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Copa Colombia
The Copa Colombia ( en, Colombia Cup, link=yes); officially known as Copa BetPlay Dimayor is an annual football tournament in Colombia. It is contested by the 36 professional clubs of DIMAYOR and is the nation's domestic cup competition, equivalent to the FA Cup in England or the Copa del Rey in Spain. The Copa Colombia was played for the first time in 1950, and it has been played consecutively since its revival in 2008. The most successful club is Atlético Nacional, with four titles. Millonarios are the current holders, who won their third Copa Colombia against Junior, winning the final series by a 2–1 aggregate score. History The Copa Colombia was created in 1950 by DIMAYOR, after the first two editions of the professional league. It was won by Boca Juniors de Cali, who defeated Santa Fe with an aggregate score of 7–6. The existence of the next edition, 1951–52, is disputed according to different sources. RSSSF indicate the tournament was won by Boca Juniors, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombian Football Federation
The Colombian Football Federation (in es, Federación Colombiana de Fútbol) is the governing body of football in Colombia. It was founded in 1924 and has been affiliated to FIFA since 1936. It is a member of CONMEBOL and is in charge of the Colombia national football team. Presidents * 1936: Carlos Lafourie Roncallo * 1948: Bernardo Jaramillo García * 1951: Eduardo Carbonell Insignares * 1957: Efraín Borrero * 1957: Rafael Fernández * 1958: Efraín Borrero * 1961: Pedro Nery López * 1962: Luis Benedetti Gómez * 1964: Eduardo Carbonell Insignares * 1964: Alfonso Senior Quevedo * 1971: Eduardo Carbonell Insignares * 1975: Alfonso Senior Quevedo * 1982: León Londoño Tamayo * 1992: Juan José Bellini * 1995: Hernán Mejía Campuzano (interim) * 1996: Álvaro Fina Domínguez * 2002: Óscar Astudillo Palomino * 2006: Luis Bedoya Giraldo * 2015-present: Ramón Jesurún, Ramón Jesurún Franco References External links FCF Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Campeonato Profesional
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2009 Copa Colombia
The 2009 Copa Colombia football tournament, officially the 2009 Copa Postobón for sponsorship reasons, was the seventh edition of the Copa Colombia, the national football cup competition for clubs of Colombia's DIMAYOR league. It began on March 4 and ended on November 18. Santa Fe won the tournament for their 2nd title. Format The format for 2009 remains the same as last year's. The winner of will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana. Phase I Group A Group A comprises teams from the Caribbean Region. Group B Group B comprises teams from the Paisa Region. Group C Group C comprises teams from Santander, Norte de Santander, and Boyacá. Group D Group D comprises teams from Bogotá and Villavicencio. Group E Group E comprises teams from the Pacific Region. Group F Group F comprises teams from Cundinamarca and the western part of the country. Phase II Phase II began on August 26 and ended on September 2. Team #2 played the second leg at home. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once Caldas
Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Palogrande stadium. They were the surprise winners of the Copa Libertadores in 2004. The club was founded in 1961 after the merger of Deportes Caldas and Deportivo Manizales (also known as Once Deportivo). History In 1950, Deportes Caldas won the Campeonato Profesional, as the Colombian professional football league was named at the time. Once Caldas was founded in 1959 after the fusion of Once Deportivo and Deportes Caldas. Once Deportivo was founded in 1930 while Deportes Caldas was founded at the end of the 1940s. However, both teams, for various reasons, went defunct. Carlos Gómez Escobar was in favor of reviving Deportes Caldas, but Eduardo Gómez Arrubla's idea was to bring back Once Deportivo. Thanks to the mediation of Dr. Hermán Bueno Ramirez, the three co-founders arrived at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Deportivo Los Millonarios
Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students from the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé. After the team initially was unsure about which name it would want to use: Unión and Juventud were originally favoured, it got under the influence of the city administration of Bogotá and operated as ''Club Municipal de Deportes''. Millonarios was formally founded on June 18, 1946, thanks to the efforts of Alfonso Senior Quevedo, who became the first chairman. Considered to be one of the strongest clubs from Colombia, it is one of the most consistent clubs in the country. Millonarios has won 15 league titles, 3 Copa Colombia and a Superliga Colombiana, making it the second most successful team in Colombia. They have also been crowned continental champions by winning the Copa Simón Bolívar i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Santa Fe
Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional Association football, football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Estadio El Campín, El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the three most successful teams in Colombia, winning eighteen titles, which includes 9 national championships (most recently in 2016 Categoría Primera A season, 2016), Four Superliga Colombiana, two Copa Colombia, Copas Colombia, and international titles such as one Copa Sudamericana, one Suruga Bank Championship, and one Copa Simón Bolívar. Santa Fe is one of the three clubs that has played every championship in the Categoría Primera A. Santa Fe became the first Colombian team to win the Copa Sudamericana, and the first Colombian team to win an official tournament outside America. The club was recognized as one of the ten best clubs in the world in 2015 by the International Federation of Football Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa(50s)Millonarios
