Platense F.C.

For other uses, see Platense (disambiguation).

Platense

Full name

Platense Football Club Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable

Nickname(s)

Tiburón
Los Escualos
Los Selacios

Founded

4 July 1960

Ground

Estadio Excelsior,
Puerto Cortés, Honduras

Capacity

10,000

Owner

Selim Canahuati

Chairman

Allan Ramos

Manager

Guillermo Bernardez

League

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras

2015 Clausura

10th

Home colours

Away colours

Platense Football Club S.A. de C.V. or simply Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Puerto Cortés, Cortés.

The club was founded on 4 July 1960^[1] and in 1965 became the first champions of the Honduran National Football League. Their home venue is the Estadio Excelsior.

History

Officially Platense Sport Club was founded on July 4, 1960, in the neighborhood of Campo Rojo, Puerto Cortés. At first, Roger Riera, Roberto Mejía and Roosevelt Garbut attended at the home of Mr. Rene Paiz to found a new football team. They were joined by Manuel Flores, Héctor Sánchez, Rolando Méndez, Samuel Williams, Rudolph Williams, Ricardo Fúnez, Julio Linares, Óscar Pineda, Raúl Betancourt, Francisco Maldonado, Humberto Dole, Rolando Zavala and Reginaldo Guevara.^[2]

In the first meetings of Club Platense, the names of various international football clubs were included among the choices, from which the official name of the team was taken. Among the choices available were: Leyland, Banfield, Magallanes, and Platense of Argentina; the last was the most liked among the founder members of the club.

In its beginnings, this team had the fortune to have the support of the Tela Railroad Company. The members of Club Platense were, for the most part, hired by this company while they participated with the club. This benefited them a great deal, because in addition to their salary with Tela Railroad Co., where they received a special treatment for being soccer stars, they also received a salary from the ticket sales, as part of their contracts. That motivated these players to give 100% in training as well as in the official games.

After the Honduran National Soccer League was founded in 1964; Club Deportivo Platense became one of its 10 Original Club Members.

First Championship

By 1965, Club Deportivo Platense already possessed the great and only honor, of being the first champion of the Honduran National Football League. Among the members of the famous team, that won the first championship, were: Gilberto Zavala, Tomas Maximo, Ricardo 'Cañon' Fúnez, Felix 'Mantequilla' Guerra, Raúl Betancourt, Santos 'Kubala' Díaz, Miguel 'El Chino' Hernandez, 'Pichingo' Croasdaile, Francisco Brocatto, Carlos "Care" Alvarado, "Chita" Arzú, León Victor "Escalera" Jallú, among others.

Second Championship

Training session at Excelsior Stadium in 2005.

After having obtained the first championship of National League, Club Deportivo Platense had to wait 36 years until 2000–2001 for its second. The new format of short tournaments (opening – closure) with semifinals allowed Platense to compete for the championship, even though it finished second in the final standings. The title was to be fought in a series of two games against the most popular team of the country, Olimpia. The first game was in Puerto Cortés and finished with a victory for the 'Tiburón' by the score of 1–0 with the goal netted by the Argentine Marcelo Verón. The return game was won by Club Olimpia by the same score. This forced the teams to go to over-time. The champion would be the team that scored the first goal (Golden goal). Then with a goal by Rony Morales, Club Platense conquered its second championship of the National League.^[3]

Relegation prevented and Platense F.C. formed

In June 2012, C.D. Platense was relegated but merged with CD Necaxa to become the newly named Platense F.C. and stay in the National League.^[4]

Achievements

Domestic

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 2

1965–66, Clausura 2001

Runners-up (3): 1996–97, Apertura 2000, Apertura 2002

Liga de Ascenso de Honduras: 1

1982

Honduran Cup: 2

1996, 1997

Honduran Super Cup:

Runners-up (2): 1996–97, 1997–98

Honours

First Football Champion of Honduras (1965–66).

