Platense F.C.

Platense

Full name	Platense Football Club Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable
Nickname(s)	Tiburón Los Escualos Los Selacios Los tiburones del platense
Founded	4 July 1960; 61 years ago (1960-07-04)
Ground	Estadio Excelsior, Platense, Puerto Cortés, Honduras
Capacity	12,000
Owner	Plantense
Chairman	Allan Ramos
Manager	Carlos Martinez
League	Liga Nacional
2019 Apertura	Liga Nacional, 8th (regular season) DNQ (postseason)
Home colours Away colours

Platense Football Club S.A. de C.V. or simply Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Platense, Puerto Cortés, Cortés.

The club was founded on 4 July 1960^[1] and in 1965 became the first champions of the Honduran National Football League. Their home venue is the Estadio Excelsior.

History[]

Officially Platense Sport Club was founded on July 4, 1960, in the neighborhood of Campo Rojo, Puerto Cortés. The initial founders were Roger Riera, Roberto Mejía, Roosevelt Garbut, and Rene Paiz. They were later joined by Manuel Flores, Héctor Sánchez, Rolando Méndez, Samuel Williams, Rudolph Williams, Ricardo Fúnez, Julio Linares, Óscar Pineda, Raúl Betancourt, Francisco Maldonado, Humberto Dole, Rolando Zavala and Reginaldo Guevara.^[2]

The founders looked to emulate a successful international club, and ultimately settled on Platense, inspired by Platense of Argentina. In its early years, the club was supported by the Tela Railroad Company. When amateurism was still in effect, Tela provided jobs and a salary for club athletes, and helped Platense establish itself on a solid financial footing.

After the Honduran National Soccer League was founded in 1964; Club Deportivo Platense became one of its 10 original members. They would also become its first champions, winning the league 27–26 over Olimpia.

The key players on that team were: Gilberto Zavala, Tomas Maximo, Ricardo 'Cañon' Fúnez, Felix 'Mantequilla' Guerra, Raúl Betancourt, Santos 'Kubala' Díaz, Miguel 'El Chino' Hernandez, 'Pichingo' Croasdaile, Francisco Brocatto, Carlos "Care" Alvarado, "Chita" Arzú, León Victor "Escalera" Jallú, among others.

Having won the very first title, however, Platense had to wait another thirty-six years for its second. They were close twice, finishing runners-up in 1996–97 and Apertura 2000. However, it wasn't until Clausura 2001 that Platense returned to glory.

Their opponents, Olimpia, were the most dominant and successful team in Honduras. The first leg of the tie was in Puerto Cortés and finished with a victory for the 'Tiburón' by the score of 1–0. The Argentine Marcelo Verón scored the winning goal. The return game was won by Club Olimpia by the same score. This forced the teams to go to over-time. The champion would be the team that scored the first goal (Golden goal). It was Platense's Rony Morales who proved the hero, scoring the goal that gave Platense its first title in a generation.^[3]

Platense reached two more semi-finals, but their form soon declined. In June 2012, they were relegated and were only able to stay in the top flight by virtue of a merger with CD Necaxa.^[4]

Achievements[]

• Liga Nacional

Winners (2): 1965–66, 2000–01 C

Runners-up (4): 1996–97, 2000–01 A, 2002–03 A, 2016–17 A

• Honduran Cup

Winners (3): 1996, 1997, 2018

Runners-up (1): 2015

• Honduran Supercup

Runners-up (2): 1997, 1999

• Segunda División

Winners (1): 1982

• Amateur League

Runners-up (1): 1964

Winners (2): ,

League and Playoffs Performance[]

(1994–present)[1]

