C.D. FAS

Clubs from San Salvador had dominated Salvadoran football for many years. The municipal mayor of the Santa Ana district, Manuel Tomás Monedero, wanted to create a team from Santa Ana to end the dominance of the San Salvador clubs. Together with the help of Santa Ana mayor Waldo Rey, Monedero organized the union of all the clubs in Santa Ana (including Unión, Colegio Salesiano San José, Cosmos, RAL, Colón, Santa Lucía and Los 44).

On February 16, 1947, these teams united to form Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos, or FAS for short. Samuel Zaldaña Galdámez was named the club first president. It was originally proposed that the club should wear yellow and black, but Monedero settled on the more traditional choice of red and blue.

The club played its first match on 26 March 1947 against the previous year's champion Libertad FC at the Finca Modelo (which would be their home stadium for many years). The club's founding players were Juan Moreno and Óscar González, Goalkeeper; Tomás Morán, Jorge Brito and Guillermo Herrera, defenders; Manuel Padilla, Lino Medina, Moisés Jovel, Antonio Pérez and Eliseo Ramos, midfielders; Víctor Castro, Tomás Angulo, Antonio Mancía, Antonio Azucena and Mario González, strikers. Armando Chacón was the manager. The first match ended in a 4-1 defeat.

In 1948-49, FAS moved into the First Division for the first time, and have remained their ever since. Chacón was still the manager, and the team began on a winning note by defeating Juventud Olimpica 2–1. They recorded two more wins over Dragón and Santa Anita (3–0, 3–2 respectively) before losing 3–1 to Cusatleco. FAS would ultimately finish 3rd behind Libertad FC and champion Once Municipal.

In 1951-52, FAS won their first title. The manager was Victor Manuel "Pipe" Ochoa, who proceeded to lead the club to a second title in 1953-54. During the 1956–57 season, the club came close to relegation, which caused the owners to hire Argentinian coach Alberto Cevasco and bring in the reinforcements of foreign players, like (Omar Muraco, Javier Novello, Héctor Marinaro, Héctor Dadeiro and Miguelito Álvarez. This move led the club to a third title in 1958-59.

In 1961-62, César Viccinio managed the team to its fourth title, while Raul Miralles led the team to another in 1962. At the beginning of the 1963, the club moved its headquarters to the newly built Estadio Santaneco,

The early history of that stadium was marked by tragedy, as goalkeeper Oscar Quiteño collapsed during a friendly match against Orión F.C.. Efforts to revive him failed, and Quiteño died on the pitch. In his honor, the club renamed the stadium to Estadio Quiteño and wore black uniforms for two years.

Fans came to believe the club was cursed, as Quiteño's death was followed by a fifteen-year title drought. Adding to that frustration was that the club reached the finals in 1965, 1968, and 1969 and meet defeat all three times. Their tormentor was Alianza, known at that time as the "Orquestra Alba" for their harmony and skill.

FAS did break that curse with titles in 1977-78, 1978–79, 1981, and 1984. In addition, they won the 1979 CONCACAF Champions League by beating The key to that run was forward Jorge "Mágico" González. Widely considered the greatest player in Salvadoran history, Gonzalez was at FAS from 1977 to 1982, and at that time was nicknamed Mago. After the 1982 season, he left El Salvador for Spain and La Liga, playing at Cadiz, Barcelona, and Valladolid.

However, a title drought of ten more years followed.

In 1993, that drought led to the appointment of a new board of directors. The new board's first move was to hired Uruguayan coach Saúl Rivero, as well as a host of experienced players from both Uruguay and El Salvador. The board also placed a new emphasis on youth leagues. Finally, they purchased lights for the stadium, making night games possible. FAS proceeded to win titles in 1994-95 and 1995–96, beating Luis Ángel Firpo in both seasons. Part of the key to this run was the return of Jorge "Mágico" González and the addition of Hugo Pérez.

FAS became the most dominant team in the beginning of the century, winning six titles between 2002 and 2006, this success came under the tenureship of Peruvian Agustin Castillo

The century would start of with mild success with FAS reaching the 2000 Clausura semi final before losing to runners up ADET and this was followed by missing the finals altogether in the 2000 Apetura, marking the worst performance under the Clausura/Apertura format for FAS.

For the 2001 Clausura, FAS started a youth revolution under new coach Ruben Guevara, these players will form the backbone for the upcoming dynasty to come,these include Eliseo Quintanilla, Gilberto Murgas, Marvin Gonzalez, Gerardo Burgos, Rafael Tobar, Jaime Gómez and Juan Granados. Along with exeperienced players such as William Osorio, Salvador Alfaro, Ricardo Cuellar, Carlos Linares and foreigner players Urguayans Pablo Quiñones and Alejandro Soler, Brazilian Alessandro Moresche and Argenitnian Alejandro de la Cruz and Peruvian Antonio Serrano, they reached the final but were defeated by archrivals C.D. Aguila 2-1.

