Club Social y Deportivo Carchá, is a Guatemalan

football club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...

based in

San Pedro Carchá San Pedro Carchá, usually referred to as Carchá, is a town and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The municipality covers an area of and is situated at 1,282 m above sea level. At the 2018 census, the population of th ...

Alta Verapaz Department Alta Verapaz () is a department in the north central part of Guatemala. The capital and chief city of the department is Cobán. Verapaz is bordered to the north by El Petén, to the east by Izabal, to the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, an ...

. They play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramón Ponce.

History

The club was founded in 1962 and won promotion to the Liga Mayor B in 1974, entering the competition as ''Deportivo Carchá Jimmy Álvarez'', named after their first manager. In 1992 they joined the Guatemalan second division and they finished champions in the 1997/1998 seasonGuatemala 1997/98
– RSSSF to make their debut at the highest level of Guatemalan football, playing in the

Liga Nacional de Guatemala Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Amer ...

in 1998/1999. They were relegated again after the 2000/2001 season and even went down further to the third tier of Guatemalan football. Most recently they have again been playing in the Primera División Group "A" or "B". They are nicknamed ''Los Hombres Peces'' (the Fisherman).

Current squad

List of coaches

* Jimmy Álvarez * Gildardo Barrientos * Rodolfo Amílcar Rivera * Carlos Cloth * Luis Jacobo Caballeros * Abraham Chocooj * Carlos Raúl Juárez * Juan Carlos Alonzo * Julián Trujillo * Ramón Celaya * Marco Antonio Matheu * Luis "Ruso" Estrada * Eduardo Santana * Julio Gómez * Carlos de Oliveira (2000–01) * Arturo Cacao * Haroldo Cordón * Ariovaldo Guilherme * Alex Monterroso (2007–08)

References

External links

*
Deportivo Carchá
at Deportes.terra.com
Deportivo Carchá
at El.soccerway.com
Official website
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