Club Social y Deportivo Cobán Imperial, nicknamed ''Los Príncipes Azules'' ("The Blue Princes"), is a Guatemalan

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based in

Cobán Cobán ( kek, Kob'an), fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala. It also serves as the administrative center for the surrounding Cobán municipality. It is located 219 km from Guat ...

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. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. They play their home games in the Estadio Verapaz. It's one of the traditional clubs of Guatemala, the club became

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champions for the first time in 2004, when they defeated

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in the

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tournament final. The club was relegated from Liga Mayor after losing a play-off to

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and spent 2007 until 2014 in the Primera División Group "A" or "B". Following a win over Mictlán in May 2015, Coban was promoted to the Liga Mayor where they currently play. - RSSSF

History

It was founded in 1924 participating for many years in the lower league. The club was invited to be part of the Cup Tournament in the Guatemalan major league in 1960 because they was a good team and their own stadium. Eduardo "Mondongo" Guzmán was the first coach of the ''Cobaneros'', under the name of ''Magisterio de Cobán ,'' they played only 3 games since from now on they did it under the name of 'Cobán Imperial'; during the tournament they must have played the number of 17 games, however Cobán only fulfilled 13 games since the rest no longer modified the standing, finishing in 14th. Their debut was against the team called Aviateca tying for one goal, the first goal in its history was scored by player Mario Winter. In 1964, they won promotion, but could not face more experienced teams and in 1966 they were relegated again. In 1975 when the "Jimmy Álvarez" team due to non-sports situations, changed venue, after its board managed to take part of people in the city of

and therefore managing to change the name to "Cobán Imperial" thus achieving its third participation for 1976, taking advantage of it very well until 1988, when it again occupied the basement of the table. They returned with great vigour in 1994 and declined again in 1996, but achieved promotion again very quickly the following year in 1997, until the last time in 2006, when descended again, but the joy came again for the people of

, on May 24, 2015, as Cobán Imperial defeated Mictlán 1-0 at the

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. Being one of the teams that had many runners-up in a row, they earned the nickname or nickname of the "already merit" until he finally won the national championship at Mateo Flores national stadium in 2004. The club is one of the most traditional, winning, respected teams and in

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and

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Stadium

The Estadio Jose Angel Rossi or better known as the Estadio Verapaz is located in the city of

in the department of

. It has a capacity for 15,000 in its different areas distributed among stands and skirts of hills, among whose pine trees the fans are located.

Honours

Domestic honours

Leagues

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and predecessors ** Champions (2): Clausura 2004, Apertura 2022 *

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and predecessors ** Champions (1): 2018-2019

Performance in international competitions

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- First Round

Current squad

Coaching staff

Managerial history

Rubén Amorín Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos (6 November 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He was born in Rocha. Playing career Amorín arrived in 1952 in Guatemala to play for Guatemala FC. Coaching career He has spent th ...

(1979) *

Julio César Cortés Julio César "''El Pocho''" Cortés Lagos (born 29 March 1941) is an Uruguayan football coach and former midfielder who participated in three World Cups with the Uruguay national team. At the club level, Cortés was most successful during t ...

(1997–1998) * Héctor Trujillo (2000–2001) * Luís López Meneses (2001) * Julio González (2003) * Mario Reig (2004) *

Julio César Antúnez Julio César Antúnez Amorín (born January 9, 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer and manager who played for clubs of Uruguay, Chile and Ecuador and managed in clubs of Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador and Guatemala. References ...

(2007–2008) * Carlos de Toro (2010) * Garabet Avedissian (2010–2011) * Amarini Villatoro (2011–2012) * Fabricio Benitez (2015-2016) * Héctor Trujillo (2016) * Ariel Sena (2016-2017) * Fabricio Benitez (2017-2019) * Jorge Rodríguez (2019-2020) * Rafael Díaz (2020-2021) * Ernesto Corti (2021) * Fabricio Benítez (2021) *

Sebastián Bini Sebastián Alejandro Bini (born 21 December 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a former Argentinian footballer and manager. He is currently manager for Liga Nacional club Municipal A municipality is usually a single administrative division ...

(2021-2022) * Roberto Montoya (2022-2023) * Eduardo Méndez (2023- )

References

External links

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