Costa Rica Primera División 03/28 02:00 14 [10] Cartagines v Deportivo Saprissa [6] W 3-4
Costa Rica Primera División 03/24 18:00 13 Deportivo Saprissa v Municipal Pérez Zeledón - Postponed
Costa Rica Primera División 03/16 21:00 12 [10] Puntarenas v Deportivo Saprissa [6] - Postponed
Costa Rica Primera División 03/10 22:00 11 [12] Santos de Guápiles v Deportivo Saprissa [6] W 1-3
Costa Rica Primera División 03/03 22:00 10 [6] Deportivo Saprissa v AD San Carlos [3] D 2-2
CONCACAFi meistrite karikas 02/28 01:15 7 Philadelphia Union v Deportivo Saprissa D 3-3
Costa Rica Primera División 02/24 21:00 9 [5] AD Guanacasteca v Deportivo Saprissa [4] D 0-0
CONCACAFi meistrite karikas 02/21 03:00 7 Deportivo Saprissa v Philadelphia Union L 2-3
Costa Rica Primera División 02/17 03:00 8 [3] Deportivo Saprissa v Alajuelense [2] D 0-0
Costa Rica Primera División 02/11 00:00 7 [7] Municipal Liberia v Deportivo Saprissa [3] W 1-2
Costa Rica Primera División 02/02 02:00 6 [7] Deportivo Saprissa v AD Grecia [11] W 1-0
Costa Rica Primera División 01/28 00:00 5 [10] Sporting San José v Deportivo Saprissa [6] W 0-2
Costa Rica Primera División 01/25 02:00 4 [3] Herediano v Deportivo Saprissa [1] L 2-1
Costa Rica Primera División 01/21 22:00 3 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Cartagines [4] D 1-1
Costa Rica Primera División 01/19 02:00 2 [11] Municipal Pérez Zeledón v Deportivo Saprissa [1] L 1-0
Costa Rica Primera División 01/14 02:00 1 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Puntarenas [10] W 3-0
Costa Rica Primera División 12/17 23:00 1 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Herediano [3] W 1-0
Costa Rica Primera División 12/15 02:00 1 [3] Herediano v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 1-2
Costa Rica Primera División 12/10 02:00 2 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Cartagines [4] W 4-0
Costa Rica Primera División 12/03 17:00 2 [4] Cartagines v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 0-2
Costa Rica Primera División 11/26 21:00 22 [8] Santos de Guápiles v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 1-2
Costa Rica Primera División 11/23 21:00 21 [12] AD Grecia v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 1-2
Costa Rica karikas 11/19 02:00 1 Deportivo Saprissa v Alajuelense L 0-2
Costa Rica Primera División 11/12 22:00 20 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Municipal Pérez Zeledón [11] W 4-0
Costa Rica Primera División 11/10 02:00 19 [8] Municipal Liberia v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 1-2
Costa Rica Primera División 11/05 02:00 18 [1] Deportivo Saprissa v Alajuelense [2] W 1-0
Kesk-Ameerika karikas 11/02 00:00 636 Deportivo Saprissa v Motagua W 4-0
Costa Rica Primera División 10/29 22:00 17 [2] Deportivo Saprissa v AD San Carlos [11] W 2-1
CONCACAFi Kesk-Ameerika karikas 10/26 00:00 636 [2] Motagua v Deportivo Saprissa [1] D 2-2
Costa Rica Primera División 10/21 23:00 16 [3] Cartagines v Deportivo Saprissa [1] W 0-4

Wikipedia - Deportivo Saprissa

Deportivo Saprissa is a Costa Rican sports club, mostly known for its football team. The club is based in San Juan de Tibás, San José, and play their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. The team's signature colours are purple (burgundy) and white. It is the main team representing the capital, but with the distinction of being massively followed throughout the whole country and overseas. The club was founded in 1935 and has competed in the Costa Rican first division since 1949. The name of the team comes from one of the club's main founders, Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. One of the most popular nicknames for the team El Monstruo Morado (The Purple Monster) can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra gave the team the nickname during a derby, because of the club's enormous following. A reporter commented that the sea of fans in the stands at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá in Tibás wearing purple, and the tremendous noise they were generating, made him feel like he was "in the presence of a thousand headed monster". Saprissa immediately adopted the nickname El Monstruo Morado. It remains the most lauded football team in the whole region.

Saprissa has won 39 Primera División de Costa Rica championships, including six consecutive national titles in the 70s. It stands as one of the more successful teams in the CONCACAF region as well, having won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup three times – in 1993, 1995, and 2005. Saprissa has also won five Central American crowns in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, and 2003.

For the period 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2008 the club was ranked the 106th best team in the world by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, an organization recognized by FIFA.

Saprissa has regularly appeared in the CONCACAF Champions Cup finals in recent decades, with three first-place finishes and four runners-up finishes. One of the club's most notable moments came in 2005 when Saprissa became the second club in CONCACAF to finish third in the FIFA Club World Cup together with the Mexican club Necaxa who accomplished it in 2000 and were joined by two more Mexican clubs, in 2012 by C.F. Monterrey and in 2017 by C.F Pachuca.

The club was chosen by the IFFHS as the CONCACAF team of the 20th Century. This event gave Saprissa worldwide recognition. Their main partner is a Costa Rican Investment Consortium named Horizonte Morado (Purple Horizon), composed mainly of Juan Carlos Rojas Callán, Edgar Zurcher, and Televisora de Costa Rica.

History

Deportivo Saprissa was founded on 16 July 1935, by Roberto Fernández who named his team after the man who sponsored their uniform, Don Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. The club entered the Costa Rican Third Division as Saprissa F.C. They were promoted to the Primera División de Costa Rica, making their debut in the top flight on 21 August 1949. That year Saprissa actually won the first final match against Gimnástica Española with 0–3 score, then lost the away game by 6–2 to be defeated again 2–1 in a third game. They were accepted in 1st category as a favor granted by the administrative entity of that time. One of the most notable achievement of their early years, was to win the third and second division titles undefeated. The club has remained in the Costa Rican top flight ever since.

Recent events

In 2003, the majority of the club's stock was bought by Mexican entrepreneur Jorge Vergara, the owner of Mexican football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara and soon after the operator of Major League Soccer club Club Deportivo Chivas USA in the United States.

Saprissa won the 2005 CONCACAF Champions Cup, beating Mexican club UNAM in the final over two legs, in May 2005. As CONCACAF club champions they qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship, held in Japan in December 2005. They beat Australian club Sydney FC in the quarter-finals thanks to a goal by Christian Bolaños. In the semi-finals they were beaten 3–0 by English club Liverpool, who were the Champions League holders that year, making it the strongest team in Europe. In the third place match they beat Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia 3–2. Álvaro Saborío scored two goals, and Rónald Gómez scored an astonishing free-kick final goal in the 89th minute to seal the win. After this "late goal" Costa Rican people start calling the late-game goal "La Saprihora" (The Sapritime) in honor to this late goal even though this event happened in 2005 people still using this name for most of the Saprissa goals scored after the minute 85. They finished the competition in third place behind São Paulo of Brazil and Liverpool. Saborío was joint top scorer, and Bolaños was awarded the Bronze Ball by FIFA as third best player of the championship out of 5 teams.