Huachipato FC is a Chilean

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based in

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that currently plays in the

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. Huachipato was founded on 7 June 1947 by workers of the homonymous steel mill in Talcahuano, and it currently plays its home games at the Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero, which it owns, making it one of the five Chilean professional football clubs to own their own ground. Originally a multisports club, Huachipato became a football club in 2015. Huachipato has thrice become Chilean champions, and it is the first and to date, only team from

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to win the Chilean top flight title. Huachipato is known in Chile from its academy and youth talent production that makes up the bulk of their squad, qualifying for the U-20 Copa Libertadores twice, both times as reigning youth Chilean champions.

History

In 1947, CD Huachipato was officially notarized, and the first official recorded game was played. The original fans were the local company employees of the steel industry in Huachipato. It took a few years for the club to achieve its first successes, obtaining regional championships in 1956 and 1964. In its early seasons, "the Steelers" (''Acereros''), as they are known, were quite satisfactory in the second division. The 1965 debut was against ''Municipal de Santiago'' with a 3–0 victory. After 36 games the standings would show Huachipato second with 46 points, 3 points less than that of Ferrobádminton another second-division team that took the championship and thus passage (which is how it was granted in those years) to the First Division. However, a year later (1966), the Steelers managed promotion to the first division, after winning the second division champions Chile with 49 points, they remained well above teams like Coquimbo (42 points) and San Antonio (39) who stayed with the second and third place respectively after thirty games. With only two years in the professionalism of Talcahuano, Huachipato was installed in the top-flight professional football in Chile, La Primera División. With a tie on a goal, as local and against Audax Italiano, the "Steelers" debuted in the first division. In the first season of the first division, Huachipato had an acceptable term in sixth place among 18 teams, although the tournament was on two wheels. The following years were quiet for steel, culminating their shares in the mid-high zone of the standings. However, a few years after this change, Huachipato won the 1974 First Division Football Championship, with this triumph they are the only Chilean Football team from the south of Chile to obtain the title. 1974 was a year that many Huachipato fans will never forget, after 34 matches played, Huachipato had to beat ''Aviación'' to become champions in their last match, and they did it, ''Moisés Silva'' scored the only goal that crowned Huchipato champions that year. Since then the club has never won any other title, but it has always caused difficulties for the big teams when playing against Huachipato, especially in the Estadio Las Higueras, their former home ground. From the end of the 1990s, Huachipato was characterized by a club trainer of players from lower divisions. Examples of these are important values steelmakers who emerged from the quarry as Roberto Cartes, Cristian Uribe, Rodrigo Rain, Cristián Reynero, Rodrigo Millar, Mario Salgado, Héctor Mancilla, Gonzalo Jara,

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, Mauricio Arias, among others. As for sporting achievements, reached the Semi-Finals in the Torneos Apertura in the years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In addition, since the end of the 1990s, the Huachipato classification achieved an international tournament and the Copa Sudamericana 2006 and their second championship in 38 years, after defeating

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in the 2012 Chilean Clausura Tournament final. Huachipato were crowned champions of the 2023 Chilean Primera División by 1 point, and in dramatic fashion. They triumphed 2-0 against

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at home on the final matchday, to increase their point tally to 57, while Cobresal, who had 56 points, failed to gain any points on their final matchday, suffering a 1-0 away loss to

. This gave Huachipato its third overall league title, and first since 2014. As a result of their triumph of Chile's top flight in 2023, they are set to participate in the 2024 Copa Libertadores.

Team Colours and Symbols

From its foundation in 1947 and until 1966, Huachipato wore a red shirt, blue pants and white socks uniform in the same vein as the

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. Upon Huachipato's first promotion to the top flight in 1967, the team switched to its current black and blue uniform, inspired by

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's colours. Huachipato's name is derived from the

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eponomyous term that coined the area where the team is located, with the term meaning "Bird-catching trap". Huachipato's badge was inspired by the Steelmark logo owned by the

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, bearing a similarity to the NFL's

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logo, given both teams steelmaking roots.

Club data

* Seasons in Primera División: 50 (1967-1978, 1983–1990, 1992, 1995-) * Seasons in Primera B: 9 (1965-1966, 1979–1982, 1991, 1993–1994) *

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appearances: 33 (

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

- 1988-

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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appearances: 6 (

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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Honours

National

* Primera División ** Winners (3):

, 2012-C,

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** Winners (1):

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

Regional

* Asociación de Fútbol de Talcahuano ** Winners (1): 1950 * Campeonato Regional de Fútbol ** Winners (2): 1956, 1964

Women's team

* Primera B ** Champions (1): 2021

South American cups history

Club records

*Record Primera División victory — 6–0 ''v.'' Aviación (

) and La Calera (

) *Record Primera División defeat — 0–7 ''v.''

