Orsomarso Sportivo Clube is a Colombian professional

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team based in Palmira. Founded in 2012, the club currently competes in the

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, and plays its home games at the Francisco Rivera Escobar stadium. Its name comes from the Italian ''

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History

Orsomarso S.C. was founded on 7 December 2012 on the initiative of José Gabriel Sangiovanni, whose father José "Pepino" Sangiovanni (born in Orsomarso, Italy) and brother Oreste had also been linked to football as both served as chairmen of

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. The club was originally created as a football academy based in the village of El Carmelo in

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, aiming to help young footballers with limited economic resources start a professional footballing career. By July, Orsomarso already had an under-17 squad, under-19 squad, and a senior team which entered the amateur league of the Valle del Cauca Department (''Copa El País''), whilst the youth teams joined the youth championships organized by the

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. In January 2016, Orsomarso turned into a professional football club after its owners bought the affiliation rights (''ficha'') that belonged to Uniautónoma, club that was dissolved at the conclusion of the 2015 season and joined

for the 2016 season. The club played its first professional match on 10 February 2016 against América de Cali, which was valid for the

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and ended in a 2–0 defeat, while its first league match was a 2–0 away victory over

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four days later. In its first season as a professional club, Orsomarso failed to reach the final stages of the Primera B tournament, placing 11th with 40 points. Orsomarso advanced out of the first stage of the second division championship for the first time in

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, being eliminated in the Apertura tournament quarter-finals by

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. They also qualified for the knockout stages of that season's Finalización tournament, in which they were knocked out by Leones on penalties in the quarter-finals. The team was unable to replicate those performances in subsequent seasons, usually placing near to the bottom of the table. Seven years passed for Orsomarso to once again advance to the final stages of the Primera B tournament, as they placed seventh in the first stage of the 2024 Torneo I with 25 points. For the following stage of the competition, they were drawn into Group A along with

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, Tigres, and

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. Orsomarso topped the group with 13 points, after winning four matches, drawing one, and losing the remaining one against Real Cartagena on the final matchday, with which they reached their first Primera B final series.

Players

First-team squad

References

External links

Official website
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Orsomarso S.C.
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