Caracas Fútbol Club

Infobox Football club
clubname = Caracas FC


fullname = Caracas Fútbol Club
nickname = "Los Rojos del Avila"
founded = 1967
ground = Cocodrilos Sports Park
Estadio Olímpico de la UCV
Caracas, Venezuela
capacity = 15,000; 30,000
chairman = Guillermo Valentiner
manager = Noel Sanvicente
league = Primera División Venezolana
season = Clausura 2008
position = 2º
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Caracas Fútbol Club, usually known as Caracas F.C. or just Caracas, is a Venezuelan football team from Caracas. The club has won nine First Division titles being the most successful in Venezuelan football history.

They are nicknamed "Los Rojos del Ávila", or the "Reds from Ávila". This refers to their red jerseys as well as Cerro El Ávila, a mountain near Caracas.

History

Originally founded in 1967, the team played as amateurs for many years. In the early 1980s, the team, named Yamaha at that time, were successful in several amateur championships. In 1984, the team was renamed as Caracas-Yamaha, and was introduced to the Venezuelan Professional Football League to participate in the Second Division Championship. The team obtained their ticket to the First Division after winning the Second Division Championship in their first season.

Colors

The club's colors are red, white and black.

tadium

"Caracas Fútbol Club" has played their home matches at Cocodrilos Sports Park since the season 2006/2007. "Cocodrilos Sports Park" has a maximum capacity of 3,500 people, but it will be expanded to 6,000 people, and then to 15,000. The field is composed of artificial grass.

For bigger national league or international tournaments games, the club had used Brígido Iriarte Stadium in the past. It has an oficial capacity of 12,000 people, however there had been crowds of approximately 20,000 people in games against Deportivo Táchira (the historical rivals), São Paulo and other teams.

Recently "Caracas Fútbol Club" has played at Estadio Olímpico de la UCV with a capacity of 30,000 people for last Copa Libertadores. In the season 2007/2008 "Estadio Olímpico de la UCV" is going to be the provisional ground for matches of Venezuelan football league, Copa de Venezuela and Copa Libertadores; because of the expansion and redesign of "Cocodrilos Sports Park".

Titles

*Primera División Venezolana: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
*Segunda División Venezolana: 1984 (as Caracas - Yamaha)
*Copa de Venezuela: 1988, 1992, 1994
*Copa República Bolivariana de Venezuela: 2001

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

*Copa Libertadores: 10 appearances::Best: Second Round in 1995, 2007
*Copa Merconorte: 2 appearances::1998 - Group Stage::1999 - Semi-Final
*Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance::1993: Quarter-Final

Current first team squad

As of August 22, 2008.cite web | title=Caracas FC 2008-2009 Squad| work=Minuto91.com | url=http://minuto91.com/?p=4059| accessdate=2008-08-22]

elected famous players

* Andreé González
* Gerson Diaz
* Juan Arango
* Ronald Vargas
* Juan García
* Alejandro Guerra
* Giovanni Savarese
* César Baena
* Noel Sanvicente
* flagicon|Uruguay Gabriel Miranda
* Juan Carlos Letelier
* Juan Cominges
* Paul Cominges
* Roberto Silva
* Andreas Voegeler
* Ibrahim Salizu

Historical matches in South America

Source

External links

*es icon [http://www.caracasfutbolclub.com/ Official website]
* [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team?id=4811&cc=5901 Soccernet profile]
* [http://www.barradelcaracasfc.com/ Barra Oficial del Caracas FC]