Deportes Concepción is a Chilean football club based in the city of Concepción, Biobio Region. , they play at the second tier of the Chilean League system, the Primera B de Chile. The club was founded in 1966, by the organizations of several amateur clubs such as Galvarino, Liverpool, Juvenil Unido, Santa Fe and Club Lord Cochrane. The club is one of the most popular in the VIII region of Chile. Their main rivals are Fernández Vial, with whom they play the "clásico penquista" and Huachipato. The club played their home games at Estadio Ester Roa in

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, which seats 30,448 people.

History

The team joined the second level of the Chilean professional league in 1966 and won the tournament a year later, gaining promotion to the Primera División de Chile. In 1991, the team joined in representing Chile in the Copa Libertadores, they passed through the 1st round phase but lost in the round of sixteen against América de Cali. In 1993, the club was relegated after finishing 15th of 16 teams, but the club bounced straight back by winning the second division title in 1994. Concepción played their next big international tournament in 1999, they participated in the Copa CONMEBOL and made it all the way to the semifinals but lost against Talleres de Córdoba from

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which was a real disappointment to the fans. In the year 2001, they once again played the Copa Libertadores and beat rivals such as San Lorenzo from Argentina and Jorge Wilstermann from

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. Once again they made it into the round of sixteen but lost this time to Vasco da Gama from Brazil who had top class players like Romário in their team. In 2002, the club were again relegated by finishing 15th of 16 teams in the aggregated table, they returned to the topflight in 2004. In the year 2006, the team was suspended and could not play professionally in the whole year due to debts and unpaid salaries. The club was going to be relegated, but after a legal battle, they were readmitted in the Chilean first division, where they play in 2007. An alternative team (Deportes Concepción B) played that season at the Third level, as well. In 2016, the club was expelled of the Chilean National League system due to economic problems and returned in 2018 at the last level of the league system, the fifth tier, Tercera B, gaining promotion in their debut season on the category to the next level, the fourth tier Tercera División, for 2019, in which they get a consecutive promotion to the next level, the third tier

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, for 2020. In 2024, they lost the Segunda División final to Deportes Melipilla. However, a legal battle ensued over payment irregularities by Melipilla, and Melipilla was eventually assigned a three-point penalty. As a result, the ANFP awarded the division title to Deportes Concepción and promoted them to the second-tier Primera B de Chile for 2025.

Club records

*Seasons in Primera División (I): 33 (1968–81), (1985–93), (1995–02), (2005), (2007–08) *Seasons in Primera B (II): 12 (1966–67), (1982–84), (1994), (2003–04), (2009–2016), (2025) *Seasons in

(III): 5 (2020–2024) *Seasons in Tercera División (IV): 1 (2019) *Seasons in Tercera B (V): 1 (2018) * Copa Libertadores appearances: 2 ( 1991, 2001) * Copa CONMEBOL appearances: 1 (

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) *Largest Margin of Victory: 7–1 vs. Santiago Morning (

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) *Largest Margin of Defeat: 0–7 vs Universidad de Chile ( 1987) *Best Finish in Primera División: 2nd ( 1975) *Best Finish in Copa Chile: Runner-up ( 2010) *Highest home attendance — 37,423 ''v.'' Colo-Colo (1 October 1972) *Most Goals in Primera División matches: Víctor Estay (77 goals) *All-time Goalscorer: Víctor Estay (88 goals) *All-time Appearances: Patricio Almendra (269 games)

Honours

National

* Copa Francisco Candelori ** Winners (1): 1970 * Primera B ** Winners (2): 1967, 1994

Regional

* Torneo Provincial de Chile ** Winners (2): 1968, 1970

Crest

File:Club Deportes Concepción logo.png, 1998 to 2017

South American cups history

Current squad

2021 Winter Transfers

In

Out

Managers

* (1966) * Isaac Carrasco (1967) * Sergio Cruzat (1968) * Luis Vera (1969-1973) * Jaime Ramírez (1973) * Néstor Isella (1974) * Guillermo Báez (1975-1976) * Alfonso Sepúlveda (1976) * Nelson Oyarzún (1977) * Manuel González (1977) * Álex Veloso (1977) * Isaac Carrasco (1978) * Luis Vera (1978-1979) * Pedro García (1980) * Carlos Hoffmann (1981) * Jaime Ramírez (1981) * Hernán Godoy (1982) * Rolando García (1983) * Luis Vera (1984) * Rolando García (1985) * (1986) * Eduardo de la Barra (1987) * Luis Vera (1987) * Eduardo de la Barra (1988) * (1988) * Fernando Cavalleri (1989-1990) * Luis Vera (1990) * Jorge Luis Siviero (1991) * Eduardo de la Barra (1991) * Julio César Antúnez (1992) * Luis Vera (1992) * Sasha Mitjaew (1993) * Luis Vera (1993) * Fernando Cavalleri (1993-1996) * Sergio Nichiporuk (1997) * Óscar del Solar (1998-1999) * Oscar Garré (2000) * Sergio Nichiporuk (2001) * Fernando Cavalleri (2001) * Carlos González (2002) * (2003) * (2003) * Luis Marcoleta (2004) * Óscar del Solar (2004-2005) * '' Gustavo Viveros'' (2005) * Humberto López (2005) * Jaime Nova (2007) * ''Sergio Herrera'' (2007) * Fernando Cavalleri (2007) * ''Jorge Rodríguez'' (2007) * Jorge Garcés (2008) * (2008-2009) * Fernando Cavalleri (2009-2010) * Daniel Salvador (2010) * Óscar del Solar (2010-2011) * ' (2011) * Jorge Garcés (2011) * Germán Corengia (2012) * (2013) * (2013) * Patricio Almendra (2013-2014) * ' (2014) * Fernando Quiroz (2014) * ' (2014) * Juan José Ribera (2014-2015) * ' (2015) * Ariel Pereyra (2015-2016) * (2017) * Esteban González (2018-2020) * Christian Muñoz (2020-2021) * Renato Ramos (2021) * Óscar del Solar (2021-2022) * ''Nicolás Fernández'' (2022) * César Bustamante (2023) * (2023) * ''Nicolás Fernández'' (2023) * (2023-2024) * (2024) * Manuel Suárez (2024-)

References

External links

Official Website
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