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Sociedad Deportivo Quito is a soccer club based in Quito, Ecuador. Deportivo Quito plays in Primera A, Ecuador's premier football league. Deportivo Quito's titles include two league championships (1964 and 1968) as well as four Interandean Tournament titles (1955, 1956, 1957, & 1963). Additionally, the club was runner up in 1985, 1988, and 1997. Historical rivals include Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, Sociedad Deportiva Aucas, and Club Deportivo El Nacional. Based on its style of play, sports journalists and fans nicknamed the club "La Academia de los Ecuatorianos desde 1940" (Spanish: The Academy of the Ecuadorians since 1940).
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The club was founded on July 9, 1940, under the name Argentina. On October 1, 1954, the club, together with Sociedad Deportiva Aucas & Sociedad Deportiva España, founded Asociación de Fútbol No Amatur (AFNA) de Pichincha (Spanish: Non-Amatuer Football Association of Pichincha). This was followed by provincial professional soccer tournaments. In accordance with AFNA bylaws, which stipulated that no team could be named after a country (except after Spain), the shareholders of Argentina got together and changed the club's name to Sociedad Deportivo Quito.
The 50's and 60's were fruitful decades for Deportivo Quito with the club obtaining National Championship titles in 1964 and 1968 as well as Interandean Championships (named so for inclusion of teams from both Quito and Ambato) in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1963. The 70's were a dark period for the club, which decended and spent several seasons in the second tier Primera B of the Ecuadorian Football League. The 80's and 90's brought a return measure of success for the club which came in as runners up in 1985, 1988, 1997 and qualified to participate in Copa Libertadores. 1989 also saw the transfer of one of the brightest players in Ecuadorian soccer history, Alex Aguinaga to Club Necaxa of Mexico.
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