Lack of funds prevented the site from being fully completed until 1992, however, when the Suqué-Mateu family - owners of Peralada Castle - turned the club's financial situation around with a generous sponsorship.

The increased budget available and improved facilities were rewarded over the following several seasons, as CF Peralada steadily climbed to a level in the Catalan regional league system higher than it had ever previously reached in its history.

By 2002/03, the club for the first time ascended from the Catalan regional divisions to enter the Tercera División, the lowest of the fully nation-wide leagues in Spain.

Peralada's drive up the league pyramid ended as they levelled off their ascent by spending five seasons in the Tercera División before they were relegated back to the first tier of Catalan regional football in 2007.

Paralleling Peralada's rise through the leagues a decade earlier, nearby side Girona FC had themselves risen from the Tercera División (the fourth tier of Spanish football) from the middle of the first decade of the new century to reach the Segunda División (the second tier), unsuccessfully contesting the play-offs for promotion to the summit of the league system, La Liga, three times in four seasons by 2016.