Guayaquil City F.C.
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| Full name | Guayaquil City Fútbol Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Banda roja | ||
| Founded | September 7, 2007 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt, Guayaquil, Ecuador. | ||
| Capacity | 10,150 | ||
| Chairman | Miguel Angel Loor | ||
| Manager | Gabriel Perrone | ||
| League | Serie A | ||
| 2015 | 3rd | ||
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Guayaquil City F.C. (known as C.D. River Ecuador until 2017) is a Ecuadorian professional football club based in Guayaquil. They currently play in the country's first-level football league—the Serie A—after gaining promotion from the segunda-level Primera Categoria.
History
Formed in 2007 as Club Deportivo River Plate Ecuador (or River Ecuador), the club was founded through a partnership with the dominant Argentinian side River Plate.[1] By 2010 the relationship had already ended, but the club continued to operate under its given name and with River Plate's traditional red kit colour.[1]
On 11 July 2017 it was announced that River Ecuador had renamed themselves to Guayaquil City Fútbol Club, changing their strip to sky blue and white vertical stripes.[2] The new name, kit colours and badge design prompted a number of claims that the change in identity was the result of a takeover by the Manchester City-linked City Football Group, though no evidence of this was forthcoming.[3]
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers
Kléber Fajardo (2007)
Guillermo Sanguinetti (2016–)
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
References
- 1 2 "Los cuatro River de América" [The Four River of the Americas]. El País (in Spanish). 19 December 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ↑ "River Ecuador jugará desde este viernes como Guayaquil City FC" [River Ecuador will play from this Friday as Guayaquil City FC]. El Universo. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ↑ "Guayaquil City FC es la primera filial del Manchester de Pep Guardiola en Sudamérica" [Guayaquil City FC is the first affiliate of Pep Guardiola's Manchester in South America]. depor.com. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.