| Clubname: | Deportivo Táchira |
| Fullname: | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
| Nickname: | Aurinegro (Gold-and-black) El carrusel aurinegro |
| Ground: | Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal, Venezuela |
| Capacity: | 42,500 |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| Chairman: | Jorge Silva |
| Manager: | Eduardo Saragó |
| League: | Primera División Venezolana |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Position: | Primera División, 1st of 15 |
| Website: | http://deportivotachira.com/ |
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The Deportivo Táchira Futbol Club is a professional football club of the city of San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Founded on January 11, 1974, by Gaetano Greco, the club was originally known as "San Cristobal Football Club".
The club plays its home matches at the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity of 42,500. Since 1975, it participates in the Venezuelan 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 the Copa 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.
Táchira has a B team which participates in the Venezuelan Segunda División. 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 is Caracas FC, with whom it contests the "Clásico Moderno" of Venezuelan football. It also plays the so-called "Andean Derby" (Clásico Andino) against Estudiantes de Mérida.
In 1970, Italian-born Gaetano Greco founded an amateur club called Juventus in San Cristóbal, named after the Juventus FC. In 1974, Greco noticed that there were no professional football clubs in Táchira, so he decided to found a club in Táchira based on the amateur Juventus club. He and twelve other people founded the club on January 11 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 the Italy 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 the Uruguayan team Peñarol.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
See main article: Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo. The club's home stadium is Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, located in San Cristóbal. It has a maximum capacity of 42,500 people.
The team's supporters are known as aurinegros ("gold-and-blacks"). The supporters are mainly divided into three groups; La Torcida Aurinegra , La Avalancha Sur, and Comando 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 December 17, 2000, when the club and Caracas 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 and Estudiantes de Mérida are known as the Clásico de Los Andes (meaning Andes' Derby). However, in recent years games between Deportivo Táchira and Caracas 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 was Marítimo 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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1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1999-2000, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2021, 2023
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1982
25 appearances
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Round of 16
Round of 16
Preliminary Round
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Quarter-finals
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Round of 16
First Round
First Round
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5 appearances
Preliminary Round
Preliminary Round
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
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3 appearances
First Round
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First Round
As of 16 October 2023
Daniel Francovig – In the 1987 Copa Libertadores the Uruguayan goalkeeper beat Luis Islas from his own box, with a bounce that misled Independiente's goalkeeper. He scored the best remembered goal by a goalkeeper in the history of football. Luis Miloc (1977–78) Esteban Beracochea (1978–83) (Campeón 79 y 81)
Marcos Calderón (1983)
Carlos Horacio Moreno (1984–89) (Campeón 84 y 86) Walter Roque (1999–01) (Campeón 99-00)
Jorge Luis Pinto (2010–2011) (Campeón 10-11) Jaime de la Pava (2012) Santiago Escobar (2016-2017)
Álex Pallares (2018) Álex Pallares (2022)