League and Playoffs Performance

(1994–Present)

Season	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	PTS	Play-offs	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	PTS
1994–95	8th	27	5	10	12	18	28	25	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995–96	4th	27	10	7	10	29	31	37	First Round	2	1	0	1	2	3	3
1996–97	3rd	27	13	8	6	28	20	34	Runners-up	8	4	2	2	13	10	14
1997–98 Apertura	1st	20	12	2	6	42	26	38	Semi-finals	4	0	3	1	3	5	3
1997–98 Clausura	3rd	20	8	8	4	36	30	32	Semi-finals	4	0	3	1	5	6	3
1998–99	6th	18	7	4	7	23	31	25	First Round	2	0	1	1	0	3	1
1999-00 Apertura	5th	18	6	7	5	24	24	25	First Round	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
1999-00 Clausura	2nd	18	10	4	4	39	21	34	First Round	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2000–01 Apertura	3rd	18	7	7	4	30	21	28	Runners-up	6	1	3	2	6	6	6
2000–01 Clausura	2nd	18	11	4	3	26	13	37	Champions	6	3	2	1	9	6	11
2001–02 Apertura	2nd	18	7	6	5	16	14	27	Semi-finals	2	0	1	1	2	3	1
2001–02 Clausura	3rd	18	9	4	5	35	25	28	Semi-finals	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2002–03 Apertura	1st	18	12	5	1	42	14	41	Runners-up	4	1	1	2	4	4	4
2002–03 Clausura	6th	18	4	8	6	18	20	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003–04 Apertura	6th	18	5	7	6	20	23	22	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003–04 Clausura	6th	16	6	2	8	18	22	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004–05 Apertura	6th	18	6	3	9	21	28	21	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004–05 Clausura	6th	17	5	6	6	23	19	21	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005–06 Apertura	4th	18	8	3	7	28	34	27	Semi-finals	2	1	0	1	1	2	3
2005–06 Clausura	7th	18	5	7	6	19	21	22	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006–07 Apertura	5th	18	7	8	3	32	29	29	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006–07 Clausura	6th	17	7	2	8	17	22	23	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007–08 Apertura	9th	18	3	6	9	17	28	15	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007–08 Clausura	8th	18	5	5	8	18	24	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008–09 Apertura	7th	18	6	5	7	22	26	23	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008–09 Clausura	9th	17	4	6	7	20	26	18	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009–10 Apertura	6th	18	6	6	6	23	25	24	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009–10 Clausura	4th	18	7	7	4	23	19	28	Semi-finals	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
2010–11 Apertura	5th	18	8	2	8	20	22	26	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010–11 Clausura	9th	18	4	5	9	21	29	17	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011–12 Apertura	8th	18	6	3	9	14	23	21	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011–12 Clausura	10th	18	1	8	9	14	32	11	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13 Apertura	8th	18	4	8	6	15	22	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13 Clausura	5th	18	7	3	8	21	24	24	Semi-finals	4	1	3	0	4	2	6

All-Time Table

(From 1965–66 to 2007–08)

Seasons	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
42	1637	1269	394	455	420	1409	1415	-6

36 Game Average

Points	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
46	11	13	12	41	40	+1

International competition

CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1975 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v.

Aurora – 4:3, 0:1 (Aurora advance on away goals rule)

1998 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v.

Aurora – 2:1

First Round v.

Aurora – 2:1

First Round v.

Real Verdes – 0:0

First Round v.

Real Verdes – 6:0

First Round v.

Luis Ángel Firpo – 0:1

Second Round v.

Saprissa – 1:3

Second Round v.

Comunicaciones – 3:1

Second Round v.

Saprissa – 0:0

Second Round v.

Comunicaciones – 1:2

CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

1997 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

First Round v.

Juventus – 0:1, 4:1 (Platense advance 4:2 on aggregate)

Second Round v.

CRKSV Jong Colombia – 3:1, 7:0 (Platense advance 10:1 on aggregate)

Final Round v.

Olimpia – 3:3

Final Round v.

