*** Welcome to piglix ***

Cobresal

Cobresal
Cobresal.png
Full name Club de Deportes Cobresal
Nickname(s) Mineros (Miners), Legionarios
Founded 5 May 1979; 38 years ago (5 May 1979)
Ground Estadio El Cobre
El Salvador, Chile
Ground 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
Current season

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.


...
Wikipedia

...