanos, Cuba (24/08/1892)
A Coruña (01/05/1976)

3

Years

(gestor único; 1936, 1937, 1938)

Born in Cuba. Director from 1918 up until 1947, he kept Deportivo alive during the Civil War, serving as ‘sole administrator’, together with the president Salvador y Merino.

presidents

Aurelio Ruenes Blanco
Corme, A Coruña (11/11/1892)
Unknown place (11/10/1987)

5

Seasons

1941-1942, 1942-1943, 1943-1944, 1944-1945, 1946-1947)

After making his fortune in his youth in Argentina, he invested in food businesses on his return, such as Chocolate Express, which still exists today. President for the Club’s First Division debut. He suffered two relegations to the Second Division (1945 and 1947).

presidents

Ignacio Baeza Torrecilla
Unknown place (12/03-/906)
Unknown place (08/06/1986)

1

Season

(1947-1948)

Artillery commander and technician of the munitions factory. Founder and president of Club Deportivo Juvenil, Deportivo’s first reserve team club.

presidents

Manuel Gila Lamela
Unknown place (17/03/1902)
A Coruña (26/06/1979)

1

Season

(1947-1948)

Lawyer and president of the Board of Directors of the Savings Bank of A Coruña and Lugo. He served as provincial deputy and city councillor for A Coruña. The great success of his presidency was Deportivo’s promotion in 1948.

presidents

Daniel Chaver Gómez
Baamonde, Lugo (16/07/1905)
Unknown place (08/11/1985)

2

Seasons

(1948-1949, 1949-1950)

Colonel of the engineering regiment, and holder of the Military Staff diploma. President when Deportivo first finished as First Division runners-up. His son Javier was a director when Deportivo won the League in the year 2000.

presidents

Enrique Gómez Jiménez
Santa Clara, Cuba (29/05/1889)
Unknown place (18/01/1989)

2

Seasons

(1950-1951, 1951-1952)

Born in Cuba to Galician parents, from Becerreá in Lugo, he became a civil engineer and politician. He was subsequently president of Lugo Sporting Club.

presidents

Manuel Otero Peón
Mazaricos, A Coruña (05/10/1913)
A Coruña (21/01/1998)

1

Season

(1952-1953)

Lawyer and notary. Dean of the Chamber of Notaries of Galicia. He was a city councillor, and served as president for ten months.

presidents

Rafael Salgado Torres
A Coruña (23/10/1914)
A Coruña (20/09/1987)

1

Season

(1952-1953)

Infantry colonel and business lecturer. Mayor of Bergondo (1948-1956), at the same time as being president of the Deportivo administrative board for seven months.

presidents

Antonio Martínez-Reboredo Rumbo
Unknown place (07/07/1907)
A Coruña (08/07/1967)

1

Season

(1953-1954)

ENT specialist and surgeon. During his presidency, Deportivo crossed the Atlantic for the first time, to play in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil.

presidents

José Iglesias Varela
Arteixo, A Coruña (24/04/1914)
Unknown place (24/12/1995)

2

Seasons

(1954-1955, 1955-1956)

Industrialist. He succeeded Martínez Rumbo, having been his vice-president, and remained in the post for two years and three months, during which Deportivo played in and won the Teresa Herrera Trophy for the first time.

presidents

Ángel Fernández Murga
Unknown place (31/05/1919)
Outeiro de Rei, Lugo (28/06/1980)

1

Season

(1956-1957)

Infantry commander. He was president of the Club for five months. He died in a traffic accident on the N-VI highway at the age of 61.

presidents

José Luis Pérez-Cepeda Piñeiro
A Coruña (15/07/1919)
Valencia (22/12/1966)

1

Season

(1956-1957)

State attorney, deputy mayor and director of the Galician Football Federation and Español SD, as well as being president of the Fabril reserve team. He was a serving city councillor of A Coruña when he died, and had a street named after him.

presidents

Feliciano Gómez Pedreira
Culleredo, A Coruña (14/12/1910)
A Coruña (05/04/2000)

2

Seasons

(1957-1958, 1958-1959)

Lawyer and former player at Deportivo and Atlético Madrid. President for a year and a half, he avoided what would have been the Club’s first ever relegation to the Third Division, winning out in a dramatic play-off against Ourense.

presidents

Miguel Osset Acosta
Lugo (05/09/1894)
Lugo (16/12/1959)

1

Season

(1958-1959)

Army colonel. After two months in the post, he resigned because of a serious illness, which claimed his life just five months later.

presidents

Jesús Cebrián Brizuela
El Bierzo (25/01/1898)
A Coruña (16/01/1995)

5

Seasons

(1959-1960, 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1963-1964)

A businessman in the food industry. During his term, the team achieved two promotions to the First Division (1962 and 1964), and was relegated to the Second Division in 1963. He handled what was at the time the most expensive transfer in Spanish football, selling Amancio to Real Madrid, and oversaw the installation of floodlighting at Riazor.

presidents

Luis Julio Vázquez-Pena Núñez
Boimorto, A Coruña (07/11/1907)
A Coruña (25/04/1980)

1

Season

(1964-1965)

Specialist geriatric doctor. Second deputy mayor, executive councillor for Charity and Health, and provincial deputy. During his brief term, the Club dropped into the Second Division.

