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Ghetto 28

Ghetto 28, the CD Leganés ultra group founded in 2009: blog and fanzine, the Fondo Norte at Butarque, the investigation into the 2023 Soria attacks and the escort in Bilbao in January 2025.

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Ghetto 28 is a CD Leganés ultra group founded in 2009, according to the club's supporters' group directory, which lists it as a federated group. In December 2024 LaLiga placed its banner in the Fondo Norte at Butarque, in the corner with Tribuna Par. The press links members of the group to the Soria attacks of May 2023, investigated by the National Police, and DEIA described it in January 2025 as a far-right group.

Club
CD Leganés
City
Leganés
Stadium
Butarque
Stand
Fondo Norte at Butarque, corner with Tribuna Par (LaLiga, December 2024)
Founded
2009
Situation
Escorted trip to Bilbao (January 2025)

Documented history

Ghetto 28: the CD Leganés ultra group since 2009

CD Leganés includes Ghetto 28 in its supporters' group directory with the year 2009, and the group itself places its creation in the same year. In its first years it documented matches and away trips on a blog; from 2013 it mostly posted on Twitter, on an account presented as the official one of «Ghetto 28 Ultras Leganés». Its history runs alongside Leganés' rise from Segunda B to Primera.

2009–2014: blog, fanzine and Segunda B

In July 2014 the group summarised its Segunda B season: trips to grounds in Madrid and Aragon and the three trips of the promotion play-offs, to Guijuelo, Lleida and Hospitalet. It published four issues of the fanzine Invencibles, quarterly, with a history of the ultra movement in Leganés and interviews with veteran supporters, and made scarves for its fifth anniversary. According to its account, in Guijuelo the police stopped it from unfurling the first of the tifos it had prepared because the material had no fireproof certificate, and it displayed slogans, flags and banners instead. The same review described a visit by six members of Gate 12, of Greece's Egaleo.

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2016: Primera División and the enlarged north stand

In October 2016, with Leganés in Primera, the group celebrated on its blog the new stand with the enlarged north end and listed the first trips of the season, to Gijón, Granada and Málaga. There it also explained that since 2013 it had been posting its photos on Twitter.

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Soria, 2023: police investigation

The attacks of 27 May 2023 in Soria, before the Numancia–Cornellà match, led in November of that year to twenty arrests, nine of them in Leganés. According to investigators quoted by the press, the main groups were Orgullo Numantino, Ligallo Fondo Norte and «Guetto 28», confronting Coornehools, of Cornellà. Those arrested were investigated for public disorder, injuries, damage, hate and membership of a criminal group. In April 2025 the National Police arrested seven more people in the Community of Madrid for the same events. None of the sources consulted records a sentence.

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December 2024: banner in the Fondo Norte

In its note on the Leganés–Villarreal match of 22 December 2024, LaLiga identified a group of supporters behind a Ghetto 28 banner in the corner of the Fondo Norte with Tribuna Par, and attributed to them coordinated chants against Getafe. The note specifies that the incidents came only from that area. The rivalry with Getafe's radical supporters is old: Comandos Azules was already declaring in 2001 its enmity with the Leganés ultras.

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Bilbao, January 2025: detention and escort

On 26 January 2025, before Athletic–Leganés, the Ertzaintza detained around fifty Leganés ultras, diverted to Basurto the bus carrying Ghetto 28 members and escorted them to San Mamés. DEIA reported that there were no incidents with the Madrid supporters and recounted that, in May 2024, members of the group had clashed in Leganés with Avispero ultras, of Zaragoza.

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Key dates

Timeline of Ghetto 28

  1. 2009 · Founded

    The Leganés supporters' group directory and the group itself date its creation to 2009.

  2. 2014 · Fanzine and fifth anniversary

    Four issues of the fanzine Invencibles and thwarted tifos in the promotion play-offs.

  3. 2016 · Primera División

    The group celebrates the new stand with the enlarged north end.

  4. 2023 · Soria investigation

    Twenty arrests in November over the attacks of 27 May; investigators cite the group among the main ones.

  5. 2024 · Banner in the Fondo Norte

    LaLiga places its banner in the corner of the Fondo Norte with Tribuna Par.

  6. 2025 · Detention in Bilbao

    The Ertzaintza detains and escorts around fifty Leganés ultras before the match at San Mamés.

Ideology and identity · Ghetto 28

DEIA described Ghetto 28 in January 2025, in two pieces on Athletic–Leganés, as a group «of far-right ideology» and attributed to it ties with Ultras Sur. This is an external journalistic description of the group, not of Leganés' supporters as a whole; none of the sources consulted records a political self-definition by the collective.

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Frequently asked questions

Getting to know Ghetto 28

What are the Leganés ultras called?

Ghetto 28 is the CD Leganés ultra group listed in the club's supporters' group directory, with a founding year of 2009. In December 2024 LaLiga placed its banner in the Fondo Norte at Butarque.

When was Ghetto 28 founded?

In 2009, according to the CD Leganés supporters' group directory and the group itself.

What is Ghetto 28's ideology?

DEIA described it in January 2025 as a group of far-right ideology, with ties to Ultras Sur. This is a journalistic attribution; no political self-definition by the group is on record.

Where is Ghetto 28 at Butarque?

In the corner of the Fondo Norte with Tribuna Par, according to LaLiga's report on the Leganés–Villarreal match of 22 December 2024.

Who is Ghetto 28's rival?

Getafe's radical supporters: LaLiga recorded chants against Getafe from its area in December 2024, and Comandos Azules was already declaring in 2001 its rivalry with the Leganés ultras.

What happened in Soria in 2023?

The police investigated the attacks of 27 May 2023 before the Numancia–Cornellà match; in November they arrested twenty people, nine in Leganés, and cited «Guetto 28» among the main groups. In April 2025 there were seven more arrests. No sentence is on record.

Is Ghetto 28 still active?

Yes. LaLiga located its banner at Butarque in December 2024, and in January 2025 the Ertzaintza escorted in Bilbao the bus carrying members of the group.

What does the 28 in Ghetto 28 mean?

None of the sources consulted, including the group's blog, explains the origin of the number.

Sources

The documents behind this history

Each source keeps its date and scope. Titles appear in their original language. An insider account, an announcement and an official decision document different facts.

Documentary review: 18 October 2026. English edition: 21 October 2026. Editorial team: Mundo Ultras.

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