FC Santa Coloma

FC Santa Coloma

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Full name	Futbol Club Santa Coloma
Nickname(s)	FCSC Colomencs Coloma (Dove) El Don (The Lord or Sir)
Founded	1986 (1986)
Ground	Andorra Football Federation stadiums
Chairman	Alain Molné Kirik
Manager	Richard Imbernón
League	Primera Divisió
2014–15	Primera Divisió, 1st
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Santa Coloma is an Andorran football team based in the village of Santa Coloma, in the parish of Andorra la Vella. The club currently plays in Primera Divisió, and is its current champion and most successful team with nine titles. It is also the most successful team in the Copa Constitució, winning it eight times.

History

Founded in 1986 FC Santa Coloma became the winning team of the first official edition of Primera Divisió in 1995. Since 2001 the club has enjoyed a great success in all Andorran competitions standing with all the records in the Premier Andorran League (9) and Andorran Cup (8).

FC Santa Coloma in Europe

FC Santa Coloma has two unique achievements for an Andorran team in European competitions, never repeated so far by any Andorran team: it is the only team from Andorra to win a match in any European competition and the only team that did not concede a goal in a match in a European competition.

Both of these feats were achieved on two occasions: the first match in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup qualifying round against the Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv, in which FC Santa Coloma won 1–0 at home with a goal scored by Juli Fernandez and in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round when they beat Banants of Armenia 1–0. On the first occasion, in the return leg they lost 4–0 to Maccabi and were eliminated from the tournament. Against Banants, they lost the second leg away in Armenia 3–2, however the game finished 3–3 on aggregate and FC Santa Coloma won by the away goals rule, thanks to a last minute goal by goalkeeper Eloy Casals. It was only the second time an Andorran club have won a two-legged tie in Europe after UE Sant Julià.

Colours and badge

FC Santa Coloma dressed in all white all the seasons since the creation of the Andorran Premier League, alternating the home kit with red or blue. Traditionally the away kit has been all blue and third kit all red. In the club crest feature the colours of Andorra and the Holy Dove that gives the name of the Santa Coloma d'Andorra town and therefore the name of the club.

Period *	Kitmaker	Kit sponsor
1994–10	Joma	Don Pernil
2010–13		Pidasa
2013–15		None
2015–present		Don Denis

* Since the Andorra Football Federation affiliation.

Club rivalries

El Clàssic

The main rival of FC Santa Coloma in Primera Divisió has been always UE Sant Julià playing in a derby called El Clàssic. Both teams are strong in the Andorran Premier League and since the creation of the championship the clubs have been competing for being the champion of the top flight.

El Derbi Colomenc

The local rival of FC Santa Coloma is actually their neighbour's hometown football team UE Santa Coloma. The rivalry between these two teams has increased since the 2009/10 season when those teams were competing for winning the Premier Andorran League.

Honours

• Primera Divisió:
  • Winners (9): 1994–95, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (7): 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13
• Copa Constitució:
  • Winners (8): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
  • Runners-up (4): 1996, 1998, 1999, 2015
• Supercopa Andorrana:
  • Winners (5): 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015
  • Runners-up (7): 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

European record

In 2014 Santa Coloma advanced for the first time in a knock-out round after bettering FC Banants by away goals rule. The deciding goal was scored by Coloma's goalkeeper in the 4th minute of added time.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	FK Partizan	0–1	1–7	1–8
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Esbjerg fB	1–4	0–5	1–9
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Modriča	0–1	0–3	0–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	0–4	1–4
2008–09	UEFA Champions League	1Q	FBK Kaunas	1–4	1–3	2–7
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Basel	1–4	0–3	1–7
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Birkirkara	0–31	3–4	3–7
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	1Q	F91 Dudelange	0–2	0–2	0–4
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Osijek	0–1	1–3	1–4
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Breiðablik	0–0	0–4	0–4
2014–15	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Banants	1–0	2–3	3–3(a)
		2Q	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–1	0–2	0–3
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Lincoln Red Imps	1–2	0–0	1–2

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round

Note 1: match forfeited, result set to 0–3 by UEFA.

Current squad

As of 27 September 2015.

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 Eloy Casals (Vice-captain) 2 DF Walter Wagner 3 DF Oriol Fité 4 DF Andreu Ramos 5 DF Marc Rebés 6 DF Ildefons Lima 7 MF Marc Pujol (Captain) 8 MF Joel Martínez 9 MF Andreu Matos 10 FW Juan Carlos Toscano 11 MF Albert Mercadé

No. Position Player 13 GK Paco 14 MF Juvenal Edjogo-Owono 16 MF Cristian Martínez 18 MF Dinis Silva 19 FW Iban Parra 20 FW Jaime Conde 21 FW Gabi Riera 22 DF Iván Vitorino 23 MF Juanfer 24 DF Robert Ramos 25 DF Víctor Rodríguez

External links

• FC Santa Coloma Official Web
• Santa Coloma at UEFA.COM
• Santa Coloma at Weltfussball.de
• Santa Coloma at National Football Teams.com
• Santa Coloma at Football-Lineups.com