Huachipato FC is a Chilean

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based in

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that currently plays in the

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. Huachipato was founded on 7 June 1947 by workers of the homonymous steel mill in Talcahuano, and it currently plays its home games at the Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero, which it owns, making it one of the five Chilean professional football clubs to own their own ground. Originally a multisports club, Huachipato became a football club in 2015. Huachipato has thrice become Chilean champions, and it is the first and to date, only team from

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to win the Chilean top flight title. Huachipato is known in Chile from its academy and youth talent production that makes up the bulk of their squad, qualifying for the

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twice, both times as reigning youth Chilean champions.

History

In 1947, CD Huachipato was officially notarized, and the first official recorded game was played. The original fans were the local company employees of the steel industry in

Huachipato Club Deportivo Huachipato is a Chilean football club based in Talcahuano that is a current member of the Chilean Primera División. The club was founded 7 June 1947 and plays its home games at the Estadio CAP, which has a capacity of 10,500 ...

. It took a few years for the club to achieve its first successes, obtaining regional championships in 1956 and 1964. In its early seasons, "the Steelers" (''Acereros''), as they are known, were quite satisfactory in the second division. The 1965 debut was against ''Municipal de Santiago'' with a 3–0 victory. After 36 games the standings would show Huachipato second with 46 points, 3 points less than that of Ferrobádminton another second-division team that took the championship and thus passage (which is how it was granted in those years) to the First Division. However, a year later (1966), the Steelers managed promotion to the first division, after winning the second division champions Chile with 49 points, they remained well above teams like Coquimbo (42 points) and San Antonio (39) who stayed with the second and third place respectively after thirty games. With only two years in the professionalism of Talcahuano, Huachipato was installed in the top-flight professional football in Chile, La Primera División. With a tie on a goal, as local and against Audax Italiano, the "Steelers" debuted in the first division. In the first season of the first division, Huachipato had an acceptable term in sixth place among 18 teams, although the tournament was on two wheels. The following years were quiet for steel, culminating their shares in the mid-high zone of the standings. However, a few years after this change, Huachipato won the 1974 First Division Football Championship, with this triumph they are the only Chilean Football team from the south of Chile to obtain the title. 1974 was a year that many Huachipato fans will never forget, after 34 matches played, Huachipato had to beat ''Aviación'' to become champions in their last match, and they did it, ''Moisés Silva'' scored the only goal that crowned Huchipato champions that year. Since then the club has never won any other title, but it has always caused difficulties for the big teams when playing against Huachipato, especially in the

Estadio Las Higueras Estadio Las Higueras was a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile. It was the home ground of the Club Deportivo Huachipato until the current Estadio CAP Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero (''Compañía de Acero del Pacífico''), is a football stadi ...

, their former home ground. From the end of the 1990s, Huachipato was characterized by a club trainer of players from lower divisions. Examples of these are important values steelmakers who emerged from the quarry as

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Cristián Reynero Cristián Eduardo Reynero Cerda (born August 25, 1979 in Chile) is a Chilean footballer, who currently plays defender for Barnechea. Career He started his career with Huachipato, where he played from 1999 to 2006. In the last four seasons wit ...

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Mario Salgado Mario Antonio Salgado Jiménez (born 3 June 1981) is a Chilean retired footballer. Salgado formerly played at Huachipato in Chile and then moved to Italy with Brescia Calcio and remained during several years at other clubs of Europe. In Febru ...

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, Gonzalo Jara, Pedro Morales,

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, among others. As for sporting achievements, reached the Semi-Finals in the Torneos Apertura in the years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In addition, since the end of the 1990s, the Huachipato classification achieved an international tournament and the Copa Sudamericana 2006 and their second championship in 38 years, after defeating Unión Española in the 2012 Chilean Clausura Tournament final. Huachipato were crowned champions of the

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by 1 point, and in dramatic fashion. They triumphed 2-0 against

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at home on the final matchday, to increase their point tally to 57, while

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, who had 56 points, failed to gain any points on their final matchday, suffering a 1-0 away loss to Unión Española. This gave Huachipato its third overall league title, and first since 2014. As a result of their triumph of Chile's top flight in 2023, they are set to participate in the

