Club Atlético Palmaflor

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Atlético Palmaflor
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Full nameClub Atlético Palmaflor
Nickname(s)Fieras de Palmaflor
FoundedSeptember 10, 2008; 13 years ago (2008-09-10)
Ground
Quillacollo, Bolivia
Capacity5,000
ChairmanJulio César Mollo
ManagerHumberto Viviani
LeagueDivisión Profesional
20219th

Club Atlético Palmaflor, best known as Atlético Palmaflor and named Municipal Vinto until 2019, is a Bolivian football club based in Quillacollo. Founded in 2008, it plays in the Bolivian Primera División after being promoted for the 2020 season by winning the Copa Simón Bolívar the previous season.

History[]

The club was founded on 10 September 2008 as Club Municipal Vinto and was entered into the Cochabamba Football Association. After some seasons in the lower tiers of the regional football association, the club started experiencing financial problems which in 2017 led to its sale to a group of entrepreneurs hailing from Inquisivi Province in La Paz Department who had settled in Quillacollo.[1]

The club was moved from Vinto to Quillacollo by its new owners and earned promotion to the AFC's Primera A in 2018 by winning the Primera B championship. In the first championship of the 2019 Primera A season, Municipal Vinto finished as runners-up after losing the final to but managed to qualify for the Copa Simón Bolívar.[2] Previous to the start of that competition, the club initiated the legal process before the Bolivian Football Federation to rename itself to Atlético Palmaflor, in honor to the owners' roots in La Paz.[3][1]

In the , Municipal Vinto managed to advance out of the group stage by winning all of its matches.[4] In the following stage they were drawn against Real Santa Cruz, losing one match and winning the other, and then losing on penalties. Nevertheless, the club qualified for the semifinals as lucky loser and in that stage faced from the department of La Paz. The first leg was won by Municipal Vinto by a score of 4–0, while the second leg in El Alto ended in a draw that qualified the club for the final. In the final, Municipal Vinto once again played against Real Santa Cruz, this time winning both legs (1–0 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and 2–0 in Quillacollo) and securing its first ever promotion to the División Profesional,[5] and also becoming the first team based in Quillacollo to play in the Bolivian top flight in 41 years, after .[6]

In their first season in the top flight, Palmaflor managed to qualify for an international competition for the first time ever, drawing with San José on the final matchday to finish in eighth place and qualify for the 2021 Copa Sudamericana.[7] In that campaign, the team was managed by Humberto Viviani and Xabier Azkargorta, who replaced Viviani for the final rounds of the tournament.

Current squad[]

As of 12 February, 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Bolivia BOL Alejandro Torrez
2 MF Bolivia BOL Ronaldo Arancibia
4 MF Bolivia BOL Iván Vidaurre
5 DF Bolivia BOL Jorge Toco
6 DF Bolivia BOL Pablo Pedraza
7 FW Bolivia BOL Freddy Abastoflor
8 MF Bolivia BOL Boris Condori
9 FW Brazil BRA Wesley Tanque
10 MF Brazil BRA Igor Soares
11 MF Argentina ARG Maximiliano Gómez
12 GK Bolivia BOL Gustavo Salvatierra
13 GK Bolivia BOL Widen Rojas
14 DF Bolivia BOL Walter Rioja
15 DF Bolivia BOL Ariel Juárez
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Bolivia BOL Didí Torrico
18 MF Bolivia BOL Luis Jaldín
19 MF Bolivia BOL Adalid Terrazas
20 MF Bolivia BOL Amílcar Sánchez
21 FW Brazil BRA Richard Luca
22 MF Bolivia BOL Denilzon Ramallo
23 MF Bolivia BOL Edwin Rivera
24 FW France FRA Jean-Christophe Bahebeck
25 DF Brazil BRA Robson Dos Santos
26 DF Argentina ARG Joaquín Lencinas
27 DF Bolivia BOL Stiven Vargas
31 DF Bolivia BOL Juan Orellana
32 DF Bolivia BOL Deymar Céspedes
37 MF Bolivia BOL Diego Corpus

Honours[]

Domestic[]

  • AFC Primera A:
    • Runners-up (1): 2019-A
  • AFC Primera B:
    • Winners (1): 2018

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Palmaflor lleva nombre de un pueblo paceño y nace en 2019" (in Spanish). Diario Opinión. 24 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Arauco Prado vence a Vinto y va como campeón a la Copa Simón Bolívar" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 16 June 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Palmaflor tramita cambio de nombre y presenta refuerzos" (in Spanish). Diario Opinión. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Vinto Palmaflor, revelación de la Copa Simón Bolívar" (in Spanish). La Razón. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Municipal Vinto se coronó campeón de la Copa Simón Bolívar y ascendió a la División Profesional" (in Spanish). El Deber. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Quillacollo vuelve al profesionalismo tras 41 años" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 24 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Vinto Palmaflor hace historia: jugará la Copa Sudamericana como Bolivia 4" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
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