presidents

Antonio José González Fernández
A Coruña (01/02/1928)
A Coruña (24/11/2001)

8

Seasons

(1965-1966, 1966-1967, 1967-1968, 1968-1969, 1969-1970, 1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1972-1973)

The second-longest-serving president in the Club’s history. He played football and roller hockey for Deportivo in his youth, was the first non-Catalan president of the Spanish Skating Federation, and the founding president of CERS, the European roller-skating federation. His term as president saw three promotions to the First Division, and the same number of relegations.

presidents

Manuel Sánchez-Candamio Meigido
A Coruña (27/12/1915)
A Coruña (14/10/2000)

1

Season

(1973-1974)

Lieutenant-colonel in the army. A former semi-professional player at Badajoz, and director of a number of minor clubs.

presidents

Antonio Álvarez Rodríguez
A Coruña (01/05/1940)
A Coruña (08/01/2004)

8

Seasons

(1974-1975, 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981, 1981-1982)

President of the basketball club Bosco, and director with Antonio González, he was the first Deportivo director to join the Executive Board of the RFEF. The third-longest-serving president, he experienced two relegations to the third flight (1974 and 1980), and the subsequent promotions (1975 and 1981).

presidents

Jesús Corzo Sierra
San Paio de Mones, Ourense (07/09/1930)
A Coruña (06/05/2000)

4

Seasons

(1982-1983, 1983-1984, 1984-1985, 1985- 1986)

Builder, jeweller and politician, he was formerly the president of Racing Ferrol, the city where he settled on his return from a period in Venezuela.

presidents

Andrés García Yáñez
A Coruña (10/11/1931)
A Coruña (23/12/2014)

2

Seasons

(1986-1987, 1987-1988)

Secretary of the executive board of Corxo, whom he was elected by his fellow board members to replace. President of the Professional Association of Administrative Agents of Galicia.

presidents

Luis Carlos Morato Miguel
A Coruña (15/01/1953)

1

Season

(1987-1988)

Stand-in president for two months, following the resignation of García Yáñez. Tax consultant, lawyer and lecturer in economics at the UDC.

presidents

Julio Meana Álvarez
A Coruña (06/03/1944)

1

Season

(1987-1988)

Stand-in president for one month, between Morato and the start of Lendoiro’s term. He subsequently served as the head of the Galician Football Federation, and as such had the honour of handing the 1999-2000 League championship trophy to the club he presided.

presidents

Augusto Joaquín César Lendoiro
Corcubión, A Coruña (06/06/1945)

26

Seasons

(1988-1989, 1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994, 1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014)

The longest-serving president: he headed the Club for a little over a quarter century. He led the team to six of their seven national senior trophies (one League, two King’s Cups and three Supercups). Under his presidency, Deportivo played all its 112 matches in European competition, including five consecutive seasons in the Champions League. He also oversaw two promotions to the First Division, and suffered two relegations to the Second. A lawyer by profession, he had previously made Liceo the leading name in roller hockey.

presidents

Constantino Fernández Pico
A Coruña (23/07/1966)

5

Seasons

(2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019)

Founder and president of one of Spain’s premier technological consultancy firms, he took over the presidency amid the largest insolvency proceedings in the history of Spanish sport. His efforts were successful in restoring the Club’s finances. Following the promotion in 2014, the team played four consecutive seasons in the First Division.

presidents

Francisco Martínez Zas
A Coruña (09/07/1961)

1

Season

(2019-2020)

A product of the Dépor academy, he played for the team in the Second Division. A businessman in the construction sector. His term lasted only seven months.

presidents

Juan Antonio Armenteros Cuetos
A Coruña (22/04/1969)

1

Season

(2019-2020)

A lawyer by profession, he took over the role following a brief transitional period between the resignation of Zas and the election of Vidal.

presidents

Fernando Vidal Raposo
A Coruña (20/08/1962)

1

Season

(2020-2021)

During his tenure, despite a significantly improved second half of the season, the team was relegated to the third division as a result of the “Fuenlabrada case.” Previously, he served as a member of the sporting board during the club’s promotion to the First Division in 2014.

presidents

Antonio Couceiro Méndez
A Coruña (18/12/1955)

2

Seasons

(2021-2022, 2022-2023)

A civil engineer, he was Industry and Trade Minister of the Regional Government of Galicia, president of the Port Authority of A Coruña, and of its Chamber of Commerce. The claim for restoration of the forgotten title (the Spanish Cup of 1912) bore fruit under his presidency.

presidents

Álvaro Valentín García Diéguez
A Coruña (05/03/1959)

1

Season

(2023-2024)

An economist with a degree in marketing, he was a university lecturer and director of ABANCA Insurance. During his term, Deportivo emerged from the third tier after four years.

presidents

Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez
Madrid (23/07/1959)

2

Seasons

2024-

Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez has been president of RC Deportivo since 2024. A banker and businessman, he is president of ABANCA, and founder and president of Banesco Internacional. At the head of the Club, he is driving a project based on institutional stability, financial solvency and sustainable growth, with a long-term vision. His presidency heightens the historical values of Deportivo: identity, roots, belief in academy players, social commitment and respect for the Club’s history. Under his leadership, RC Deportivo have returned to professional football.