Club Deportivo FAS
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| Full name | Club Deportivo Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos |
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| Nickname(s) |
Tigres Tigrillos |
| Founded | 16 February 1947 |
| Ground |
Estadio Oscar Quiteño, Santa Ana, El Salvador |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Owner |
 Asociación Club Deportivo FAS |
| Chairman |
Byron Rodriguez |
| Coach |
 Osvaldo Escudero
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| League | Salvadoran Primera División |
| Apertura 2016 | Primera División 11th |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Deportivo Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos, commonly known as FAS (pronounced "fas"), is a professional Salvadoran football club based in Santa Ana. It competes in Primera División de Fútbol Profesional, the top professional league in the country. The team's nickname is El Tigres (The tigers).
FAS was founded on 16 February 1947. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Oscar Quiteño, the third largest stadium in El Salvador.
The club has a long-standing rivalry with Águila, as both are the most successful and most popular clubs in the country, and are the only three clubs to never have been relegated to the second division. Matches between them are known as El Clásico. FAS also play derbies against Firpo, Alianza and a local derby against Isidro Metapan.
FAS is the most successful club in El Salvador football. Domestically, the club has won a record seventeen league titles. In international competitions, FAS have one FIFA recognized club trophies, tied with Alianza and Aguila as the only club to achieve it. They have won one CONCACAF Champions' Cup/Champions League trophies, and finished runners up in the Copa Interamericana cups, and third place in the Copa Interclubes UNCAF.
After many years of being dominated by clubs from San Salvador, the municipal mayor of Santa Ana district Manuel Tomás Monedero wanted a team to represent Santa Ana which would put an end to the dominance of the San Salvador clubs. With the help of Santa Ana Mayor Waldo Rey, all the clubs in Santa Ana were gathered (these Included Unión, Colegio Salesiano San José, Cosmos, RAL, Colón, Santa Lucía and Los 44) and together they decided to join forces to create a single club. The club was born on 16 February 1947. It was named Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos, or FAS for short, and Samuel Zaldaña Galdámez was named the club first president. The club colours were going to be yellow and black, however Manuel Monedero went with the more traditional colours of red and blue.
The club played the first game of its history 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 lost 4–1. They went on the play several games with victories over Alcranes (2–1, 6–1) and defeated the first international team Municipal of Guatemala (3–2). 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 while they were coached by Armando Chacón.
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