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54-508: Established in 1906, Cartaginés is currently the oldest club competing at the top division. It has won 4 Costa Rican league championships, 5 national cups, 1 national Supercup, and 1 CONCACAF Champions' Cup (in 1994). Club Sport Cartaginés was founded on July 1, 1906, by Willie Pirie, a Canadian immigrant, together with a group of Costa Ricans of British descent and some England immigrants that lived in Cartago. Since there were few football teams at

108-628: A bye to the Champions' Cup final while the winner of the other two zones would compete in a semifinal. From 1981, the North and Central American zones were usually combined meaning that the winner of the joint zone would face the winner of the Caribbean zone in the final. From 1993 to 1996, three clubs from the North/Central American zone and one club from the Caribbean zone qualified for the final round of

162-625: A double-legged final will be played between the winners of the first stage and the winners of the quadrangular to determine the champion. A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Primera División and the Segunda División . In spite of having two champions during a regular season, the Liga FPD only relegates one team per season based on the aggregate performance in both Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The last-placed team in

216-455: A final – with each being a home-and-away two-legged basis with the away goals rule . However, beginning in 2019, the away goals rule would not be applied for the final round. In February 2021, CONCACAF announced a major overhaul of the tournament which would have included 50 teams and a regional group stage. Twenty teams from North America, twenty from Central America, and ten from the Caribbean would have been divided into groups of five, and

270-874: A proposal at their next meeting by the CONCACAF Secretariat to develop the CONCACAF Champions' Cup into a larger "Champions League" style event. On 14 November 2007, the CONCACAF Executive Committee reported some of the details. The last eight-team Champions' Cup format was used as planned in March and April 2008. Then, a newly expanded 24-team Champions League tournament was conducted starting in August 2008 and concluding in May 2009. The expanded tournament meant that Central American clubs would qualify directly and thus

324-617: A record 40 times. Together with Alajuelense (30 titles) and Herediano (29 titles), they have dominated the league. The Liga FPD features a format in which two separate tournaments are held over the course of one particular season. The Torneo de Apertura (Spanish for "Opening Tournament") lasts from July to December, while the Torneo de Clausura (Spanish for "Closing Tournament") lasts from January to May. From 2007 to 2017, these were known respectively as Torneo de Invierno ("Winter Tournament") and Torneo de Verano ("Summer Tournament"), based on

378-529: A scheme that still prevails today. The 1923 National Championship Final saw Club Sport Cartaginés face La Libertad, a match that Cartaginés won by a score of two to one giving the club its first of three national titles. After the seasons many of Cartaginés' players left the team to play in Europe and in teams based in San José. Due to the mass exodus of players from the team Club Sport Cartaginés disbanded in 1925. By 1934

432-564: A total of 16 teams would advance to the knockout stage. This format was abandoned and was never used. In September of that year, CONCACAF announced an expansion of the tournament to begin in 2024 . The tournament will retain the all-knockout format used since 2018 but will now consist of five rounds and 27 teams participating: Twenty-two clubs will enter the tournament in Round One while five clubs (the winners of MLS Cup, Liga MX, Leagues Cup, Central American Cup, and Caribbean Cup) receive byes to

486-429: A win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, with the top-four clubs at the end of the stage qualifying to the second stage. The second stage consists of a quadrangular in which the best four teams qualified will face each other twice again, adding 6 additional matchdays. If the top team of the first stage also wins the quadrangular, the club will be crowned as champions; otherwise,

540-448: Is determined by the teams' record in the group stage. The quarterfinals match the team with the best record against the team with the worst record, while the second-best team faces the seventh-best, third against sixth and fourth against fifth. The top four teams play the second leg at home. In the semifinals, the winner of 1-vs-8 faces the winner of 4-vs-5, with the 1-vs-8 winner hosting the second leg, and likewise 2-vs-7 plays 3-vs-6, with

594-406: Is played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The away goals rule is used if the aggregate score is level after normal time of the second leg, but not after extra time , and so a tie is decided by penalty shoot-out if the aggregate score is level after extra time of the second leg. Unlike previous years where a second draw was conducted to set the pairings for the championship stage, the bracket

