Deportes Concepción

Deportes Concepción

Full name	Club Social y de Deportes Concepción
Nickname(s)	El Conce, El León de Collao
Founded	February 29, 1966
Ground	Estadio Ester Roa Concepción, Chile
Capacity	30,448
Chairman	Victor Torneria
Manager	Esteban González
League	Segunda División
2019	2nd, (Tercera División)
Home colours Away colours

Deportes Concepción is a Chilean football club based in the city of Concepción, Biobio Region. They currently play at the third tier of the Chilean League system, the Segunda División.

The club was founded in 1966, by the organizations of several amateur clubs such as Galvarino, Liverpool, Juvenil Unido, Santa Fe and Club Lord Cochrane. The club is one of the most popular in the VIII region of Chile, their main rivals are Fernández Vial and Huachipato. The club played their home games at Estadio Ester Roa in Concepción, Chile, which seats 30,448 people.

History

The team joined the second level of the Chilean professional league in 1966 and won the tournament a year later gaining promotion to the Primera División de Chile.

In 1991 the team joined in representing Chile in the Copa Libertadores, they passed through the 1st round phase but lost in the round of sixteen against América de Cali.

In 1993 the club was relegated after finishing 15th of 16 teams, but the club bounced straight back by winning the second division title in 1994.

Concepción played their next big international tournament in 1999, they participated in the Copa CONMEBOL and made it all the way to the semifinals but lost against Talleres de Córdoba from Argentina. A real disappointment to the fans.

In the year 2001, they once again played the Copa Libertadores and beat rivals such as San Lorenzo from Argentina and Jorge Wilstermann from Bolivia. Once again they made it into the round of sixteen but lost this time to Vasco da Gama from Brazil who had top class players like Romário in their team.

In 2002 the club were again relegated by finishing 15th of 16 teams in the aggregated table, they returned to the top flight in 2004.

In the year 2006 the team was suspended and could not play professionally in the whole year due to debts and unpaid salaries. The club was going to be relegated, but after a legal battle, they were readmitted in the Chilean first division, where they play in 2007. An alternative team (Deportes Concepción B) played that season at the Third level, as well.

In 2016 the club was expelled of the Chilean National League system due to economic problems. And returned in 2018 at last level of the league system, the fifth tier, Tercera B, gaining promotion in their debut season on the category to the next level, the fourth tier Tercera División, for 2019, in which they get a consecutive promotion to the next level, the third tier Segunda División, for 2020.

Club Facts

• Seasons in Primera División (I): 33 (1968–81), (1985–93), (1995–02), (2005), (2007–08)
• Seasons in Primera B (II): 11 (1966–67), (1982–84), (1994), (2003–04), (2009–2016)
• Seasons in Segunda División (III): 1 (2020–)
• Seasons in Tercera División (IV): 1 (2019)
• Seasons in Tercera B (V): 1 (2018)
• Copa Libertadores appearances: 2 (1991, 2001)
• Copa CONMEBOL appearances: 1 (1999)
• Largest Margin of Victory: 7–1 vs. Santiago Morning (1976)
• Largest Margin of Defeat: 0–7 vs Universidad de Chile (1987)
• Best Finish in Primera División: 2nd (1975)
• Best Finish in Copa Chile: Runner-up (2010)
• Highest home attendance  — 37,423 v. Colo-Colo (1 October 1972)
• Most Goals in Primera División matches: Víctor Estay (77 goals)
• All-time Goalscorer: Víctor Estay (88 goals)
• All-time Appearances: Patricio Almendra (269 games)

National Honors

• Liguilla Pre-Libertadores
  • Winners (2): 1990, 2000
• Primera B
  • Winners (2): 1967, 1994

Crest

• 

  1998 to 2017

South American cups history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1991	Copa Libertadores	First Stage Group 2		Colo-Colo	0–0	0–2	3rd Place
				Barcelona	1–0	2–2
				L.D.U. Quito	3–0	0–4
		Round of 16		América de Cali	0–3	3–3	3–6
1999	Copa CONMEBOL	Quarterfinals		Rosario Central	2–1	2–2	4–3
		Semifinals		Talleres de Córdoba	1–1	1–2	2–3
2001	Copa Libertadores	First Stage Group 3		Nacional	0–0	0–2	2nd Place
				San Lorenzo	3–2	1–2
				Jorge Wilstermann	3–0	1–2
		Round of 16		Vasco da Gama	1–3	0–1	1–4

