Badminton FC
| Badminton FC | |||
| Full name | Badminton Football Club | ||
| place | Santiago de Chile | ||
| Founded | 1912 | ||
| Dissolved | 1973 | ||
| Club colors | black yellow | ||
| Stadion | Estadio La Granja | ||
| Top league | Primera División | ||
| successes | 3rd place in 1933, 1935 and 1952 | ||
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The Badminton Football Club was a Chilean football club from Santiago . The club was founded in 1912, dissolved again in 1973 and played its home games at the Estadio La Granja . Badminton never became the Chilean soccer champion. but played from 1933 to 1949 and the successor club Ferrobádminton from 1950 to 1964 and 1966 in the Primera División .
history
Santiago Badminton (1912-1949)
The Badminton Football Club was founded on July 12, 1912 in the Chilean capital Santiago . The club was one of the most important teams when football took off in Chile . As one of only twelve teams, Badminton was a founding member of the Primera División in 1933, the highest professional football league in the country. In the first season, Badminton achieved third place, only behind the first Primera División champion CD Magallanes and runner-up CSD Colo-Colo . After fifth place was occupied in the following year, the Badminton Football Club was able to repeat the placement of 1933 in the first division season 1935, when it was again third. This time the club separated two points for the renewed champions from CD Magallanes. In those years, badminton was part of the regular line-up of the Chilean Primera División, in which the club was to be found continuously as Badminton FC from the league premiere in 1933 until 1949. However, the club lost more and more class over time, so that the two third places in 1933 and 1935 were initially the two best results in the first division. They caused a sensation again in 1939 when they finished second in the first phase of the championship, only due to the poorer goal difference behind Colo-Colo, but failed to maintain this position in the further course of the season. Finally, badminton ended up in sixth place in the table. In 1941 they were even last in the Primera División, but since no relegated team was determined in this season, Badminton FC remained in the top Chilean football division.
Ferrobadminton (1950–1969)
In 1949, the still top-notch playing Badminton FC merged with another club from Santiago de Chile, with CD Ferroviarios , to form Ferrobadminton . Ferroviarios himself played a season in the Primera División in his history, but in 1934 you had to relegate immediately. After the merger of the two teams, the old success set in, as the then Badminton FC had until the mid-1930s. After a seventh place in 1950 and an eleventh place in 1951, Ferrobadminton finished the Primera División in third place in the table in 1952 and thus took third place in its history, if you include the history of one of the previous clubs, Badminton FC. However, the team parted this time all the nine points on the new Chilean champions Everton de Viña del Mar . And it should also be the last flare-up in this form that Ferrobadminton produced as the successor to Badminton FC. In the following years, the club nested in the midfield of the Primera División and turned more and more to the relegation ranks than the fight for the championship. In 1964 the time had finally come and Ferrbadminton had to enter the second division for the first time. This was preceded by a last place in the Primera División with two points behind the first non-relegated CD San Luis de Quillota . With the championship in the Segunda División in 1965 with three points ahead of CD Huachipato , the immediate return to Chile's football club was realized. With only 23 points and one point behind the rescue bank, however, the relegation had to be accepted again.
Ferrobadminton did not really recover from this decline. You missed the return to the Primera División and in 1968 even had to accept relegation from the second division. But by then the days of ferrobadminton were numbered. The club only existed until 1969, before the link broke up again and both badminton and Ferroviarios played football independently again.
Badminton de Curicó
The last chapter of the Badminton Football Club was finally written from 1969, when the independent club moved to Curicó and henceforth operated under the name Badminton de Curicó . However, this only lasted four years, because in 1973 the association was dissolved.
successes
- Primera Division B : 1 × (1965)
- Torneo de Consuelo del Campeonato de Apertura de Chile : 1 × (1933)
- Copa Los Sports : 1 × (1924)
Known players
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Misael Escuti , longtime Colo-Colo player and 1962 World Cup participant, began his career in badminton and played for the club's first team from 1944 to 1945 -
Jaime Ramírez , 36-time international for Chile and a World Cup participant in 1962, played for Universidad de Chile, Colo-Colo and, from 1946 to 1947, started his career in badminton
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Leonel Sánchez , one of the most famous Chilean players, very successful in the national team and at Universidad de Chile, career finale at Ferrobádminton
