Club Santa Fe

Santa Fe

Full name	Santa Fe Corporación Deportiva
Nickname(s)	Los Cardenales (The Cardinals), El Expreso Rojo (The Red Express), El Leon (The Lion)
Founded	February 28, 1941
Ground	Estadio Nemesio Camacho "El Campín" Bogotá, Colombia (Capacity: 42,000)
Chairman	César Pastrana
Manager	Wilson Gutiérrez
League	Fútbol Profesional Colombiano
2011-I	14
Home colours Away colours

Independiente Santafe is a professional Colombian First Division football club based in Bogotá. It is considered one of the most traditional Colombian clubs. It has won six First Division titles and two Copa Colombia titles.

Santa Fe was founded on 28 February 1941 in the traditional "Café Rhin" in the downtown of Bogotá and started its activities as a club in March 23 1941, won the first edition of the Colombian First Division held in 1948, for that it is commonly named as the first champion : El Primer Campeón.

It's widely regarded in Colombia that the younger Santa Fe fans "inherited" the fandom from their parents and grandparents, since most of them actually have never seen the team win a championship. Some put the blame on bad management and lack of commitment. Nevertheless, the team has remained popular, like their rivals Millonarios, because of the loyalty of their fans.

Facts

Liga Postobón

• Champion (6): 1948, 1958, 1960, 166, 1971 and 1975.
• Runners-up (3): 1963, 1979 and 2005-I.
• All time ranking: 5.

Copa Colombia

• Champion (2): 1989 and 2009.
• Runners-up (1): 1951.

Copa Libertadores

• Semifinal: 1961
• Round of 16: 1967, 1972, 1976, 1980, 2006.

Copa Sudamericana

• Round of 16: 2010, 2011 (ongoing).

Copa CONMEBOL

• Runners-up: 1996.

Copa Merconorte

• Runners-up: 1999.

Records

Most Appearances

#	Name	Total	Nation
1.	Alfonso Cañón	505
2.	Carlos Rodríguez	359
3.	James Mina Camacho	346
4.	Agustín Julio	315
5.	Hernando Cuero	313
6.	Manuel Acisclo Córdoba	306
7.	William Morales	302
8.	Rafael Pacheco	296
9.	José Ernesto Díaz	297
10.	Waltinho	283

Top Goalscorers

#	Name	Total	Nation
1.	Alfonso Cañon	149
2.	Léider Preciado	115
3.	Alberto Perazzo	98
4.	Osvaldo Panzutto	93
5.	Germán Antón	91
6.	Omar Lorenzo Devanni	82
7.	Adolfo Valencia	78
8.	Héctor Javier Céspedes	73
9.	José Pepillo Marín	67
10.	Manuel Acisclo Córdoba	65

Record Wins

• Record League win: 10-2 v. Huracán de Medellín (1949).
• Record International win: 4-0 v. Independiente Medellín on the 1967 Copa Libertadores edition, and v. Deportivo Lara on the 2009 Copa Sudamericana edition.

Record defeats

• Record League defeat: 2-8 v. Atlético Nacional on 1954.
• Record International defeat: 1-6 v. 31 de Octubre (Bolivia) on the 1967 Copa Libertadores edition.

Most succesful player

• Alfonso Cañon: played 505 matches between 1964-1976 and 1981, scored 149 goals and won 3 league titles.

Supporters

La Guardia Albiroja Sur

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  Support from La Guardia Albiroja Sur

It has been 13 years since the founding of the most significant supporter in the history of Independiente Santa Fe "La Guardia Albi-Roja Sur". It seems that it was just yesterday that a group of young people gave life to this project of love and commitment to Santa Fe. Since their beginning the have always filled up their section bringing a supporting atmosphere for Santa Fe over 6000 members are currently part of this group. famous for their spectacular displays when the team goes into the field and yet it is not compared by others. In 2005, La Guardia Albirroja Sur (White-Red South Guard), with the help of Samsung, Independiente's main sponsor at the time and the club's administration, put together the largest soccer team's flag in the world. The flag, named the 'Lienzo de Fe' (Linen cloth of faith), was 350 meters long and 38 high, covering the southern end of 'El Campín', half the venue, where the team's fans locate in home games.

Stadium

Fans of Santa Fe, southern section of the Estadio El Campín, holding one of the largest flags in the world.

The stadium El Campin located in Bogotá,is the venue where Independiente Santa Fe plays their home games. Its capacity is approximated at 36,000 people. Santa fe's supporters tend to sit in the south-end of the stadium where they display their pasion towards their beloved team.

Rivalries

Since the beginning of professional pene , Santa Fe holds a rivalrie with local rivals Millonarios and the match between these two is called El Clásico Capitalino (the capital classic).

There are also strong rivalries with América de Cali El Clásico de los Rojos (the red classic) for the colour of both teams uniforms; and with Atlético Nacional

2011-II Squad

As of 9 July 2011.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Agustín Julio (2nd captain) 2 DF Germán Centurión (3rd captain) 3 DF Julián Quiñonez 4 DF Diego Hernando Amaya 5 MF Yulian Anchico 6 MF Norbey Salazar 7 FW José Adolfo Valencia 8 MF Juan Carlos Quintero 9 FW Sergio Galván Rey 10 MF Omar Pérez (Captain) 11 FW Jonathan Copete 12 GK Camilo Vargas 13 FW Juan Guillermo Vélez 14 FW Óscar Rodas 15 MF Didier Moreno 16 DF Andrés Santamaría

No. Position Player 17 FW Ariel Carreño 18 MF Alejandro Bernal 19 MF Cristian Camilo Álvarez 20 MF Gerardo Bedoya 21 DF Francisco Javier Meza 22 FW Jorge Luis Ramos 23 FW Léider Preciado (4th captain) 24 MF Hugo Alejandro Acosta 25 FW Mario Efrain Gómez 26 DF Alejandro Miguel Galindo 27 DF Ricardo Villarraga 28 GK Juan Manuel Leyton 29 MF Luis Eduardo Aranda 30 MF Harold Rivera 31 DF Juan Daniel Roa 32 DF Mario Llanos

Players between numbers 1 to 25 are eligible to play in Copa Sudamericana 2011

Notable Former Players

• Wilmer Cabrera
• Alfonso Cañón
• Delio Gamboa Rentería
• Faryd Mondragón
• Eduardo Niño
• Juan Carlos Toja
• Adolfo Valencia
• Rafael Dudamel
• Luis Manuel Seijas

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• DIMAYOR website (Spanish)

References

1. ^ "Planillas - Dimayor - Santa Fe". 11 june 2011. http://sistema.www.dimayorcolombia.com/planillas/Dimayor/1/Independiente+Santafe/2.