Comunicaciones F.C.

Comunicaciones

Full name	Comunicaciones Fútbol Club Sociedad Anónima
Nickname(s)	Los Cremas[1] (The Creams) Los Albos (The Whites) El Hexacampeón (The Six-Time Champion) (the whites from gueleteama)
Short name	El Comu
Founded	16 August 1949; 75 years ago (1949-08-16)
Ground	Estadio Cementos Progreso
Capacity	17,000
Owner	Albavision
Chairman	Juan Leonel Garcia
Manager	Rónald González
League	Liga Nacional
Clausura 2024	5th (Semifinals)
Website	https://comunicacionesfc.com/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Comunicaciones Fútbol Club S.A., better known as Comunicaciones F.C. or Comunicaciones, is a professional football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. One of the most popular and successful football clubs in Guatemala, Comunicaciones have won 32 National Championships, including having won six consecutive, the most of any Guatemalan club team. In addition to their 32 league titles, Comunicaciones have won eight league Cups and ten Supercups. In international competition, Comunicaciones have garnered 2 UNCAF Interclub Cups, one CONCACAF Champion's Cup and one CONCACAF League championship.

The club plays their home games at the Estadio Cementos Progreso, which has a capacity of 17,000 after being renovated.

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Comunicaciones origins date back to the 1920s to previous incarnations as Hospicio FC and España. Club Comunicaciones was formed in 1949 after Colonel Carlos Aldana Sandoval, then Minister of Telegraphs and Communications, took charge of the team and renamed it Comunicaciones ("Communications" in Spanish).

The club colour is white, which they began using in their kit shortly after the club's foundation, though initially the uniform was cream. Their historic arch-rival is Municipal and the two clubs compete in the El Clásico Chapín, one of the greatest rivalries in Guatemalan football. Their other fierce rivals consist of Antigua known as the El Clasico Provincial and a rivalry with Quetzaltenango club Xelajú as El Clásico del Oeste.

Since its inception, the Albo fans have been composed of the different strata of Guatemalan society. In the 80s, organized support began to take more momentum, at that time by batons that were located in different sectors of the stadium that were felt with songs, chopped paper, balloons and blankets, marking a different pattern of support from the fans of that time in Guatemalan football.

It was at that time when the nickname of the "Millionaire Fans" was popularly printed by the thousands of fans and fans that the club has throughout the country. Currently the cream fans are the only one in Guatemala who have adopted the type of South American breath in which everyone in the stadium sings in unison giving a unique atmosphere in the stands

In the early 90s, the first organized support group called Fuerza Crema officially emerged, regularly located in the Preference area of the stadium, becoming the largest in the country with more than 2,500 members.^{[citation needed]} It was until mid-1996 that after several differences between its leaders, the Albos force separated.

Some former members of the old group changed sectors in the stadium forming in the same year the barra Vltra Svr (Ultra Sur), a name it adopted due to its location in the General South area of the property. This group is characterized by the songs it provides to the team throughout the match, in addition to receptions, flags and walks, something that was not customary in Guatemalan football.

The barra has large blankets, flags, umbrellas, hype with murgas, trumpets, dubbing and a huge hype brought from Chile to encourage the club. In its beginnings the bar even hosted more than 3,000 members in transcendental matches.^{[citation needed]}

The mascot of Comunicaciones is the ghost Casper who has been accompanying the club since 1985. It was brought from Miami in September 1985 by the then president of the team, Teddy Plocharski, at a cost of $2,000 (15,392.65 Quetzales), being the first mascot to use a soccer team in Central America.

He first appeared at the Doroteo Guamuch on September 8, 1985, for the 124th classic, in which Comunicaciones beat Municipal by 3 to 1. The suit has undergone three transformations since its creation, the first in 1995 and the second 1998, this being the one that is maintained today.

The team currently play their home games at the Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, which holds at a capacity of 26,000. They used to play at the Estadio Cementos Progreso before, in which their B team currently play their games there in the Primera División.

• Liga Nacional de Guatemala
  • Champions (32): 1956, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979–80, 1981, 1982, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, Apertura 1999, Clausura 2001, Apertura 2002, Clausura 2003, Apertura 2008, Apertura 2010, Clausura 2011, Apertura 2012, Clausura 2013, Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014, Apertura 2014, Clausura 2015, Clausura 2022, Apertura 2023

• Copa de Guatemala and predecessors
  • Champions (8): 1951–52, 1955, 1970, 1972, 1983, 1986, 1991–92, 2009
• Campeón de Campeones (Super Cup) and predecessors
  • Champions (10): 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1997(2)^[2]

• CONCACAF Champions Cup
  • Champions (1): 1978^[a]
  • Runners up (2): 1962, 1969
• CONCACAF League
  • Champions (1): 2021
• Copa Fraternidad / UNCAF Interclub Cup
  • Champions (2): 1971, 1983
  • Runners up (3): 1976, 1977, 2003
• CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup:
  • Runners up (1): 1991

• CONCACAF Champions Cup: 28 appearances

Best results: 1978–Champions; 1962, 1969–Runners-up

Most recent participation: 2024–First Round

• CONCACAF League: 4 appearances

2019: Quarter-finals

2020: First Round

2021: Champions

2022: Round of 16

• CONCACAF Central American Cup: 1 appearance

2023: Quarter-finals

• CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances

1991: Runners-up

2001: Semi-finals^[b]

As of September 7, 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 1 GK  GUA Fredy Pérez 2 DF  GUA Gerardo Gordillo 3 DF  GUA Elsar Martín 4 MF  CUB Karel Espino 5 DF  URU Alejandro Prieto 6 DF  GUA José Carlos Pinto 7 FW  URU Diego Casas 8 MF  GUA José Grajeda 9 FW  PAN Azarias Londoño (on loan from Alianza FC) 10 MF  GUA José Contreras (captain) 11 FW  GUA Anderson Ortíz 12 DF  GUA Erick González 14 DF  GUA Rafael Morales 15 FW  GUA Carlos Mejía

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  GUA Daniel Cardoza 19 MF  GUA Axel de la Cruz 20 MF  GUA Antonio López 21 GK  GUA Josemaria Calderón 22 DF  GUA Wilson Pineda 23 GK  GUA Arnold Barrios 25 FW  GUA Erick Lemus 26 MF  GUA Lynner García 28 DF  COL Jose Corena 30 DF  GUA Emerson Raymundo 31 DF  GUA Stheven Robles 33 DF  GUA Andy Contreras 36 FW  GUA Joshua Trigueño Foster 77 FW  GUA Andy Palencia - MF  GUA Marcelo Saraiva

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

No. Pos. Nation Player - MF  GUA Brayam Castañeda (at Zacapa) - DF  GUA Nicolás Samayoa (at Politehnica Iași) - GK  GUA Jorge Moreno (at Xinabajul) - FW  GUA Erick Rivera (at Mixco)

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