Deportes Melipilla

Corporacion de Deportes Melipilla is a Chilean football club based in Melipilla. The club was founded in 1992 and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez from, which seats 6,500 spectators. Deportes Melipilla, which has never been Chilean football champion, currently plays in the Segunda División Profesional, the third- highest division in Chile.

History

The association Corporacion de Deportes Melipilla was founded on 24 January 1992 in the city Melipilla, today little more than 60,000 inhabitants in the Región Metropolitana de Santiago located with in the center of Chile. Its home games began the newly founded association unsubscribe at Estadio Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez, which seats 6,500 spectators. The stadium was built back in 1942 and previously served other clubs from Melipilla that can also be regarded as the predecessor clubs Deportes Melipilla partly, as the home.

Deportes Melipilla took only a year to create the first time División promotion to the Primera. As second in the Primera División B succeeded in the second division season 1992 of the jump in the first league, there overtook the club, however, the direct re- descent. As a result, it took until 2005 before we Deportes Melipilla again took place in the Primera División. Previously you had División by the championship in the Primera B in 2004 secured the ascent. But was again the excellence in Melipilla not last long, because in the first year after returning to the top flight we got out of this from again. At this time Deportes Melipilla was a real lift team, because when you got relegated in the Primera División B in 2006 also begin charging immediately. And this time, the team was able to secure for the first time in the league in a Erstligasaison. After tenth place in the 2007 season, however, the game time ran out again less edifying, and it was followed by the re- relegation to the second division.

Then it went steeply downhill for Deportes Melipilla. The relegation to the second division was soon followed in the Segunda División Profesional, the third highest league in Chilean football. Gar in the Tercera División, the fourth division, it was for one season. Meanwhile Melipilla has stabilized in the Segunda División Profesional, and is presently there in the middle of the league.

Achievements

  • Chilean second division championship: 2x (2004, 2006)

Known player

  • Chile Rodrigo Barrera, Chilean World Cup qualifiers in 1998, at club level, above all at Universidad Católica and Universidad de Chile active in 2005 shortly Deportes Melipilla
  • Bolivia José Carlos Fernández, 25 times the Bolivian national football team, played at a variety of clubs in his career, in 2007 a ​​year in Melipilla
  • Chile Arturo Vidal, comes from the youth department of Deportes Melipilla, and later with Colo- Colo, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Juventus, as well as World Cup qualifiers in 2010
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