Alianza F.C. (Panama)

This article is about the football club based in Panama City. For the Salvadoran football club, see Alianza F.C. (El Salvador). For the Colombian football club, see Alianza F.C. (Colombia).

Alianza F.C. is a professional football club based in Panama City, Panama. Since 1999, it competes in Liga Panameña de Fútbol, the top tier of Panamanian football. The club was founded in 1963, and still owned by the Cardenas family.

Alianza

Full name	Asociación Cívica, Social y Deportiva Alianza Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Pericos Los Verdolagas
Founded	2 March 1963
Ground	Estadio Javier Cruz Panama City
Capacity	700
Chairman	Rubén Cárdenas
Manager	Eduameth Nimbley
League	Liga Panameña de Fútbol
2024 LPF (A)	6th
Website	alianzafc.net
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

Alianza F.C. was founded on 2 March 1963 by a group of 12 young players that had represented Panama in the first CONCACAF Youth Championship. That date makes them the second oldest club in modern Panamanian football.^[1]

The club was supported by various benefactors such as the local police, Don Justiniano Cardenas, and the Espivak Company during its early decades. In 1980, the club was chosen among other eight clubs to participate in the first professional football league in Panama, which was called the Liga Superior de Fútbol de Panamá.

As of 1989, the club joined to Anaprof's non-amateur football tournaments, which was interrupted by the disunity that arose in the local football environment, and was forced to compete in the so-called Linfuna League. After two seasons, the club returned to the Primera A of ANAPROF, where they won promotion two seasons afterwards after beating Atletico Guadalupe 1–0. In 2003, they enjoyed their best season ever, reaching the Clausura finals before losing 5-1 to Tauro FC.

The club has always placed a strong emphasis on youth teams, competing at the U-12, U-14, U-15, U-16, and U-19 levels.

Support

During the mid-90s, the team was based in Chilibre, Panama City´s northern area, playing home matches at El Camping Resort football field. By the mid-2000s, the team left the area to play matches at different venues causing a lack of identity, low fan support base and heavily criticized by media. By 2012 the team start playing home matches at Luis Cascarita Tapia stadium looking to gain more fan support from the Juan Diaz neighborhood, Panama City´s east side. Since 2018 the team has heavily marketed on the neighborhood to gain new supporters and attracting kids to their youth teams.

Kits

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt main sponsor	Shirt sub sponsor
2016–2019		Cerveza Balboa Cemento Interoceanico	Bering Motors
2020-2021		CliniLab Panamerican Network	None
2021 - 2022		CliniLab	Gaps
2022- Present		ShowTime CliniLab	None

Previous Kits

2017-2018 Home Jersey

2017-2018 Away Jersey

Honours

Domestic

• Liga Panameña de Fútbol and predecessors
  • Champions: (2) : Clausura 2003, 2022 Apertura
• Primera A and predecessors
  • Champions (1) : 1999

Players

Current squad

• As of Apertura 2025 ^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  VEN Jean Ambuila 2 DF  PAN Adolfo Machado 3 DF  PAN Yeison Ortega 6 MF  PAN Darío Wright 7 FW  PAN Heuyín Guardia 8 MF  PAN Gilberto Rangel 10 MF  PAN Alcides Díaz 11 FW  PAN Reynaldiño Verley 13 MF  PAN Alvin Mendoza 14 MF  PAN Omar Valderrama 16 MF  PAN Ricardo Mitre

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  PAN John Asprilla 18 DF  PAN Reyniel Perdomo 19 MF  PAN Maikell Díaz 20 FW  PAN Rolando Herrera 22 MF  PAN Manuel Rodríguez 23 DF  PAN Rolando Rodriguez 27 FW  PAN Ansony Frias 28 FW  PAN John Jairo Alvarado 29 DF  PAN Alejandro Yearwood 30 GK  PAN Kevin Melgar 61 GK  PAN Ronald Robles

Records

All-time scorer is César "El Bombo" Medina.

Notable players

See also: Category:Alianza F.C. (Panama) players

Historical list of coaches

• Leroy Foster (Feb 2003 – Oct 2003)^[3]
• Rubén Cárdenas (Oct 2003–)
• Leroy Foster (Jun 2007–)^[4]
• Rubén Cárdenas (2007)
• Rubén "Tátara" Guevara (Jun 2008 – Oct 08)^[5]
• Rubén Cárdenas
• Víctor René Mendieta (Jul 2009 – Oct 09)^[6]
• Carlos Pérez Porras (Dec 2009 – Feb 11)
• Leroy Foster (2010)
• Ángelo Luis Evans (Feb 2011 – July 11)^[7]
• Elkin Ortiz Castaño (Aug 2011 – May 2012)^[8]
• Rubén Octavio Cárdenas (June 2012 – Dec 2012)
• Elkin Ortiz Castaño (Dec 2012 – Oct 13)^[9]
• Carlos Pérez Porras (Oct 2013 – Sep 14)^[10]
• Leroy Foster (Jun 2014 – Aug 14)^[11]
• Juan Pablo Lopera (Sep 2014 – Sep 2015)^[12]
• Rubén Cárdenas (Sep 2015–2019)^[13]
• Alberto Valencia Nino (2019)
• Cecilio Garcés (2019– March 2021)
• Jair Palacios (March 2021 - December 2023)
• Eduameth Nimbley (January 2024- November 2024)
• Alberto Valencia Nino (December 2024 - February 2025)
• Jair Palacios (February 2025 - Present)