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Deportivo Saprissa

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Established
1935 (89 years old)

Sport
Soccer

Stadium/Home
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
(23,112 Capacity)

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Location
San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica

Nicknames
El Monstruo Morado

Competitions
Costa-Rica Liga FPD
CONCACAF Champions League

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AndyIgnacio: 11/Feb/24


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31/03 Deportivo Sa - CS Herediano
04/04 Deportivo Sa - Pérez Zeled
07/04 Deportivo Sa - Sporting San
13/04 Grecia - Deportivo Sa
17/04 Deportivo Sa - Municipal Li

Results
28/03 Cartaginés 3 - 4 Deportivo Sa
10/03 Santos de Gu 1 - 3 Deportivo Sa
03/03 Deportivo Sa 2 - 2 AD San Carlo
28/02 Philadelphia 3 - 3 Deportivo Sa
24/02 Guanacasteca 0 - 0 Deportivo Sa

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Deportivo Saprissa is a Costa Rican sports club, mostly known for its football team. The club is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José, and play their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. The team's signature colours are purple (burgundy) and white. The club was founded in 1935 and has competed in the Costa Rican first division since 1949. The name of the team comes from one of the club's main founders, Ricardo Saprissa. 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 nickname during a derby, because of the club's enormous following. A reporter commented that the sea of fans in the stands at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá in Tibás wearing purple, and the tremendous noise they were generating, made him feel like he was "in the presence of a thousand headed monster". Saprissa immediately adopted the nickname El Monstruo Morado.

Saprissa won 34 Primera División de Costa Rica championships, including six consecutive national titles in the 70s. It stands as one of the more successful teams in the CONCACAF region as well, having won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup three times – in 1993, 1995, and 2005. Saprissa has also won five Central American crowns in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, and 2003.

For the period 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2008 the club was ranked the 106th best team in the world by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, an organization recognized by FIFA.

Saprissa has regularly appeared in the CONCACAF Champions Cup finals in recent decades, with three first-place finishes and four runners-up finishes. One of the club's most notable moments came in 2005 when Saprissa became the second club in CONCACAF to finish third in the FIFA Club World Cup together with the Mexican club Necaxa who accomplished it in 2000 and were joined by two more Mexican clubs, in 2012 by C.F. Monterrey and in 2017 by C.F Pachuca.

The club was chosen by the IFFHS as the CONCACAF team of the 20th Century. This event gave Saprissa worldwide recognition. Their main partner is a Costa Rican Investment Consortium named Horizonte Morado (Purple Horizon), composed mainly of Juan Carlos Rojas Callán, Edgar Zurcher, Alberto Raven Odio, and Televisora de Costa Rica.

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Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá is a football stadium in San José, Costa Rica, which has a seating capacity of 23,112, making it the second largest stadium in the country.

The stadium is the home of Deportivo Saprissa, and was named in honour of the team's founder, Ricardo Saprissa. The stadium's nickname "The Monster's Cave" is derived from the team's nickname "The Purple Monster".

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