LD Alajuelense

La Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, popularly known as "La Liga" ("The League"), is a professional football club from Costa Rica founded on 18 June 1919 in the city of Alajuela. It has played in the Primera División of Costa Rica since its foundation and is one of its founding teams. Its home ground is the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto and its colours are red and black.

Alajuelense is one of the most decorated and popular clubs in Costa Rica and the Concacaf area, with 52 official titles, these being 30 league titles, 11 national cups, 2 national Supercopas and 1 Recopa. It also has 8 official international trophies in its cabinet: 2 Concacaf Champions League titles, 3 Uncaf Interclub Cups, 1 Concacaf League and 1 Concacaf Central American Cup, 1 Copa Centroamérica y el Caribe.

La Liga has taken part in various national and international tournaments, such as the Concacaf Champions League, the Concacaf League, the Uncaf Interclub Cup and the Copa Interamericana. It also stands out as the only team from Costa Rica to have played in South American tournaments, such as the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Merconorte. In addition, it is the only traditional team, and a survivor of the founders of the national league, run by its supporters.

In the year 2000 it came to occupy 27th place according to the IFFHS, which was the best position in this ranking for a Costa Rican and Central American club up to that time; it was the first Central American team to appear in the International Federation's ranking. In 2004 Alajuelense, then Concacaf Champions League champion, defeated Once Caldas of Colombia, champion of the Copa Libertadores de América of that year, in the Copa Campeón de Campeones de América.
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La Liga is the highest-scoring team in all the national tournaments, with more than 5,200 goals, the most games played with more than 2,900, the most victories with more than 1,500 matches won, and the best goal average per match with 2.9 goals per game; it is the first and only team to win all its matches in a single championship, in 1941; it also holds the longest overall unbeaten run with 33 games, as well as the longest unbeaten run away from home and at home, the most consecutive victories with 13 in the Primera División of Costa Rica, and the most Copa tournaments won with 11. It is the first team in the Central American region to reach one thousand victories.

It is the second oldest team in Costa Rican football in professional activity, surpassed only by Club Sport Cartaginés, founded in 1906. Its home is the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, named in honour of the legendary footballer from Alajuela Alejandro Morera Soto, the best Costa Rican footballer of the century according to the IFFHS in 1998 and 2021, who stood out in the national tournament and played for European clubs such as Fútbol Club Barcelona and Hércules Club de Fútbol of Alicante, and for the Costa Rica national football team between 1925 and 1947. Its historic rivals are Deportivo Saprissa, against whom it plays the Clásico Nacional, and Club Sport Herediano, against whom it plays the Clásico Provincial, the latter also played against Club Sport Cartaginés.

It is the team that has accumulated the most points across all the national tournaments. Precisely in 1999, the newspaper La Nación, in an article titled Alajuelense, el equipo más constante del siglo 21 en los campeonatos nacionales, highlighted the club as the team with the best performance in the national championships, with a total of 234 points ahead of the other competitors, and likewise FIFA paid tribute to Alajuelense by mentioning it on its official Spanish-language page as Alajuelense, ganador desde siempre.

It is the Costa Rican club with the highest number of consecutive matches without defeat, achieving a 33-match unbeaten run in 1992. In sporting terms it achieved the feat of four consecutive national championships between 1999 and 2003. Alajuelense leads the list of Costa Rican footballers in the Costa Rica national team. In 1960 the squad of the liguista team made a world tour, visiting 12 countries on 3 continents.