Deportes Antofagasta

Deportes Antofagasta

Full name	Club de Deportes Antofagasta S.A.D.P.
Nickname(s)	Pumas, CDA
Founded	May 14, 1966
Ground	Estadio Regional de Antofagasta Antofagasta, Chile (Capacity: 26,339)
Chairman	Osciel Guzmán
Manager	Gustavo Huerta
League	Primera División
2011	1st Primera B (Champion)
Home colours Away colours

Deportes Antofagasta, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta. The club plays in the second level of the Chilean football league system. Their home games are played at the Estadio Regional de Antofagasta, which has a capacity of 26,000 approximately.

History

The club was founded on May 14, 1966 when the amateur clubs Unión Bellavista and Portuario Atacama merged. The team's original name was Club de Deportes Antofagasta Portuario.

The team's first head coach was the 1980s Chilean National manager Luis Santibañez. The team finished 10th in their first league season.

Under coach Francisco Hormazábal, Antofagasta was crowned champions of the second division in 1968. The final was played on January 19, 1969 against San Luis. The only goal of the match was scored by the paraguayan Juan Pelayo Ayala. The team was promoted to first division after that game.

On July 21, 1974 the team changed its name to Club Regional Antofagasta.

In 1977, the team finished 18th in the table and returned to the second level.

In 1979, Jorge León was name team's president and changed the club's name to Club de Deportes Antofagasta. The regional was not appropriate anymore, because of the appearance of another team in the Antofagasta Region, (Cobreloa).

On June 30, 1983 D. Antofagasta finally gained promotion to top level once again after defeating Lota Schwager 9-0. The team was coached by Manuel Rodríguez. However the following year the team again descended to the second level.

D. Antofagasta experienced one of their most successful spans from 1991 through 1995, with the croatian coach Andrija Perčić at the bench and players such as Marco Cornez and Gabriel Caballero.

In 1997, they once again descended to the second level, finishing at the bottom of the table.

In 2005, D. Antofagasta gained promotion to the first division along with Santiago Morning.

In 2008, the club returned to the Primera B, finishing at the bottom of the cumulative table 2007-2008.

Stadium

Club de Deportes Antofagasta plays in the Stadium Regional Antofagasta, which is owned by the Municipality of Antofagasta. The stadium was planned to be a reserve stadium for the FIFA World Cup 1962, and was finally inaugurated on October 8 1964, on the grounds of the former Riding Club of Antofagasta. The first professional football match was played there in 1966, and Deportes Antofagasta has played there since that time. In 2007 the stadium was closed for repairs, and home games had to be played elsewhere; The Estadio Municipal de La Pintana in Santiago against Deportes Puerto Montt in Estadio Municipal de Calama against Huachipato and Estadio Carlos Dittborn, Arica against Lota Schwager.

Honors

• Segunda División: 2

1968, 2011

• Apertura Segunda División (Cup): 1

1990

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• 21 seasons in Primera División
• 25 seasons in Segunda División

Notable players

Mario Véner Guillermo Beraza Marco Cornez César Díaz Mauricio Donoso Patricio Galaz Luis Godoy Kevin Harbottle Fernando Hurtado Juan Carlos Letelier Richard Olivares Juvenal Olmos Andrés Oroz Alejandro Osorio

Renato Ramos Pedro Reyes Ariel Salas César Santis Francisco Valdés Fernando Vergara Alonso Zúñiga Pablo Melgar Gabriel Caballero Patricio Acevedo Rubén Darío Aguilera Ramón Víctor Castro Daniel Fascioli Uriel Pérez

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Sebastián López 2 DF Víctor Oyarzún 3 DF David Portillo 4 DF Juan Riquelme 5 MF Walter Cubilla 6 MF Eric Pino 7 FW Ronald González 8 MF Patricio Rubina 9 FW César Díaz 10 FW Richard Olivares 11 FW Roberto Castillo 12 GK Franco Phillips 13 MF Carlos Escudero 14 DF René Bugueño

No. Position Player 15 DF Roberto Ruz 16 MF Osmán Huerta 18 MF Giovanni Narváez 19 DF Baltazar Astorga 20 MF Rubén Bascuñán 21 MF Mauricio Rosas 22 MF Luis Cabrera 23 DF Rodrigo Barra 24 MF Ángelo González 25 GK Luis Godoy 26 DF Patricio Castañeda 27 FW Leonardo Saavedra -- DF Felipe Abarca -- MF Diego Martínez

External links

• (Spanish) Official Website
• (Spanish) Antofagasta Supporter's Website