Joan Monterde, footballer from Puerto de Sagunto, signs for CF Intercity
Winger Joan Monterde, born in Puerto de Sagunto (coastal district), has joined CF Intercity of Alicante this season after leaving Orihuela CF, the club has confirmed.
Forward Joan Monterde, born in Puerto de Sagunto on 18 December 1997 according to Wikipedia, is starting a new chapter of his career after signing for CF Intercity, a club that will play its next season in Alicante football. The transfer comes after a campaign at Orihuela CF, where the winger featured regularly last season before deciding to continue his career elsewhere. He now joins a project that is trying to establish itself on a national level, one more step in a career built through Spain's mid-tier competitions rather than the country's best-known top-flight sides.
Monterde is known above all for his attacking profile. His natural position is right winger, although he can also play on the left side of the attack, a versatility that has allowed him to feature in different tactical systems throughout his career. Coaches have regularly used him as an option to stretch play out wide and support the forward line, rather than as a fixed, single-role player. His path has taken him through mid-tier divisions of Spanish football, including Segunda Federación and Primera Federación (Spain's third and second tiers below La Liga), where he built up relevant experience before joining the Alicante club. Those two divisions form the backbone of professional and semi-professional football below the top two national leagues, and moving through them has given Monterde regular first-team minutes season after season.
The Sagunto-born player came through the youth academies of Villarreal CF and Levante UD, two of the leading clubs in the Valencian Community for developing young footballers, both known for producing players who go on to compete at national level. After finishing his youth career, he had his first senior spell with Levante's reserve team, a step many young Spanish footballers use as a bridge between academy football and senior competition. Those years led to a standout moment in his career: on 19 July 2020, he made his La Liga (Primera División) debut with Levante UD's first team, in a match against Getafe CF that ended in a 1-0 home win, according to Wikipedia. It was a milestone that placed him, even briefly, among the players who have worn the first team's colours in Spain's top division.
After that spell at Levante, Monterde continued his career at various clubs across Spain: he played for Lleida Esportiu, then La Nucía, and later signed for UB Conquense, where he had one of his best seasons as a professional. In the 2024/25 season he scored eight goals in 32 league matches, a figure reflecting his attacking contribution to a mid-table side. Across these different clubs and divisions, the winger has built a career defined by consistency rather than headlines, moving forward gradually from one competitive level to the next.
His new club, CF Intercity, has a distinctive feature that sets it apart from every other Spanish football club: it is the only Spanish club listed on the stock exchange, making it a unique case in the national football landscape. Unlike most Spanish clubs, which are structured either as member-owned sports associations or as closely held limited companies, CF Intercity's shares can be bought and sold on the market, a structure far more common among listed businesses than among lower-division football sides. This detail is part of the context in which Monterde begins this new stage, at a club that combines its sporting project with a business structure unusual in non-professional football.
For the Camp de Morvedre district, the news means following the career of one of the area's footballers, who competes outside the most high-profile professional divisions but has maintained a steady presence in national football since his La Liga debut. Monterde joins the list of players born in Puerto de Sagunto who, coming up through Valencian youth football, have continued their careers elsewhere in Spain after passing through clubs such as Villarreal CF or Levante UD. His case illustrates a pattern familiar to followers of local football in the district: talented young players leave the area's youth systems, join bigger academies, and build long careers away from home while still being closely followed back in Sagunto.
Following careers like Monterde's is common among fans in Camp de Morvedre, where youth football remains a pathway to higher divisions. Although the player has not played for a comarca club in recent years, his origins in Puerto de Sagunto keep him linked to the area, something local sports media tend to highlight whenever one of the district's footballers signs with a new team. That connection between local roots and a career built almost entirely outside the comarca is one of the reasons transfer news like this continues to draw attention among Sagunto's football community.
CF Intercity is counting on Monterde's experience across different divisions of Spanish football, along with his ability to play in several attacking positions, to strengthen the team's offensive options for the coming season. The Alicante club has not publicly disclosed the length of the contract or its financial terms. According to Golsmedia, with additional information from Wikipedia.