Current squad

Current squad of Deportes Concepción as of 2020 (edit)
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site

No. Position Player 1 CHI GK Angelo Giolito 3 CHI DF Christian Looff 4 CHI DF Matías Manríquez 5 CHI DF Rodrigo Acum 6 CHI MF Patricio Leiva 7 CHI FW Ignacio Sepúlveda 8 CHI MF Brian Fuentes 9 CHI FW Daniel Benavente

No. Position Player 11 CHI FW Kevin Salazar 12 CHI GK Ricardo Cárcamo 13 CHI DF Sebastián Sepúlveda 14 CHI DF Matías Lagos 15 CHI MF Patricio Leiva -- CHI FW Gabriel Vargas -- CHI FW Daúd Gazale

Manager: Esteban González

Transfers

In

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

No. Pos. Nation Player -- GK CHI Jonathan Salvador (back from Unión Española) -- DF CHI Rodrigo Jara (from Santiago Morning) -- DF CHI Jaime Gaete (from Santiago Morning) -- MF CHI Felipe Elgueta (from Huachipato) -- MF CHI Camilo Gainza (Loan from Universidad Católica)

No. Pos. Nation Player -- MF CHI Alexis Delgado (from Audax Italiano) -- FW CHI Matías Sánchez (from Huachipato) -- FW CHI José Torres (from Malleco Unido) -- FW CHI Francisco Ibáñez (from Barnechea)

Out

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK CHI José Lafrentz (back to Santiago Wanderers) 2 MF CHI Gerson Valle (loan to Unión San Felipe) 3 DF CHI Leonel Mena (Released) 8 FW ARG Matías Sarraute (Released) 9 FW URU Brian Lugo (Released)

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF CHI Luis Pacheco (to Magallanes) 19 MF CHI Piero Gárate (to Trasandino) 23 MF ARG Agustín Briones (to Mushuc Runa) 21 FW CHI Joel Estay (to Trasandino)

Managers

Carlos Orlandelli (1966) Isaac Carrasco (1967) Sergio Cruzat (1968) Luis Vera (1969-1973) Néstor Isella (1974) Guillermo Baez (1975-76) Alfonso Sepúlveda (1976) Nelson Oyarzún (1977) Manuel González (1977) Alex Veloso (1977) Isaac Carrasco (1978) Luis Vera (1978-1979) Pedro García (1980) Carlos Hoffmann (1981) Jaime Ramírez (1981) Hernán Godoy (1982) Luis Vera (1984) Rolando García (1985) Gustavo Cortés (1986) Eduardo de la Barra (1987) Luis Vera (1987)

Eduardo de la Barra (1988) Fernando Cavalleri (1989-1990) Luis Vera (1990) Jorge Luis Siviero (1991) Eduardo de la Barra (1991) Julio César Antúnez (1992) Luis Vera (1992) Sacha Mitjaew (1993) Luis Vera (1993) Fernando Cavalleri (1993-1996) Sergio Nichiporuk (1997) Oscar del Solar (1998-1999) Oscar Garré (2000) Sergio Nichiporuk (2001) Fernando Cavalleri (2001) Carlos González (2002) Eduardo Cortázar (2003) Víctor Merello (2003) Luis Marcoleta (2004) Oscar del Solar (2004-2005) Humberto López (2005)

Jaime Nova (2007) Fernando Cavalleri (2007) Jorge Garcés (2008) Antonio Zaracho (2008-2009) Fernando Cavalleri (2009-2010) Daniel Salvador (2010) Oscar del Solar (2010-2011) Antonio Zaracho (2011) Jorge Garcés (2011) Germán Corengia (2012) Roberto Mariani (2013) Víctor Merello (2013) Patricio Almendra (2013-2014) Fernando Quiroz (2014) Juan José Ribera (2014-2015) Ariel Pereyra (2015-2016) Antonio Zaracho (2017) Esteban González (2018-)

External links

• (in Spanish) Official Website

See also

• Chilean football league system