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648-552: Is the top professional association football division in Costa Rica. It is administered by the Unión de Clubes de Fútbol de la Primera División (UNAFUT). The league consists of 12 teams, with the last-placed team relegated to the Liga de Ascenso . The league was founded in 1921, with Herediano crowned as the first champions. Saprissa is the most successful club having won the championship

702-568: The Costa Rican seasons , with the Invierno tournament played during the rainy season and the Verano tournament played during the dry season. A separate tournament is played on stages. The first stage follows the usual double round-robin format. During the course of a tournament, each club plays every other club twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 matchdays. Teams receive three points for

756-638: The UNCAF Interclub Cup , and one Caribbean club from the CFU Club Championship . In 2002 and 2003, the tournament consisted of 16 teams with twice as many qualifying from each zone. Since 2005, the champion of the competition gained entry into the FIFA Club World Cup , giving clubs an added incentive for a strong participation and greater interest from fans. At their 2006 November meeting, the CONCACAF Executive Committee decided to "act upon"

810-480: The 2-vs-7 winner hosting the second leg. In the finals, the team that prevails out of the upper bracket of 1-8-4-5 hosts the second leg. This means that the higher-seeded team does not necessarily host the second leg in the semifinals and finals. In December 2016, Manuel Quintanilla, president of the Nicaraguan Football Federation , spoke of a possible new format for the competition, a statement that

864-581: The CONCACAF Champions Cup automatically qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup . The tournament currently uses a knockout format ; it had a group stage prior to the 2018 competition . Unlike its European and South American counterparts, the winner of the CONCACAF Champions Cup does not automatically qualify for the following season's competition. The title has been won by 29 clubs, 14 of which have won

918-558: The UNCAF Interclub Cup was ended after 2007. In the new Champions League tournament, there was a two-legged preliminary round for 16 clubs, with the eight winners advancing to the group stage. They were joined by the other eight teams who qualified directly to the group stage. The clubs involved in the group stage were placed into four groups of four with each team playing the others in its group in both home and away matches. The top two teams from each group advanced to quarterfinals of

972-461: The adequate facilities, it runs the risk of being replaced by another team. Real Esteli of Nicaragua failed stadium requirements and was replaced by another team for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons. Estadio Independencia in Nicaragua has since been renovated, including upgrades to stadium lighting, and Nicaraguan teams now participate. The qualifying team from Belize failed stadium requirements and

1026-707: The aggregate table is relegated to the Liga de Ascenso. The top teams in the Liga FPD qualify to the CONCACAF Champions League . Starting in the 2017–18 season, the CONCACAF Champions League will be separated into two stages. The first stage is CONCACAF League , which consists of sixteen teams from Central America and the Caribbean, in which the winner qualifies to the second stage, the Champions League , joining other fifteen teams. Because of this format,

1080-545: The boards around the perimeter of the field, and boards for pre-game and post-game interviews and press conferences. Nike is also the official provider of game balls and referee uniforms. American Airlines was the title sponsor for the Champions' Cup in the 1990s. The CONCACAF Champions Cup broadcast is also available in South America in all languages on ESPN (Star+) and globally in English through Concacaf GO. Since

1134-481: The champions of the North American leagues participated. In 1971, the runners-up of a few North American leagues began to join and the tournament began to be expanded, incorporating round-robin group phases and more teams. During the opening rounds of the tournament, teams would compete within one of three regional zones: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Typically the winner of one zone would receive

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1188-600: The champions, thus earning them a spot in the top flight. In their returning season to the First Division, Club Sport Cartaginés once again made it to the Final, and once again facing La Libertad, defeating them by a score of 1-0 and achieving the status of national champions in Costa Rica's national stadium in San Jose. By 1940 Cartaginés only had three players left from its 1936 championship season, but they still managed to make it to

