Club Social y Deportivo Carchá, is a Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

n football club based in San Pedro Carchá

San Pedro Carchá

San Pedro Carchá, usually referred to as Carchá, is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is situated at 1282 m above sea level. It has an estimated population 245,000 people.It covers a terrain of 1082 km².-Sports:...

, Alta Verapaz Department. They play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay.

History

The club was founded in 1962 and won promotion to the Liga Mayor B in 1974, entering the competition as Deportivo Carchá Jimmy Álvarez, named after their first manager. In 1992 they joined the Guatemalan second division and they finished champions in the 1997/1998 season to make their debut at the highest level of Guatemalan football, playing in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...

 in 1998/1999. They were relegated again after the 2000/2001 season and even went down further to the third tier of Guatemalan football.

Most recently they have again been playing in the Primera División

Primera División de Ascenso

The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...

 Group "A" or "B". They are nicknamed Los Hombres Peces (the Fisherman).

Current squad

List of coaches

• Jimmy Álvarez
• Gildardo Barrientos
• Rodolfo Amílcar Rivera
• Carlos Cloth
• Luis Jacobo Caballeros
• Abraham Chocooj
• Carlos Raúl Juárez
• Juan Carlos Alonzo
• Julián Trujillo
• Ramón Celaya
• Marco Antonio Matheu
• Luis "Ruso" Estrada
• Eduardo Santana
• Julio Gómez Carlos de Oliveira (2000–01)
• Arturo Cacao
• Haroldo Cordón Ariovaldo Guilherme Alex Monterroso (2007–08)

External links

• Official website - Deportivo Carchá