However, the 2009-10 Superliga was expanded with clubs from the male leagues, and Real Jaén CF chose Atlético Jiennense to represent it in the top category.

In its debut season as Real Jaén Femenino the team was second to last in the overall table with 3 wins and 2 draws in 24 games.

[1] By the end of the season Real Jaén was in peril of bankruptcy,[2] and it decided to withdraw from women's football.

[3] The team's trip to L'Estartit for its last match in the top flight was covered by a RTVE documentary focusing on the status of women's football in Spain.

Most recently it played the promotion play-offs to 2012-13 Segunda División, as it is now called Primera Nacional, but it lost to AD El Naranjo.