Cibao Fútbol Club is a Dominican professional

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team based in

Santiago de los Caballeros Santiago de los Caballeros (; '' en, James, son of Zebedee, Saint James of the Knights''), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the cap ...

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, founded in 2015. The team plays in the

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History

Cibao Futbol Club was founded on January 1, 2015, ahead of the inaugural season of the

. The club built a new stadium,

Estadio Cibao FC Cibao FC Stadium is a football stadium in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. It is currently used for football matches and hosts the home games of Cibao FC of the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. The stadium holds 8,000 spectators. T ...

, that opened on March 8, 2015. Cibao FC partnered with the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and the ARMID Foundation to build the stadium and form a development academy. The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra contributed 26,187 square meters of land for the construction of the stadium. The ARMID-Foundation Real Madrid Foundation used these facilities to establish the first Real Madrid Foundation's Tecnification School in Latin America, which will be responsible for giving sports and academic training to children and adolescents. On May 21st of 2017 the team won the 2017 Caribbean Club Championship by defeating

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in the final, becoming the first team from the

to be crowned Caribbean club champions and the first to qualify for the

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, the team played against

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in the

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Stadium

Estadio Cibao FC

Is a football stadium located in

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra ''(Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University)'', named after Pope John XXIII's encyclical ''Mater et magistra'', which means ''Mother and Teacher'', (PUCMM for its Spanish acronym), i ...

campus, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. It is currently used for football matches and hosts the home games of Cibao FC of the

. The stadium holds 8,000 spectators.

Players and staff

Squad

Cibao FC roster 2022

Technical staff

Honours

Championships

2018 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol The 2018 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol season (known as the ''LDF Banco Popular'' for sponsorship reasons) is the fourth season of professional Association football, football in the Dominican Republic. Atlántico FC are the reigning champions, having ...

* 2021 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol * 2022 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol

Runner-up

2016 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol Season Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film di ...

Runner-up * 2019 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol Runner-up

National Cup

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Winner * Copa Dominicana de Futbol 2016 Winner

International achievements

* Copa Dominico-Haitiana Champions 2016 * 2017 CFU Club Championship Winners * 2022 Caribbean Club Championship Runner-up

References

External links

Official website
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