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Deportes Linares

Deportes Linares
Full name Deportes Linares
Nickname(s) Linarenses, Los albirrojos
Founded 19 November 1955
Ground Estadio Fiscal de Linares,
Linares, Chile
Ground Capacity 7,000
Chairman Chile Juvenal Villar
Manager Chile Jaime Nova
League Segunda División
2015-2016 12th (Relegated)

Deportes Linares is a Chilean Football club, their home town is Linares in Chile and play in the 3rd tier of Chilean football, the Segunda División.

The club was founded on November 19, 1955 as Lister Rossel (a famous local pediatrician and amateur sportsman). In 1974 the club name was changed to Deportes Linares.

The year 1992 the team's name was changed again, to be known as Frutilinares.

A new name, this time Linares Unido, was given to the club in 2006. And finally, in 2011, the club took back their current name, Deportes Linares.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.



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