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Leones F.C., also known as Itagüí Leones, is a professional Colombian football team based in Itagüí playing in the Categoría Primera B starting from 2019. They play their home games at the Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí.

Leones F.C.
Full nameItagüí Leones Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)Equipo Felino (Feline Team)
Los Felinos del Valle de Aburrá (The Felines from the Aburrá Valley)
Founded15 February 1944; 78 years ago (1944-02-15)
GroundEstadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
Itagüí, Colombia
Capacity12,000
ChairmanCarlos Murillo
ManagerÁlvaro Hernández
LeagueCategoría Primera B
2021–II1st (First stage)
(Semifinals Group A, 3rd)
WebsiteClub website
Home colours
Away colours

History


Founded as Deportivo Rionegro in 1944, Leones Fútbol Club participated in all seasons of the Categoría Primera B from 1991 to 2017, when the team was runner-up of the tournament and was promoted to Categoría Primera A for the first time.

The team played for almost forty years in the amateur league. The team's first president was Libardo Sanchez and his first manager was Alfonso Piedrahita. Thanks to its performances and achievements in the 80s the club was admitted in the first edition of the Categoría Primera B, the second-tier of the professional Colombian league, played in 1991. In 1993, with the direction of manager Carlos Augusto Navarrete, Rionegro managed to be among the five best of the tournament. The team got its best performance in 2001, when they were runners-up under the direction of manager Orlando Restrepo.

In 2008 Deportivo Rionegro, with René Higuita as their captain and star and with Óscar Aristizábal as manager, managed to win the first tournament of the year, defeating Unión Magdalena in the final, but in the second half failed to reach the final, so they had to fight for the title of the Primera B against Real Cartagena, losing on aggregate by 2-4. They played the promotion matches against Envigado F.C., but lost by a score of 3-1 on aggregate. In 2014 Deportivo Rionegro moved to Bello and changed its name to Leones Fútbol Club. The following year they moved to Turbo where they stayed for another year before moving back to the Medellín metropolitan area in 2016, establishing themselves in Itagüí.

Leones ended as runners-up in the 2017 Primera B, winning the Torneo Finalización and then going on to lose the final to Boyacá Chicó on penalty kicks. However, since they ended the season as the best team in the aggregate table, they earned promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2018 season, the first time the team played in the first division. They were relegated back to Primera B at the end of the season, finishing in bottom place of the relegation table.


Stadium



Honours


Runners-up (1): 2017

Players



Current squad


As of 18 August 2021[1]

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  COL Arled Cadavid
2 DF  COL Brayan Carabalí
4 DF  COL Carlos Gallego (captain)
6 MF  COL Stiven Palomeque
7 FW  COL Gilber Lucumí
8 MF  COL John Wilmar Arango
10 MF  COL Mateo Muñoz
11 FW  COL Luis Felipe Gómez
12 GK  COL Juan David Ramírez
13 DF  COL Miguel Arboleda
16 MF  COL Juan Diego Giraldo
18 FW  COL Jefferson Rivas
19 MF  COL Juan Diego Ceballos
20 FW  COL Andrés Córdoba
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF  COL Hadier Borja
23 DF  COL Javier Torres
25 DF  COL Nicolás Gil
29 MF  COL Kevin Pérez
GK  COL Cristian Holguín
GK  COL Juan Millán
DF  COL Jhoan Cuernú
DF  COL Juan Sebastián Herrera
MF  COL Roinner Fruto
MF  COL Ever Meza
MF  COL Pablo Ospina
MF  COL David Pabón
FW  COL Brayan Martínez
FW  COL Luis Villalba

Notable players





References


  1. "LEONES F.C." Dimayor.com.co. División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

На других языках


- [en] Leones F.C.

[ru] Итагуи Леонес

«Итагуи́ Лео́нес» (исп. Itagüí Leones Fútbol Club) — колумбийская футбольная команда, базирующаяся в городе Итагуи.



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