1242-421: The club during his entire career. As a recognition for Hernández for his loyalty, the club retired his jersey number, 11. Cartaginés struggled during the 80s, a low point being the relegation in 1982 to the second division, which forced a club rebuilding in order to obtain a spot in Costa Rica's Primera División . A breakthrough came for Cartaginés when in 1983 they won the "Segunda" championship, and returned to

1296-433: The club. In the years following the 1940 Championship, the club discovered their currently considered greatest player, José Rafael "Fello" Meza Ivancovich. Within a few years, Jose Rafael became known as "El Maestro", the teacher. He was named so because his new tricks and ways of playing, innovative at the time. The influence of "Fello" Meza was so deep, that the club's current stadium is named in his honor. Also, in 2009 he

1350-423: The final against heavily favorites Herediano . At half time the score was in favor of the latter as they led 3–1, but Cartaginés fought back in the second half, scoring three goals and beating Herediano by a score of 4–3. The 1940 Cartaginés team was the last one to win any national league championship for Cartago for the next 81 years, something which a local myth states to be the result of a curse set that year on

1404-466: The final. In the 21st century, the club tried to push for the championship during the 2000s and 2010s decades, with a runners-up position in the 2012-2013 season their best league result. However, they won the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Costa Rican Cup, the national knockout football competition. Their most decorated player of this period was Randall Brenes , known as "Chiqui", which in 2017 became

1458-659: The first ever match of the Liga FPD, with La Libertad emerging victorious with a lone goal scored by Rafael Madrigal. Herediano were crowned as champions. In 1999, the Costa Rican Football Federation created the UNAFUT (acronym of Unión de Clubes de Fútbol de la Primera División), an entity designed for the organization and administration of the Primera División tournament and its youth leagues (known as Alto Rendimiento). On 9 January 2014, UNAFUT decided to rename

1512-561: The following year's Champions League where they would be joined by nine North American teams, the Caribbean Club Championship winner, and five Central American league champions who qualified directly. For the 2019–20 competition cycle, the direct Central American berths were removed and CONCACAF League was expanded so that the top-six clubs would qualify to Champions League. The CONCACAF Champions League under this format had four rounds – round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and

1566-467: The game goes to an extra time period. If it is still tied, the game is decided through a penalty shoot-out. Prior to 2018, the tournament had two parts: a group stage held from August to October, and a knockout phase held from March to May of the following year. The group stage consisted of 24 teams playing in eight groups of three teams each, with each team playing the other two teams in its group twice. United States and Mexican sides could not be drawn into

1620-476: The group stage, and each group is guaranteed to contain a team from either the United States or Mexico, meaning U.S. and Mexican teams cannot play each other in the group stage. Each group is played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each group advance to the quarterfinal round of the championship stage. In the championship stage, the eight teams play a single-elimination tournament . Each tie

1674-535: The historic list of Club Sport Cartaginés'goal scorers CONCACAF Champions%27 Cup The CONCACAF Champions Cup (previously known as the CONCACAF Champions League ) is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF . The tournament is contested by clubs from North America , Central America , and the Caribbean . It is the most important tournament in CONCACAF club football. The winner of

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1728-663: The inaugural edition of the CONCACAF Champions League, the finals have only ever been contested by clubs from Mexico , United States or Canada . The first 14 were won by Mexican clubs. The most recent final was contested by Pachuca and Columbus Crew , with the former winning 3–0. †Title shared. * When sorted by years won or lost, the table is sorted by the year of each team's most recent inaugural win or loss. †Including one title shared. Primera Divisi%C3%B3n de Costa Rica The Primera División of Costa Rica , commonly known as Liga de Fútbol de Primera División ( Liga FPD ), and Liga Promerica for sponsorship reasons,

1782-416: The knockout rounds, which consisted of two-legged ties. The final round was also two-legged. Also, unlike the previously contested CONCACAF Champions' Cup, the away goals rule is used in the CONCACAF Champions League, but does not apply after a tie goes into extra time. On January 12, 2012, CONCACAF announced that the 2012–13 tournament would be played under a different format than previous editions, where

