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| Full name | Guayaquil City Fútbol Club | |||
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| Nicknames | El Equipo de la Ciudad Los Ciudadanos Los Ciitadinos Los Celestes Los Albicelestes | |||
| Founded | 7 November 2007; 18 years ago (2007-11-07) | |||
| Ground | Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt,Guayaquil,Ecuador. | |||
| Capacity | 10,152 | |||
| President | Christian Zamora | |||
| Manager | Pool Gavilánez | |||
| League | Ecuadorian Serie B | |||
| 2024 | Serie B, 3rd of 10 | |||
| Website | www | |||
Guayaquil City F.C. (known asC.D. River Ecuador until 2017) is anEcuadorian professional football club based inGuayaquil. They currently play in the country's second-level football league, theSerie B, after being relegated from the top tierEcuadorian Serie A at the end of the2023 season.
Formed in 2007 asClub Deportivo River Plate Ecuador (orRiver Ecuador), the club was founded through a partnership with the dominantArgentinian sideRiver Plate.[1] By 2010 the relationship had already ended, but the club continued to operate under its given name and with River Plate's traditional red kit colour.[1]
On 11 July 2017 it was announced that River Ecuador had renamed themselves toGuayaquil City Fútbol Club, changing their strip to sky blue and white horizontal stripes.[2] The new name, kit colours and badge design prompted a number of claims that the change in identity was the result of a takeover by theManchester City-linkedCity Football Group, though no evidence of this was forthcoming.[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Kléber Fajardo (2007)
César Vigevani (2008–2010)Kléber Fajardo (2012)Humberto Pizarro (2012–2015)Marcelo Trobbiani (2015)
Guillermo Sanguinetti (2016)Pablo Trobbiani (interim) (2016)
Ángel Gómez (2017)Gabriel Perrone (2017)Pool Gavilánez (2017–present)
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