CD Universidad de Concepción
Universidad de Concepción | |||
Basic data | |||
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Surname | Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción | ||
Seat | Concepción , Chile | ||
founding | 1994 | ||
president | Daniel González | ||
Website | laudeconce.cl | ||
First soccer team | |||
Head coach | Eduardo Mario Acevedo | ||
Venue | Estadio Municipal Alcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo | ||
Places | 29,000 | ||
league | Primera División | ||
2019 | 16th place | ||
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Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción is a Chilean football club from Concepción . The club, which was founded in 1994 and has never been a Chilean football champion to date, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal Alcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo , which can seat 29,000 spectators.
history
The Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción association was founded in 1994 in the city of Concepción near the west coast of Chile . The club should not be confused with one called Deportes Conceptión , which is also located in the city of the same name, played in the Primera División for more than thirty years , but is currently deeply immersed in the second division. A second local rival is CD Arturo Fernández Vial , which has since completely disappeared into insignificance.
CD Universidad de Concepción originally emerged from the university of the same name and is therefore to be understood as a university team. After the founding, they first played in the Tercera División, the fourth highest Chilean division. From there, the club managed to rise to the top division of the Andean country in a relatively few years. Just eight years after the club was founded, the first promotion to the Primera División was achieved in 2002, after having failed to gain promotion in the playoff games in 1998. Since then, CD Universidad de Concepción has been one of the relatively stable members of the top division of Chile. As a climber, you started so well in the first class that qualification for the Copa Libertadores 2004 could be achieved. In a preliminary round group with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte from Brazil , Santos Laguna from Mexico and FC Caracas from Venezuela , Universidad de Concepción finished last in the table, only two 2-2 draws jumped out against Santos Laguna. To date, this was the club's only participation in the Copa Libertadores . In the same year they also participated in the Copa Sudamericana , where the end came early. In the elimination of teams from Chile and Bolivia, they lost to Club Bolívar in the final , which would later advance to the final and only there should be lost to the Boca Juniors .
In 2008, the CD Universidad de Concepción celebrated the greatest success in the club's history and thus the only important title to date. In the final of the Copa Chile , the Chilean soccer cup, Concepción Deportes Ovalle defeated 2-1 after having prevailed against teams like Unión Española or Lota Schwager .
The team from CD Universidad de Concepción is currently in the first Chilean football league, after the promotion was made clear in the 2013 season with reaching first rank in Primera B.
successes
- Copa Chile : 1 × (2008)
- Primera B : 1 × (2013)
- Tercera División : 1 × (1997)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 1 ×
- 2004 : first round
- Participation in Copa Sudamericana : 1 ×
- 2004 : first round
Known players
- Luis Aguiar , Uruguayan professional from CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Argentina, briefly loaned to Conceptión from Liverpool Montevideo in 2006
- Jean Beausejour , 2010 Chilean World Cup participant and currently under contract with Wigan Athletic, briefly loaned from Universidad Católica in 2003
- Federico Elduayen , 2005 to 2009 at Universidad de Conceptión, 2 × Uruguayan champion with Peñarol Montevideo, Uruguayan World Cup participant in 2002
- Eduardo Hurtado , 74 times national player of Ecuador, was active as a player for CD Universidad de Concepción for a short time from 2003 to 2004
- Richard Pellejero , active in the jersey of Universidad de Conceptión from 2010 to 2012, is currently on the ball for CA Cerro in his Uruguayan homeland
- Jorge Valdivia , current Chilean international and participant in the 2010 World Cup, comes from the club's youth department
Well-known trainers
- Mario Osbén , Chilean World Cup participant from 1982 as a player, later from 1996 to 1997 one of the first coaches at Universidad de Conceptión