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Liverpool Fútbol Club is a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

club based in Montevideo

Montevideo

Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

. The club joined the first division for the first time in 1919.

History

The club has its roots in the student team from the Catholic Capuchin

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

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school in Nuevo París, which began playing in 1908. The club took on the name Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

as there were many cultural links between the two areas; the majority of coal ships arriving in Montevideo came from the busy English port. A number of clubs took on Anglicised names, such as league rivals Montevideo Wanderers F.C.

Montevideo Wanderers F.C.

Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Wanderers is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club are currently members of the Primera División and play at the Estadio Viera...

; in this case, the team paid homage to Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

For the 2005–06 season, the away kit changed to a new all red one, thus looking exactly like the English Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool F.C.

. Liverpool plays home matches in Estadio Belvedere

Estadio Belvedere

Estadio Belvedere is a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is currently used primarily for football matches. The stadium holds 10,000 people and was built in 1909. On August 15, 1910, in a game at Estadio Belvedere, the Uruguay national football team wore their signature light blue...

(Belvedere Stadium), formerly owned by the Montevideo Wanderers.

Honours

Liverpool have failed to win any domestic titles so far. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions.

They have also never won either of the major cups, they have reached the final of the Torneo Apertura and liguilla, both in 1995 only to be beaten by Club Atlético Peñarol and Defensor Sporting respectively.

Titles

Segunda División Uruguay
Segunda División Uruguay
Segunda División Profesional is the second tier of the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol league system. The league is sometimes referred to as Primera B.The Uruguayan 2nd division was established in 1942.-Season 2011–2012 Teams:* Atenas* Boston River...

: 3

1966, 1987, 2002

Tercera División Uruguay: 2

1919, 1937

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

2011: First Stage

Copa Sudamericana
Copa Sudamericana
The Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes , known simply as the Copa Sudamericana , is an annual international club football competition organized by the CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second most prestigious club competition in South American football. CONCACAF clubs were invited between 2004...

: 1 appearance

2009: First Stage

Other sports

Liverpool F.C. had a basketball team until the 1990s, playing in the stadium that still exists behind the north tribune of Estadio Belvedere. The team never reached first division.

Squad 2011

Famous players

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Armando Dely Valdés

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Jorge Alcalde

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Sebastián Soria

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Diego Aguirre

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Francisco Bertocchi

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Edgar Borges

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Jorge Delgado

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Juan Manuel Díaz

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Elías Ricardo Figueroa

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Jorge Fucile

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Cristian González Aidinovich Roque Máspoli

Roque Máspoli

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Alexander Medina

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Leonardo Medina

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Julio Montero Castillo

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José Naya

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Paulo Pezzolano

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Andrés Rodales

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Carlos Andrés Sánchez

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Edgardo Simovic

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Humberto Tomasina

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Sebastián Vázquez

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Gonzalo Germán Vicente

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Kit evolution

Source: Liverpool (Montevideo) Page - BDFA.com.ar

External links

Official Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
Unofficial Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
Website charting Liverpool fc in England and Uruguay (English)

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