Uniautónoma Fútbol Club, or UAC, was a professional Colombian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club based in

Barranquilla Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Col ...

, that played in the

Categoría Primera A The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor (between 2015 and 2019 ''Liga Águila'') due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs. It is the ...

until its 2015 season. They played their home games at the

Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, commonly known as Estadio Metropolitano, or colloquially, El Metro, is a multi-use all-seater football stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia. It is the home stadium of local football team Atlético Junior. It ...

. As its name implied, Uniautónoma FC was founded by the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe.

History

Uniautónoma FC was founded in 2011, after

Atlético de la Sabana Atlético La Sabana was a Colombian football (soccer) team, based in Sincelejo, Colombia. The club was founded in late 2008 and plays in Categoría Primera B as of 2009. The club was formerly known as Córdoba F.C. based in Department of Córdoba ...

relocated from

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. However they themselves were founded after Córdoba moved from

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. The club won the

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

title in 2013, and thus were promoted to the

for 2014, where they remained for two years until their relegation at the end of the 2015 season. On 27 November 2015, the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe announced the club's dissolution in a release, arguing that the club represented a huge financial burden for the university and that the university's resources should be instead directed in their entirety toward its own missional objectives as an educational institution. Therefore, maintaining the club stopped being deemed as a priority for the institution. The club's affiliation rights (''ficha'') were sold to

Orsomarso S.C. Orsomarso Sportivo Clube is a Colombian professional football team based in Palmira. Founded in 2012, the club currently competes in the Categoría Primera B, and plays its home games at the Francisco Rivera Escobar stadium. Its name comes from ...

from Palmira, who began playing in the

from 2016 onwards.

Stadium

Honours

: ::Winners (1):

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Players

International players

In bold players who had international appearances for their country while playing for Uniautónoma. * Andrés Roa (2013) * Edgar Zapata (2014–15) *

Giovanni Hernández Giovanni Andrés Hernández Soto (; born 17 June 1976), is a Colombian football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Atlético F.C. in the Colombian Categoría Primera B, and formerly managed Uniautónoma, Real Cartagena an ...

(2014) * Javier Araújo (2014) *

José Amaya José Antonio "Ringo" Amaya Pardo (born 16 July 1980) is a retired Colombian people, Colombian Association football, footballer. Amaya, who played as a defensive midfielder, was capped with the Colombian U-20 squad before being part of the Colom ...

(2014–15) *

Martín Arzuaga Martín Arzuaga (born July 23, 1981) is a retired footballer who played as striker. Career Arzuaga's previous clubs include Rosario Central of Argentina, CD Veracruz of Mexico and Godoy Cruz of Argentina. He debuted as a professional in Juni ...

(2013, 2014) * Orlando Ballesteros (2011) * Leonel Parris (2014)

Former players

Records

Most capped players

Source
BDFA

Top scorers

Source

External links

Club Official Website

Universidad Autónoma del Caribe Official Site

References

Association football clubs established in 2011 Association football clubs disestablished in 2015 Defunct football clubs in Colombia Football clubs in Colombia Categoría Primera A clubs Categoría Primera B clubs 2011 establishments in Colombia {{Colombia-sport-stub