Deportes Iberia
| Deportes Iberia | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Deportes Iberia SADP | ||
| Seat | Los Angeles | ||
| founding | 1933 | ||
| president |
 Ana Bull
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| Website | deportesiberia.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Nelson Soto
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| Venue | Estadio Municipal de Los Ángeles | ||
| Places | 4,150 | ||
| league | Primera Division B | ||
| 2014/15 | 7th place | ||
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Deportes Iberia SADP is a Chilean football club from Los Ángeles . The club was founded in 1933 and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal de Los Ángeles , which can seat 4,150 spectators. Deportes Iberia, which has never been a Chilean soccer champion before, is currently playing in Primera División B, the second highest division in Chile .
history
Deportes Iberia was founded on June 15, 1933 in Conchalí in the greater Santiago de Chile area . The club quickly joined the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago, but was not able to book its first season in the Primera División until 1946. Last year they were promoted to the top division as champions of the second division. As a newcomer, Deportes Iberia managed to stay in the Primera División 1946 as twelfth. In the second season the team was twelfth and held on tight, this time only on goal difference against Everton de Viña del Mar . In the Primera División 1948, Iberia achieved its best first division placement to date with a fifth place. Only eight points were missing from the new master Audax Italiano La Florida . In 1949, however, the relegation was barely thwarted again, in the end the team was again on the penultimate place, this time ahead of Badminton FC . The following year they even came in last; but since there was no relegation from the Primera División that season, Iberia remained in the first division. In the Primera División 1951 things went up a bit for the team from Conchalí, with eighth place they ended up in the middle of the table. In 1952 they came second to last again. In 1953 and 1954 there were two last places for Deportes Iberia. While there was again no relegation in the first-mentioned season, the club finally had to go back to the second division after nine years of first class after the end of the Primera División in 1954. To date, Deportes Iberia has not been able to return to the Primera División.
After relegation from the Primera División in 1954, Deportes Iberia played second-rate for many years. In 1966 the club moved from Conchalí to Puente Alto , also in the Región Metropolitana de Santiago . However, they only stayed there for two years. In 1968 Iberia changed hometown again and was now based in Los Ángeles in the Región del Bío-Bío . There the Estadio Municipal de Los Ángeles became the new home stadium of Deportes Iberia. This is where the club, which did not move again after the eventful 1960s, still plays its home games today.
Deportes Iberia could not return to the Primera División after 1954, but instead disappeared in the meantime in the lowlands of Chilean football. After 37 years in the second division without interruption, the first relegation to the Tercera División followed in 1992 as the third highest division. There they played again for a long time and could only return to Primera B in 2014 after they had prevailed in the promotion games against Deportes Melipilla .
successes
- División de Honor Amateur : 1 × (1945)
- Tercera División : 1 × (2013/14)
- Copa Apertura Segunda División : 1 × (1984)
Known players
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Cristián Muñoz Corrales , 21 times Chilean national player and player of Coquimbo Unido, formerly with Universidad de Chile, Cobreloa and Deportes Iberia, among others -
Diego Ruiz , Argentinian soccer player with German roots, currently with Everton Viña del Mar and previously with KRC Genk and CFR Cluj, among others