Deportes Antofagasta

Club de Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in Antofagasta. The club was founded in 1966, has never been Chilean football champions to date, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta, which seats 21,178 spectators.

History

The Club Club de Deportes Antofagasta was founded on May 14, 1966 in the city of Antofagasta, located today with little more than 300,000 inhabitants in the north of Chile. Two years earlier, a stadium was built in Antofagasta, the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta, today with a capacity of 21,000 spectators, one of the larger stages in the Primera División in Chile. At the time of completion of the stadium still existed several small clubs in Antofagasta. Then finally in 1966 merged the clubs Unión Bellavista and Portuario Atacama, out came this CD Antofagasta, originally yet named appendage Portuario.

Like many other Chilean clubs succeeded CD Antofagasta to the club was founded a rapid rise in the Primera División, the highest league in club football in the Andean country. Only two years after the establishment qualified to be the first Primera División B for the 1969 game time of the first Chilean league. In the Primera División now Antofagasta could hold eight years to the year 1977. In between was a name change in 1974, named the club in Club Regional Antofagasta, which was, however, changed only five years later and CD Antofagasta received its present name. Reason for the fast undo the name change was the rapid rise of CD Cobreloa, also located in the region of Antofagasta, Antofagasta CD which was no longer the sole footballing showpiece of the region.

After relegation in 1977, it took until 1983 before we again got to see major league football at the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta. However, had just two years of transition in the second tier are started. Now, after seven years in the Primera División B managed CD Antofagasta for 1991 season to return to the first division, and passed subsequently to 1997, his most successful prime years. With two seventh places in the seasons 1992 and 1996 the team of the nineties presented twice a valid to this day record for the best finish of the club in the Primera División. 1997 the club suffered but then after the previous year's results somewhat surprising seeming descent and it took until 2006 before they could return to the utmost level of Chilean football again. Then held it until 2008, rose again, only to return in 2012 and again to establish relative. Thus plays CD Antofagasta Torneo Apertura since 2012 again top notch.

Achievements

  • Primera División B: 2x (1968, 2011)
  • Copa Apertura Primera División B: 1x (1990 )

Known player

  • Mexico Gabriel Caballero, Mexican World Cup participants from 2002, relatively early in his career two years in Antofagasta, later, among others, at Santos Laguna and Pachuca
  • Chile Marco Cornez took for Chile at the 1982 World Cup in Spain in part from 1991 to 1993 in Antofagasta, still wearing the jersey of Palestino and Universidad Católica active
  • Chile Juan Carlos Letelier, players of CD Cobreloa in the glorious eighties, also of the World Cup in 1982, 1991 active in CD Antofagasta for a year
  • Uruguay Federico Martínez, Uruguayan players of FK Ventspils, 2008-2009 two years in Estadio Regional de Antofagasta as a player on the lawn
  • Chile Juvenal Olmos, today's coaches, 2003-2005 Chilean national coach, as a player in 1991 in Antofagasta player, otherwise, among others at Universidad Católica and Waregem in Belgium
  • Chile Franklin Lobos Ramírez, one of the victims in the mining accident in San José, in his playing career twice for a relatively short time at CD Antofagasta
  • Chile Pedro Reyes, comes from the youth of CD Antofagasta and later played for Colo- Colo and Auxerre in France, also World Cup participants for Chile in 1998
  • Chile Francisco Valdes, captain of the Chilean team at the 1974 World Cup, otherwise long time at Colo -Colo in 1971 for one year in Antofagasta under contract
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