Angostura Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan professional football club based in

Ciudad Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about in width, is the si ...

. Founded in 2007, they play in the

Venezuelan Primera División The Primera División (; en, First Division), or Liga Venezolana (; en, Venezuelan League) is the top-flight professional association football, football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957. It is organize ...

after winning the 2022 Segunda División championship.

History

Founded on 1 December 2007 and named after the former name of

as well as the

Angostura Bridge Angostura Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. The Spanish word Angostura means "narrows". Built in 1967 at a cost of US$35million, the bridge has a total length of 1,678.50 meters, a distanc ...

that crosses the

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river at this point, the club started to play in the Oriental Group of the

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

championship in the 2008–09 season, making its debut in the competition on 27 September 2008 with a 2–2 draw against Atlético El Callao. Angostura ended in last place in their group in the Apertura tournament after collecting three draws and three losses, and although their performance improved in the Clausura tournament with four wins and two draws, they ended tied in points with Inter Anzoátegui and were unable to advance to the final stage of the tournament, missing out on goal difference. Angostura were promoted to Segunda División for the 2009–10 season due to the administrative relegation of Minervén. In their first campaign in the second tier, they ended in 13th place in the Apertura tournament and third in the Clausura. The following season, they won the Centro-Oriental Group in the Clausura tournament, allowing them to advance to the Final group in which they ended in bottom place. And in the 2011–12 season, Angostura advanced to the promotion stage, but ended up missing out on promotion by two points. In 2013 Angostura temporarily moved to

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, returning to their hometown for the 2014–15 campaign, in which they ended in sixth place of their group and had to play the Torneo de Promoción y Permanencia in order to avoid relegation, which they managed to do by ending in first place. Angostura had a poor performance in the subsequent 2015 Adecuación tournament, finishing in last place of both their first stage and relegation tournament groups with a total of two wins in the competition. However they ended up avoiding relegation due to a restructuring of the league system. In 2017, Angostura ended the first stage of the tournament in second place with 45 points but placed third-from-bottom in the final stage with 13 points, performance which was bettered in 2019. In that season they ended on top of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments but were eliminated in the knockout stages, losing to Gran Valencia in the Apertura semifinals and

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in the Clausura quarterfinals. In 2020 and 2021, they failed to advance to the final stages, while in the 2022 season Angostura ended in fourth place of the Centro-Occidental Group with 27 points, advancing to the following stage of the competition which they topped with 12 points and four wins. After beating Atlético La Cruz on penalties in the semifinals, Angostura defeated Academia Anzoátegui in the finals with a 4–2 aggregate score to win their first Segunda División title and achieve promotion to Primera División.

Honours

Venezuelan Segunda División Segunda División, officially known as Liga FUTVE 2, is the men's second professional football division of the Venezuelan football league system. The Venezuelan second division was established in 1979. List of champions Titles by Team Refer ...

: 1 ::2022

Managers

Horacio Matuszyczk Horacio Ignacio Matuszyczk (born 29 November 1961) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Bolivian club Real Potosí. Playing career Born in Melincué, Santa Fe Province, Matuszy ...

(2009–11) * Aldo R. Rampini (2011–12) * Luis Vera (2012) *

(2012) *

Hugo Mujica Hugo Mujica (born 30 August 1942) is an Argentine Catholic priest, poet, writer, and former Trappist monk. Biography Mujica was born in Avellaneda, a neighborhood near the city of Buenos Aires, to an anarchist syndicalist father. As his father ...

(2012–13) *

Gilberto Angelucci Gilberto Angelucci Guión (born 7 August 1967) is a retired Venezuelan football goalkeeper. Club career Angelucci spent most of his career playing in Venezuela for a number of different teams. Between 1994 and 1998 he played in Argentina with Sa ...

(2013–14) * José Luis Ciccarelli (2014–15) *

José David Rebolledo José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(2016) * Luis Vera (2016) * Yoimer Segovia (2017) *

José Luis Danglad José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(2017) * Luis Vera (2018–20) * José Luis Ciccarelli (2021–22) * Osmar Castillo (2022–)

References

External links

Official Site
{{Primera División Venezolana Association football clubs established in 2007 A 2007 establishments in Venezuela Ciudad Bolívar