Deportivo Táchira F.C.
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The club plays its home matches at the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity of 42,500. Since 1975, it participates in the Venezuelan Primera División, making it the only Venezuelan team that has never fallen or participated in the lower category. Currently it holds the first position of the historical classification of the Venezuelan Primera División with 2229 points.
At the international level, Táchira is the Venezuelan club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores. Its best international participation was its advance to the quarter-finals unbeaten in the Copa Libertadores 2004. It is one of two Venezuelan clubs that have advanced past the first phase of the Copa Libertadores, or reached the quarter-finals.
Táchira has a B team which participates in the Venezuelan Segunda División. It also has a Futsal team called Deportivo Tachira Fútsal Club, which plays in the Venezuelan Futsal League and the Superior Futsal Tournament.
Táchira's fiercest rival is Caracas FC, with whom it contests the "Clásico Moderno" of Venezuelan football. It also plays the so-called "Andean Derby" (Clásico Andino) against Estudiantes de Mérida.
History
In 1970, Italian-born Gaetano Greco founded an amateur club called Juventus in San Cristóbal, named after the Juventus FC. In 1974, Greco noticed that there were no professional football clubs in Táchira, so he decided to found a club in Táchira based on the amateur Juventus club. He and twelve other people founded the club on 11 January of that year, which they named San Cristóbal Fútbol Club. Most of the club's players came from the Juventus club. Initially, the club's colors were blue and white, similar to the Italy national football team kits.
In January 1975, the club changed its colors to yellow and black, because those colors better represented the Táchira state and were the preferred colors of the Uruguayan manager José "Pocho" Gil, as they were the colors of the Uruguayan team Peñarol.
In the 2016 season, Deportivo Táchira drew an average home league attendance of 5,595 in the Apertura and 4,033 in the Clausura, the highest in the domestic league.[1]
Naming history
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1974 | San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1975 | Deportivo San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1978 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
| 1986 | Unión Atlético Táchira |
| 1999 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
Stadium
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Supporters
The team's supporters are known as aurinegros ("gold-and-blacks"). The supporters are mainly divided into three groups; La Torcida Aurinegra , La Avalancha Sur, and Comando Sur.
Several of the team's supporters have committed violent acts in the past towards the supporters of opposing teams. One of the most tragic events took place on 17 December 2000, when the club and Caracas drew 2–2, which gave the Copa República Bolivariana de Venezuela's title to Caracas, causing angry supporters of Deportivo Táchira to burn the Caracas team bus.[2]
Derby
Games between Deportivo Táchira and Estudiantes de Mérida are known as the Clásico de Los Andes (meaning Andes' Derby). However, in recent years games between Deportivo Táchira and Caracas have been known as the modern derby, because of the successful performance of both teams. A former rival of Deportivo Táchira in the 1980s and early 1990s was Marítimo de Venezuela, a former team from Caracas.
Colors
Deportivo Táchira's shirt has black and yellow vertical stripes, with black shorts and socks.
Honours
National
- Copa Venezuela
- Winners (2): 1982, 1983
International Appearances
- Copa Libertadores: 25 appearances
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- Copa Sudamericana: 5 appearances
- Copa CONMEBOL: 3 appearances
- Deportivo Táchira is the Venezuelan club with the most Copa Libertadores appearances and the most runner-up finishes in the Venezuelan league. It has won nine national championships.
- The club's best Copa Libertadores participation was in 2004, when the club became the second team to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition without losing a match, having played against strong teams such as River Plate (Argentina), Libertad (Paraguay), Deportes Tolima (Colombia), and Nacional (Uruguay), before facing São Paulo (Brazil) in the quarter-finals.
Current squad
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Out on loan
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Notable players
- Template:Flagicon Tomás Rincón (2008)
- Template:Flagicon Cesar "El Maestrico" Gonzalez
- Template:Flagicon Daniel Francovig
- Template:Flagicon Carlos Maldonado
Head coaches
- Template:Flagicon Luis Miloc (1977–78)
- Template:Flagicon Esteban Beracochea (1978–83) (Campeón 79 y 81)
- Template:Flagicon Marcos Calderón (1983)
- Template:Flagicon Carlos Horacio Moreno (1984–89) (Campeón 84 y 86)
- Template:Flagicon Richard Páez (1991)
- Template:Flagicon Walter Roque (1999–01) (Campeón 99-00)
- Template:Flagicon César Farías (2003–05)
- Template:Flagicon Manuel Plasencia (2005–07)
- Template:Flagicon Carlos Maldonado (2007–2010) (Campeón 07-08)
- Template:Flagicon Jorge Luis Pinto (2010–2011) (Campeón 10-11)
- Template:Flagicon Jesús Vera (2011)
- Template:Flagicon Jaime de la Pava (2012)
- Template:Flagicon Manuel Contreras (2012)
- Template:Flagicon Daniel Farías (2013–2015) (Campeón 14-15)
- Template:Flagicon Carlos Maldonado (2015–2016)
- Template:Flagicon Santiago Escobar (2016-2017)
- Template:Flagicon Francesco Stifano (2017-2018)
- Template:Flagicon Álex Pallares (2018)
- Template:Flagicon Giovanni Pérez (2019)
- Template:Flagicon Juan Domingo Tolisano (2019-2021) (Campeón 2021)
- Template:Flagicon Álex Pallares (2022)
- Template:Flagicon Eduardo Saragó (2022–2024)
References
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External links
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