Deportes Iquique
| Deportes Iquique | |||
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| Surname | Club Deportes Iquique | ||
| Seat | Iquique , Chile | ||
| founding | 1978 | ||
| president |
 Césare Rossi
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| Website | clubdeportesiquique.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Jaime Vera
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| Venue | Estadio Tierra de Campeones | ||
| Places | 12,000 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2018 | 14th place | ||
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The Club Deportes Iquique is a Chilean football club from Iquique . The club was founded in 1978 and plays its home games at the Estadio Tierra de Campeones , which can seat 12,000 spectators. Deportes Iquique, who has never been a Chilean soccer champion before, is currently playing in the Primera División , the top division in Chile .
history
The association Deportes Iquique was founded on May 21, 1978 in Iquique , a port city in northern Chile . The club was created through the merger of two regional clubs named Cavancha and Estrella de Chile . Just two years after it was founded, Deportes Iquique achieved its first major success. In the 1980 season, the young football club was able to win the Copa Chile , the football cup of Chile. In the final, the team of coach Ramón Estay prevailed against the record champions Colo-Colo Santiago 2-1 after O'Higgins Rancagua and Universidad de Chile had been eliminated.
At league level, Deportes Iquique made its first promotion to the Primera División in 1979 and was able to establish itself there. This was followed by eleven years in the top Chilean football league for the club, and it wasn't until 1990 that it had to return to the second division. Then only succeeded in 1997 after seven years, the return to the Primera División, where you could hold in the sequence for five years. To this day, Deportes Iquique has been commuting between several years of first division football, followed by a decade of second-rate football. For the last time they played second class in the 2010 season, but where they were immediately promoted again. Since 2011, Deportes Iquique has been first class again. In 2013 the club also saw its first participation in the Copa Libertadores , the most important cup competition for club teams in South America . After the qualifying round was victorious against the Mexican representative Club León , the successes ended in the group stage, where Deportes Iquique only finished last in a group with CA Vélez Sársfield from Argentina , Emelec Guayaquil from Ecuador and the Uruguayan representative Peñarol Montevideo occupied and eliminated. Only against Emelec Guayaquil could they prevail 2-0 in the home game, the remaining group games were all lost.
In 2010 Deportes Iquique was able to win the Copa Chile for the second time since 1980, with the title win as a second division team. After Deportes Puerto Montt was narrowly defeated in the semifinals , Iquique was able to prevail in the final against Deportes Concepción 4: 3 on penalties, before it had been 1: 1 after the end of extra time.
successes
- Chilean Cup victory : 2 × (1980, 2010)
- Chilean second division championship : 3 × (1979, Clausura 2007, 2010)
- Chilean third division championship : 1 × (2006)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 1 ×
- 2013 : group stage
- Participation in the Copa Sudamericana : 2 ×
player
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Marco Cornez , Chilean participant in the 1982 World Cup, long under contract with Universidad Católica, from 1996 to 1997 with Deportes Iquique -
Juan Ramón Fernández , currently under contract with Deportes Iquique, was with Borussia Dortmund from 2002 to 2005 and before that with Estudiantes de La Plata -
Rodrigo Meléndez , 26-time national player for Chile, long time active for CD Cobreloa and Estudiantes de La Plata in Argentina, 2011 to 2012 in Iquique
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Juan José Oré , Peruvian legionnaire from 1988 to 1990, previously successful with Universitario de Deportes in his home country and also briefly with Panathinaikos Athens in Greece -
Rodrigo Pérez , at the end of his career, played with Deportes Iquique from 2009 to 2011, previously with the Santiago Wanderers and Cobreloa for a long time
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Santiago Romero , Uruguayan midfielder, currently under contract with Deportes Iquique and previously a Nacional Montevideo player in his home country -
José Velásquez , participant in the 1978 and 1982 World Championships with Peru, played briefly at Deportes Iquique in 1986 at the end of his career
Trainer
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Andrés Prieto (1982)
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Gerardo Pelusso (1996–1997)
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Cristian Díaz (2013)
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Nelson Acosta (2014-2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cristian Díaz - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 4, 2016
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