Barcelona Sporting Club is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil, known best for its professional football team. Internationally known as Barcelona de Guayaquil, in Ecuador it is simply referred as Barcelona, El Idolo (BSC) or Los Canarios. They currently play in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of football in the country, and hold the distinction of being the only club in the Ecuadorian top flight to not have played in the Serie B.
Liga Deportiva Universitaria, often referred to as Liga de Quito, LDU, is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Quito. They play in the Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. They play their home games at the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, more commonly referred to as Casa Blanca. Rival clubs include Quito-based clubs El Nacional, Deportivo Quito, Aucas and Universidad Católica.
Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza, nicknamed Pato, is a retired Ecuadorian politician and professional footballer.
Daniel Jimmy Viteri Vinces is an Ecuadoran footballer.
José Francisco Cevallos Villavicencio is an Ecuadorian retired football goalkeeper, former Minister of Sports in Ecuador and former President of Barcelona, the football club where he started his professional career. Nicknamed Las Manos del Ecuador, Cevallos is considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of Ecuadorian football. He has won three national titles with Guayaquil based club Barcelona, with whom he has spent the majority of his professional career. As the goalkeeper for LDU Quito, he was a key figure in the team's 2008 Copa Libertadores title, where he saved three penalties in the deciding penalty shoot-out. That same year, he was voted as the Best Goalkeeper in South America by Montevideo based newspaper El País. As a member of the national team, he has participated in four Copa Américas and Ecuador's first World Cup participation. Having represented his national team 89 times, he is the highest capped goalkeeper in the history of the team.
Nicolás Geovanny Asencio Espinoza is an Ecuadorian former football striker.
Geovanny Jara Granados is a Costa Rican former football player.
Damián Rodrigo Díaz Montero is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Barcelona SC. Born in Argentina, he represents the Ecuador national team.
Luis Alberto Chucho Bolaños León is an Ecuadorian professional football midfielder who plays for S.D. Quito.
Jayro Rolando Campos León is an Ecuadorian former football defender.
Edder Javier Vaca Quinde is an Ecuadorian footballer.
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2009 season was the club's 56th year in professional football, and the 48th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador. The club participated in their 14th Copa Libertadores, where they unsuccessfully defended their 2008 title. The club also participate in, and won, their first Recopa Sudamericana. They also won their first Copa Sudamericana title.
José Luis Cortez is an Ecuadorian footballer currently playing for Club Deportivo Quevedo.
Luis Francisco Zubeldía is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Ecuadorian club LDU Quito.
The 2011 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol de la Serie A was the 53rd season of the Serie A, Ecuador's premier football league. The season began on January 30 and ended on December 18, with a break in July for the 2011 Copa América. LDU Quito is the defending champion.
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2011 season was the club's 81st year of existence, the 58th year in professional football, and the 50th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador. Liga came in as the defending Serie A champion and having qualified to the 2011 Copa Libertadores and the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, but failed to win a title for the first time since 2006.
Banner Geovanny Caicedo Quiñónez is an Ecuadorian footballer.
Junior Nazareno Sornoza Moreira is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ecuadorian Serie A club Independiente Del Valle and the Ecuador national team.
Christian Geovanny Cruz Tapia is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a left-back defender for Ecuadorian Serie A side C.S. Emelec.
The 2020 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A was the 62nd season of the Serie A, Ecuador's top tier football league, and the second under the management of the Liga Profesional de Fútbol del Ecuador. Delfín were the defending champions. Barcelona won their 16th domestic league title after defeating LDU Quito 3–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw on aggregate score in the finals.
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