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) *Record

victory — 12–0 ''v.'' Presidente Ibáñez de Punta Arenas (

) *Record Copa Chile defeat — 0–4 ''v.'' Osorno (

) and

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) *Record

victory — 4–0 ''v.''

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) *Record Copa Libertadores defeat — 2–7 ''v.''

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) *Record

victory — 3–0 ''v.''

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) *Record Copa Sudamericana defeat — 0–5 ''v.''

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(12 November 1967, at Estadio Regional de Concepción) * Primera División Best Result — Champions (

, 2012 C) *

Best Result — Runner-up ( 2013–14)

Other sports

Up until 2015, Huachipato was a multisports club, maintaining

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, and

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branches.

Supporters and Rivalries

Huachipato's supporters, nicknamed the ''Acereros'', largely come from its home city of

, with groups of fans coming from cities belonging to the Greater Concepción conurbation. A smaller group of fans reside in

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, often attending away games. Huachipato's main rivals are

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, who are also based in Talcahuano and with whom Huachipato contest the ''Clásico Chorero'' , and Deportes Concepción, from the neighbouring city and regional capital, with whom Huachipato contest the ''Clasico del Gran Concepción''. Huachipato and O'Higgins F.C. have a longstanding mutual friendship, originating from the Tomé tragedy of 2013, where 16 travelling O'Higgins fans tragically lost their lives in a road accident in Tomé, while returning from Estadio CAP after a 2-0 O'Higgins victory. In every fixture played between both teams since, both clubs organize a memorial ceremony previous to each match. Huachipato installed a permanent commemorative plaque at Estadio CAP in 2018, in remembrance of the tragedy, and since 2022, both clubs symbolically contest the ''Copa 16'' (Trophy of the 16), in honour of the departed fans.

Players

Current squad

Youth Academy

2024 transfers

In

Out

Out on loan

Managers

In ''Italics'', the caretaker managers of Huachipato. In bold, the managers who won a title with Huachipato. * Arturo Gutiérrez (1949-1950) * Gastón Osbén (1950) * Arturo Gutiérrez (1950-1951) * Teodoro Contreras (1951) * Félix Caballero (1952-1953) * Nestór Madariaga (1954-1955) * Sergio Cruzat (1956-1959) * Nestór Madariaga (1959-1960) * José Luis Boffi (1961) * Amadeo Silva (1962) * Luis Vera (1963-1968) * Andrés Prieto (1969–70) * Caupolicán Peña (1971) *

(1972-1975) * Miguel Ángel Ruiz (1975) * Armando Tobar (1975) * Salvador Biondi (1976) * Alberto Fouilloux (1977–78) * Armando Tobar (1978) * Luis Vera (1979-1982) *

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(1983-1984) * Luis Ibarra (1984) * Luis Santibañez (1985) * '' Luis Vera'' (1985) * Antonio Vargas (1985–86) * Luis Vera (1986–87) * Nelson Gatica (1987) * Manfredo González (1987–89) * Juan Carlos Gangas (1990) * Germán Cornejo (1991) * Manuel Keosseián (1992) * '' Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (1992) * Rolando García (1992-1995) * Andrija Perčić (1995-1999) * '' Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (2000) * '' Yuri Fernández'' (2000) * Jorge Solari (2000) * Oscar Garré (2001-2003) * Arturo Salah (2004-2007) * Antonio Zaracho (2007–08) * '' Carlos Felipe Pedemonte'' (2008) * Fernando Vergara (2008-2009) * Pedro García (2009) * Arturo Salah (2009-2011) * '' Alejandro Padilla'' (2011) *

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(2011-2013) * Mario Salas (2013–2014) * Hugo Vilches (2015) * Miguel Ponce (2016-2017) * César Vigevani (2017) * Nicolás Larcamón (2018-2019) * Gustavo Florentín (2019-2021) * Juan José Luvera (2021) * Mario Salas (2021–2022) * Gustavo Álvarez (2023) * Javier Sanguinetti (2024) * '' Francisco Troncoso'' (2024) * Igor Oca (2024-)

References

External links

* *
Huachipato
at the ANFP official website *
Huachipato's ESPN profile
{{Liga Chilena de Fútbol Huachipato FC Huachipato Sport in Biobío Region Association football clubs established in 1947 1947 establishments in Chile

History

Team Colours and Symbols

Club data

Honours

National

Regional

Women's team

South American cups history

Club records

Other sports

Supporters and Rivalries

Players

Current squad

Youth Academy

2024 transfers

In

Out

Out on loan

Managers

References

Further reading

External links