Towards end of the 2001 Apertura season, FAS hired Peruvian Agustin Castillo although they just missed the finals, FAS had added the final pieces and they went on to win back to back tites winning the 2002 Apertura and 2002 Clausura, deafeating Alianza F.C. 4-0 and San Salvador F.C. 3-1 respectively, with the youth injected a year ago, and adding important players such as Honduran William Reyes, Colombian Victor Mafla, Costa Rican Rolando Corella, William Machón, Jorge Humberto Rodríguez, Luis Contreras, Carlos Menjivar, Victor Velasquez, Daniel Sagastizado, Juan Carlos Padilla, Cristian Álvarez, Luis Castro, Ernesto Gochez,Juan Carlos Panameño and Alfredo Pacheco

They failed to win three titles in a row, after losing the 2003 Clausura semi finals match against Luis Angel Firpo in penalties. However they were able to win 14th title and 3rd title in 3 years, defeating their archrival C.D. Aguila in penalties.

After a small drought, On December 20, 2009 FAS won their 19th title defeating arch rival Aguila 3-2 thnks to goals for TBD and TBD. Its been more than a decade since FAS last won a championships, despite making five different finals including Clausura 2011 (Falling against Alianza), Clausura 2013 (Firpo), Apertura 2013 (Isidro Metapan), Apertura 2015 (Alianza) and Apertura 2019 (Alianza).

• Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador and predecessors
  • Champions (17): 1951–1952, 1953–1954, 1957–1958, 1961–1962, 1962, 1977–1978, 1978–1979, 1981, 1984, 1994–1995, 1995–1996, Clausura 2002, Apertura 2002, Apertura 2003, Apertura 2004, Clausura 2005, Apertura 2009

• American Airlines Cup
  • Champions (1) : 2002
• Copa Salvadorean Classic Soccer Challenge
  • Runners up (1) : 2014
• EDESSA Independence Cup
  • Runners up (1) : 2014

• CONCACAF Champions League and predecessors
  • Champions (1) : 1979
• Copa Interamericana
  • Runners up (1) : 1980
• Interclube Cup of Uncaf
  • Runners up (1) : 1980

• 10 – Jorge "Mágico" González, Forward (1977–82, 1991–99)

[13] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Kevin Carabantes 2 DF Xavier García (captain) 3 DF Nestor Renderos 4 DF Javier Figueroa 5 DF Andrés Flores 6 MF Eriván Flores 7 FW Luis Rodriguez 8 MF Bryan Landaverde 9 FW Raúl Peñaranda 11 MF Mayer Hurtado 14 MF Julio Amaya 15 MF Fernando Castillo 16 MF Francisco Reyes 17 FW Alberto Henriquez

No. Position Player 19 MF Jacobo Kattán 20 DF Ibsen Castro 21 FW Diego Areco 22 FW Guillermo Stradella 23 MF Wilma Torres 24 DF Edwin Cuéllar 25 GK Héctor Ramírez 26 GK Nicolás Pacheco 27 DF Wálter Chigüila 28 MF Melvin Alfaro 29 MF Josué Rivera 32 MF Bryan Paz 34 MF Diego Chávez

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No. Position Player FW Denilson Vidal (at TBD for the 2020–21 season) MF Josue Rias (at TBD for the 2020–21 season) FW Bryan Hurtado (at Gent for the 2020–21 season)

No. Position Player MF Jeffrey Lopez (at TBD for the 2020–21 season)

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No. Position Player — FW Diego Areco (From Jocoro) — DF Andrés Flores Jaco (From Alianza) — DF Nestor Renderos (From A.D. Isidro Metapan)

No. Position Player — DF Wálter Chigüila (Returned From loan Once Deportivo)

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No. Position Player — DF Eder Moscoso (To TBD) — FW Hugo Bargas (To TBD) — FW Diego Castellanos (To TBD) — MF Diego Chavarría (To TBD) — GK Wilberth Hernandez (To TBD)

No. Position Player — MF Marvin Ramos (To TBD) — FW William Canales (To TBD) — MF Noe Reyes (To TBD) — FW Ricardo Guevara (To Sonsonate)

• Bryan Gil Hurtado
• Mayer Gil Hurtado
• Hugo Bargas

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No. Position Player 31 Luis Rivera 33 Christian García 34 Wilber Chachagua 36 Brandon Castillo 37 Carlos Gálvez Mancía 38 Jorge Aguilar 39 José Bolaños 41 Carlos Menéndez 42 Melvin Linares 43 Rodrigo Santamaría 44 Kevin Maldonado

No. Position Player 45 Rolando Ramírez 46 Diego Gómez 47 Javier Bolaños 48 Fernando Jaime Ríos 50 Érick Vega 51 Josué Rivera 52 Luis Hidalgo 54 Émerson Rivas 55 Jonathan Valle 56 Ángel Santos 57 Salvador Romero