Deportes Iquique

The club Deportes Iquique is a Chilean football club from Iquique. The club was founded in 1978 and plays its home games at the Estadio Tierra de Campeones from, which seats 12,000 spectators. Deportes Iquique, which has never been Chilean football champion, currently plays in La Liga, the top division in Chile.

History

The club Deportes Iquique was founded on May 21, 1978 in Iquique, a port city in northern Chile. Here, the club was formed by the merger of two regional associations called Iquique and Estrella de Chile. Just two years after the founding Deportes Iquique succeeded the first great success. In the season of 1980 was the young football club in the Copa Chile, the football Cup of Chile win. In the final, the team of coach Ramón Estay sat against the record champions Colo -Colo Santiago by 2-1 after been previously eliminated, among other O'Higgins Rancagua, and Universidad de Chile.

At league level managed Deportes Iquique 1979 first ascent in the Primera División and was able to establish itself there. This was followed to the club for eleven years in the highest Chilean league in football, only in 1990 had again the passage in the second tier are started. After that, it was not until 1997, after seven years to return to the Primera División, where you could hold in the wake of five years. To date, Deportes Iquique oscillates repeatedly between some years major league football, followed by a decade of being second class. To date the last time you played second-class in the 2010 season, but where succeeded the immediate resurgence. Since 2011, Deportes Iquique is once again top notch. In 2013 the club also saw its first participation in the Copa Libertadores, the most important cup competition for club teams in South America. After the qualifying round against Mexican representatives Club León was designed victorious, but the successes ended then in the group stage, where Deportes Iquique in a group with CA Velez Sarsfield of Argentina, Emelec Guayaquil Ecuador and the Uruguayan representative Peñarol Montevideo only the last place occupied and retired. Only against Emelec Guayaquil you could prevail in the home game 2-0, the remaining group games were all lost.

In 2010, Deportes Iquique could win the Copa Chile for the second time after 1980, with the title as second division succeeded. After Deportes Puerto Montt was closely defeated in the semifinals to Iquique could also prevail in the final against Deportes Concepción 4-3 on penalties, before it had been after the end of extra 1:1.

Achievements

  • Chilean Cup victory: 2x (1980, 2010)
  • Chilean second division championship: 3x (1979, Clausura 2007, 2010 )
  • Chilean third division championship: 1x (2006)
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 1x

Known player

  • Chile Marco Cornez, Chilean participants in the Football World Cup 1982, long at Universidad Católica under contract from 1996 to 1997, Deportes Iquique
  • Argentina Juan Ramón Fernández, currently standing at Deportes Iquique under contract Argentines, from 2002 to 2005, Borussia Dortmund and before that at Estudiantes de La Plata
  • Chile Rodrigo Meléndez, 26 times the national team for Chile, long time for CD Cobreloa and Estudiantes de La Plata in Argentina, active from 2011 to 2012 in Iquique
  • Peru Juan José Oré, Peruvian Legionnaire 1988-1990, previously successful with Universitario de Deportes in his homeland and also briefly at Panathinaikos Athens in Greece
  • Chile Rodrigo Pérez, played at the end of his career from 2009 to 2011 in Deportes Iquique, before long at the Santiago Wanderers and Cobreloa
  • Uruguay Santiago Romero, Uruguayan midfielder, currently Deportes Iquique under contract and before player of Nacional Montevideo in his home country
  • Peru José Velásquez, participants at the World Championships in 1978 and 1982, Peru, played in 1986 career finale briefly Deportes Iquique

Known coach

  • Uruguay Gerardo Pelusso, 1996-1997 Responsible on the sidelines at Deportes Iquique, later, among others, coach of Paraguay or at Universidad de Chile
  • Chile Andrés Prieto, hired as player of the World Cup of 1950 with the Chilean national team, as a coach in 1982 shortly Deportes Iquique
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