Football team

CD Arabe Unido

Club · Panama · Liga Panameña de Fútbol

«The Arabs»

201 Matches

62 wins

66 draws

73 losses

194–202 Goals

−8 Difference

1.0 Scored per game

Form W D W W W W

Thirteen league titles in eighteen seasons: Árabe Unido won the Panamanian championship for the first time in 1998–99, and by the time the Apertura of 2016 was over no club in the country had won more.

The club came out of Colón's Arab immigrant community, which founded it on 28 April 1994 and gave it the name it still carries. Promotion followed quickly: two LINFUNA titles, in 1994–95 and 1995–96, took the side out of the second tier and into a top division it has not left since.

Amílcar Henríquez played in front of the defence through much of that period and is the name most often attached to the club's best years. He was killed in 2017; the number 21 was retired and has not been worn since.

Beyond Panama the record is thinner. Runners-up in the UNCAF Interclub Cup in 2002, and three quarter-final appearances in the CONCACAF Champions League — 2009–10, 2013–14 and 2016–17 — against opponents with budgets from a different order.

Matches against Tauro FC carry the most weight, a derby with no love lost, though Panamanians argue about which fixture deserves the word clásico.

Home is the Estadio Armando Dely Valdés in Colón, which holds 4,000 — a small ground for the most decorated side in the country, and the reason the biggest nights have always felt tighter than the trophy count suggests.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

5 Oct	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	Independiente de La Chorrera A
26 Sep	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	Herrera H	2:1	W
19 Sep	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	San Francisco FC A	2:1	W
12 Sep	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	Union Cocle H	4:1	W
5 Sep	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	Veraguas H	3:1	W
30 Aug	Liga Panameña de Fútbol	Deportivo Universitario A	0:0	D