Unión La Calera

Club Deportivo Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club based in La Calera. The club was founded in 1954, has never been Chilean football champions to date, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal Nicolás Chahuán from, which seats 10,000 spectators.

History

The club Club Deportivo Unión La Calera was founded on January 26, 1954 in La Calera, a town of about 50,000 inhabitants in the Región de Valparaíso in central Chile. First, the newly founded association played a few years in regional leagues before one in 1961 by a first place in the Primera División B in the Primera División for the first time, was able to ascend the highest league in the Chilean football club. There, the team held until the year 1974, before they were relegated to the second division again. As a result, it took until the early eighties, before Unión La Calera again made ​​it into the top flight. They finished the 1984 season second division in the first place, what was the return to the excellence of result. There the club but failed and had to start again after only one year the course in the Primera División B.

In the following years had Unión La Calera compete even problems with the league in the second division and had even temporarily in the third highest league. From 1996 to 2000 was the longest third league season of the club, which eventually ended in 2000. To date, Unión La Calera did not go back to the third division. Instead, succeeded for the 2010 season after 26 years again to return to the Primera División. In the final round of the Primera División B took one second place, behind only Deportes Iquique, but ahead of rivals Deportes Antofagasta and Curico Unido, which had in the play-offs. After climbing succeeded Unión La Calera, located in La Liga to establish. Already in the first season back in the top league, the Torneo Apertura 2011, was urged in the play-offs for the championship semi-finals where they were defeated Universidad Católica only on the away goals rule. Even in the years thereafter succeeded Unión La Calera, located División set in the upper middle of the Primera and, with time, again become an integral part of this league.

Achievements

• Primera División B: 2x (1961, 1984)

• Tercera División: 2x (1990, 2000)

Known player

• Chile Osvaldo Castro, Chilean World Cup participants from 1974, plays his club football most of the time in Mexico, began his career at Unión La Calera
• Chile Elías Figueroa, three-time World Cup participant and longtime captain of the Chilean national team, in 1964 borrowed from the Santiago Wanderers shortly after La Calera
• Matías Fernández Chile, currently at Fiorentina in Italy under contract, as well as World Cup qualifiers in 2010, comes from the youth of Unión La Calera
• Chile Franklin Lobos Ramírez, in the course of his career, some active time for Unión La Calera, in 2010 one of the victims in the mining accident in San José
• Uruguay Braian Rodríguez, on the road at the time at Real Betis in the Spanish market, between 2011 and 2012 in the jersey of Unión La Calera