S.D. Aucas Explained

Clubname:	Aucas
Fullname:	Sociedad Deportiva Aucas
Nickname:	Orientales El Ídolo de Quito (The Idol of Quito) El Ídolo del Pueblo (The Idol of the People)
Ground:	Estadio Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda Quito, Ecuador
Capacity:	18,799
Chairman:	Danny Walker
Manager:	Sebastián Blázquez
League:	Ecuadorian Serie A
Season:	2023
Position:	Serie A, 5th of 16
Website:	http://www.aucas.ec/wordpress/
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Sociedad Deportiva Aucas (pronounced as /es/), also known as "Papá Aucas", is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. They play in the top tier of Ecuadorian football and have spent the majority of their history in the top-flight Serie A. The team is amongst the most popular in the city because of its long history in the Serie A. The team also has a major rivalry in L.D.U. Quito, which they contest one of the most prestigious derbies in all of Ecuador, and the most prestigious in Quito.

Overview

The team is named after the Auca tribe, who are also called Huaorani. The club originally belonged to Royal Dutch Shell, which had been operating oil fields in the east of Ecuador where the Aucas live. The club's main uniforms colours, yellow and red, were taken from the colours used by Shell to market their products and services. The alternate uniform is grey, except for the commercial advertisements and numbers and names of players, which are red.

Players who have played for Aucas include Argentinian and nationalised Ecuadorian forward Ariel Graziani, forward Nicolás Asencio, forward Agustin Delgado, forward Édison Maldonado, Ecuador international defender Giovanny Espinoza, and the 1990 FIFA World Cup Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita.

Aucas won their first Serie A title in 2022 under the tenure of Venezuelan manager César Farías by winning the competition's second stage without losing a single game and then beating Barcelona in the finals. This win also qualified them to the 2023 Copa Libertadores, the first time they competed in the continental tournament.