Alianza F.C. (Panama)

Alianza F.C. is a professional soccer club based in Panama City, Panama. Since 1999, it competes in Liga Panameña de Fútbol, the top tier of Panamanian football. The club was founded in 1963, and still owned by the Cardenas family.

Alianza
Full nameAsociación Cívica, Social y Deportiva Alianza Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)Los Pericos
Los Verdolagas
FoundedMarch 2, 1963
GroundEstadio Javier Cruz
Panama City
Capacity700
ChairmanRubén Cárdenas
ManagerJair Palacios
LeagueLiga Panameña de Fútbol
WebsiteClub website

History

Alianza F.C. was founded on March 2, 1963 by a group of 12 young players that had represented Panama in the first CONCACAF Youth Championship. That date makes them the second oldest club in modern Panamanian soccer.[1]

The club was supported by various benefactors such as the local police, Don Justiniano Cardenas, and the Espivak Company during its early decades. In 1980, the club was chosen among other eight clubs to participate in the first professional soccer league in Panama, which was called the Liga Superior de Fútbol de Panamá.

As of 1989, the club joined to Anaprof's non-amateur football tournaments, which was interrupted by the disunity that arose in the local football environment, and was forced to compete in the so-called Linfuna League. After two seasons, the club returned to the Primera A of ANAPROF, where won promotion two seasons afterwards after beating Atletico Guadalupe 1–0. In 2003, they enjoyed their best season ever, reaching the Clausura finals before losing 5-1 to Tauro FC.

The club has always placed a strong emphasis on youth teams, competing at the U-12, U-14, U-15, U-16, and U-19 levels.

Support

During mid 90s team was based on Chilibre, Panama City´s northern area playing home matches at El Camping Resort soccer field, by mid 2000s the team left the area to play matches at different venues causing a lack of identity, low fan support base and heavily criticized by media. By 2012 the team start playing home matches at Luis Cascarita Tapia stadium looking to gain more fan support from the Juan Diaz neighborhood, Panama City´s east side. Since 2018 the team has heavily marketed on the neighborhood to gain new supporters and attracting kids to their youth teams.

Kits

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors
Period Kit manufacturer Shirt main sponsor Shirt sub sponsor
2016–2019 Cerveza Balboa
Cemento Interoceanico		 Bering Motors
2020-2021 CliniLab
Panamerican Network		 None
2021 - 2022 CliniLab
 Gaps
2022- Present ShowTime
CliniLab		 None

Previous Kits
2017-2018 Home Jersey
2017-2018 Away Jersey

Honours
1999
Clausura 2003

Players

Current squad
  • As of Apertura 2023 [2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Panama PAN Andres Zapateiro
2 DF Colombia COL Camilo Villegas
3 DF Colombia COL Jhon Trujillo
5 DF Colombia COL Santiago Ramírez
6 MF Panama PAN John Asprilla
8 MF Panama PAN Alcides Díaz
9 FW Panama PAN Ansony Frías
10 MF Panama PAN Richard Rodríguez
11 FW Panama PAN Reynaldiño Verley
12 DF Colombia COL Jesús Cano
13 MF Panama PAN Alvin Mendoza
20 FW Panama PAN Heuyín Guardia
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF Panama PAN Manuel Rodríguez
24 FW Panama PAN César Medina
25 MF Panama PAN Maikell Díaz
26 FW Panama PAN Daniel Vargas
27 MF Panama PAN Angel Valencia
28 MF Panama PAN Jhon Jairo Álvarado
30 GK Panama PAN Kevin Melgar
33 DF Panama PAN Miguel Livingston
34 FW Panama PAN Jahir Alvarado
61 GK Panama PAN Ronald Robles
88 GK Panama PAN Guillermo Murillo

Records

All time scorer is César el "Bombo" Medina.

Notable players

Historical list of coaches
  • Costa Rica Leroy Foster (Feb 2003 – Oct 2003)[3]
  • Panama Rubén Cárdenas (Oct 2003–)
  • Costa Rica Leroy Foster (Jun 2007–)[4]
  • Panama Rubén Cárdenas (2007)
  • Panama Rubén "Tátara" Guevara (Jun 2008 – Oct 08)[5]
  • Panama Rubén Cárdenas
  • Panama Víctor René Mendieta (Jul 2009 – Oct 09)[6]
  • Costa Rica Carlos Pérez Porras (Dec 2009 – Feb 11)
  • Costa Rica Leroy Foster (2010)
  • Panama Ángelo Luis Evans (Feb 2011 – July 11)[7]
  • Colombia Elkin Ortiz Castaño (Aug 2011 – May 2012)[8]
  • Panama Rubén Octavio Cárdenas (June 2012 – Dec 2012)
  • Colombia Elkin Ortiz Castaño (Dec 2012 – Oct 13)[9]
  • Costa Rica Carlos Pérez Porras (Oct 2013 – Sep 14)[10]
  • Costa Rica Leroy Foster (Jun 2014 – Aug 14)[11]
  • Colombia Juan Pablo Lopera (Sep 2014 – Sep 2015)[12]
  • Panama Rubén Cárdenas (Sep 2015–2019)[13]
  • Panama Cecilio Garcés (2019– March 2021)
  • Colombia Jair Palacios (March 2021 - Present)

References
  1. La Historia del Alianza Archived 2015-09-16 at the Wayback Machine – Alianza (in Spanish)
  2. "Primer Equipo" (in Spanish). alianzafc. Archived from the original on 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  3. Técnico Foster estará con Alianza Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – Panamá América (in Spanish)
  4. El Alianza con técnico tico Archived 2008-06-30 at the Wayback Machine – PanamaFutbol (in Spanish)
  5. “Tátara” Guevara habló sobre su presente en Alianza Archived 2016-04-09 at the Wayback Machine – Panamá América (in Spanish)
  6. Mendieta será técnico del Alianza F.C. Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine – La Estrella (in Spanish)
  7. Alianza despide técnico Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – PanamaFutbol (in Spanish)
  8. Conferencia de Prensa Apertura 2011 – Alianza (in Spanish)
  9. Ortiz, nuevo técnico del Alianza Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – La Prensa (in Spanish)
  10. El Alianza con nuevo técnico, se fue Ortíz y vuelve Pérez Porras Archived 2016-04-09 at the Wayback Machine – RPC (in Spanish)
  11. Tico Foster regresa al Alianza FC Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – Crítica (in Spanish)
  12. Juan Lopera debuta en el Alianza con triunfo ante el Árabe Unido Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – Cable Onda Sports
  13. El Alianza confirma la salida del técnico Juan P. Lopera Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine – RPC (in Spanish)
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