Club Deportivo Palestino
Club Deportivo Palestino is a Chilean football club based in Santiago. The association, which was until today twice Chilean football champion, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna from, which seats 12,000 spectators.
History
The club Club Deportivo Palestino was founded on 20 August 1920 by immigrants from Palestine. For the first time in a competition, the club took part in a tournament in Osorno. In the following years CD Palestino entered is not larger in appearance. First time in 1953 reached the summit in the Primera División, the top division in Chilean football. Only two years later won CD Palestino his first national championship, as in the Primera División, the first place with ten points ahead of second-placed Unión Española was occupied. In the very first season in the top division of Chile, the club was second behind record champions Colo -Colo. Total occupied Palestino three more times second place in the Primera División. The champion could only be won one more time. In the 1978 season it was first with four points ahead of CD Cobreloa. This title was CD Palestino for the second time in a row for the Copa Libertadores, the most important competition for club teams in South America, qualified. At the tournament in 1979, the club survived the first group stage and failed only in the second group stage in a group with Club Olimpia of Paraguay from Asunción and Guarani FC from Brazil. Reaching the second group stage of the Copa Libertadores in 1979 is the biggest success of CD Palestino at international level until today. Since then, the success of the association was limited, it rose several times in the Primera División B off and on again soon after. Currently plays CD Palestino in La Liga, where in the past season (2010) ranked eleventh and thus a mid-table occupied.
Achievements
- La Liga: 2x (1955, 1978)
- Primera División B: 2x (1952, 1977)
- Copa Chile: 2x (1975, 1977)
Former coach
- To December 2011: Gustavo Benítez
Former Players
- Chile Clarence Acuña
- Chile Rodrigo Barrera
- Chile Rodolfo Dubó
- Chile Fabián Estay
- Chile Elías Figueroa
- Chile Alejandro Hisis
- Chile Luis Jiménez
- Chile Roberto Kettlun
- Chile Rubén Marcos
- Ecuador Carlos Luis Morales
- Guatemala Dwight Pezzarossi
- Chile Manuel Rojas
- Chile Leonel Sanchez
- Uruguay Jorge da Silva
- Chile Héctor Tapia
- Chile Jaime Valdés
- Argentina Enrique Vidallé
- Chile José Luis Villanueva