Asociación Civil Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana, known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a professional

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club based in

Puerto Ordaz Ciudad Guayana () (in English Guayana City) is a city in Bolívar State, Venezuela. It stretches 40 kilometers along the south bank of the Orinoco river, at the point where it is joined by its main tributary, the Caroní river. The Caroni cros ...

, Venezuela.

History

The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in

, was used in football matches. The people who played at the field decided to found a football club. On November 11, 1981, the club was founded as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana. On November 20, 1981, the club's foundation constitutive act was signed. On January 3, 1982, the club played its first match, against Villa Colombia FC, a Guayana's amateur club. Mineros won 2-0, both goals scored by José Pacheco. On September 5, 1982, the club won the Segunda División Venezolana, being promoted to the following year's first division. In 1989, the club won the first Primera División Venezolana.

Crest and colours

The club's logo is composed of a geometrical figure, which is a carbon diamond crystal zoomed millions of times with a microscope. The club's colors are blue and black.

Stadium

Mineros plays their home matches at CTE Cachamay, which has a maximum capacity of 41,600 people

It was 1 of the 9 venues of the Copa America 2007, for this, US$160,000 were invested for the expansion of the stadium. The stadium has multiple uses, like a special kids area, an indoor gym, basketball and volleyball courts, a racing track, ten media station booths, a commercial center, movie theaters and three enormous parking lots. The stadium is surrounded by the river Caroní and the waterfall of the Cachamay Park.

Players

Current squad

Former managers

Mario Kempes Mario Alberto Kempes Chiodi (; born 15 July 1954) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker or attacking midfielder. A prolific goalscorer, he finished as La Liga's top goalscorer twice with Valencia and amassed 11 ...

(Feb 10, 1997–Feb 23, 1998) * Armando Londoño * César Maturana *

César Farías César Alejandro Farías Acosta (born 7 March 1973) is a Venezuelan football manager, currently in charge of Ecuadorian club Aucas. Farías is known for having coached Deportivo Táchira, Mineros de Guayana, Deportivo Anzoátegui and the Ve ...

(Oct 2005–07) * Álvaro Gómez (June 15, 2007–Dec 24, 2007) *

Stalin Rivas Stalin José Rivas (born 5 August 1971 in Puerto Ordaz and San Felix, San Félix, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan former association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He is described as "the most naturally talented Venezuelan footballer ...

(Dec 27, 2007–April 14, 2008) *

Alí Cañas José Alí Cañas Navas (born 19 June 1960) is a Venezuelan football Manager (association football), manager and former player who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He is the current manager of Zamora F.C., Zamora. Cañas is ...

(March 17, 2008–Sept 23, 2008) *

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(Sept 24, 2008–March 6, 2009) * José Hernández (March 12, 2009 – March 1, 2010) * Carlos Maldonado (July 4, 2010–Nov 20, 2012) *

Richard Páez Richard Alfred Mayela Páez Monzón known as Richard Páez (born 31 December 1953) is a Venezuelan football manager former coach of Deportivo Cuenca from Ecuador and of the Venezuela national football team. Playing career Club Born in Mérid ...

(Nov 28, 2012–Jan 18, 2014)

Honours

* Primera División Venezolana **Winners (1): 1989 * Segunda División Venezolana **Winners (1): 1982 *

Copa de Venezuela The Copa Venezuela ( en, Venezuela Cup) is the national cup football competition of Venezuela. Organized by the Venezuelan Football Federation, it is contested in the second half of the season by the teams in the Primera División and Segunda Di ...

**Winners (3):'' 1984, 2011, 2017

South American record

Copa Libertadores The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América ( pt, Copa Libertadores da América), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in S ...

: 4 appearances ::1990: Group stage ::1997: Group stage ::2005: Preliminary round ::2008: First stage *

Copa Sudamericana The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, named as ''Copa Sudamericana'' (; pt, Copa Sul-Americana ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club competition in South American ...

: 4 appearances ::2005: Preliminary round ::2006: Preliminary round ::2012: Second stage ::2013: TBD *

Copa CONMEBOL The Copa CONMEBOL ( en, CONMEBOL Cup) was an annual football cup competition organized by CONMEBOL between 1992 and 1999 for South American football clubs. During its time of existence, it was a very prestigious South American club football cont ...

: 1 appearance ::1995: Quarter-finals

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mineros De Guayana Association football clubs established in 1981

Mineros de Guayana Asociación Civil Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana, known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a professional football club based in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. History The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in Puerto Ordaz, was us ...

Ciudad Guayana 1981 establishments in Venezuela