CD O'Higgins

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CD O'Higgins
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Basic data
Surname Club Deportivo O'Higgins
Seat Rancagua , Chile
founding 1955
president ChileChile Ricardo Abumohor
Website ohigginsfc.cl
First soccer team
Head coach UruguayUruguay Mauricio Larriera
Venue Estadio El Teniente
Places 14,450
league Primera División
2018 8th place
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Club Deportivo O'Higgins is a Chilean football club from Rancagua . The club currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio El Teniente , which can seat 14,450 spectators.

history

Beginnings

Club Deportivo O'Higgins was founded on April 7, 1955 in the Chilean city of Rancagua , the capital of the Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins . Like the region, the CD O'Higgins association is named after Bernardo O'Higgins , the first Director Supremo of independent Chile . Since the day it was founded, the club has played its home games at the local stadium in Rancagua, the Estadio El Teniente , which used to hold 45,000 spectators, but now has a capacity of just under 15,000. In the Estadio El Teniente, among other things, some games of the 1962 World Cup took place.

First successes and libertadores participation

The Chilean Football Association placed CD O'Higgins in the Campeonato de Ascenso, which is comparable to today's Primera B, the second Chilean league. The club played in the second division until 1964, before being promoted to the Primera División for the first time that year. In the first division, the club was able to hold on to an eleventh place in the first year, while Coquimbo Unido had to relegate . In the following years the club was able to establish itself in Chile's elite league and for a long time achieved places in the secured midfield. In the 1973 season, CD O'Higgins was fourth in the Primera División, level on points with the third CD Huachipato , and achieved its best table placement to date. After a ninth place in 1974 you had to go back to the second division in 1975 after eleven years, the last place was occupied in the Primera División. In the Segunda División, they were immediately promoted to second place in the final table, only behind Deportivo Ñublense . After promotion, CD O'Higgins was tenth in the first year, which meant safe relegation. In 1978 the club finished third in the Primera División after all match days and even managed to take part in the Copa Libertadores 1979 after a qualifying round . At the tournament, the club failed after the preliminary round after the second place in Group 4 behind CD Palestino and in front of the two Venezuelan representatives Portuguesa FC and Deportivo Galicia was occupied. CD O'Higgins was also able to qualify for the 1980 Copa Libertadores after finishing fifth and winning the qualifying round. In the 1980s Libertadores they survived the group stage as group winners ahead of Cerro Porteño , Colo-Colo and Sol de América and only retired in the second group stage as the last in a group of three with Nacional Montevideo and Club Olimpia . Montevideo finally provided a finalist, but lost to the Brazilian representative SC Internacional from Porto Alegre .

Change between Primera and Segunda División

In 1981 the Libertadores participation ended for the time being. In the league, qualification for the continental competition was missed. Also in the next few years only places in the midfield were achieved before they were only last in the Primera División in 1985 and thus had to relegate to the second division for the second time. In the first year of the second division promotion was missed, in 1987 he was successful. Until 1996, the club played in the upper regions of the first Chilean football league, but without winning a title or qualifying for a continental tournament. In 1996, after a bad season with only 22 points achieved in 34 league games, the gang had to start the second division. After only one year, however, the return to the upper house of Chile was successful, from which one had to relegate in 2001 and could not return until 2006. In the Clausura season 2006, since 2000 the seasons were divided into two half-seasons, both of which determined a champion, CD O'Higgins reached the semi-finals, but was defeated there by Audax Italiano, who in turn lost in the final against Colo-Colo. Since then, CD O'Higgins has always reached ranks in midfield, both in the upper and lower midfield and still plays in the Primera División today. The team has grown steadily in recent years. This positive development culminated in the 2013 Apertura of the Primera División, when O'Higgins Rancagua won the Chilean championship title for the first time with a 1-0 final win against Universidad Católica . This is the first time in thirty years that you qualify for the Copa Libertadores.

successes

  • Segunda División : 1964.
  • Campeonato de Apertura de Segunda División : 1986.
1979 : first round
1980 : second round
1984 : first round
2014 :
2012 : first round
1992 : first round

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