Deportivo Maldonado

Association football club in Uruguay

Football club

Deportivo Maldonado

Full name

Club Deportivo Maldonado

Nickname(s)

El Depor
Verdirrojo
Rojiverde
Batacazo

Founded

August 25, 1928; 96 years ago (1928-08-25)

Ground

Estadio Domingo Burgueño, Maldonado, Uruguay

Capacity

22,000

Chairman

Malcolm Caine

Manager

Joaquín Boghossian

League

Primera División

2023

Primera División, 12th of 16

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Club Deportivo Maldonado is a football club from Maldonado, Uruguay. They currently play in the Uruguayan Primera División following their promotion from the Uruguayan Segunda División at the end of the 2019 season.

History

Club Deportivo Maldonado, SAD have a history of being a Middle Men club used by third-party owners, where top flight South American clubs will sell players to the team before they are immediately sold or loaned to another club, with the player never appearing for Deportivo Maldonado. Notable players who've made this type of transfer include Allan, Jonathan Calleri, Gerónimo Rulli, Hernán Toledo, Alex Sandro, Marcelo Estigarribia,^[1] Willian José^[2] and Iván Piris.^[3]

Current squad

As of 15 September 2024^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	URU	Adriano Freitas
3	DF	URU	Hernán Menosse
4	DF	URU	Nicolás Fuica
5	MF	URU	Lucas Núñez
7	DF	URU	Mathías Suárez
8	MF	URU	Pablo González
9	FW	URU	Facundo Milán (on loan from Montevideo Wanderers)
11	FW	ARG	Hernán Toledo
12	GK	URU	Emiliano Bermúdez
14	FW	URU	Rodrigo Muniz
15	MF	URU	Sebastián González
16	FW	URU	Renato César
17	MF	URU	Bruno Centeno
19	DF	URU	Facundo Tealde
20	MF	URU	Sebastián Tormo


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	FW	URU	Elías de León
22	GK	URU	Guillermo Reyes
23	DF	URU	Sebastián Diana
24	DF	URU	Marcos Montiel
25	DF	ARG	Juan Martín Ginzo
26	MF	URU	Gonzalo Larrazábal
27	DF	URU	Ángel Rodríguez
28	MF	URU	Santiago Cartagena
29	FW	URU	Alexander González
30	FW	URU	Luciano Aberasteguy
31	GK	URU	Gonzalo Silva
32	DF	URU	Hernán Petryk
33	MF	URU	Briam Acosta
37	FW	URU	Maximiliano Noble
74	MF	URU	Diego Romero

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	URU	Agustín Alfaro (at Fénix until 31 December 2024)
—	DF	URU	Gianfranco Trasante (at Atenas until 31 December 2024)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	BRA	Bruno Mendes (at Guarani until 31 December 2024)

References

^ Aarons, Ed (10 October 2016). "Welcome to Deportivo Maldonado, where the big names never actually play". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
^ Scott, Nate (19 March 2014). "Tiny Uruguayan soccer club makes millions as undercover transfer market middle-man". USA Today. Bloomberg and transfermarkt contributed the content. Gannett Satellite Information Network. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
^ "IVAN RODRIGO PIRIS Operazioni di mercato" (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 1 August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
^ "Listado 1ra División" (in Spanish). Club Deportivo Maldonado, SAD. Retrieved 27 October 2017.