O'Higgins F.C.

Club Deportivo O'Higgins is a Chilean football club based in Rancagua. The association, which is currently Chilean champion, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home matches at the Estadio El Teniente, which seats 14,450 spectators.

History

Club Deportivo O'Higgins was established on 7 April 1955 in the Chilean city of Rancagua, capital of Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. As the region is also the club CD O'Higgins after Bernardo O'Higgins, the first Director Supremo of independent Chile, named. Play their home games, the club since the day it was founded in the local stadium of Rancagua, the Estadio El Teniente, from which formerly gave some space for 45,000 spectators, but today just under 15,000 people holds. In Estadio El Teniente took place a few games of FIFA World Cup 1962, among others.

Initial successes and Libertadores participations

From the Chilean Football Federation was CD O'Higgins in the Campeonato de Ascenso, which is comparable to today's Primera B, the second Chilean league classified. Until 1964 the club was now playing in the second division before in said year of first-time promotion to the Primera División succeeded. In the first division, the club was able to maintain in the first year by an eleventh place, while Coquimbo Unido had to dismount. In the following years, the club was able to establish in Chile Elite League and reached for a long time in the secured places midfield. In the season 1973 CD O'Higgins was fourth Primera División, level on points with the third CD Huachipato, and reached its best chart placement to date at all. After a ninth place in 1974 you had to but in 1975 after eleven years take the passage to the second division again, was the last place in the Primera División occupied. In the Segunda División succeeded at once to rise again by a second place in the final table, only behind Deportivo Ñublense. After the climb, CD O'Higgins was the first year in tenth what the safe relegation meant. 1978 was taken by the club after the end of all game day in third place in La Liga and managed by a qualifying round even to participate in the Copa Libertadores 1979. The tournament failed the club after the first round after the second place in Group 4 behind CD was occupied Palestino and before the two Venezuelan representatives Portuguesa FC and Deportivo Galicia. Also for the Copa Libertadores 1980 CD O'Higgins could qualify again after finishing fifth and qualifying round had won. In the 1980 Libertadores you survived as a group first before Cerro Porteño, Colo- Colo and Sol de América group stage and was eliminated only in the second group stage as the last in a group of three with Nacional Montevideo and Club Olimpia. Montevideo finally put a finalist, but was defeated by Brazilian representatives SC Internacional of Porto Alegre.

Primera División Segunda and exchange between

1981 ended the period of the Libertadores participations for the time being. Qualification for the continental competition has been missed in the league. In the coming years, only places were achieved in midfield, before one was in 1985 in the Primera División only Last and for the second time had ever relegated to the second league. In the first year of the second division promotion was missed, In 1987 he succeeded then. By 1996, the club played in the upper regions of the first Chilean football league, but without winning a title or to qualify for a continental tournament. 1996 had to be taken up after a bad season with only 22 points obtained in 34 league games of the transition in the second division. After only one year, however, managed to return to the top flight football in Chile, from which you had to go back in 2001 and could not return until 2006. In the Clausura 2006 season, since 2000 the seasons were divided into two half-year seasons, both of which found a champion, reached the semi-finals CD O'Higgins, but it lost to Audax Italiano, which in turn lost in the final against Colo -Colo. Since then reached CD O'Higgins always ranks in the midfield, in both the upper and the lower middle and still plays in the Primera División. In recent years, the team grew continuously. This positive development was its climax in the Apertura 2013, the Primera División, when O'Higgins Rancagua could ever get with a 1-0 final win against Universidad Católica first Chilean league title. This one is also for the first time again qualified for the Copa Libertadores for thirty years.

Achievements

  • Chilean Championship: 1x ( Apertura 2013)
  • Segunda División: 1964
  • Campeonato de Apertura de Segunda División: 1986
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 4x

Known player

1979 Copa Libertadores Club Deportivo Palestino 1980 Copa Libertadores 1984 Copa Libertadores 2014 Copa Libertadores 2012 Copa Sudamericana 1992 Copa CONMEBOL Deportes Antofagasta Cobreloa Cobresal Santiago Wanderers Club Universidad de Chile
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