Deportes La Serena
| Deportes La Serena | |||
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| Surname | Club de Deportes La Serena | ||
| Seat | La Serena , Chile | ||
| founding | 1955 | ||
| president |
 Mauricio Peyreblanque
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| Website | cdlaserena.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Luis Pérez Ramírez
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| Venue | Estadio La Portada | ||
| Places | 18,500 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2019 | 2nd place (Primera B de Chile) | ||
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The Club de Deportes La Serena is a Chilean football club from La Serena . The club was founded in 1955 and plays its home games at the Estadio La Portada , which can seat 18,500 spectators. Deportes La Serena, which has never been a Chilean football champion before, is currently playing in Primera División B, the second highest division in Chile .
history
The Club de Deportes La Serena SADP was founded on December 9th, 1955 in La Serena , a town in the so-called Little North of Chile with a population of around 200,000 today. It emerged from a merger of some regional clubs that had already helped the city of La Serena to three amateur championships. As was so often the case in Chilean football, Deportes La Serena experienced a rapid and steep ascent, which only three years after its founding led the club to the Primera División , the top division of Chilean football, for the first time . However, they only stayed there for two years and had to return to the second division after the end of the 1959 season. In the same year, the club advanced to the final of the Copa Chile for the first time , but lost 5-1 to the Santiago Wanderers . A year later, the same feat succeeded again. Again Deportes La Serena was in the final of the Chilean Cup, the opponent was the same as the year before. Exactly the other way around was the match, which Deportes La Serena won 4-1 in the end and was able to win the first title in the club's history.
With the sixties began a very successful phase in the history of Deportes La Serena. After being promoted to the Primera División in 1961, it was possible to hold on to the highest level of Chilean club football for fifteen years until 1976. Especially in the years immediately after the promotion, they landed surprisingly good placements, with fourth and third places one after the other. Over time, however, things got more and more mediocre, before they were relegated in 1976. From this break the club did not recover so quickly, they spent many years of the second division, interrupted only by occasional interludes in the Primera División. Deportes La Serena played only briefly first class from 1981 to 1982 and 1984.
From 1988 things started to improve again. After promotion to the Primera División in 1987 - they had secured the title of second division champions for the second time by beating Deportes Valdivia in the final - Deportes La Serena stayed in the first division for eight years up to and including 1995. In 1995 the club was relegated, and there were also significant financial problems. As the first of the Primera División B with seven points ahead of Deportes Puerto Montt they returned after only a year of abstinence back to the top division, in which they could stay for three years until 1999. This was followed by another phase of the second division, which happened in four seasons from 2000 to 2003. In 2003 they rose as second in the Primera División B behind CD Everton de Viña del Mar back to the Primera División, in which they had since established themselves. It even managed to take part in the playoff games for the championship twice, but Deportes La Serena was failed both in the Clausura 2005 and in the same competition in 2009 at the record champions CSD Colo-Colo . In the Clausura 2012 they played a very weak season, at the end of which they had to accept relegation together with Unión San Felipe . And the misery continued in the second division as well, since the relegation Deportes La Serena has not yet been able to seriously knock on the return to the first class.
successes
- Chilean Cup victory : 1 × (1960)
- Chilean second division championship : 3 × (1957, 1987, 1996)
Known players
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Sergio Ahumada , Chilean World Cup participant from 1974 and finalist in the Copa Libertadores with Colo-Colo and Unión Española, began his career from 1966 to 1969 in La Serena -
Marcelo Díaz , current national player of Chile and active in the Swiss first division club FC Basel, was loaned to Deportes La Serena for one year by Universidad de Chile in 2010
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Juan Carlos Letelier , part of the successful Cobreloa La Calama team in the early 1980s, played in two periods, once from 1988 to 1989 and the second in 1995 at Deportes La Serena
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Ermindo Onega , a very successful striker from River Plate Buenos Aires, played for the club for three years after joining Deportes La Serena in 1975 and retired after that time -
Franklin Lobos Ramírez , one of the buried miners in the San José mine disaster in 2010, played for various Chilean clubs during his career, including one for Deportes La Serena
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Roberto Eduardo Sosa , club legend of Nacional Montevideo and two-time World Cup participant with the Uruguayan national team, was the last stop at Deportes La Serena in 1970 -
Ricardo Rojas Trujillo , 45-time Chilean international between 1994 and 2006, worked for Club América in Mexico and Universidad de Chile for a long time, career started in La Serena from 1992 to 1994
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Carlos Villanueva , current Chilean international, began playing football at Deportes La Serena and then played Audax Italiano and the Blackburn Rovers, currently at Al Shabab
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Óscar Wirth , goalkeeper of the famous CD Cobreloa team, later under contract with Universidad de Chile and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, among others, as well as World Cup participant in 1982, 1988 to 1989 in La Serena
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