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Team Colours and Symbols

From its foundation in 1947 and until 1966, Huachipato wore a red shirt, blue pants and white socks uniform in the same vein as the Chile national football team. Upon Huachipato's first promotion to the top flight in 1967, the team switched to its current black and blue uniform, inspired by Inter Milan's colours. Huachipato's name is derived from the

Mapudungun Mapuche (, Mapuche & Spanish: , or Mapudungun; from ' 'land' and ' 'speak, speech') is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from ''mapu'' 'land' and ''che ...

eponomyous term that coined the area where the team is located, with the term meaning "Bird-catching trap". Huachipato's badge was inspired by the Steelmark logo owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute, bearing a similarity to the

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logo, given both teams steelmaking roots.

Data and honours

Club data

* Seasons in

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: 50 (1967-1978, 1983–1990, 1992, 1995-) * Seasons in Primera B: 9 (1965-1966, 1979–1982, 1991, 1993–1994) * Copa Chile appearances: 33 (

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

-2018 Copa Chile, 2018-2019 Copa Chile, 2019-2021 Copa Chile, 2021-2022 Copa Chile, 2022-2023 Copa Chile, 2023) * Copa Libertadores appearances: 3 (1975 Copa Libertadores, 1975, 2013 Copa Libertadores, 2013, 2024 Copa Libertadores, 2024) * Copa Sudamericana appearances: 5 (2006 Copa Sudamericana, 2006, 2014 Copa Sudamericana, 2014, 2015 Copa Sudamericana, 2015, 2020 Copa Sudamericana, 2020, 2021 Copa Sudamericana, 2021)

Honours

: **Champions (3)::1974 Primera División de Chile, 1974, 2012 Torneo Clausura (Chile), 2012-C, 2023 Chilean Primera División, 2023 * Copa Chile ** Runners-up (1):

*Primera B (Chile), Segunda División: **Champions (1): 1966 Segunda División de Chile, 1966 ** Runners-up (3): 1965 Segunda División de Chile, 1965, 1991 Segunda División de Chile, 1991, 1994 Segunda División de Chile, 1995 *Copa Apertura Segunda División: **Champions (2): 1979, 1983

Women's team

*Women's Primera B, Primera B: **Champions (1): 2021

South American cups history

Club Records

*Record Chilean Primera División, Primera División victory — 6–0 ''v.'' Deportes Aviación, Aviación (1975 Primera División de Chile, 1975) and Unión La Calera, La Calera (2014 Torneo Clausura (Chile), 2014) *Record Primera División defeat — 0–7 ''v.'' Club Deportivo Palestino, Palestino (1978 Primera División de Chile, 1978) *Record Copa Chile victory — 12–1 ''v.'' Luchador de Coñaripe (

) *Record Copa Chile defeat — 0-4 ''v.'' Provincial Osorno, Osorno (

) and Unión Española (

) *Record Copa Libertadores victory — 4-0 ''v.'' Caracas F.C., Caracas (2013 Copa Libertadores, 2013) *Record Copa Libertadores defeat — 2-7 ''v.'' Unión Española (1974 Copa Libertadores, 1974) *Record Copa Sudamericana victory — 3-0 ''v.'' C.D. Antofagasta, Antofagasta (2021 Copa Sudamericana, 2021) *Record Copa Sudamericana defeat — 0-5 ''v.'' Rosario Central (2021 Copa Sudamericana, 2021) *Record Top Scorer — 72 goals,

(2000–2005, 2015) *Most Appearances — 329 matches, Gabriel Sandoval (2002–2014) *Highest home attendance — 43,340 ''v.'' Colo-Colo (12 November 1967, at Estadio Ester Roa, Estadio Regional de Concepción) *

Best Result — Champions (1974 Primera División de Chile, 1974, 2012 Torneo Clausura (Chile), 2012 C) * Copa Chile Best Result — Runner-up (2013–14 Copa Chile, 2013–14)

Other sports

Up until 2015, Huachipato was a multisports club, maintaining basketball, karate, taekwondo, artistic roller skating, Roller hockey (Quad), roller hockey, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, and futsal branches.