Season	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	PTS	Play-offs	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	PTS
1994–95	8th	27	5	10	12	18	28	25	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995–96	4th	27	10	7	10	29	31	37	First Round	2	1	0	1	2	3	3
1996–97	3rd	27	13	8	6	28	20	34	Runners-up	8	4	2	2	13	10	14
1997–98 Apertura	1st	20	12	2	6	42	26	38	Semi-finals	4	0	3	1	3	5	3
1997–98 Clausura	3rd	20	8	8	4	36	30	32	Semi-finals	4	0	3	1	5	6	3
1998–99	6th	18	7	4	7	23	31	25	First Round	2	0	1	1	0	3	1
1999-00 Apertura	5th	18	6	7	5	24	24	25	First Round	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
1999-00 Clausura	2nd	18	10	4	4	39	21	34	First Round	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2000–01 Apertura	3rd	18	7	7	4	30	21	28	Runners-up	6	1	3	2	6	6	6
2000–01 Clausura	2nd	18	11	4	3	26	13	37	Champions	6	3	2	1	9	6	11
2001–02 Apertura	2nd	18	7	6	5	16	14	27	Semi-finals	2	0	1	1	2	3	1
2001–02 Clausura	3rd	18	9	4	5	35	25	28	Semi-finals	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2002–03 Apertura	1st	18	12	5	1	42	14	41	Runners-up	4	1	1	2	4	4	4
2002–03 Clausura	6th	18	4	8	6	18	20	20	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003–04 Apertura	6th	18	5	7	6	20	23	22	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003–04 Clausura	6th	16	6	2	8	18	22	20	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004–05 Apertura	6th	18	6	3	9	21	28	21	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004–05 Clausura	6th	17	5	6	6	23	19	21	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005–06 Apertura	4th	18	8	3	7	28	34	27	Semi-finals	2	1	0	1	1	2	3
2005–06 Clausura	7th	18	5	7	6	19	21	22	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006–07 Apertura	5th	18	7	8	3	32	29	29	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006–07 Clausura	6th	17	7	2	8	17	22	23	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007–08 Apertura	9th	18	3	6	9	17	28	15	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007–08 Clausura	8th	18	5	5	8	18	24	20	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008–09 Apertura	7th	18	6	5	7	22	26	23	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008–09 Clausura	9th	17	4	6	7	20	26	18	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009–10 Apertura	6th	18	6	6	6	23	25	24	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009–10 Clausura	4th	18	7	7	4	23	19	28	Semi-finals	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
2010–11 Apertura	5th	18	8	2	8	20	22	26	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010–11 Clausura	9th	18	4	5	9	21	29	17	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011–12 Apertura	8th	18	6	3	9	14	23	21	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011–12 Clausura	10th	18	1	8	9	14	32	11	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13 Apertura	8th	18	4	8	6	15	22	20	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13 Clausura	5th	18	7	3	8	21	24	24	Semi-finals	4	1	3	0	4	2	6

All-Time Table[]

(From 1965 to 1966 to 2007–08)

Seasons	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
42	1637	1269	394	455	420	1409	1415	-6

36 Game Average[]

Points	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
46	11	13	12	41	40	+1

International competition[]

CONCACAF Champions' Cup[]

• 1975 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v. Aurora – 4:3, 0:1 (Aurora advance on away goals rule)

• 1998 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v. Aurora – 2:1

First Round v. Aurora – 2:1

First Round v. Real Verdes – 0:0

First Round v. Real Verdes – 6:0

First Round v. Luis Ángel Firpo – 0:1

Second Round v. Saprissa – 1:3

Second Round v. Comunicaciones – 3:1

Second Round v. Saprissa – 0:0

Second Round v. Comunicaciones – 1:2

CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup[]

• 1997 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

First Round v. Juventus – 0:1, 4:1 (Platense advance 4:2 on aggregate)

Second Round v. CRKSV Jong Colombia – 3:1, 7:0 (Platense advance 10:1 on aggregate)

Final Round v. Olimpia – 3:3

Final Round v. Municipal – 0:0

Current squad[]

Updated on 23 June 2021.^[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 FW  HON Ariel Orestes Johnson Castellón 5 DF  HON Brayan Figueroa 7 MF  HON Édgar Álvarez 8 DF  HON Joshua Nieto 10 MF  HON Julio César de León 12 FW  HON Jeancarlo Vargas 20 FW  HON Óscar Medina 21 MF  HON Elder Ramos 22 MF  HON Alexander Aguilar 24 MF  TRI Rundell Winchester 29 DF  HON Jeffri Flores 30 DF  HON Grodbin Benítez 32 MF  HON Ilce Barahona 33 MF  HON Kervin Arriaga 40 GK  HON Denis Garcia — GK  HON Ricardo Castillo — GK  HON Kevin Hernández — GK  HON Rafael Zúñiga

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  HON Marco Martínez — DF  HON Cristian Padilla — DF  COL Melvin Vásquez — DF  HON Emerson Lalin — MF  HON Julio de León — MF  HON Aldo Fajardo — MF  HON Kelvin Matute — MF  HON Rudy Meléndez — MF  HON Cesar Oseguera — MF  HON Elvis Scott — MF  TRI Klein Eden — MF  HON Wilmer Fuentes — MF  HON Robbie Matute — MF  HON David Mendoza — MF  HON Gerson Rodas — FW  HON Pedro Mencía — FW  HON Diego Reyes — FW  HON David Mendoza — FW  ARG Julián Marcioni (on loan from Newell's Old Boys)

Coaches[]

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