C.D. Universidad de Concepción
Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción is a Chilean football club based in Concepción. The club, founded in 1994, has never been Chilean football champions to date, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal de Concepción, which seats 29,000 spectators.
History
The club Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción was established in 1994 in the city of Concepción near the west coast of Chile. Here, the club should not be confused with such a name Deportes Concepción, which is also located in the same city, more than thirty years played in La Liga, but is at present very much lost in the second division. A second local rivals Arturo Fernández Vial makes CD, but that is now entirely disappeared into obscurity.
CD Universidad de Concepción originally arose from the same university out and must therefore be understood as a university team. After its establishment, first played in Tercera División of, the fourth- highest Chilean league. From there, the club managed to carve out in relatively few years to the first division of the Andean country. Only eight years after the club was founded in 2002 succeeded the first-time promotion to the Primera División, after being back in 1998 failed only in the playoff games to move up. Since then, one CD Universidad de Concepción to the relatively resistant members of the top flight checkout Chile. As a climber it was the same as a good start to the excellence that the qualification for the Copa Libertadores 2004 could be achieved. In a preliminary group with Cruzeiro from Brazil, Santos Laguna of Mexico and Caracas FC of Venezuela ended Universidad de Concepción them on the bottom of the table, only against Santos Laguna jumped out two 2-2 draws. To date, this was the only part of the club to the Copa Libertadores. In the same year also participated in the Copa Sudamericana, where from but also came early. In Withdrawing from teams from Chile and Bolivia, they lost in the final of the Club Bolívar, who later advance to the finals and lost to Boca Juniors should be about the only there.
In 2008, CD Universidad de Concepción celebrated the biggest success in club history, and along with this the only previous major titles. In the final of the Copa Chile, the Chilean Football Cup, Conceptión Deportes Ovalle defeated 2-1 after they had previously been enforced against teams like Unión Española or Lota Schwager.
Currently, you can find the crew of CD Universidad de Concepción in Chile's first football league, after was made clear in the 2013 season reaching the first rank in the Primera B to rise again.
Achievements
- Copa Chile: 1x (2008)
- Primera B: 1x (2013 )
- Tercera División: 1x (1997)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 1x
- Participate in Copa Sudamericana: 1x
Known player
- Uruguay Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan professional CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Argentina, briefly borrowed in 2006 from Liverpool Montevideo Conceptión
- Borrowed Jean Beausejour of Chile, Chilean World Cup qualifiers in 2010 and currently at Wigan Athletic standing under contract, 2003, shortly Universidad Católica
- Uruguay Federico Elduayen, 2005-2009 at Universidad de Concepción, 2x Uruguayan champion with Peñarol Montevideo, Uruguayan World Cup qualifiers in 2002
- Ecuador Eduardo Hurtado, 74 times the national team of Ecuador from 2003 to 2004 a short time at CD Universidad de Concepción as active players
- Uruguay Richard Pellejero, 2010-2012 active in the jersey of Universidad de Concepción, currently in CA Cerro in his home at the Uruguayan ball
- Chile Jorge Valdivia, current Chilean national team and participants in the 2010 World Cup, comes from the youth section of the club
Known coach
- Mario Osbén Chile, Chilean World Cup qualifiers in 1982 as a player, and later from 1996 to 1997 one of the first coach of Universidad de Concepción