Club Deportivo ESPOLI

Club Deportivo Espoli is an Ecuadorian football club from the capital Quito. The club was founded in 1986 and plays its home matches at the Estadio Etho Vega, which seats 12,000 spectators. CD Espoli has never been football champions of Ecuador and currently plays in Serie B.

History

The Club Deportivo Espoli was founded on 5 February 1986 as a football club from a police academy in Ecuador's capital Quito. The first years of its existence spent the club in lower Ecuadorian football leagues before was in the 1993 season made ​​by a first rank in Serie B, the second division in Ecuador, the initial rise in the first league, the Serie A, . There Espoli could establish immediately and reached just two years after the rise of the runner, only behind record champions Barcelona SC Guayaquil. This success in the national championship they were allowed to start for the Copa Libertadores 1996. At the tournament, the only recipient of this kind, where the Club Deportivo Espoli attended, the club reached a complete surprise the first knockout round, where you but the Brazilian top club Corinthians São Paulo failed with 1:3 and 0:2. Previously Espoli was third in the preliminary round Group 1 behind Barcelona SC Guayaquil and the Paraguayan representative Club Cerro Porteño, but also a counter in front of their league rival club Olimpia become.

After the success of the mid-nineties it was for CD Espoli with the millennium rapidly downhill. After a few years of good rankings in the middle of the Serie A have been met, you had in 2004, ten years after the first Erstligasaison, take the passage to the second division. After the immediate return had succeeded in Ecuadorian football House of Lords, however, followed in the 2006 season, again the crash in the series B. This time could CD Espoli after a year in the second division back into the Serie A return. Unlike 2006 in Erstligasaison 2008, the league was even relatively safe with nine points before CD Universidad Católica, the first losers. Since CD is to find Espoli in Serie A and finished in all but today the following game years a place in midfield. Since the descent 2011, the club plays in the second division.

Achievements

  • Series B: 2x (1993, Apertura 2005)
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 1x

Known player

  • Ecuador Segundo Castillo, multiple Ecuadorian international who began his career at Espoli, later at El Nacional, Red Star Belgrade and currently in Pachuca in Mexico
  • Ecuador Cristian Mora, Espoli was second career station, and later, among others, at Liga de Quito, currently active for Universidad Católica
  • Mexico Gustavo Napoles, three-time Mexican national team, among others at UANL Tigres and Deportivo Guadalajara, career ending at Espoli
  • Alfonso Obregón Ecuador from 1991 to 1997 at the club, later very successful with Liga de Quito and World Cup participants from 2002
  • Ecuador Manuel Uquillas, six-time champion with Barcelona SC Guayaquil Ecuadorian, 1994 for a short time at CD Espoli
Ecuadorian Serie B 1996 Copa Libertadores
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