Atlético San Cristobal
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| Full name | Club Atlético San Cristóbal | ||
| place | San Cristobal | ||
| Founded | 1980 | ||
| Dissolved | 1986 | ||
| Club colors | orange, white | ||
| Stadion | Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo | ||
| Top league | Primera División | ||
| successes | Venezuelan champion in 1982 and 1985 | ||
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Atlético San Cristóbal was a Venezuelan football club from San Cristóbal . The club was founded in 1980, dissolved in 1986 and played its home games in the Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo , which today offers space for 42,000 spectators. Atlético San Cristóbal became Venezuelan football champions in 1982 and 1985.
history
The Atlético San Cristóbal Association was founded in 1980 in San Cristóbal in the Venezuelan state of Táchira in the west of the country. In the second year after the club was founded, a first place in the second-rate Segunda División made it into the Primera División , the top division in Venezuelan football. Atlético San Cristóbal was able to keep up quickly there and was promoted to soccer champion of Venezuela in 1982 . In the first division, the first place was occupied with one point ahead of Deportivo Táchira and Universidad de Los Andes FC and thus achieved the first and only championship in the club's history. As a result, San Cristóbal was eligible to start the Copa Libertadores 1983 . At the tournament, first place in group four was taken in the first group phase, ahead of El Nacional and Barcelona SC Guayaquil from Ecuador and the league and city rivals Deportivo Táchira, which made it into the second group phase, which was the semi-finals at the time. There the team of Atlético San Cristóbal had no chance against Peñarol and Nacional Montevideo .
Atlético San Cristóbal played in the Primera División until 1985, but without becoming champions again. In that year, the club announced the merger with Deportivo Táchira to create the new club Unión Atlético Táchira. After the merger was completed, Atlético San Cristóbal was deleted from the register of associations in 1986. The new club existed under the name at that time until 1996, before it was renamed Deportivo Táchira.
successes
- Primera División : 1 × (1982)
- Segunda División : 1 × (1981)
- Copa Venezuela : 1 × (1995/96)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 1 ×
- 1983 second group stage
