Metropolitanos F.C.

Metropolitanos
Full name	Metropolitanos Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Violetas
Founded	3 August 2012; 12 years ago
Ground	Estadio Olímpico de la UCV; Caracas, Venezuela
Capacity	23,940
Chairman	Juan Carlos Ferro
Manager	José María Morr
League	Primera División
2023	Primera División, 7th of 15
Home colours	Away colours

Metropolitanos Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan professional football club based in Caracas. Founded in 2012, they play in the Venezuelan Primera División, holding home matches at the Estadio Olímpico de la UCV.

History

Founded on 3 August 2012 under the name of Deportivo Metropolitano, the club took Lara FC's place in the Segunda División for the 2012–13 season, as the latter had severe financial problems. After Lara's dissolution, Unión Lara SC was refounded and started to play in the Tercera División.

After finishing fourth and missing out promotion, Metropolitanos achieved promotion to the Primera División at the end of the 2013–14 campaign, after finishing in the second position. After suffering relegation in 2015, the club immediately returned to the top tier after winning the second division in 2016.

After narrowly avoiding relegation in 2017, Metropolitanos finished in the penultimate position overall in 2018, but benefitted from the league's expansion to remain in the first division. After the arrival of José María Morr as manager, the club qualified to the Copa Sudamericana in 2020 and 2021, aside from winning a first-ever title in 2022.^[1]

Honours

Venezuelan Primera División: 1

2022

Venezuelan Segunda División: 1

2016

Players

Current first team squad

As of 31 August 2024

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	VEN	Steven Pabón
3	DF	VEN	Daniel Linárez
5	MF	COL	Fabián Cuero
6	DF	VEN	Yolfran Caricote
7	FW	VEN	Miku
8	MF	VEN	Emerson Ruíz
9	FW	VEN	Marco Bustillo
10	MF	PAR	Walter Araujo (captain)
11	FW	VEN	Jhon Marchán
13	MF	VEN	Angelo Lucena
14	DF	VEN	Jean Fuentes
15	MF	VEN	David Zalzman
16	FW	VEN	Irwin Antón
17	MF	VEN	Ely Valderrey
18	FW	ECU	Jostin Valencia
19	FW	VEN	Carlos Paraco


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	GK	VEN	Jesús Lara
24	MF	VEN	Yhonnier Lozada
25	GK	URU	Álvaro Villete
26	DF	VEN	Carlos Díaz
27	FW	COL	Estiven Sarria
28	FW	PAN	Ervin Zorrilla
29	MF	COL	Jean Arce
30	MF	VEN	Maike Villero
31	DF	VEN	Leonardo Pérez
32	DF	VEN	Christian Camarillo
33	MF	VEN	Diego Reyes
40	FW	VEN	Jayson Martínez
45	FW	VEN	Ángelo Rivas
77	DF	VEN	Kevin De la Hoz
88	MF	VEN	Jailerth Navarro
99	GK	VEN	Samuel Aspajo

Managers

Rafael Santana (2012–14)
Hugo Savarese (2014–15)
Rafael Santana (2016–17)
Daniel de Oliveira (2018)
Manuel di Maio (interim; 2018)
Jhon Giraldo (2018)
José María Morr (2019–)

References

^ "Metropolitanos FC es el campeón 27 de la Liga FutVe de primera división de Venezuela" [Metropolitanos FC is the champion of the 27th Liga FutVe of Venezuelan first division] (in Spanish). Balonazos. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.

External links

Metropolitanos F.C. at the official Liga FUTVE website

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[1] "Metropolitanos FC es el campeón 27 de la Liga FutVe de primera división de Venezuela" [Metropolitanos FC is the champion of the 27th Liga FutVe of Venezuelan first division] (in Spanish). Balonazos. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.

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