Club Plaza Colonia de Deportes

Plaza Colonia
Full name	Club Plaza Colonia de Deportes
Nickname(s)	Patas Blancas
Founded	April 22, 1917;106 years ago
Ground	Estadio Juan Gaspar Prandi [ es ]
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Rafael González
Manager	Vacant
League	Segunda División
2023	Primera División, 14th of 16 (relegated by average)
Home colours	Away colours

Last updated March 02, 2024

Club Plaza Colonia de Deportes, or simply Plaza Colonia, is a Uruguayan professional football club from Colonia del Sacramento, that competes in the Uruguayan Primera Division. Founded in 1917, the club plays its home games at the 3,000 seater Estadio Juan Gaspar Prandi.

History

The club was founded on April 22, 1917 by Alberto Suppici.^[1] They played in the Regional league of Colonia until 1999. They gained their affiliation with AUF in 2000. In 2001 they won promotion to the Primera División Uruguaya and in their debut season they finished in 7th place.

In 2003 the club finally fell to the Second Division after a poor campaign. In 2004 the club was promoted back to the first division, but in 2005 they went back down after another poor campaign. In 2006 they did not play the championship because of financial difficulties.

They re-entered official competitions for the 2006–07 season, playing once more in the Uruguayan 2nd Division.

In May 2016 they won the Clausura Championship for the first time after defeating Peñarol 2–1.^[2] They became known as the "Leicester City of Uruguay" because of Leicester City's surprising 2015–16 Premier League title. The season before Plaza Colonia had finished 13th out of 16. In the championship playoff, played between the Apertura and Clausura champions to decide who would be the super champion, Peñarol defeated them 3–1 after extra time.

They qualified for their first ever continental competition in the 2016 Copa Sudamericana. Reports say that some players had never even been on a plane before.^[3] They lost to Club Blooming on penalties in the first stage.

In 2021, they won the Apertura tournament, their second accolade, and qualified for the Copa Libertadores for the first time in the club's history. On 7 December, they lost the championship playoff on penalties 8–7 after a 1–1 draw at the conclusion of extra time.

Rivalries

Plaza's city rivals are Juventud Colonia, and department derby is against Deportivo Colonia.

Honours

Torneo Clausura

Winners (1): 2016 Clausura

Torneo Apertura

Winners (1): 2021 Apertura

Current squad

As of 14 October 2023

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	BRA	Guilherme Café
5	MF	URU	Agustín Pérez
6	DF	URU	Martin Jourdan
10	FW	URU	Leandro Suhr
11	FW	URU	Nicolás Dibble
13	DF	URU	Joaquín Sarlabos
15	MF	URU	Álvaro Fernández
16	DF	URU	Haibrany Ruiz Díaz
17	DF	URU	Emilio Zeballos


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	FW	URU	Joaquin Wigman
20	MF	URU	Ezequias Redín
21	FW	URU	Ramiro Quintana
22	MF	BRA	Leonai
23	MF	URU	Facundo Silvestre
26	FW	ARG	Elías Umeres
27	MF	URU	Fabio González
28	FW	ARG	Imanol Enríquez
30	DF	URU	Ezequiel Silveira
32	DF	URU	Nicolás Olivera

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References

↑ "Historia | Plaza Colonia". www.plazacolonia.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-12.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ Baldo, Matias (May 30, 2016). "Plaza Colonia: su pobre historia, la odisea de los hinchas y por qué el DT entró al Centenario de noche a comer pizza". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved September 12, 2020.
↑ "De Uruguay para América, Plaza Colonia debuta internacionalmente luego de 99 años de historia". CONMEBOL.com. August 11, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2020. En este plantel la gran mayoría nunca se subió a un avión. (In this squad the grand majority have never been on a plane.)

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[1] "Historia | Plaza Colonia". www.plazacolonia.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-12.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[2] Baldo, Matias (May 30, 2016). "Plaza Colonia: su pobre historia, la odisea de los hinchas y por qué el DT entró al Centenario de noche a comer pizza". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved September 12, 2020.

[:0-3] "De Uruguay para América, Plaza Colonia debuta internacionalmente luego de 99 años de historia". CONMEBOL.com. August 11, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2020. En este plantel la gran mayoría nunca se subió a un avión. (In this squad the grand majority have never been on a plane.)

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