Copa or COPA may refer to: COPA COPA may refer to: * Computer Operator Programming Assistant. trade of ITI * Child Online Protection Act, a former U.S. law to protect minors from certain material on the internet * Canadian Owners and Pilots Association * Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association * Parliamentary Conference of the Americas * COPA (gene), a human gene that encodes the coatomer subunit alpha protein * Controlling Profitability Analysis, Profitability Analysis (SAP) *COPA-COGECA, a union of European farmers Copa Copa may refer to: * Copa Heizung GmbH, COPA branded hydronic steel panel and bathroom radiator supplier based in Germany * Copa Airlines, an international airline based in Panama * Copa America, the main association football competition of the South American men's national football teams * ''Copa'' (spider), a genus of spiders in the family Corinnidae * Copacabana (nightclub), a nightclub in New York City * Copa Room, now-defunct Las Vegas nightclub at The Sands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria Brewery (Colombia)
Bavaria Brewery ( es, Cervecería Bavaria), formally known as Bavaria S.A., is a Colombian brewery company founded on April 4, 1889, by Leo S. Kopp, a German immigrant. In 2005, Bavaria Brewery became a subsidiary of SABMiller. Before the merger, Bavaria was the second-largest brewery in South America. On 10 October 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired the SABMiller company, so SABMiller ceased to exist as a corporation and ceased trading on global stock markets, and Bavaria became a division of the first. History In 1876, Leo Siegfried and Emil Kopp arrived in Santander seeking business opportunities. In 1879, with the brothers Santiago and Carlos Arturo Castello, they formed in Bogota the company Kopp y Castello, for the trading and importing of goods. On April 4, 1889, the acquisition of a lot for the construction of a brewery was registered in Bogota. In 1890, the society Kopp and Castello was dissolved and was created the company Bavaria Kopp's Deutsche Bierbrauerei, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Equidad
Club Deportivo La Equidad Seguros, also known as La Equidad, is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Metropolitano de Techo stadium. History La Equidad was founded in 1982 by its namesake company ''Seguros La Equidad'', and immediately after its foundation it entered the Olaya Tournament, a traditional amateur football tournament in Bogotá. La Equidad's first appearance in the 1982–83 edition of the tournament was supported by Independiente Santa Fe, which handed over a manager and several players of their youth ranks to take part in the competition, which was ultimately won by them. In 1993, La Equidad was officially constituted as an amateur club and joined the Bogotá Football League (''Liga de Fútbol de Bogotá''), entering the Categoría Primera C as well as the different youth tournaments organized by the regional amateur football league. In 2003, La Equidad turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Copa Colombia
The 2008 Copa Colombia, officially the 2008 Copa Postobón for sponsorship reasons, was the sixth edition of the Copa Colombia, the football tournament for professional clubs in Colombia. This edition marked the return of the tournament after a 19-year absence. It began on March 12 and ended on November 19. Bogotá club La Equidad beat Manizales club Once Caldas in the finals for their first Copa Colombia title. Format The competition is divided into 5 stages. The first stage is a group stage. The groups will be comprised by teams from the same regions, six teams per group. The top-two teams from each group will advance to the a second stage. The second stage will comprise six matches, each contested by two teams. The six winners advance to the third stage, which is identical to the second stage. The three winners and the best second place team advance to the semifinals. The winner of the semifinals advance to the finals. The winner of the Copa Colombia will earn a berth in the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postobón
Postobón, S.A. ( ) is the largest Colombian beverage company, and also one of the largest in South America. The company has a wide portfolio of products that includes soft drinks, fruit juices, bottled water, tea, an energy drink, and coffee. It has created soft drinks such as "Manzana Postobón", an apple-flavored soda, and its most popular "Colombiana", a cola champagne. Additional flavors of Postobón soda beyond apple include grape, orange, pineapple, and lemon. Postobón has expanded its product line by including bottled water and boxed juices; the latter are currently sold under the brandname ''Hit''. History On October 11, 1904, Gabriel Posada and Valerio Tobón (the company's name being a portmanteau of their last names) started to produce soft drinks. Soon after, in Medellín, Colombia, their first product, called "Cola-Champaña", became very famous in bars, stores, social clubs, and homes. This product was distributed in a wagon pulled by a donkey; because of geog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
América De Cali
América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian football. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, one of the most important stadiums in the country. The club is one of the oldest in Colombia; its foundation dates from 1927 and has its origins in the América Football Club, which was founded in 1918. It is also one of the most successful Colombian clubs, both nationally and internationally, being considered one of the strongest and most consistent clubs in the country. América has won 15 league titles and a second division tournament title, in addition to reaching the final of four Copa Libertadores (including three in a row from 1985 to 1987). Although it has never won the Copa Libertadores, it has won two international tournaments, the Copa Simón Bolívar in 1975 and the Copa Merconorte in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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