Deportivo Quito
Sociedad Deportivo Quito is an Ecuadorian football club from the capital Quito. The club was founded in 1955 and plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa in, which seats nearly 40,000 spectators. Deportivo Quito was four times football champion of Ecuador and currently plays in Serie A.
History
The Club Deportivo Quito was founded on February 27 of 1955 in Quito, Ecuador's capital city. He replaced the club Sociedad Deportiva Argentina, which was launched in 1940. As a club colors were selected red and blue, which are characteristic for the club today. Since its inception, Deportivo Quito plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, which adopts some 40,000 spectators, making it one of the largest football stadiums in Ecuador.
In the 1950s and 1960s had Deportivo Quito initial successes at national level. In 1957 was a founding member of the Serie A, the first professional league in Ecuador and to this day major league in the country. Seven years later, in 1964, the time had come and the club was first Ecuadorian soccer champions after in the league a first place was occupied and the championship playoffs against CD El Nacional and Liga de Quito were recovered. Four years later, the club was able to celebrate the second championship. After intermediate descents from Serie A and the second division championship in 1980 Deportivo Quito was only in 2008 again champion. Previously the club had distinguished by excellent youth work, various players in the ecuadorianianischen national team that took part in 2002 and 2006, twice in a row at a World Cup, came from the youth section of the club, for example, Álex Aguinaga, Ulises de la Cruz and Edison Méndez. But only as long ago played these players in Europe or better leagues in South America, broke again at really good times for Deportivo Quito. In the years 2008 and 2009 was won twice in a row the championship, during the past season (2010) it was fourth, while local rivals Liga de Quito won the championship. In the 2011 season, however, it was so far back that was the best team Deportivo Quito in Ecuador. After initially Emelec Guayaquil had won the first round, Deportivo Quito was the second round to decide for themselves what brought a playoff for the championship with it. This was 2-0 (1-0 in the first leg in Guayaquil, in the return leg in Quito 1-0), won by the team of Argentine coach Carlos Ischia, whereby the capital club football champions for the fifth time in Ecuador was.
Deportivo Quito took the previous eight times in the Copa Libertadores, the most important football tournament for club teams in South America, in part. The greatest success came in here in 1989, when they finished in a group with CD Los Millonarios and the eventual winners Atlético Nacional, both from Colombia, as well as the Premier League rivals Emelec Guayaquil, ranked third and survived the group stage so far only time. In the second round CD Cobreloa ended up being against the Chilean representative and two-time Libertadores finalists conclusion. For all further participation in the Copa Libertadores competition for Deportivo Quito after the first round was finished. The four participations in the Copa Sudamericana 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 no great success has been achieved.
Achievements
- Serie A: 5x
- Series B: 1x
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 8x
- Participate in Copa Sudamericana: 4x
Known player
- Álex Aguinaga Ecuador
- Ecuador Marlon Ayoví
- Ecuador Ulises de la Cruz
- Ecuador Raúl Guerrón
- Iván Hurtado Ecuador
- Ecuador Iván Kaviedes
- Ecuador Edison Méndez
- Ecuador Luis Saritama