Asociación Deportiva Ramonense is a Costa Rican football team playing at the top level. It was based in San Ramón,

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. Their home stadium was

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History

A.D. Ramonense

Founded on 5 April 1953, Domingo Borja became their first president. He was succeeded by Guillermo Vargas Roldán who oversaw the club's rise to ultimately the top tier of Costa Rican football. They remained there for 20 years until their relegation in 1988, clinched promotion again in 1992 and were in the

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again from 1999 to 2003 and from 2006 to 2008. They had two players at Costa Rica's first World Cup appearance: goalkeeping hero

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and

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. Ramonense won promotion to the

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for the 2008–09 season by winning a play-off against

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. Ramonense had previously won promotion to the Primera in 1967, 1992 and 2003.

El Poeta de Occidente

In 2010, the club was renamed from Asociación Deportiva Ramonense to ''Club Deportivo Ramonense Poeta de Occidente''. In 2012, the club returned to its traditional name.

Financial problems and A.D. Municipal San Ramón

In 2013 it transpired that second division side Ramonense were struggling with financial problems. Due to these debts, the club were not cleared to play their first games in the 2013 Apertura championship, forcing Uruguayan manager Orlando de León to resign. They were relegated after not playing the entire season and renamed ''A.D. Municipal San Ramón''. On 18 April 2014, Ramonense founder Guillermo Vargas Roldán died at San Ramón Hospital .Fundador de Asociación Deportiva Ramonense, Guillermo Vargas Roldán, falleció este viernes en hospital de San Ramón
– Al Día

Player records

Top Scorers

* Carlos Losilla (69) * William Cruz (63) * Omar Arroyo (34) * Jose Rodriguez (30) * Sergio Morales (27) * Efrain Orozco (26) * Ronald Perez (24) * Kervin Lacey (24) * Alejandro Sequeira (22) * Gerardo Najera (20) * Wayne Wilson (20)

Players with the most matches

* Carlos Losilla (328) * William Cruz (253) * Jose Angel Ortiz (232) * Juan Mora (191) * Gerardo Najera (176) * Juan Diego Ulate (173) * Hilario Falcon (170) * Leonel Ramirez (169) * Roger Alvarez (164) * Carlos Ulate (163) *'Foreigner with the most crashes'': Víctor Pereira with 79 games *'Goalkeepers with the most games'':

with 140 and Álvaro Fuentes with 88 *'Defenses with more games'': José Ángel Ortiz with 232 and Juan Diego Ulate with 133 *'Flywheels with more games'': Carlos Losilla with 328 and

Juan Mora Juan Mora may refer to: People * Juan Mora Fernández (1784-1854), Costa Rican head of state * Juan Rafael Mora Porras Juan Rafael Mora Porras (8 February 1814, San José, Costa Rica – 30 September 1860) was President of Costa Rica from 1 ...

with 191 *'Attackers with the most games'': William Cruz with 253 and Gerardo Nájera with 176 *'With the most games in a season': Henry Fajardo with 45 in

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- 1996

Stadium

The stadium is owned by the Municipality of San Ramón and is used by the Costa Rican Third Division team, the Ramonense Sports Association, which represents said canton. In addition, the team of the Women's Soccer Sports Association of San Ramón uses it as home in the First Division Championship of that discipline. It is named after Mr. Guillermo Vargas Roldán, who remained in the team for more than three decades. The stadium has a capacity for 3,500 fans, it has natural grass. Its stands are located on the east (sun) and west (shadow) sides and it has enough space to build stands on the north and south sides, as well as artificial lighting. For the year 2016, the Costa Rican Sports Institute ICODER assigned a budget of 100,000,000 colones to make improvements to the sanitary battery, dressing rooms, enclosing walls and the roof of the bleachers.

Current squad

As of June 5, 2022

References

External links

AD Ramonense – WebPage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramonense Football clubs in Costa Rica Association football clubs established in 1953 1953 establishments in Costa Rica