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| Full name | Huachipato FC | ||
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| Nicknames | Los Acereros (Steelers) Campeón del Sur (Champion of theSouth) Los de la usina (Steelmillers) Siderúrgicos (Steelworkers) Negriazules (Black and blues) | ||
| Founded | 7 June 1947; 78 years ago (1947-06-07) | ||
| Ground | Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero,Talcahuano | ||
| Capacity | 10,500 | ||
| Chairman |  Hernán Rosenblum | ||
| Manager | Jaime García | ||
| League | Primera División | ||
| 2025 | Primera División, 9th of 16 | ||
| Website | www | ||
Huachipato FC is a Chileanfootball club based inTalcahuano that currently plays in theChilean Primera División. Huachipato was founded on 7 June 1947 by workers of the homonymous steel mill in Talcahuano, and it currently plays its home games at theEstadio Huachipato-CAP Acero, which it owns, making it one of the five Chilean professional football clubs to own their own ground.[1]
Huachipato has thrice become Chilean champions, and it is the first and to date, only team fromSouthern Chile to win theChilean top flight title. Huachipato is known in Chile from its academy and youth talent production that makes up the bulk of their squad,[2] qualifying for theU-20 Copa Libertadores twice, both times as reigning youth Chilean champions.[3]
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 inHuachipato. 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 againstMunicipal 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 beatAviación to become champions in their last match, and they did it,Moisés Silva scored the only goal that crowned Huchipato champions that year.
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[clarification needed]Roberto Cartes,Cristian Uribe,Rodrigo Rain,Cristián Reynero,Rodrigo Millar,Mario Salgado,Héctor Mancilla,Gonzalo Jara,Pedro Morales,Mauricio Arias, among others.
As for sporting achievements, Huachipato 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 defeatingUnión Española in the 2012 Chilean Clausura Tournament final.[4]
Huachipato were crowned champions of the2023 Chilean Primera División by 1 point, and in dramatic fashion. They triumphed 2-0 againstAudax Italiano at home on the final day of matches, to increase their point tally to 57, whileCobresal, who had 56 points, failed to gain any points during the same day, suffering a 1-0 away loss toUnión Española. This gave Huachipato its third overall league title, and first since 2012.[5]
As a result of their triumph of Chile's top flight in 2023, they participated in the2024 Copa Libertadores.
From its foundation in 1947 and until 1966, Huachipato wore a red shirt, blue pants and white socks uniform in the same vein as theChile national football team. Upon Huachipato's first promotion to the top flight in 1967, the team switched to its current black and blue uniform, inspired byInter Milan's colours.[6]
Huachipato's name is derived from theMapudungun eponomyous term that coined the area where the team is located, with the term meaning "Bird-catching trap".[7]
Huachipato's badge was inspired by theSteelmark logo owned by theAmerican Iron and Steel Institute, bearing a similarity to theNFL'sPittsburgh Steelers logo, given both teams steelmaking roots.[8]
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1975 | Copa Libertadores | Group 2 | | Unión Española | 0–0 | 2–7 | 2nd Place |
 | The Strongest | 4–2 | 0–1 | ||||
| Jorge Wilstermann | 4–0 | 0–0 | ||||
| 2006 | Copa Sudamericana | First Round | | Colo-Colo | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–33-5p |
| 2013 | Copa Libertadores | Group 8 |  | Fluminense | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3rd Place |
| Grêmio | 1–1 | 2–1 | ||||
 | Caracas | 1–2 | 4–0 | ||||
| 2014 | Copa Sudamericana | First Round | | San José | 3–1 | 3–2 | 6–3 |
| Second Round |  | Universidad Católica | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | ||
| Round of 16 | | São Paulo | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–4 | ||
| 2015 | Copa Sudamericana | First Round |  | Olimpia | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–4 |
| 2020 | Copa Sudamericana | First Round |  | Pasto | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Second Round |  | Fénix | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 | ||
| 2021 | Copa Sudamericana | ||||||
| First Round | | Antofagasta | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | ||
| Group A |  | San Lorenzo | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2nd Place | ||
| Rosario Central | 1–1 | 0–5 | ||||
| 12 de Octubre | 0-0 | 2-1 | ||||
| 2024 | Copa Libertadores | Group C | | Estudiantes | 1–1 | 4–3 | 3rd Place |
| The Strongest | 0–0 | 0–4 | ||||
| Grêmio | 0-1 | 2-0 | ||||
| 2024 | Copa Sudamericana | Knockout round play-offs | | Racing (URU) | 2–3 | 1–0 | 3–33-0p |
| Round of 16 | | Racing (ARG) | 0–2 | 1–6 | 1–8 |
Up until 2015, Huachipato was a multisports club, maintainingbasketball,karate,taekwondo,artistic roller skating,roller hockey,tennis,table tennis,volleyball, andfutsal branches.
Huachipato's supporters, nicknamed theAcereros, largely come from its home city ofTalcahuano, with groups of fans coming from cities belonging to theGreater Concepción conurbation. A smaller group of fans reside inSantiago, often attending away games.
Huachipato's main rivals areNaval, who are also based in Talcahuano and with whom Huachipato contest theClásico Chorero, andDeportes Concepción, from theneighbouring city and regional capital, with whom Huachipato contest theClasico del Gran Concepción.[9]
Huachipato andO'Higgins F.C. have a longstanding mutual friendship, originating from theTomé tragedy of 2013, where 16 travelling O'Higgins fans tragically lost their lives in a road accident inTomé, while returning fromEstadio CAP after a 2-0 O'Higgins victory.[10] In every fixture played between both teams since, both clubs organize a memorial ceremony previous to each match. Huachipato installed a permanent commemorative plaque atEstadio CAP in 2018, in remembrance of the tragedy,[11] and since 2022, both clubs symbolically contest theCopa 16 (Trophy of the 16), in honour of the departed fans.[12]
Current squad of Huachipato FC as of 19 February 2024 (edit)
Sources:ANFP Official Web Site
Manager:Jaime García
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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InItalics, the caretaker managers of Huachipato. Inbold, 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)Pedro Morales (1972-1975)Miguel Ángel Ruiz (1975)Armando Tobar (1975)Salvador Biondi (1976)Alberto Fouilloux (1977–78)Armando Tobar (1978)Luis Vera (1979-1982)Francisco Hormazábal (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)Jorge Pellicer (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-)In Chilean professional football, only 4 teams own their own ground, Colo Colo (Estadio Monumental), Universidad Católica (San Carlos de Apoquindo), Unión Española (Santa Laura) y Huachipato (CAP de Talcahuano).
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