This video by Visit Elche, was put together in 2013, when Elche Club de Futbol were promoted to La Liga. It is a summary of their history, snippets of which are below.

Elche Club de Fútbol was founded in the summer of 1923, after the merger of all of the town's football teams. The club's first-ever game was against Monovar, where they beat the home team 4–0, and Elche's first official match was a 2–0 win over Crevillente. The team played its first league season in 1929–30, in the 3rd Division, achieving promotion to Segunda Division in 1934; it suffered relegation for the first time six years later, but was promoted back the following season.

In the late 1950’s Elche achieved two consecutive promotions from the third level to La Liga, with a 3-0 win over Tenerife in 1959. They stayed in La Liga for the next 11 years.

Elche opened its first season in the top level with a 1–1 draw against Real Oviedo, the first goal being scored by Vicente Pahuet. The club finished 10th out of 16 sides, nine points ahead of relegated Osasuna – the campaign included a 2–1 comeback home victory over Barcelona, but also a 2–11 loss at Real Madrid. The following season saw the team having to compete in the relegation play-off, where they overcame a 0–1 loss in the away leg against Atlético Ceuta with a 4–0 home victory.

Elche achieved their best-ever league finish in 1963-64, ranking in 5th position. The season also saw the club's reserved team, Elche Illicitano, promoted to the Segunda Division. 

In 1969 the club reached their first and only Copa del Rey final, following victories over Pontevedra, Valencia and Real Sociedad. The semi-final against Real Sociedad was won 2–0 in a replay in neutral Madrid, as the tie had finished 4–4 on aggregate; the final, played on June 15th at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the same city, brought a 0–1 loss to Athletic Bilbao. 

After twelve seasons Elche was relegated to division two in 1971, having finished second from bottom. Two years later the team returned to the main category, as champions. Their second spell in the top flight lasted five seasons, with most of them ending in relegation fights. The best season was 1974-75when the club ended in 8th position. At the end of 1977-78 the side returned to the second division after finishing 17th out of 18 clubs, the last game being a 4–4 draw with Athletico Madrid, which Elche led 2–4 with five minutes remaining.

After the relegation in 1978 Elche suffered. Although on paper they had a good team they never managed to gain promotion to the top flight. In the first five years since their return to the second level, they were fourth on three occasions and fifth on two (and on a further two, even on points with the third-placed team but with a worse goal difference), often losing the chance of promotion on the last matchday. Especially traumatic was the finish of the 1980-81 season: with one game remaining, they were second two points ahead of Rayo Vallecano and Racing de Santander, only needing a draw against Cadiz at the Martinez Valero; the game ended however in a loss, and Elche finished with 45 points alongside Castellon, Cádiz, Racing and Rayo.

A promotion finally occurred at the end of 1983-84, even though Elche only finished fifth in the regular season – the first two positions were occupied by Real Madrid Castilla and Athletic Bilbao B, who could not be promoted as they were reserve sides. The whole of the top division campaign was spent in the relegation zone, and they were relegated again after just one season in the La Liga. However a few years later, in 1988 they were promoted again, but with the same result, relegation the following season as they finished last with eighteen points, dropping down a category alongside Real Murcia, who they trailed by nine points;

After the relegation in 1989, Elche started to suffer heavily in the financial department, and at the end of the the 1990-91 season were further relegated to Segunda Division B – the new third level created in 1977. During the better part of the 1990s the club reached the second division promotion playoffs on several occassion, only to loose.

The good news came in 2013 when Elche squad and fans celebrating the return to La Liga, when this video was made. Before this, in the 2010-11 season, Elche reached the play off finals for promotion to the la Liga. They were denied, the opportunity and the dream of top flight promotion ended at the hands of Granada on the away goals rule.

On May 18, 2013, following Barcelona B and Alcorcon's 1–1 draw, Elche was automatically promoted to the top level, returning to the competition after 24 years. In the meantime the team coached by Fran Escribà had broken a number of Segunda División records, being the only team to date able to lead the competition from the very first until the last match of the season, setting in the process a new record of both matches won and points scored as well as the best first round in the history of Segunda's championship.

During the 2013–14 season, the team managed to keep in the top competition, with an average attendance to home matches estimated at 25,104 people.

In the 2014–15 season, despite managing once again to keep in the top flight (the team was already safe from relegation four dates before the end of the competition) Elche set a new record, becoming the first team ever in the history of the Spanish Primera Division to be relegated to Segunda following new regulations by the Spanish football league limiting excess debt and economic mismanagement.

In the 2016–17 season, Elche were relegated to third level, where they stayed for one season, after a change of manager to Patcheta. They stayed in the Segunda B for one season, gaining promotion to Segunda for the 2017-18 season.