Zulia FC
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Zulia Fútbol Club | ||
| Seat | Maracaibo | ||
| founding | 2005 | ||
| president | Alfredo Domínguez | ||
| Website | fczulia.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Miguel Acosta | ||
| Venue | Estadio José Encarnación Romero | ||
| Places | 42,000 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2014/15 | 15th place | ||
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Zulia Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club from Maracaibo . The club was founded in 2005 and plays its home games at the Estadio José Encarnación Romero , which can seat 42,000 spectators. Zulia FC has never been a Venezuelan football champion and currently plays in the Primera División , the top division in Venezuela .
history
Zulia FC was founded on January 16, 2005 in Maracaibo, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Zulia in the northwest of the country near the border with Colombia . The Venezuelan Football Association classified the club in the fourth-class Tercera División, which was won in the first season. After promotion to the third division in the 2006/07 season, they were the best team there and only two years after the club was founded, they made the leap to the Segunda División, the second highest division in Venezuelan football. Zulia FC was able to continue its series of promotions in the second division and after a first place in the second division season 2007/08, the club qualified for the first time for the first-class Primera División . In the Torneo Apertura, the club made positive headlines again when they finished fourth, just six points behind champions Deportivo Italia . The Clausura then did not go quite as well and was finished with eighth place, which resulted in fifth place in the final table for Zulia FC. The following season was almost equally successful for the young club. In the Apertura, Zulia came eighth, in the Clausura fifth. In the table as a whole, this resulted in a good sixth place, although for the second time in a row they missed participation in the Copa Sudamericana by only a few points. In the 2010/11 season, however, things went downhill for Zulia FC. A tenth place in the Apertura was followed by a disappointing fifteenth place in the Clausura and since then they have been fighting against relegation.
successes
- Segunda División : 1 × (2007/08)
- Segunda Division B : 1 × (2006/07)
- Tercera División : 1 × (2005/06)
