Deportes Temuco

Deportes Temuco

Full name	Club de Deportes Temuco S.A.D.P
Nickname(s)	Araucanos, Albiverdes, Pijes
Founded	1960
Ground	Estadio Municipal Germán Becker
Capacity	18,100
Chairman	Marcelo Salas
Manager	Esteban Valencia
League	Primera B
2023	4th
Home colours Away colours

Deportes Temuco is a Chilean football club based in Temuco, Araucanía Region. It currently plays in the Chilean Primera División B, holding home games at the new Estadio Municipal Germán Becker.

The club was founded on February 22, 1960, as Deportes Temuco and again on March 20, 1965, after a merger with Green Cross. Until 1984, the club was known as Green Cross – Temuco, and, in 2007, changed its name to Deportivo Temuco, only on that season.

In 2013, the club merged with Unión Temuco, but the name of Deportes Temuco was kept, along with the logo and traditional white and green colors, making it seem as Deportes Temuco absorbing Unión rather than a fusion. Thanks to the fusion though, Deportes Temuco left the Segunda División and returned to Primera B for season 2013–14, using Unión Temuco's place in that league.

Deportes Temuco's current stadium is the Estadio Municipal Germán Becker, a renovated 18,500 football stadium located at the "Pablo Neruda" street in Temuco, leased from Temuco City Municipality since 1965.

Deportes Temuco have also used other grounds during their history;

The Estadio Liceo de Hombres de Temuco, was Deportes Temuco's home from 1963 until the end of the 1964 season.^{[citation needed]}

The club had also played their official home games at the Estadio Municipal de Gorbea & Estadio Municipal de Lautaro when the G. Becker Stadium was re-built, in 2008.

In 2011 due to the poor condition of the G. Becker Stadium, the club had look again for an alternative stadium to play their home matches; this time D. Temuco played at the Estadio Pueblo Nuevo de Temuco

In 2015 the G. Becker Stadium went on to repairs again, in this occasion, in order to receive the Copa America's games in perfect condition. This time the Estadio Municipal de Villarrica and the Estadio Municipal de Victoria, were the "albi-verdes" choice to play their home matches. They also played one Copa Chile 2015 home game at the Estadio Alberto Larraguibel de Angol.^{[citation needed]}

• Primera B: 3

1991, 2001, 2015–16

• Copa Apertura Segunda División: 1

1987

• 1 Participation in Copa Sudamericana (2018)
• 31 seasons in First Level (Primera División) (1965–1980, 1983–1984, 1992–1998, 2002–2005, 2016/17–2018)
• 18 seasons in Second Level (Primera B) (1963–1964, 1981–1982, 1986–1991, 2000–2001, 2006–2007, 2013/14-2015/16, 2019–)
• 6 seasons in Third Level (Segunda & Tercera) (2008–2011) & (2012–2013)

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Away	Home	Aggregate
2018	Copa Sudamericana	First	Estudiantes de Mérida	1–1	2–0	3–1
		Second	San Lorenzo	0–3^	1–0	1–3

^ CONMEBOL awarded San Lorenzo a 3–0 win as a result of D. Temuco fielding an ineligible player. Originally, D. Temuco won the match 1–2.

• Record Primera División victory — 8–0 v. Santiago Morning (1969)
• Record Primera División defeat — 0–9 v. Palestino (1998)
• Record Copa Chile victory — 9–1 v. Fernández Vial (1993)
• Most goals scored (Primera División matches) — 50, Víctor González (1969–72, 1974–78)
• Most goals scored in a league season (Primera División matches) — 25, Luis Ramos (1978)
• Highest home attendance  — 32,551 v. Colo-Colo (3 December 1972)
• Primera División Best Position  — 3rd (1969)
• Copa Chile Best Season  — Semifinals (1984, 1998)

Current squad of Deportes Temuco as of 12 June 2024 (edit)
Sources: ANFP Official Site

No. Position Player 1  CHI GK Juan José Garrido 2  CHI MF Agustín Peñailillo 3  URU DF Nicolás Olivera 4  CHI DF Frank Valenzuela 5  CHI DF Vicente Concha 6  CHI MF Diego Sobarzo 7  CHI FW Bastián Escobar 8  CHI FW Vicente Lavín 9  URU FW Luis Acevedo 10  CHI FW Fabián Espinoza 11  URU MF Matías Abisab 12  CHI GK Claudio Álvarez 13  CHI GK Yerko Urra 14  CHI DF Matías Andrades 15  CHI FW Camilo Melivilú 16  CHI MF Vicente Valdés 17  CHI DF Gonzalo Villegas

No. Position Player 18  CHI DF Lukas Neculhueque 19  URU FW Damián González 20  CHI MF Franco Cortés 21  CHI MF Joaquín López 22  CHI FW Julio Castro 23  CHI DF Víctor González 24  CHI FW Julio César Velásquez 25  CHI GK Franco Quijada 26  CHI MF Mathiias Ithal 27  URU MF Camilo Núñez 28  CHI FW Zederick Vega 29  CHI FW Emilio Moreno 30  CHI MF Byron Bustamante 31  CHI MF Vicente Aros 32  CHI FW Gustavo Castro 33  CHI MF Paulo Contreras

Manager: Esteban Valencia

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 39 DF  ARG Fernando Ponce (loan from Cobresal)

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 MF  CHI Byron Bustamante (loan from Santiago Wanderers)

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  CHI Fernando Quiroz (to San Antonio Unido)

• Álvaro Peña
• Franz Arancibia
• Juan Castillo
• Carlos Hoffmann
• Miguel Latín
• Honorino Landa
• Cristián Montecinos
• Gustavo Poirrier [es]
• Nelson Sandoval
• Marcelo Fracchia