Supporters and Rivalries

Huachipato's supporters, nicknamed the ''Acereros'', largely come from its home city of

, with groups of fans coming from cities belonging to the Greater Concepción conurbation. A smaller group of fans reside in Santiago, often attending away games. Huachipato's main rivals are Deportes Naval, Naval, who are also based in Talcahuano and with whom Huachipato contest the ''Clásico Chorero'' , and Deportes Concepción (Chile), Deportes Concepción, from the Concepción, Chile, neighbouring city and regional capital, with whom Huachipato contest the ''Clasico del Gran Concepción''. Huachipato and O'Higgins F.C. have a longstanding mutual friendship, originating from the Tomé tragedy of 2013, where 16 travelling O'Higgins fans tragically lost their lives in a road accident in Tomé, while returning from Estadio CAP after a 2-0 O'Higgins victory. In every fixture played between both teams since, both clubs organize a memorial ceremony previous to each match. Huachipato installed a permanent commemorative plaque at Estadio CAP in 2018, in remembrance of the tragedy, and since 2022, both clubs symbolically contest the ''Copa 16'' (Trophy of the 16), in honour of the departed fans.

Players

Current squad

Youth Academy

2024 transfers

In

Out

Out on loan

Managers

In ''Italics'', the caretaker managers of Huachipato. In bold, the managers who won a title with Huachipato. * Arturo Gutiérrez (Chilean Manager), Arturo Gutiérrez (1949-1950) * Gastón Osbén (1950) * Arturo Gutiérrez (Chilean Manager), Arturo Gutiérrez (1950-1951) * Teodoro Contreras (1951) * Félix Caballero (Chilean Manager), Félix Caballero (1952-1953) * Nestór Madariaga (1954-1955) * Sergio Cruzat (1956-1959) * Nestór Madariaga (1959-1960) * José Luis Boffi (1961) * Amadeo Silva (1962) * Luis Vera (Chilean footballer), Luis Vera (1963-1968) * Andrés Prieto (footballer, born 1928), Andrés Prieto (1969–70) * Caupolicán Peña (1971) * Pedro Morales Torres, Pedro Morales (1972-1975) * Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Argentine footballer), Miguel Ángel Ruiz (1975) * Armando Tobar (1975) * Salvador Biondi (1976) * Alberto Fouilloux (1977–78) * Armando Tobar (1978) * Luis Vera (Chilean footballer), Luis Vera (1979-1982) * Francisco Hormazábal (1983-1984) * Luis Ibarra (football manager), Luis Ibarra (1984) * Luis Santibañez (1985) * ''Luis Vera (Chilean footballer), Luis Vera'' (1985) * Antonio Vargas (footballer), Antonio Vargas (1985–86) * Luis Vera (Chilean footballer), Luis Vera (1986–87) * Nelson Gatica (1987) * Manfredo González (1987–89) * Juan Carlos Gangas (1990) * Germán Cornejo (1991) * Manuel Keosseián (1992) * ''Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (1992) * Rolando García Jiménez, Rolando García (1992-1995) * Andrija Perčić (1995-1999) * ''Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (2000) * ''Yuri Fernández'' (2000) * Jorge Solari (2000) * Oscar Garré (2001-2003) * Arturo Salah (2004-2007) * Antonio Zaracho (2007–08) * ''Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (2008) * Fernando Vergara (2008-2009) * Pedro García Barros, Pedro García (2009) * Arturo Salah (2009-2011) * ''Alejandro Padilla (Chilean football manager), Alejandro Padilla'' (2011) * Jorge Pellicer (2011-2013) * Mario Salas (footballer), Mario Salas (2013–2014) * Hugo Vilches (2015) * Miguel Ponce (2016-2017) * César Vigevani (2017) * Nicolás Larcamón (2018-2019) * Gustavo Florentín (2019-2021) * Juan Luvera, Juan José Luvera (2021) * Mario Salas (footballer), Mario Salas (2021–2022) * Gustavo Álvarez (2023) * Javier Sanguinetti (2024-)

References

External links

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Huachipato
at the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, ANFP official website *
Huachipato's ESPN profile
{{Liga Chilena de Fútbol Huachipato FC Football clubs in Chile, Huachipato Sport in Biobío Region Association football clubs established in 1947 1947 establishments in Chile