Centro Deportivo Olmedo
Centro Deportivo Olmedo is an Ecuadorian football club based in Riobamba. The club was founded in 1919 and plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba, which seats 19,000 spectators. CD Olmedo has been once, in 2000, football champions of Ecuador and currently plays in Serie A, the top division of the country.
History
The Club CD Olmedo was founded on 11 November 1919. This makes it the oldest club, which currently resides in the two top divisions of the Ecuadorian football. However, despite his advanced age, the club have only a relatively limited number of items. This fact, however, is limited by the fact that football in Ecuador was determined since the introduction of a single national championship in 1957 by teams from the capital Quito and Guayaquil. Olmedo however, which is in Riobamba, the capital of the Chimborazo province with more than 120,000 inhabitants, located relatively in the center of Ecuador, for a long time with the activity in the second or third football league of Ecuador had to settle.
After the rise was achieved in the first division in 1994, managed the club, however, to establish themselves in just this. Six years later, in 2000, became the team of the Argentine coach Julio Asad, the surprise team of the Ecuadorian Serie A and won by three points on CD El Nacional championship of the small South American country. This Olmedo was the first club outside of Quito and Guayaquil, have managed this. Four years later also managed Deportivo Cuenca, Olmedo and Deportivo Cuenca are still the only two teams outside the two main cities of football that had the championship of Ecuador can win.
Due to the Championship triumph of 2000 Olmedo was also entitled to start for the Copa Libertadores 2001. In the group stage Group 7 but they finished only the last place behind Cruz Azul of Mexico, AD São Caetano of Brazil and Defensor Sporting of Uruguay and retired. The following year it was again qualified for the Copa Libertadores and was even surprisingly the group stage second in Group 4 behind while América de Cali of Colombia, but before Club Bolívar from Bolivia and the Brazilian representative Atlético Paranaense. Relatively much they lost in the second round but then the Mexican team Monarcas Morelia, where already the first leg in Riobamba was clearly lost with 0:5. Finally, we also drew the short straw in Mexico with 2:3 and retired.
Parallel to the most successful Copa Libertadores season the club's history, however, was followed at national level, only two years after the Championship relegation to the second division. The following year, but then managed the championship in Serie B and the associated direct resurgence. 2005 and 2008 they took in part two more times in the Copa Libertadores, but already retired in the group stage or in the qualifier. Also in the Copa Sudamericana in 2007 came from the early stage.
The team of CD Olmedo had to play in 2013 in the second Ecuadorian Football League after being relegated in Serie A in 2012 as Table. The club managed but as a master direct resurgence and plays in the season again in 2014 in the first division.
Achievements
- Ecuadorian Championship: 1x (2000)
- Series B: 2x (1994, 2003, 2013)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 4x
- Participation in the Copa Sudamericana: 1x
Known player
- Argentina Hernán Barcos
- Ecuador Eduardo Hurtado
- Ecuador Damián Lanza
- Ecuador Cristian Mora
- Ecuador José Luis Perlaza
- Paraguay Enrique Vera
- Ecuador Edwin Villafuerte
Known coach
- Argentina Julio Asad
- Argentina Pedro Monzón