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| Full name | Athletic Club Barnechea | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | Huaicocheros,Barne | ||
| Founded | December 23, 1929 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Municipal Lo Barnechea | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||
| Chairman | Armando Cordero | ||
| Manager | Cristián Muñoz | ||
| League | Primera B | ||
| 2023 | 9th | ||
Athletic Club Barnechea is a ChileanFootball club based in theLo Barnecheacommune ofSantiago, Chile. They currently play in the second level of Chilean football, thePrimera B.
The club was founded on December 23, 1929, asClub Deportivo Santa Rosa Lo Barnechea. Its name was changed toDeportivo Lo Barnechea in 1943.[1]
Barnechea was part of the first season of theChilean Cuarta División in 1983, where it played until 1988. A second-place finish behind Municipal Las Condes that season saw Barnechea promoted to theChilean Tercera División.
In the 2009–10 season the team played the Liguilla de Ascenso, finishing in 3rd place behindTrasandino andMagallanes.
The next season saw Barnechea win theThird Division, finishing 1st in the Liguilla de Ascenso, aboveArturo Fernández Vial,Iberia Los Ángeles andMunicipal Mejillones.
In 2011–12 it played theChilean Primera División B, finishing in 2nd place with 66 points. It won a place to play the two-legged promotion final against the third-placedÑublense. After both the first leg (1–1) and second leg (2–2) finished in draws, the play-off went to penalties, where Barnechea lost 7–6.
The club had a final chance at promotion in the relegation play-off against the 16th-placed team of theChilean Primera División,Cobresal. Barnechea won the first leg 3–1 at theEstadio Santa Laura with goals fromIgnacio Caroca andFrancisco Ibañez adding to anEduardo Farías own goal.Agustín Vuletich scored for Cobresal. However, it lost the return leg 3–0 atEstadio El Cobre with a goal fromEduardo Martinez and two fromJose Miguel Cuéllar.
In the season 2013–14, AC Barnechea finished in 4th place with 59 points and won a place in the Play-off for the Second Promotion to the First Division. They defeatedSantiago Morning in the semi-finals, winning 2–1 over two legs. In the finals against San Luis, Barnechea won the first leg 1–0 but lost the return fixture by the same score. Their captain and goalkeeper Jorge Manduca scored the decisive penalty in the resulting shoot-out to send Barnechea through to the Chilean Primera División 2014–15 by a 4–3 margin.
On August 3, 2014, Nicolas Maturana scored Barnechea's first-ever goal in the top flight againstAudax Italiano. A week later, Barnechea won their first match in the First Division, with Francisco Ibañez scoring the only goal in a 1–0 win againstSan Marcos de Arica.
The club were relegated to Chilean Primera Division B at the end of the 2014–15 season after finishing 18th.
Back to the second category, the team started with a triumph beforeDeportes Concepción, followed by a tie as a visitor toDeportes Iberia and other local beforeÑublense. But already in the fourth date, began to notice the fragility of the game – except the win 5–2 beforeDeportes La Serena as a visitor at the sixth date – where the results did not accompany and the game norAfter the bad campaign, where the team was 13 dates without win. While they had a light of hope from the dates 20 and 21, the fall before the champion of the meeting,Deportes Temuco returned to its dark reality, such that the left trembling throughout this stage, until the equipment that came from further back, began to win games and obtain important points in his fight to save the category. The defeat beforeCoquimbo Unido of visit by 4–2 in the last date, determined its eventual decline to the third category of Chilean soccer, with a meager statistics only 5 wins, 8 draws and 17 defeats, with 25 goals in favor and 54 against, which gave him a difference of −29 and a figure of 23 points of 90 possible (its final performance was a 25.56%), ending the team in the 16th position (last), being relegated to theSegunda División for the season 2016–17. In the following season, the team won the Segunda División, being promoted to the Primera B for 2017, and in 2018, the team reached the semifinals of theCopa Chile for the first time in its history.
Current squad of A.C. Barnechea as of 5 October 2021 (edit)
Sources:ANFP Official Web Site
Manager:John Armijo
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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Interim coaches appear in italics.
Benjamín Valenzuela (1995)Carlos Encinas (1996)Rodolfo Dubó (1997-1998)Fernando Vergara (2005)Julio Suazo (2008)Armando Cordero (2009)Hugo Monardes (2009)Nelson Soto (2010)Mario Salas (2011-2012)Hugo Vilches (2013-2014)Francisco Bozán (2014-2015)Jorge Miranda (2016)Jorge Contreras (2016-2017)Arturo Norambuena (2017-2018)René Ávila (2018)Hernán Peña (2018-2019)Leonardo Zamora (2020)Ariel Leporati (2021)Jaime Pizarro (2021)
Héctor Adomaitis (2021)John Armijo (2021-2022)Antonio Martínez (2023)Cristián Muñoz (2024-)
