Naval de Talcahuano
| Naval | |||
| Full name | Deportes Naval de Talcahuano | ||
| place | Talcahuano | ||
| Founded | 1944 | ||
| Dissolved | 1991 | ||
| Club colors | blue White | ||
| Stadion | Estadio El Morro | ||
| Top league | Primera División | ||
| successes | 5th place in 1981 and 1982 | ||
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Deportes Naval de Talcahuano was a Chilean football club from Talcahuano . The club was founded in 1944, dissolved in 1991 and played its home games at the Estadio El Morro . Naval de Talcahuano never became Chilean football champion. but played from 1972 to 1976 and from 1979 to 1990 for a total of seventeen years in the Primera División .
history
The association Deportes Naval de Talcahuano was founded on May 21, 1944 in Talcahuano , a city with now about 160,000 inhabitants on the west coast of Chile . Talcahuano is traditionally influenced by the military and so it was a good idea to establish a club of the Chilean armed forces there. From the founding of the association in 1944, Naval de Talcahuano was under the direction of the army of the long South American country, similar to the way CD Aviación was the association of the air force.
In the first two decades of its existence, Naval de Talcahuano only played at amateur level, it wasn't until 1968 that it made its first jump into the second Chilean soccer league. There you could establish yourself relatively quickly and made first place in the Segunda División in 1971 with a lead of one point over Deportivo Ñublense . Arrived in the Primera División , Naval was able to secure relegation there with a strong tenth place in the table. Two years later you even came in eighth. In 1976, however, followed after five years of first class, the return to the Segunda División, after one in the first division of the 1976 season ranked penultimate place with three points behind the last relegation place occupied by the Rangers de Talca . It took until 1979 before you could see first division football again in Talcahuano. But this time Naval was able to fully establish itself in the Primera División and stayed there for twelve years in a row. During this time two fifth places also fall in the first division seasons in 1981 and 1982. In general, Naval de Talcahuano had by far his best time in the eighties. Along with the political change and the departure from the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet , the star of the military association also fell at the end of the 1980s. In 1990, Pinochet was replaced as President of Chile by Patricio Aylwin . In the course of these developments, the Chilean military also lost importance in the country. Naval de Talcahuano quickly plagued financial bottlenecks. In the same year, despite winning playout games against CD Antofagasta and the Rangers de Talca, the forced relegation from the Primera División, after having previously spent twelve years in a row in this league. The club did not take part in the 1991 second division season either. Naval de Talcahuano had already been dissolved before the start of the season due to severe financial problems after 47 years of existence.
After the end of Naval de Talcahuano, an unofficial successor club called CD Naval de Talcahuano was formed . This consisted of the 1972 launched CD Los Nauticos, which later became CD Talcahuano and, over the years, took on the name of the formerly largest club in Talcahuano next to CD Huachipato . CD Naval de Talcahuano currently plays in the Tercera División, the fourth highest Chilean league.
successes
- Chilean second division championship : 1 × (1971)
- Copa Apertura Segunda División : 1 × (1969)
Known players
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Humberto Elgueta , took part with his home country in the 1930 World Cup and played for Gold Cross, the Santiago Wanderers and as the last career station at Naval de Talcahuano -
Marcelo Ramírez , Chilean World Cup goalkeeper from 1998, spent almost his entire career at Colo-Colo, only in 1990 he played for Naval de Talcahuano for a year
