Deportes Iquique
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| Full name | Club de Deportes Iquique S.A.D.P. |
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| Nickname(s) | Los Dragones Celestes (The Sky Blue Dragons) |
| Founded | 21 May 1978 |
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Estadio Tierra de Campeones, Iquique |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| Chairman | Césare Rossi |
| Coach | Jaime Vera |
| League | Primera División de Chile |
| 2015 Clausura | 12th |
| Website | Club home page |
Club de Deportes Iquique S.A.D.P., is a Chilean football club based in Iquique that is a current member of the Campeonato Nacional. Founded in 1978, the club's home stadium is the Estadio Tierra de Campeones which has a 12,000 capacity.
Iquique has been Primera División member nineteen times, having its most large period ten years (1980–90), having also integrated thirteen times the Primera B (second tier) and four times the Tercera División (third-tier). Among its titles, Iquique has won three Copa Chile titles (1980, 2010 and 2013–14).
They have a fierce local rivalry with San Marcos de Arica, disputing the derby since early 1980s.
The team was founded on 21 May 1978 by the merger of Cavancha and Estrella de Chile. The following year Iquique integrated the Segunda División, winning it and reaching its promotion to Campeonato Nacional as well as its first ever professional title.
In its first season at top-level, the club finished in the 14th place of eighteen teams and won the Copa Polla Gol (current Copa Chile), beating in the final to giants Colo-Colo at the Estadio Nacional.
Between 1981 and 1987, Iquique remained at the middle-table positions. In 1988, The Dragons reached the liguilla to qualify to the 1989 Copa Libertadores after finishing in the third place. Nevertheless, Iquique lost in the final against Colo-Colo and failed to achieve its first ever qualification to a continental tournament. That season, Juan José Oré, team’s player, was the tournament goalscorer with eighteen goals.
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