Spain and non-professional football was suspended from the end of November 2020 until mid-March 2021. CD Jávea pushed hard after the restart but three months of inactivity was taking its toll and the injury list mounted, forcing head coach Diego Miñana to call up several young reserve team players. They fitted it as well as they could but Jávea dropped too many points before the disappointment of a 1–2 defeat in Alicante, which all but ended play-off aspirations, was further compounded by five senior players testing positive for COVID-19. The suspension of two matches meant that a patched up Jávea side would finish the season playing three games in six days. However, it included a stunning 4–2 home win over second place CF UE Tavernes followed by 4–1 home crushing of CD Pedreguer just 48 hours later. A 0–1 loss at CD UE Calpe saved the hosts from relegation. CD Jávea finished 3rd, their highest position for almost two decades. 2021–2022 Within days of the season's end, coach Diego Miñana opted to leave the club, telling fans in a Twitter post that "it’s been a difficult year with many complications but I’m leaving with memories of the good times". He was replaced by former CD Dénia head coach Manuel Esteban, who had played for the club during the 2014/15 season. At the club's AGM on Wednesday 28 July, the entire board of directors of CD Jávea resigned, citing lack of enthusiasm to be able to face a new season and particularly dealing with the bureaucracy of the town hall as it transpires that the council had not yet handed over 117,000 euros, the annual municipal grant, due to an external audit. Immediately the club was plunged into a crisis and needed to find a new board to take the club forward. On the eve of the season, a consortium of colleagues took over the running of the club and CD Jávea opened the season with a 2–1 away win over CE Pedreguer. By the beginning of October, CD Jávea topped the table for the first time in 19 years and the feel-good factor saw sweeping through the club. But something happened. The team chalked up seven successive defeats, including a crushing 1–4 reverse against Calp CF in the inaugural match in the new regional Nosta Cup, and after a 1–2 home defeat to the same side in the league on