Deportes Magallanes is a Chilean Football team based in San Bernardo, Chile. They will play in the Primera División de Chile starting from 2023 after winning the 2022 Primera B championship. The club was founded on October 27, 1897 with the name Atlético Escuela Normal F.C.. In 1933 they became the first national champions of Chile. They won a hat trick of titles in the formative years of Chilean football (1933, 1934 and 1935) but their last major title came in 1938. In 2022 they won the Primera B championship and promotion to the top tier having not competed since 1986, they also won the Copa Chile for the first time in the same year which meant they qualified for the 2022-23 Copa Libertadores. Deportes Magallanes, adopting their official name in 1904, is one of the oldest clubs in the country. Since the year 2000, after accepting the regulations of the chilean law 20019, the team has been managed by a limited sports company. It is one of the eight founding clubs of the Nation Chilean Football League, the first football league established in the country, which also instituted the

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(Primera Division) of Chile. In this league, Magallanes won their first championship in 1933. In addition, they were the first club to win three consecutive professional championships in Chile. The club adopted white and sky blue as their official colors in 1908. These colors are used in their sportswear as well as their logo, which depicts a Caravel on the ocean. Since August 2015, Magallanes has practiced in their hometown of San Bernardo in the city stadium, which seats 3,500 spectators. They often compete in the Metropolitan Classic against their longtime rival, Santiago Morning. In addition, they compete in a championship called de la Chilenidad, where they face off against another rival team, Colo-Colo. Magallanes is ranked sixth for national titles in the Premier Division, tying Everton de Viña del Mar and

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, with four each. They have been the runner up behind Colo-Colo, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica, Cobreloa and Unión Española. They also have one title from the

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(Tercera Division), one title from the Campeonato de Apertura, one from the Campeonato Relámpago and one from the Campeonato Absoluto. Despite their lack of titles in the last 70 years the club are still ranked as the seventh most successful team in the history of Chilean football.

Titles

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: 4 ::1933, 1934, 1935, 1938 * Copa Chile: 1 ::2022 * Campeonato de Apertura (Cup): 1 ::1937 *

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: 1 ::2022 * Tercera División A: 2 ::1995, 2010

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

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: First Round

Current squad

2021 Winter Transfers

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Notable players

Manuel Pichulman Manuel Caupolicán Pichulman Plaza (born 14 September 1952), is a Chilean former professional footballer. He played forward for clubs in Chile, Belgium, and Central America. Career In Chile Pichulman played for Colo-Colo, Magallanes, Audax It ...

Managers

Luis Tirado Luis Norberto Tirado Gordillo (born 4 April 1906 — 24 November 1964) was a Chilean footballer and manager. Career Born in Copiapó, Chile, he represented the Tocopilla team at the age of 14. Later, he played for Colo-Colo, Santiago National, ...

(1931) *

Máximo Garay Máximo Garay ( hu, Garay Miksa, 10 June 1898 – 8 August 1960) was a Hungarian naturalized Chilean football manager. Career Born Miska Garay Magnuzs in Hungary, he naturalized Chilean. He worked for clubs in Argentina and Chile. In additio ...

(1942) *

Ferenc Plattkó Ferenc Plattkó (born in Budapest, Hungary, 2 December 1898, died Santiago, Chile, 2 September 1983), also known as Ferenc Platko or Francisco Platko (in Spain his mothers maiden name "Kopiletz" has been appended according to local customs) was ...

(1944) *

Raúl Pino Raúl Mariano Pino Terán (17 October 1925 – 30 July 2002) was a Chilean football manager who worked in Chile and Bolivia. Career As a football player, he was a product of Universidad de Chile youth system, and left football at the age of 19 ...

(1965) * Ricardo Dabrowski (1993) * Francisco Valdés (1997) *

Juan Páez Juan Antonio Páez Cepeda (born 13 February 1950) is a Chilean people, Chilean association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former footballer who played as a Defender (association football), centre-back. Playing car ...

(1998–1999) * Osvaldo Hurtado (2008–2014) *

Pablo Abraham Pablo Damián Abraham Capelli (born 30 March 1979) is an Argentine football manager. He was most recently the coach of Sport Rosario. Managerial career In 2012, he was hired by Chilean third-tier side Fernández Vial after working as Jorge Sam ...

(2015–2016) *

Nicolás Núñez Nicolás Arnaldo Núñez Rojas, nicknamed Nico, (born 12 September 1984) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Núñez began his career with Universidad Católica in 2001, and subsequently played for Alba ...

(2021-)

References

External links

Magallanes Unofficial site

Magallanes Official site

Magallanes Supporter´s site
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