Manta F.C.

Manta FC

Full name	Manta Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Celestes (Sky blues) Pesqueros (Fishermen) Atuneros (Tuna fishermen)
Founded	27 July 1998; 23 years ago (1998-07-27)
Ground	Estadio Jocay
Capacity	18,125
Chairman	Jaime Estrada Medranda
Manager	Fabián Frías
League	Serie B
2021	Serie A, 15th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Manta Fútbol Club is a football club based in Manta that plays in the Serie A, Ecuador's first tier of professional football. Their rival club is Delfín.

Manta was founded in 1998 after the purchase of the franchise rights from the defunct Manta Sport. From 1999-2001, the club competed in the Segunda Categoría, the third tier of Ecuadorian football league system before being promoted in 2002 to Serie. Manta won promotion again in 2003 to Serie A for the first time but finished poorly and were relegated back to Serie B where they would spend the next 6 seasons. 2009 saw the club back in Serie A but no titles were forthcoming and they were relegated again in 2014.

They got promoted back to the Ecuadorian Serie A in 2020 and will play in the first tier after a 7 year absence.

Honours[]

• Serie B (1): 2008

Players[]

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  ECU Beder Valencia 26 GK  ECU Felix Zambrano 3 DF  ECU Argenis Moreira 14 DF  ECU Alexander Mendoza 17 DF  ECU José Valle 20 DF  ECU Jordan Jaime 27 DF  PAR Julio Domínguez 32 DF  ECU Daniel Patiño 66 DF  ECU José Flor 4 MF  ECU Roddy Salazar 5 MF  URU Nicolás Prieto 6 MF  ECU Gustavo Bustamante

No. Pos. Nation Player 7 MF  ECU Jonathan Mesías 8 MF  ARG Alejandro Frezzotti 10 MF  ARG Gerardo Martínez 13 MF  ECU Iván Trelles 15 MF  ECU Kléver Triviño 16 MF  ECU Marcos Romero 21 MF  ECU Ángel Ledesma 35 MF  ECU Cristhian Cuero 18 FW  ECU Jonathan Caicedo 33 FW  ECU Vinicio Angulo

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Managers[]

• Fabián Bustos (July 14, 2009 – Dec 15, 2010)
• Gabriel Perrone (Dec 15, 2010 – May 3, 2011)
• (Aug 30, 2011 – Dec 13, 2012)
• (Dec 15, 2012 – June 30, 2013)
• Fabián Bustos (July 2, 2013 – Dec 31, 2013)
• Juan Manuel Llop (Jan 1, 2014 – Aug 1, 2014)
• (Aug 1, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015)
• (Jan 1, 2015–)

External links[]

• Official website (in Spanish)

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