Club Deportivo Guabirá is a Bolivian professional

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club from Montero, Santa Cruz, that currently plays in the

Bolivian Primera División The División de Fútbol Profesional is the top-flight professional football league in Bolivia. Until 2017 it was known as the "Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano" (; en, Bolivian Professional Football League). Since 1950, a total of 16 clubs ...

. Their home ground is the

Estadio Gilberto Parada Estadio Gilberto Parada is a multi-use stadium in Montero, Bolivia, Montero, Bolivia. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and serves as the home of Guabirá of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano. The stadium ...

, which has a capacity of 18,000 spectators. Although the team has always been based in Montero, they played in

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until 1999 when their stadium was finally brought up to first division standards.

History

The club was formed on 14 April 1962. Guabirá won its first trophy with the 1975 league title. The championship also gave the club a spot in their first continental participation: the

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, where it finished last in its group. The next year, in 1977, the club was one of the 16 clubs that founded the Bolivian professional league. In 1995 the club finished runner-up, which granted it a spot in the

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. The club finished last in the group again, although it got a victory over fellow Bolivian side

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. The club almost won the

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, but lost to

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in the final. The club earned its first

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participation and made the return to continental tournaments after 22 years with its participation in the 2018 Copa Sudamericana, where the club was eliminated in the first round on

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. They earned this right because they finished 6th in the aggregate table for the 2016–17 season. Guabirá participated again in the

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and

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editions. In 2019 they were eliminated in the first round to an Ecuadorian team again, this time to Macará, while in 2021 they defeated fellow Bolivian side

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to advance to the

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, in which they lost all of their matches.

Honours

* First Division – Professional Era **Winners (1): 1975 **Runners-up (1):

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* Second Division/ Copa Simón Bolivar **Winners (2): 2007, 2009 **Runners-up (2): 1991, 2005 * Copa Aerosur del Sur **Winners (1):

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**Runners-up (3): 1978, 1982,

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

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: 2 appearances ::Best: First Round in 1976, 1996 ::

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– First Round ::

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– First Round *

: 3 appearances ::Best: Group Stage in 2021 ::

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– First stage ::

– Group Stage

Current squad

References

External links

Club website
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