Sociedad Deportiva Aucas

Aucas
Full name	Sociedad Deportiva Aucas
Nickname(s)	Orientales, El idolo del pueblo (People's Idol)
Founded	February 6, 1945
Ground	Estadio Chillogallo; Quito, Ecuador; (Capacity: 22,000)
Chairman	Alberto Ayala
Manager	José Vicente Moreno
League	Segunda Categoría
2011	First phase: 1st in Pichincha tournament; Second phase: 2nd in zone 1 group 2 (qualified)
Home colours	Away colours

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Superclásico in Quito, 2005

Sociedad Deportiva Aucas is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. They currently play in the third tier of the Ecuadorian football league, the Segunda Categoría, but have spent a majority of their history in the top-flight Serie A. The team is amongst the most popular in the city because of their long history in the Serie A. Despite the popularity, Aucas has never won an Ecuadorian championship. Their historic rival is LDU Quito.

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 colors, yellow and red, were taken from the colors used by Shell to market their products and services. The alternate uniform is gray, except for the commercial advertisements and numbers and names of players, which are red.

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

[edit] Current squad

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Mario Lozano
		GK	José Luis Chamorro
		GK	Wladimir Verdugo
		DF	Andrés Mendoza
		DF	Óscar Garcés
		DF	Carlos Arboleda
		DF	Carlos Vayas
		DF	Jefferson Lara
		DF	John Jairo Palacios
		MF	Pedro Romo (on loan from LDU Quito)
		MF	Jimmy Gómez
		MF	Eduardo Quiñónez
		MF	Patricio Avilés

No.		Position	Player
		MF	César Villacis
		MF	Arsenio Nazareno
		MF	Wladimir Cheme
		MF	Jonathan Conrado
		MF	Diego Quintanilla (on loan from LDU Quito)
		MF	Lenin Ibujes
		MF	Jessy Godoy
		MF	Nicolas Estrella
		FW	Brayan Rayo
		FW	Roberto Ordóñez
		FW	Marcos Segura
		FW	Gustavo Figueroa (captain)
		FW	Luis Macías