Royal Pari FC

Royal Pari
Full name Royal Pari Fútbol Club
Founded 2002
Ground Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Capacity 38,000
Owner Grupo SION
Chairman Mario Chávez Méndez
Manager Roberto Mosquera
League Bolivian Primera División
2018 Apertura 5th, Serie B
Semifinals, Copa Sudamericana playoff
Website Club website

Royal Pari Fútbol Club, best known as Royal Pari, is a Bolivian football club based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Founded in 2002, it plays in the Bolivian Primera División after being promoted for the 2018 season.

History

The club was founded in 2002 in El Pari neighborhood in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, taking its name from it.[1] It entered the Santa Cruz Association Championships, reaching the association's Primera B (third tier) in 2006 but being relegated after finishing last in the relegation tournament.[2] Royal Pari returned to Primera B in 2009 and stayed in this division until 2012, when it was promoted to the ACF's Primera A. The club had poor results in its first season in the competition, getting only 23 points in 38 matches and conceding 80 goals.[3]

On 14 September 2013, the club was purchased by the Grupo SION, and returned to the ACF's Primera A after just one season by winning the Primera B championship. In their return to the Primera A for the 2014–15 season, the club established an unbeaten streak of 12 matches and ended up as runners-up after losing a tiebreaker match to Guabirá, thus qualifying for the Copa Bolivia, which was hosted in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The club finished in first place of its group after beating Deportivo Arauco Prado and qualified for the Liga Nacional B.[4]

The 2015–16 season was Royal Pari's first appearance in the Nacional B, in which they were eliminated from the semifinal stage on goals scored after losing to Universitario de Tarija.[5] Royal Pari returned to the Primera A championship for the 2016–17 season, finishing as runners-up in the first stage and in fifth place in the second stage. Since Destroyers had won both stages and had become champions as a result, the runners-up of both stages had to play for the second berth into the Nacional B. In that tiebreaker, Royal Pari beat Real América and qualified for the Nacional B along with Destroyers.

For the 2017 Liga Nacional B, Royal Pari was placed in a group with the representatives from the departments of Beni, Pando, and fellow Santa Cruz representative Destroyers. After an outstanding campaign in this stage, in which it earned 24 points in 10 matches, it qualified to the semifinals where they faced Atlético Bermejo from the department of Tarija. The first leg was won by Royal Pari by a score of 1–0, while the second leg in Bermejo ended in a 2–2 draw that qualified the club for the final. In the final, Royal Pari faced Deportivo Kala from Oruro, with whom it drew both legs, forcing a tiebreaker match played in Sucre which was won by Royal Pari by a 6–2 score, thus earning its first ever promotion to the División Profesional.[6][7]

Honours

Domestic

Winners (1): 2017
Runners-up (2): 2014–15, 2016–17

References

  1. ↑ "Deportivo Kala y Royal Pari apelan al perfil bajo para coronarse" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 13 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Bolivia 2006". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "ACF Liguilla final 2012-13". Paraelfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Royal Pari - Quienes somos" (in Spanish). Royal Pari FC. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "EM Huanuni clasificó a la semifinal a pesar de perder ante Quebracho" (in Spanish). lapatriaenlinea.com. 28 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Royal Pari apabulla a Deportivo Kala y logra el ascenso" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 21 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Santa Cruz suma un quinto equipo a la Liga con el ascenso de Royal Pari" (in Spanish). Correo del Sur. 20 December 2017.
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