Mineros de Guayana

Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana is a Venezuelan football club based in Ciudad Guayana. The club was founded in 1981 and plays its home matches at the Estadio Polideportivo Cachamay, which seats 41,600 spectators. AC Mineros de Guayana, the Venezuelan football champion once, currently plays in La Liga, the top division in Venezuela.

History

AC Mineros de Guayana was founded on 11 November 1981 as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana in the city of Ciudad Guayana ostvenezolanischen. On January 3, 1982, the newly founded association was the first time in a game against Villa Colombia FC, ​​an amateur club from Ciudad Guayana, we won 2-0. After they had played in the early years in lower divisions, succeeded soon the jump in the Segunda División, in which the club finished in first place in 1985 and the first promotion to the Primera División Venezolano managed. There, AC Mineros de Guayana was able to establish and 1989, only four years after the climb, you first won the championship by a Venezuelan first place in the table before Pepeganga Margarita. To date, this title is the only one of AC Mineros de Guayana. In 1984, the club had won a title for the first time, as the national cup, the Copa Venezuela, could be designed victorious.

Due to the success in the League AC Mineros de Guayana also took a few times in the Copa Libertadores, the most important competition for club teams in South America, in part. All of these participations is designed with little success, in contrast to those of local rivals AC Minerven FC, ​​could never Mineros de Guayana not even qualify through the first round or a few times. In the Copa Libertadores in 1990 you were in the group stage and thus Fourth Last behind the Uruguayan representatives CA Progreso and Defensor Sporting Club and the League competitors Pepeganga Margarita and retired. Seven years later, was again in the preliminary round, this time it was behind Last CSD Colo -Colo and Universidad Católica CD, both from Chile, and AC Minerven FC. In two other participations in the Copa Libertadores, 2005 and 2008, AC Mineros de Guayana failed in qualifying. The same fate befell the club at the two participations in the Copa Sudamericana 2005 and 2006 The biggest success of the club at the international level was probably reaching the quarter- finals in the Copa Conmebol 1995.

In recent years, the club has in the middle of the Primera División fixed in the last season (2009 /10) was occupied by a tenth place in the overall table of Apertura and Clausura, while FC Caracas won after finals against Deportivo Táchira FC championship.

Achievements

  • Primera División Venezolano: 1x (1988 /89)
  • Copa Venezuela: 1x (1984 )
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 4x

Former Players

  • Brazil Josimar
  • Venezuela Daniel Arismendi
  • Venezuela Juan Enrique García
  • Venezuela Giancarlo Maldonado
  • Venezuela Stalin Rivas

Former coach

  • Argentina Mario Kempes
  • Venezuela Stalin Rivas
1990 Copa Libertadores 1997 Copa Libertadores 2005 Copa Libertadores 2008 Copa Libertadores 2005 Copa Sudamericana 2006 Copa Sudamericana Aragua FC Carabobo FC Deportivo Lara Llaneros FC Monagas Sport Club Yaracuyanos FC Zamora FC Zulia FC
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