Deportivo Saprissa

Saprissa
Full name	Deportivo Saprissa, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva
Nickname(s)	La S (The "S") ; El Monstruo Morado (The Purple Monster)
Foondit	16 July 1935
Ground	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá; Nickname: La Cueva del Monstruo (The Monster's Cave),; San José, Costa Rica
Capacity	23,281
Awner	Horizonte Morado
Chairman	Juan Carlos Rojas Callán
Manager	Rónald González Brenes
League	Costa Rican FPD
2014 Verano	Regular Season: 1st; Playoffs: Final (Champion)
Hame colours	Awey colours
	Current saison

Deportivo Saprissa SAD is a Costa Rican sports club, maistly kent for its fitbaw team. The club is locatit in San Juan de Tibás, San José, an play their hame gemmes at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. The team's signatur colours are purple (burgundy) an white. The club wis foondit in 1935 an haes competit in the Costa Rican first diveesion syne 1949. The name o the team comes frae ane o the club's main foonders, Ricardo Saprissa. Their main pairtner is a Costa Rican Investment Consortium namit Horizonte Morado (Purple Horizon), componit mainly o Juan Carlos Rojas Callán, Edgar Zurcher, Alberto Raven Odio, an Televisora de Costa Rica. One of the most popular nicknames for the team El Monstruo Morado (The Purple Monster) can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra gave the team the elk-name durin a derby, acause o the club's enormous follaein. A reporter commentit that the sea o fans in the staunds at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá in Tibás wearin purple, an the tremendous noise they wur generatin, made him feel like he wis "in the presence o a thoosan heidit monster". Saprissa immediately adopted the nickname El Monstruo Morado.

Saprissa is ane o the most successful clubs in Costa Rica haein wan 30 Primera División de Costa Rica championships, includin sax consecutive national titles in the 70s. It staunds as ane the mair successful teams in the CONCACAF region as well, haein wan the CONCACAF Champions' Cup three times - in 1993, 1995, an 2005. Saprissa haes wan five Central American crowns in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, an 2003 an aw.

For the period 1 September 2007 tae 31 August 2008 the club wis rankit the 106t best team in the warld bi the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, an organisation recognisit bi FIFA.^[1]

Saprissa haes regularly appeared in the CONCACAF Champions Cup feenals in recent decades, wi three first place feenishes an fower runners-up feenishes. Ane o the club's maist notable moments came in 2005 when Saprissa became the seicont club in CONCACAF tae finish third in the FIFA Club Warld Cup thegither wi the Mexican club Nexaca who accomplished it in 2000 (an wur jyned in 2012 bi anither Mexican club, C.F. Monterrey).

The club wis chosen bi the IFFHS as the CONCACAF team o the 20t Century.^[2] This event gave Saprissa world wide recognition.

Honours

Naitional

Primera División de Costa Rica: 30

1952-53, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007-08 Apertura, 2007-08 Clausura, 2008-09 Apertura, 2010 Clausura, 2014 Clausura

Costa Rican Short Championships: 8

1997-98 Clausura, 1998–99 Apertura, 1998–99 Clausura, 2003–04 Apertura, 2005–06 Apertura, 2005–06 Clausura, 2006–07 Apertura, 2006–07 Clausura

Costa Rican Cup: 1

2013

Internaitional

CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 24 appearances

Winners (3): 1993, 1995, 2005

Runners-up (4): 1970, 1973, 2004, 2008

Copa Interclubes UNCAF: 17 appearances

Winners (5): 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, 2003

Runners-up (7): 1971, 1974, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007

Interamerican Cup: 2 appearances

Runners-up (2): 1993, 1995

CONCACAF Central American Champions: 1 appearance

Winners (1): 1970

Copa Ricard: 1 appearance

Runners-up (1): 2008

US Camel Cup: 1 appearance

Winners (1): 1985

FIFA Warld Club Championship: 1 appearance

Third Place (1): 2005

Internaitional level

Record versus ither naitions' teams

As o 2012-01-13

The Concacaf opponents below = Offeecial tournament results: (Plus a sampling of other results)