1836-483: The popularity of football in Cartago reemerged as a tournament of local Cartago teams participated. After the tournament it was decided to form Club Sport Cartaginés once again with the best players that participated in the tournament and to emerge as a third division team winning the third division title in 1935. In 1936 the team managed to be victorious in the Second Division, winning all of its games and being crowned

1890-457: The preliminary round is eliminated and all qualified teams enter the group stage. In the group stage, the 24 teams are drawn into eight groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots. The allocation of teams into pots are based on their national association and qualifying berth. Teams from the same association (excluding "wildcard" teams which replace a team from another association) cannot be drawn with each other in

1944-479: The prize money paid to clubs was as follows: Each year, the winning team is presented with the CONCACAF Champions Cup trophy. The current trophy design was introduced in 2018. The CONCACAF Champions Cup has several corporate sponsors: Scotiabank (which was a title sponsor of the Champions League from 2014–15 until 2023), Miller Lite , MoneyGram , Maxxis Tires , and Nike . The sponsors' names appear on

1998-789: The qualification criteria in the Liga FPD are: On 13 June 1921, the Costa Rican Football Federation was created. With its creation, the need of a tournament also emerged, along with the establishment of a national team , as a result of Costa Rica being invited to the 1921 Juegos del Centenario in Guatemala. The first season of the Costa Rican Primera División was played in 1921 with seven teams: Alajuelense , Cartaginés , Herediano , La Libertad, Sociedad Gimnástica Española, Sociedad Gimnástica Limonense and La Unión de Tres Ríos. La Libertad and Gimnástica Limonense played

2052-516: The round of 16. Teams may qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League through their domestic leagues or cups, or through their regional cup competitions: the Leagues Cup for teams from North America , the Central American Cup for teams from Central America , and a CONCACAF Caribbean Cup for teams from the Caribbean . All matches will include home and away series between the first round to

2106-500: The same group. The winners of each of the eight groups advanced to the quarterfinals. Each phase of the knockout rounds (quarterfinals, semifinals, finals) consisted of a two-leg home-and-away series with the winner determined by aggregate goal differential. Seeding in the knockout phase was determined by performance during the group stage. Prior to the 2012–13 season, the competition had involved four groups of four, with one Mexican team and one U.S. team in each group. A preliminary round

2160-518: The second striker of the club (after Leonel Hernández) to reach the 100 league goals cap, and retired with a total of 103 in 280 appearances. The long wait for the national title was over for the 2021-2022 season, when Cartaginés defeated Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (2–1 aggregate) in the Clausura final to win their 4th league championship. Those days Cartago was filled with people celebrating with bugles and flags that finally, after 81 years, they had won

2214-418: The semi-finals, with the final being a single match. The CONCACAF League would also cease in 2022 with this new format. On 6 June 2023, it was announced that to coincide with the new format, the competition had been renamed back to CONCACAF Champions Cup. If a club fails to meet the standards for its home stadium , the club must find a suitable stadium in its own country, and if the club fails to provide

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2268-502: The team by a priest at the highly revered temple Basílica de Los Ángeles , when the players celebrated their victory by storming the Basilica riding on top of their horses, which was considered sacrilegious. Another myth credits the lack of titles to the curse of "El Muñeco", a strange voodoo-like doll that was supposedly buried under Cartaginés' turf at their stadium in order to prevent them from winning further titles and bringing bad luck to

2322-719: The time in the country, games were repeatedly held against teams in Cartago such as Combate and Monte Libano. The team's original uniform colors were red and blue. Club Sport Cartaginés' first official match was seen as a local social event as the municipal Philharmonic played prior to the game. In 1914, Club Sport Cartaginés got into the Costa Rican football scene with a new name: The Americano . The name Americano lasted until 1921 when Costa Rica's Primera División started its national championship. At that time, Americano reverted to its original name of Club Sport Cartaginés and changed their uniform and colors to vertical white and blue stripes,

