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

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, 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 11 November 1981, the club was founded as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana. On 20 November 1981, the club's foundation constitutive act was signed. On 3 January 1982, the club played its first match, against Villa Colombia FC, a Guayana's amateur club. Mineros won 2-0, both goals scored by

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. On 5 September 1982, the club won the

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, being promoted to the following year's

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. In 1989, the club won the first

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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

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

César Farías César Alejandro Farías Acosta (born 7 March 1973) is a Venezuelan football manager. Farías is known for having coached Deportivo Táchira, Mineros de Guayana, Deportivo Anzoátegui and the Venezuelan U-20 team. He is the first and only ma ...

(Oct 2005–07) * Álvaro Gómez (15 June 2007 – 24 Dec 2007) * Stalin Rivas (27 Dec 2007 – 14 April 2008) * Alí Cañas (17 March 2008–Sept 23, 2008) * Del Valle Rojas (Sept 24, 2008–6 March 2009) * José Hernández (12 March 2009 – 1 March 2010) * Carlos Maldonado (4 July 2010 – 20 Nov 2012) *

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(28 Nov 2012 – 18 Jan 2014)

Honours

**Winners (1): 1989 *

**Winners (1): 1982 *

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

South American record

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

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

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: 1 appearance ::1995: Quarter-finals

References

External links

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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