Metropolitanos Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan professional

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club based in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

. Founded in 2012, they play in the

Venezuelan Primera División The Primera División (; en, First Division), or Liga Venezolana (; en, Venezuelan League) is the top-flight professional football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957. It is organized by the Federación ...

, holding home matches at the Estadio Olímpico de la UCV.

History

Founded on 3 August 2012 under the name of ''Deportivo Metropolitano'', the club took Lara FC's place in the

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for the 2012–13 season, as the latter had severe financial problems. After Lara's dissolution, Unión Lara SC was refounded and started to play in the

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

. After finishing fourth and missing out promotion, Metropolitanos achieved promotion to the Primera División at the end of the 2013–14 campaign, after finishing in the second position. After suffering relegation in

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, the club immediately returned to the top tier after winning the second division in 2016. After narrowly avoiding relegation in 2017, Metropolitanos finished in the penultimate position overall in 2018, but benefitted from the league's expansion to remain in the first division. After the arrival of José María Morr as manager, the club qualified to the

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in 2020 and 2021, aside from winning a first-ever title in 2022.

Honours

: 1 ::

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Venezuelan Segunda División Segunda División, officially known as Liga FUTVE 2, is the men's second professional football division of the Venezuelan football league system. The Venezuelan second division was established in 1979. List of champions Titles by Team Refer ...

: 1 ::2016

Managers

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(2012–14) * Hugo Savarese (2014–15) *

(2016–17) * Daniel de Oliveira (2018) * Manuel di Maio (interim; 2018) * Jhon Giraldo (2018) * José María Morr (2019–)

References

External links

Official Site
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