CD Antofagasta

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CD Antofagasta
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Basic data
Surname Club de Deportes Antofagasta
Seat Antofagasta
founding 1966
president Osciel Guzmán
Website www.cdantofagasta.com
First soccer team
Head coach Gustavo Huerta
Venue Estadio Regional de Antofagasta
Places 21,200
league Primera División
2018 4th Place
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Club de Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club from Antofagasta . The club, which was founded in 1966 and has never been a Chilean football champion, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta , which can seat 21,178 spectators.

history

The Club de Deportes Antofagasta association was founded on May 14, 1966 in the city of Antofagasta , which now has a little over 300,000 inhabitants in northern Chile . A stadium had already been built in Antofagasta two years earlier, the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta , today one of the larger stadiums in the Primera División Chile with a capacity of around 21,000 spectators . When the stadium was completed, several small clubs still existed in Antofagasta. In 1966, the clubs Unión Bellavista and Portuario Atacama finally merged , resulting in CD Antofagasta, originally with the name tag Portuario .

Like many other Chilean clubs, CD Antofagasta achieved rapid promotion to the Primera División, the top division of club football in the Andean country, after the club was founded. Just two years after it was founded, they qualified first in Primera División B for the 1969 season of the Chilean first division. In the Primera División Antofagasta was able to hold out eight years until 1977. In between there was a name change, in 1974 the club was renamed Club Regional Antofagasta , which was changed again only five years later and CD Antofagasta got its current name. The reason for the quick reversal of the name change was the steep rise of CD Cobreloa , also located in the Antofagasta region, which means that CD Antofagasta was no longer the region's sole footballing flagship.

After relegation in 1977, it was not until 1983 that the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta could see first division football again. However, after only two years, the second class had to be started again. After the following seven years in the Primera División B, CD Antofagasta managed to return to the first division for the 1991 season and subsequently had his most successful first-class years until 1997. With two seventh places in the 1992 and 1996 seasons, the team of the 1990s twice set a record that is still valid today for the club's best placement in the Primera División. In 1997 the club suffered a somewhat surprising relegation after the previous year's results and it took until 2006 before they could return to the highest level of Chilean football. Then they stayed until 2008, relegated again, only to return in 2012 and re-establish themselves relatively. So CD Antofagasta has been playing first class again since the Torneo Apertura 2012.

successes

  • Primera División B : 2 × (1968, 2011)
  • Copa Apertura Primera División B : 1 × (1990)

Trainer

player

  • MexicoMexico Gabriel Caballero , Mexican World Cup participant in 2002, spent two years in Antofagasta at the beginning of his career, later with Santos Laguna and CF Pachuca, among others
  • ChileChile Marco Cornez , took part for Chile in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, 1991 to 1993 with Antofagasta, still active in the jersey of Palestino and Universidad Católica
  • ChileChile Juan Carlos Letelier , CD Cobreloa player in the glorious eighties, also participant in the 1982 World Cup, 1991 active for CD Antofagasta for one year
  • UruguayUruguay Federico Martínez , Uruguayan player from FK Ventspils, played two years on the pitch at the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta from 2008 to 2009
  • ChileChile Juvenal Olmos , today's coach, from 2003 to 2005 Chilean national coach, as a player in 1991 in Antofagasta, otherwise at Universidad Católica and Waregem in Belgium
  • ChileChile Franklin Lobos Ramírez , one of the people buried in the mine disaster in San José, played twice for a relatively short time with CD Antofagasta
  • ChileChile Pedro Reyes , comes from the youth of CD Antofagasta and later played for Colo-Colo and Auxerre in France, as well as a World Cup participant for Chile in 1998
  • ChileChile Francisco Valdés , captain of the Chilean team at the 1974 World Cup, otherwise with Colo-Colo for a long time, in 1971 under contract for one year in Antofagasta

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