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| Full name | Club de Deportes Provincial Curicó Unido | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Curi Albirrojos (The red & white) Torteros (The Cake-makers) La Banda Sangre (The Blood Stripe) | ||
| Founded | 26 February 1973; 52 years ago (1973-02-26) | ||
| Ground | Estadio La Granja | ||
| Capacity | 8,016 | ||
| Chairman |  Patricio Romero | ||
| Coach |  Héctor Almandoz | ||
| League | Primera B de Chile | ||
| 2023 | Primera División, 16th of 16 (relegated) | ||
| Website | https://web.cdpcuricounido.cl/ | ||
Curicó Unido is afootball club based inCuricó,Maule Region, Chile. They currently play in thePrimera B de Chile, the second level of the Chilean football system. They are currently managed byHéctor Almandoz.
Curicó Unido was founded on 26 February 1973, withEdmundo Rojas as the first President of the club.They became the fourth football team from theCuricó city to play at the professional level, afterAlianza de Curicó,Luis Cruz Martínez andBádminton de Curicó.
Curicó Unido played since the season 1974 at thePrimera B, but after seven poor seasons they gained relegation to the third level to the season 1981, returning to Primera B two years later, in 1983.
1984 and 1985 were the best seasons ofCuricó Unido history, disputing the promotion until the last week, but with bad luck at the final matches.
The next campaigns were average, with the exception of the season 1990, when they lose the category after the final match withDeportes Valdivia, when they won 4–1, two goals short what they needed to stay at Primera B.
Since then, they stayed at theTercera División without real chances to return to the Primera B, until the 2003 season. But at the next year that changed.
In 2004 the albirrojos were really close to return to thePrimera B. At the last week of the season, inChillán, they arrived as leaders, to faceÑublense who was three points behind at the table; however theChillanejos won that game 2–1, forcing a tie breaker match in Linares, where Ñublense won 2–0, taking the title and the promotion.
However, the year 2005 Curicó Unido had his revenge. They disputed the title withTrasandino until the last week. While Trasandino tied withMunicipal Iquique, Curicó crushedIberia 4–0, and in this way, after 15 years of suffering, Provincial Curicó Unido returned to the Chilean professional football.
In 2006, in their return to the Primera B, Curicó Unido finished in fifth place.
The next year, Curico avoided relegation only at the end of the season;Deportes Temuco finished last and fell down to the third level of national football for the upcoming season.
Curicó won promotion to the Primera Division after a 1–0 win overDeportes Puerto Montt on the last home game of the 2008 season, which was enough to securing 1st place of the Primera B and automatic promotion. Only to return to Primera B the next season, after losing a promotion play-off againstSan Luis.
They returned to the top-tier in 2017, after winning the2016–17 Primera B tournament.
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2023 | Copa Libertadores | Second stage |  | Cerro Porteño | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
Curicó Unido's official kit is a white shirt with a diagonal red stripe that crosses the chest from the right shoulder to the left side of the hip. The shorts are black and socks are white.
      1982 |  1985 |  1986 | 1987 |  2001 | 2004 | 2007 |   2013
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The club are currently sponsored byMultihogar and their technical sponsors areDalponte.
Curicó Unido's traditional home-ground is theEstadio La Granja, located inCuricó city; an 8,000 football stadium with an athletic track around the pitch, located in the "La Granja sports complex", leased from Curicó city hall.
Curicó Unido have also used other grounds during their history.
TheEstadio Carabineros de Curicó, was Curicó Unido's home in 1976 and 1977.
They also played theirTercera Division league home games of the season 1992, at theEstadio ANFA Luis H. Alvarez.
And recently, during the 2010 season, theEstadio Municipal Jorge Silva deSan Fernando, was their temporary home ground due to the reconstruction of theEstadio La Granja.
Curicó Unido fans traditionally come fromCuricó itself; and from the rest of theCuricó Province, but in smaller numbers.
The largest supporters' group is theMarginales, created in 1997.
Curicó Unido supporters' current main rivals areRangers de Talca, andÑublense.
Current squad of Curicó Unido as of 28 February 2023 (edit)
Sources:ANFP Official Web Site
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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Ricardo Oteíza (1973) Julio Campos (1974)Eugenio Jara (1974)Pedro Araya (1975–1976) Leonardo Bedoya (1976–1977) Sergio Gutiérrez (1977)Pedro Araya (1977–1978) José González (1978–1979)Luis Álvarez (1979)Sergio Navarro (1979–1980)Guillermo Báez (1980)Luis Álvarez (1981) Enrique Arredondo (1982) Francisco Quinteros (1983)Carlos Contreras (1983) Eugenio Horta (1983–84) Sergio Gutiérrez (1985) Luis Orrego (1985)Roque Mercury (1986)Guillermo Páez (1986–1987) Luis Orrego (1987-1988) Sergio Gutiérrez (1988–1990) Manuel Rubilar (1990) Eugenio Horta (1990–1991) Julio García (1991) Manuel Espinoza (1991–1993) Julio García (1993) Sergio Gutiérrez (1993–1994) Julio García (1994–1995)Hugo Cicamois (1995–1996) Eugenio Horta (1996)Esaú Bravo [es] (1996)Pedro Araya (1997) Roberto Ortiz (1998)Carlos Encinas (1998) Manuel Alvarado (1999) Luis Urrutia (1999)Eugenio Jara (2000) John Castro (2000)Hugo Cicamois (2001) Enzo Silva (2001)
Ramón Castro (2002)Esaú Bravo [es] (2002–2003) Alex Barrales (2003) Jaime Nova (2004–2005) Eduardo Cortázar (2005-2006)Nelson Mores (2006)Germán Cornejo (2007) Juan Ubilla (2007)Luis Marcoleta (2008–2010)Raúl Toro (2010–2011) Juan Aliaga (2011) Eduardo Cortázar (2011)Jorge Socías (2012)Cristián Castañeda (2012) Eduardo Cortázar (2012)Pablo Abraham (2012–2013) John Castro (2013)Mauricio Giganti (2013)Sergio Vargas (2014) Sebastián Vidal (2014)Germán Corengia (2014–2015) Cristián Molins (2015)Luis Marcoleta (2015–2018)Jaime Vera (2018)Dalcio Giovagnoli (2019)Hugo Vilches (2019)Nicolás Larcamón (2020)Damián Muñoz (2020)Martín Palermo (2020–2021)Damián Muñoz (2021–2023)Juan José Ribera (2023)Miguel Riffo (2023)Francisco Bozan (2024)Miguel Riffo (2024)Héctor Almandoz (2024-
