Club Deportivo Guabirá is a Bolivian professional
football
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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. In 2017 it replaced the "Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano" (; ).
Since 1950, a total of 16 clubs have been crowned champions of the Bolivian foot ...
. Their home ground is the
Estadio Gilberto Parada, which has a capacity of 13,000 spectators.
Although the team has always been based in Montero, they played in
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
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Situated on the Pirai River (Bolivia), Pirai River in the eastern Tropical ...
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
1976 Copa Libertadores, 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
1996 Copa Libertadores. The club finished last in the group again, although it got a victory over fellow Bolivian side
Club San José
Club Deportivo San José is a football club from Oruro, Bolivia, which competed in the Bolivian Primera División until its 2021 season.
Founded in 1942, they have won the Bolivian league four times: in 1955, 1995, 2007, and 2018. Their colo ...
.
The club almost won the
Copa Bolivia in
2000
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, but lost to
The Strongest
Club The Strongest is a Bolivian professional football club based in La Paz, that currently plays in the Bolivian Primera División.
Founded in 1908, their team colours are yellow and black. Although they have a home ground, Estadio Rafael Me ...
in the final.
The club earned its first
Copa Sudamericana
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participation and made the return to continental tournaments after 22 years with its participation in the
2018 Copa Sudamericana
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Brazilian club Atlético Paran ...
, where the club was eliminated in the first round on
away goals
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to
LDU Quito. They earned this right because they finished 6th in the aggregate table for the
2016–17 season. Guabirá participated again in the
2019
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and
2021
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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
Nacional Potosí
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to advance to the
group stage
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, in which they lost all of their matches.
Honours
National
*
Bolivian Primera División
The División de Fútbol Profesional is the top-flight professional football league in Bolivia. In 2017 it replaced the "Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano" (; ).
Since 1950, a total of 16 clubs have been crowned champions of the Bolivian foot ...
** Winners (1): 1975
*
Bolivian Second Division
** Winners (2): 2007, 2009
Regional
* Campeonato Cruceño
** Winners (6): 1985, 1986, 1992, 2005, 2009, 2014-15
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
*
Copa Libertadores
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: 2 appearances
::Best: First Round in 1976, 1996
::
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
– first round
::
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
– first round
*
Copa Sudamericana
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: 3 appearances
::Best: Group Stage in 2021
::
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
– first stage
::
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– first stage
::
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
– group stage
Current squad
References
External links
*
Unofficial website*
*
*
Football clubs in Bolivia
Association football clubs established in 1962
1962 establishments in Bolivia
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