Club de Deportes Cobresal
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| Full name | Club de Deportes Cobresal |
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| Nickname(s) | Mineros (Miners), Legionarios |
| Founded | 5 May 1979 |
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Estadio El Cobre El Salvador, Chile |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| President | Sebastián Moreno |
| Manager | Dalcio Giovagnoli |
| League | Campeonato Nacional |
| 2014–15 | Apertura: 15th Liguilla Apertura: Not qualified Clausura: 1st, Champions Liguilla Clausura: Already qualified Overall: 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
Club de Deportes Cobresal or simply Cobresal, is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador, Atacama, a Chilean mining camp, and participates in Campeonato Nacional. The team was founded on 5 May 1979, and the name of the club comes from the local copper mine establishment. Since its inception, the club has played its home games at the El Cobre Stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 12,000, which is more than the entire population of the village (7,000 persons).
During the history of Cobresal, the club has been champion once (2015 Clausura) and achieved one Copa Chile title in 1987, with players like the Chilean legend Iván Zamorano, Rubén Martínez and the club's historic top-scorer Sergio Salgado, footballers that also played in the 1986 Copa Libertadores, until this moment the unique international tournament of the club.
Cobresal's classic rival was Regional Atacama, where both teams disputed the III Region derby, but since the disappearance of that team as a result of financial problems, the team now plays the Copper derby with Cobreloa of Calama.
On 5 May 1979, Cobresal was officially founded as an amateur club, with Luis Sugarret as the first president.The club began to play friendly matches in preparation for the first game of the club against a professional team. On 14 June, the club played the first match of its history against Incabus of Diego de Almagro, debuting with a 3–2 win, playing in August of that year against the professional team of Coquimbo Unido, where Cobresal drew 3–3, playing of very well form. On 14 December 1979, Cobresal postulated to the National Association of Professional football for play in the Second Division. For this was necessary that the Club Deportivo Hospital, a club of El Salvador, a mining camp of the Atacama Region, offered its affiliation to the ANFA. Finally, on 26 February 1980, the incorporation of Cobresal was confirmed to the Second division as a professional team.
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