Opponent	Last Meeting	G	W	D	L	F	A	PTS	+/-
Al Ittihad	18 – Dec – 2005	1	1	0	0	3	2	3	+1
Alianza	24 – Feb – 2000	16	8	5	3	29	16	26	+13
América	08 - Feb - 2001	5	0	2	3	8	12	2	-4
Árabe Unido	00 – ??? – 0000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atlante	20 – Mar – 2008	2	1	0	1	4	2	3	+2
Atlético Madrid	04 - Aug - 2012	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Atlético Nacional	03 - Apr - 1997	2	0	1	1	3	4	1	-1
Aurora	26 – Nov – 1998	15	6	6	3	25	19	19	+6
FK Austria Wien	27 – Dec – 1959	3	1	0	2	4	10	2	-6
Banfield	12 – Aug – 1974	3	1	1	1	3	5	3	-2
Borussia Dortmund	01 – Oct – 1994	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
Chicago Fire	21 – Apr – 2004	2	1	0	1	3	2	3	+1
Columbus Crew	29 – Sep – 2009	4	1	2	1	4	3	5	+1
Comunicaciones	21 – Dec – 2003	25	11	9	5	38	29	37	+9
Cruz Azul	20- Oct - 2009	6	1	2	3	5	12	5	-7
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube	14 - Mar - 1971	2	1	1	0	4	2	3	+2
Defensor Sporting	29 - Jan - 2008	1	0	1	0	3	3	1	0
D.C. United	09 – Oct – 2008	2	1	1	0	4	2	4	+2
Estudiantes de La Plata	26 – Dec – 1965	2	0	2	0	3	3	2	0
FAS	3 – Dec – 2004	6	4	2	0	10	4	12	+6
Fulham	20 - Jul - 2013	1	0	1	0	2	2	1	0
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense	19 - May - 1985	2	0	1	1	2	5	1	-3
Hertha Berlin	09 - Jul - 2005	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	-2
Houston Dynamo	09 – Apr – 2008	2	1	1	0	3	0	4	+3
Independiente Medellín	10 – Sep – 1996	2	1	1	0	3	2	4	+1
Club León	16 – Aug – 1998	3	1	2	0	4	2	5	+2
Liverpool	15 – Dec – 2005	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	-3
Los Angeles Galaxy	08 – Mar – 2006	2	1	1	0	3	2	4	+1
Luis Ángel Firpo	21 – Jul – 1999	4	2	1	1	7	4	6	+3
Maccabi Haifa F.C.	20 – Apr – 1959	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	+1
Monarcas Morelia	19 - Mar - 2002	2	1	0	1	1	2	3	-1
Monterrey	28 – Sep – 2010	4	0	3	1	5	6	3	-1
Motagua	07 – Dec – 2007	15	9	5	1	24	7	24	+17
Municipal	12 – Sep – 2001	21	7	10	4	22	16	27	+6
Nacional Montevideo	30- Jan - 2008	3	0	3	0	3	3	3	0
Necaxa	28 - Sep - 1999	3	0	2	1	3	4	2	-1
Olimpia	28 - Jan - 2008	2	1	1	0	5	3	4	+2
Olimpia	03 – Mar – 2011	15	9	2	4	27	19	25	+8
Pachuca	19 – Mar – 2008	4	1	1	2	5	6	4	-1
C.A. Peñarol	08 – Jan – 2007	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Puebla	02 – Sep – 1993	2	0	2	0	1	1	2	0
UNAM	11 – May – 2005	2	1	0	1	3	2	3	+1
Racing Club de Avellaneda	09 - Feb - 1975	5	1	2	2	7	9	4	-2
Real España	20 – Nov – 1998	8	3	1	4	10	10	7	0
Real Estelí	23 – Aug – 2006	7	6	1	0	16	3	0	+19
Real Madrid	08 – Aug – 1961	1	0	0	1	2	4	0	-2
San Francisco	00 – ??? – 0000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Santos FC	18 - Feb - 1972	4	0	1	3	8	16	1	-8
Seattle Sounders FC	10 – Oct– 2010	2	2	0	0	4	1	6	+3
Sion	09 – Jul – 2010	1	1	0	0	2	1	3	+1
Sochaux	11 – Jul – 2010	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sparta Prague	08 - Jul - 2005	2	0	1	1	3	5	1	-2
Sporting Kansas City	16 – Mar – 2005	2	1	1	0	2	1	4	+1
Sydney FC	12 – Dec – 2005	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	+1
Tauro	15 – Aug – 2001	3	2	1	0	6	2	6	+4
Toluca	29 - Mar - 2006	3	1	1	1	4	5	4	-1
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica	23 - Jul - 2011	6	3	0	3	10	12	9	-2
Totals