Municipal – 0:0

Current squad

:as of 2016

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	José Calderón
3	DF	Dabirson Castillo
4	MF	Richard Rodríguez
5	DF	Luis Guzmán
6	DF	Mamadou Traoré
7	MF	Édgar Álvarez
8	MF	Miguel Castillo
9	FW	Georgie Welcome
10	MF	Julio César de León
11	FW	Robert Campaz
12	FW	Jeffrey Brooks
13	DF	Lucas Matute
14	MF	Ronmel Corea

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Jorge Cardona
18	DF	Luis Castro
21	MF	Brayan Reyes
22	MF	Alexander Aguilar
25	MF	David Mendoza
26	DF	Nixon Duarte
27	FW	Jerrick Díaz
28	GK	Sandro Cárcamo
30	DF	Ian Osorio
31	MF	Jorge Nájera
39	FW	Óscar Medina
40	GK	Denis Garcia

Coaches

Jaime Hormazábal
Carlos "Zorro" Padilla (1965–67), (the coach when the team won its first championship)
Roberto Scalessi (1977)
Alberto Romero (1996)
Ariel Sena (1996–97)
Carlos "Zorro" Padilla (1998–99)
Chelato Uclés (1999–01)
Alberto Romero (2001–03), (the coach when the team won its second championship)
Flavio Ortega (2005)
Roque Alfaro (2006)
Héctor Vargas (2006–07)
Alberto Romero (2007)
Roque Alfaro (2007–08)^[5]
Nahúm Espinoza (2008–09)^[6]

Rubén Guifarro (Feb 2009–May 09)^[7]
Héctor Vargas (2009–11)^[8]
Jairo Ríos (2011)^[9]
Carlos de Toro (2011)^[10]
Roque Alfaro (2011–12)^[11]
Alberto Romero (2012)^[12]
Hernán García (2012–13)^[13]
Germando Adinolfi (2013–1?)^[14]
Guillermo Bernárdez (2013–14)
Carlos Martínez (2014–15)
Carlos Ramón Tábora (Feb 2015–1?)
Ricardo Ortiz (June 2015–Sept 15)
Guillermo Bernárdez (Sept 2015-)

All time top goal scorers

^[15]

#	Player	Goals
1	Juan Manuel Cárcamo	65
2	Francisco Ramírez	54
3	Raúl Centeno Gamboa	53
4	Eduardo Laing	45
5	Oscar Piedrahita	33
6	Marcelo Ferreira	28
7	Carlos "Care" Alvarado	27
8	Dennis Caballero	26
9	Luis Alonso Perdomo	25
10	Marcelo Verón	23

Old logo

References

↑ "Juventud y esperanza" (in Spanish). Diario La Prensa. 2007-08-10. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
↑ 53 años cumplió el “Tiburón” – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ A 12 años del segundo título “escualo” – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ Oficial la fusión Platense-Necaxa – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ Argentino Alfaro reemplazará a su compatriota Romero en Platense de Honduras – Terra (Spanish)
↑ Nahum Espinoza firmaría nuevo contrato con Platense – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ Rubén Guifarro toma las riendas del Platense – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Vargas firmó con Platense – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ Jairo Ríos, nuevo técnico del Platense – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Carlos de Toro, nuevo técnico de Platense – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Roque Alfaro, nuevo técnico del Platense – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Argentinos de Platense se van porque les dicen “paquetes” – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ Hernán García ya no es técnico de Platense – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Germando Adinolfi, nuevo entrenador del Platense – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Desafíe a Ismael – La Prensa (Spanish)

External links

History of Platense

Honduran Liga Nacional

2015–16 teams

Former teams

Seasons

1960s	1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

1970s	1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980s	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90

1990s	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00

2000s	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

2010s	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Second-level Honduran football league seasons

Seasons	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1995–96 1997 1998 1999 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 A / C 2006–07 A / C 2007–08 A / C 2008–09 A / C 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

2013–14 teams	Alianza Arsenal Atlético Choloma Atlético Esperanzano Atlético Independiente Atlético Limeño Atlético Municipal Atlético Nacional Atlético Olanchano Cobán Athletic Comayagua Graciano San Francisco Honduras Juticalpa Marcala Olimpia Occidental Pumas San Isidro Real Juventud Social Sol Sula Trujillo Unión Sabá UPNFM Valencia Valle FC Villanueva Yoro

Liga Amateur de Honduras

Seasons	1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64

Former clubs	Abacá Aduana Deportivo Atlético Independiente España Federal Hibueras Marathón Motagua Olimpia Platense Salamar Sula Victoria Vida

Honduran Cup seasons

1968 1972 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 2015 2015–16

Honduran Supercup seasons

1997 1999 2015

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