Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo)

Liverpool Montevideo
Full name Liverpool Fútbol Club
Nickname(s) Negriazules, Los negros de la cuchilla
Founded February 12, 1915
Ground Estadio Belvedere,
Montevideo, Uruguay
Ground Capacity 10,000
Chairman José Luis Palma
Coach Mario Saralegui
League Primera División
2013–14 9th

Liverpool Fútbol Club is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club joined the Uruguayan top flight in 1919.

History

The club has its roots in the student team from the Catholic Capuchin school in Nuevo París, which began playing in 1908. The club took on the name Liverpool as there were many cultural links between the two areas; the majority of coal ships arriving in Montevideo came from the busy English port.[1] A number of clubs took on Anglicised names, such as league rivals Montevideo Wanderers; in this case, the team paid homage to Liverpool FC.

For the 2005–06 season, the away kit changed to a new all red one, thus looking exactly like the English Liverpool FC. Liverpool plays home matches in Estadio Belvedere (Belvedere Stadium), formerly owned by the Montevideo Wanderers.

Kit evolution

1917
1919–present
1970, 1996
1995 away
2006 away
Source: Liverpool (Montevideo) Page – BDFA.com.ar

Honours

A view of the club's ground, Estadio Belvedere

Liverpool have failed to win any top flight domestic titles. They reached the final of the Torneo Apertura and Liguilla, both in 1995 only to be beaten by Peñarol and Defensor Sporting respectively. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions.

1966, 1987, 2002
1919, 1937

CONMEBOL appearances

2011: First Stage
2009: First stage
2012: Round of 16

Current squad

As of 29 April 2014.[2]

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

No. Position Player
1 Uruguay GK Guillermo de Amores
2 Uruguay DF Luis Torrecilla
3 Uruguay DF Martín Díaz
4 Uruguay DF Pablo Pereira
5 Uruguay MF Sebastián Rodríguez
7 Uruguay FW Sebastián Fernández
8 Uruguay MF Diego Ferreira
9 Uruguay FW Junior Arias
10 Uruguay MF Gustavo Aprile
11 Uruguay FW Renato César
13 Uruguay DF Christian Almeida
14 Uruguay MF Federico Martínez
15 Uruguay DF Jonathan Sandoval
No. Position Player
16 Uruguay MF Carlos Sención
17 Uruguay FW Jonathan Silveira
18 Uruguay MF Nicolás De La Cruz
19 Uruguay FW Bruno Toledo
20 Uruguay MF Gonzalo Freitas
21 Uruguay FW Diego Martiñones
22 Uruguay MF Lucas Tamareo
25 Uruguay GK Jorge Bava
26 Uruguay DF Facundo Mallo
29 Uruguay FW Jhonatan Candia
30 Uruguay DF Matías Goyeni
31 Uruguay DF Damián Macaluso

Managers

Other sports

Liverpool FC had a basketball team until the 1990s, playing in the stadium that still exists behind the north tribune of Estadio Belvedere. The team never reached first division.

References

  1. History Archived 2009-03-31 at the Wayback Machine.. Official LFC Montevideo website. Retrieved on 2009-04-05.
  2. "Squad season 2011/2012". acmilan.com. Liverpool Fútbol Club. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
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