2376-445: The title more than once. Mexican clubs have accumulated the highest number of victories, with 39 titles in total. The second most successful league has been Costa Rica's Primera División , with six titles in total. Mexican side América are the most successful club in the competition's history, with seven titles. The most successful non-Mexican club is Saprissa of Costa Rica, with three titles. The only four teams to successfully defend

2430-483: The top flight, in which has remained since then. In 1987 they lost the championship final to Herediano . In the 90s, the club was unable to break Saprissa and Alajuelense 's hold on the top position, finishing runners-up in 1993 and 1996. The former season, however, allowed them to participate and win the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1994, their current biggest achievement, defeating Mexican club Atlante 3–2 in

2484-426: The tournament to Liga FPD, in order to give more identity to the league. The main rivalry in the league is El Clásico , played by Alajuelense and Saprissa , as both teams are the most successful in the league and both share the vast majority of followers throughout the country. Since their first encounter at the old national stadium on 12 October 1949, the two teams have faced each other in over 300 matches, with

2538-447: The tournament which was held in a central location. After the creation of the United States' Major League Soccer , the competition became an eight-team knockout tournament with zonal qualification. The first four editions were hosted in a central location with single leg ties before changing to a home-and-away format in 2002. Four North American zone clubs qualified from Liga MX or Major League Soccer, three Central American clubs from

2592-672: The tournament. They also won that year the Costa Rican Cup for the third consecutive time, defeating Herediano in the final (3–2 aggregate). The stadium Jose Rafael "Fello" Meza is located in Barrio Asis in Cartago, it has a capacity of 13,500 and is the fourth of the highest capacity stadiums in Costa Rica. As of 28 August, 2024. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. 11 – [REDACTED] Leonel Hernández , Winger (1957–77) Honorable mention to Bernald Mullins Campbell, who almost entered

2646-405: The trophy are all Mexican: América, Cruz Azul, Pachuca and Monterrey . The current champions of the competition are Pachuca, who defeated Columbus Crew in the 2024 final . Each round of competition consists of a two-leg home-and-away series with the winner determined by aggregate goals over both legs. If aggregate goals are equal, the away goals rule is applied. If away goals are also equal,

2700-560: Was included in UNAFUT's (governing body of Costa Rican football clubs) official list of Costa Rica's 100 best players of the 20th century. In 1966 Cartaginés was the first Costa Rican club to travel to the United States playing against Guadalajara and Emelec . During those years the club assembled one of its most famous squads, called the "Ballet Azul" (Blue Ballet, because their graceful style of play), trained by coach Alfredo "Chato" Piedra , and spearheaded by their current historical top scorer, Leonel Hernández (164 goals), which stayed in

2754-526: Was later corroborated by Garth Lagerwey , the general manager of Seattle Sounders FC . On 23 January 2017, CONCACAF confirmed the new 16-team format beginning with the 2018 edition, eliminating the group stage which had been employed since the re-branding of the competition to the CONCACAF Champions League in 2008. Under the new CONCACAF competition platform, a new secondary tournament called CONCACAF League would be played from August to December beginning in 2017. The winner of CONCACAF League would qualify to

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2808-518: Was replaced by another team in each season from 2009–10 through 2014–15. On 8 April 2015, Mexican side Club América broke the all time CONCACAF Champions League match attendance record when a reported 66,208 spectators gathered at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City to watch América play Costa Rican club Herediano in the second leg of the semifinals of the 2015 edition of the tournament. This

2862-473: Was surpassed by the Seattle Sounders FC on 4 May 2022, at Lumen Field in the final against UNAM with an announced attendance of 68,741. Starting with the 2024 edition of the competition, the winning club will receive over US$ 5,000,000 in prize money and financial distributions. In addition, the winning club qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup , which includes additional prize money. In 2022,

2916-490: Was used to reduce the number of teams from 24 to 16. Prior to 2008, the tournament was called the CONCACAF Champions' Cup , but was usually referred to simply as the Champions' Cup. The competition was initially created as a possible measure to enter the South American Copa Libertadores , a competition organized by CONMEBOL . The competition had several different formats over its lifetime. Initially, only

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