Deportes Valdivia
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| Surname | Club de Deportes Valdivia | ||
| Seat | Valdivia , Chile | ||
| founding | 1983 | ||
| president |
 Jorge Salazar
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| Website | deportesvaldivia.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
 Jürgen Press
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| Venue | Estadio Félix Gallardo | ||
| Places | 5,400 | ||
| league | Primera B de Chile | ||
| 2019 | 16th place | ||
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The Club de Deportes Valdivia is a Chilean football club from Valdivia . The club was founded in 1983 and plays its home games at the Estadio Félix Gallardo , which can seat 5,400 spectators. Deportes Valdivia, which has never been a Chilean soccer champion before, is currently playing in Primera B, the second highest division in Chile .
history
The Club de Deportes Valdivia was founded on June 5, 1983 in the city of Valdivia , which now has around 150,000 inhabitants in southern Chile and just fifteen kilometers from the Pacific Ocean . The newly founded club, which was also an amalgamation of numerous small regional clubs, experienced a rapid boom in the following years. After just a few years, he made his first jump into Primera División B, Chile's second highest division in football. And in this, too, you could present yourself surprisingly well, which in the 1988 season resulted in Deportes Valdivias being promoted to the Primera División for the first time . In this year's Zona Sur they were in first place with a lead of three points over O'Higgins Rancagua after the end of all game days and secured the leap into the first class with this placement. There you could then assert yourself sensationally, with tenth place in the Primera División 1988 came out in the end a quite respectable result. But despite the appealing table rank, the gap to the first relegated, surprisingly the multiple champions Universidad de Chile this year , was just two points. A year later, things didn't go as well for Deportes Valdivia. You could get hold of just fifteen points in thirty games in the first division season in 1989 and finished last in the ranking, six points behind the Rangers de Talca . This ended the first division adventure of Deportes Valdivia and the club had to go back to the second division.
With the descent from the Primera División in 1989, the decline of Deportes Valdivia began. After the club had not mixed up Chilean football for more than half a decade, just one year after relegation to the first division, the fall into the Segunda División, to be regarded as the third highest division in Chile. Valdivia couldn't really recover from the failures of the early 1990s. In 2003 Deportes Valdivia went into bankruptcy and was re-established, a new start began in the deepest amateur field. From there you could slowly work your way up again, until 2013 even managed to return to the third-class Segunda División, from which Deportes Valdivia had last left 22 years ago in the direction of the Tercera División. They are currently still playing there and have established themselves with quite acceptable placements in the upper midfield in the third division.
successes
- Promotion to the Primera División : 1 × (1987)
- Apertura Tercera División : 1 × (2006)
Known players
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Luis Marcoleta , today's coach in Chilean football, as a player from 1988 to 1989 in the only two first division seasons with Deportes Valdivia, further with Antofagasta and América de Cali -
Pedro González Vera , 29-time national player from Chile and long-time active from Cobreloa and Universidad de Chile, at Deportes Valdivia in the youth and 1985 to 1989 first station in the professional field
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