AC Mineros de Guiana

AC Mineros de Guiana
	AC Mineros de Guiana
Basic data
Surname	Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana
Seat	Ciudad Guayana , Venezuela
founding	1981
president	Gilberto Velasco
Website	accdminerosdeguayana.com
First soccer team
Venue	Estadio Polideportivo Cachamay
Places	41,600
league	Primera División
2014/15	9th place
home	Away

Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana is a Venezuelan football club from Ciudad Guayana . The club was founded in 1981 and plays its home games at the Estadio Polideportivo Cachamay , which can seat 41,600 spectators. AC Mineros de Guayana, who was once Venezuelan football champion, currently plays in the Primera División , the top division in Venezuela .

history

AC Mineros de Guayana was founded on November 11, 1981 as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana in the eastern Venezuelan city of Ciudad Guayana . On January 3, 1982, the newly founded club played a game for the first time, against Villa Colombia FC, an amateur club from Ciudad Guayana, they won 2-0. After playing in the lower divisions in the early years, they soon made the leap to the Segunda División, in which the club took first place in 1985 and made it to the Primera División for the first time . AC Mineros de Guayana was able to establish itself there and in 1989, just four years after the rise, they won the Venezuelan championship for the first time by taking first place in the table ahead of Pepeganga Margarita. To date, this title is the only one from AC Mineros de Guayana. The club won a title for the first time back in 1984 when the national cup, the Copa Venezuela, was victorious.

Due to the success in the league, AC Mineros de Guayana also took part several times in the Copa Libertadores , the most important competition for club teams in South America. In contrast to those of local rivals AC Minervén FC, all of these participations were not very successful, Mineros de Guayana never made it through the preliminary round or even the qualification a few times. At the Copa Libertadores 1990 they finished fourth in the group stage and thus last behind the Uruguayan representatives CA Progreso and Defensor Sporting Club and the league competitor Pepeganga Margarita and eliminated. Seven years later it was again over after the preliminary round, this time they finished last behind CSD Colo-Colo and CD Universidad Católica , both from Chile , and AC Minervén FC. In two further appearances in the Copa Libertadores, 2005 and 2008 , AC Mineros de Guayana failed in qualifying. The club suffered the same fate when they took part in the Copa Sudamericana in 2005 and 2006. The club’s greatest success at international level was probably reaching the quarter-finals in the 1995 Copa Conmebol .