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| Full name | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club | |||
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| Nicknames | Aurinegro (Gold-and-black) El Carrusel Aurinegro (The Gold-and-black Carrousel) | |||
| Founded | 11 January 1974; 51 years ago (1974-01-11) | |||
| Ground | Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo San Cristóbal, Venezuela | |||
| Capacity | 42,500 | |||
| Chairman | Jorge Silva | |||
| Manager | Álvaro Recoba | |||
| League | Primera División Venezolana | |||
| 2024 | Primera División, 1st of 14 | |||
| Website | www | |||
TheDeportivo Táchira Futbol Club is a professional football club of the city ofSan Cristóbal, Venezuela. Founded on 11 January 1974, by Gaetano Greco, the club was originally known as "San Cristobal Football Club".
The club plays its home matches at thePolideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity of 42,500. Since 1975, it participates in theVenezuelan Primera División, making it the only Venezuelan team that has never fallen or participated in the lower category. Currently it holds the first position of the historical classification of the Venezuelan Primera División with 2229 points.
At the international level, Táchira is the Venezuelan club with the most appearances in theCopa Libertadores. Its best international participation was its advance to the quarter-finals unbeaten in the Copa Libertadores 2004. It is one of two Venezuelan clubs that have advanced past the first phase of the Copa Libertadores, or reached the quarter-finals.
It also has a Futsal team called Deportivo Tachira Fútsal Club, which plays in the Venezuelan Futsal League and the Superior Futsal Tournament.
Táchira's fiercest rival isCaracas FC, with whom it contests the "Clásico Moderno" of Venezuelan football. It also plays the so-called "Andean Derby" (Clásico Andino) againstEstudiantes de Mérida.
In 1970,Italian-bornGaetano Greco founded an amateur club called Juventus inSan Cristóbal, named after theJuventus FC. In 1974, Greco noticed that there were no professional football clubs inTáchira, so he decided to found a club in Táchira based on the amateur Juventus club. He and twelve other people founded the club on 11 January of that year, which they named San Cristóbal Fútbol Club. Most of the club's players came from the Juventus club. Initially, the club's colors were blue and white, similar to theItaly national football team kits.
In January 1975, the club changed its colors to yellow and black, because those colors better represented the Táchira state and were the preferred colors of the Uruguayan manager José "Pocho" Gil, as they were the colors of theUruguayan teamPeñarol.
In the 2016 season, Deportivo Táchira drew an average home league attendance of 5,595 in the Apertura and 4,033 in the Clausura, the highest in the domestic league.[1]
| Year | Name |
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| 1974 | San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1975 | Deportivo San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1978 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
| 1986 | Unión Atlético Táchira |
| 1999 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
The club's home stadium isPolideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, located in San Cristóbal. It has a maximum capacity of 42,500 people.
The team's supporters are known asaurinegros ("gold-and-blacks"). The supporters are mainly divided into three groups;La Torcida Aurinegra,La Avalancha Sur, andComando Sur.
Several of the team's supporters have committed violent acts in the past towards the supporters of opposing teams. One of the most tragic events took place on 17 December 2000, when the club andCaracas drew 2–2, which gave the Copa República Bolivariana de Venezuela's title to Caracas, causing angry supporters of Deportivo Táchira to burn the Caracas team bus.[2]
Games between Deportivo Táchira andEstudiantes de Mérida are known as theClásico de Los Andes (meaningAndes' Derby). However, in recent years games between Deportivo Táchira andCaracas have been known as the modern derby, because of the successful performance of both teams. A former rival of Deportivo Táchira in the 1980s and early 1990s wasMarítimo de Venezuela, a former team from Caracas.
Deportivo Táchira's shirt has black and yellow vertical stripes, with black shorts and socks.
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Luis Miloc (1977–78)Esteban Beracochea (1978–83) (Campeón 79 y 81)
Marcos Calderón (1983)
Carlos Horacio Moreno (1984–89) (Campeón 84 y 86)
Richard Páez (1991)Walter Roque (1999–01) (Campeón 99-00)César Farías (2003–05)Manuel Plasencia (2005–07)Carlos Maldonado (2007–2010) (Campeón 07-08)
Jorge Luis Pinto (2010–2011) (Campeón 10-11)Jesús Vera (2011)Jaime de la Pava (2012)Manuel Contreras (2012)Daniel Farías (2013–2015) (Campeón 14-15)Carlos Maldonado (2015–2016)Santiago Escobar (2016-2017)Francesco Stifano (2017-2018)
Álex Pallares (2018)Giovanni Pérez (2019)Juan Domingo Tolisano (2019-2021) (Campeón 2021)Álex Pallares (2022)Eduardo Saragó (2022–2024)
