Independiente Santa Fe is an association football club based in Bogotá, that competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top level football league in Colombia. Santa Fe was founded on February 28, 1941,[1] and played its first league match on 15 August 1948, in a 2–2 draw with Deportes Caldas. As of 2013, Santa Fe is one of the teams never to have been relegated from the top level of Colombian football.[2]
The club has won the Categoría Primera A 9 times (1948, 1958, 1960, 1966, 1971, 1975, 2012–I, 2014–II, 2016–II), the Copa Colombia 2 times (1989, 2009), the Colombian Superliga 4 times (2013, 2015, 2017, 2021), the Copa Sudamericana once (2015) and the Suruga Bank Championship once (2016) too. The next table details the club's achievements since its formation in 1941.
| Dates | Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Jack Greenwell | ||
| 1947 |  Carlos Carrillo Nalda | Obtained the 1948 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1949–1950 |  José Castillo | ||
| 1950–1951 |  Adam Belitoreau | ||
| 1951 |  René Pontoni | ||
| 1951 | Oscar Sabransky | ||
| 1952–1953 | Alfredo Cuezzo | ||
| 1954–1955 |  Jorge Peñaranda | ||
| 1956–1957 | | ||
| 1958 | Julio Tocker | Obtained the 1958 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1959 | Juan José Ferraro | ||
| 1960 | Julio Tocker | Obtained the 1960 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1961–1962 | Rodolfo Kralj | ||
| 1963 |  Olten Ayres de Abreu | ||
| 1964 | Juan Montero | ||
| 1964 | Juan Carlos Pellegrino | ||
| 1964 | Julio Tocker | ||
| 1965–1967 | Gabriel Ochoa Uribe | Obtained the 1966 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1967 | Luis Alberto Rubio | ||
| 1968 | Gabriel Ochoa Uribe | ||
| 1968 | Luis Alberto Rubio | ||
| 1968 | | ||
| 1968–1969 | Rubén Bravo | ||
| 1969–1971 | Todor Veselinović | Obtained the 1970 Copa Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) | |
| 1971–1972 | Vladica Popović | Obtained the 1971 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1973 | John Evans | ||
| 1973–1974 | Dušan Nenković | ||
| 1975–1976 |  Francisco Hormazábal | Obtained the 1975 Campeonato Profesional | |
| 1977–1978 | Miguel Ángel Basílico | ||
| 1979 | Leonel Montoya | ||
| 1979–1981 | Alonso "Cachaco" Rodríguez | ||
| 1981 | Juan Carlos Sarnari | ||
| 1982 | Simo Vilić | ||
| 1982 | Luis Eduardo "Camello" Soto | ||
| 1983 | Juan Ricardo Faccio | ||
| 1983 | Juan Eulogio Urriolabeitía | ||
| 1984 | Justo Lopera | ||
| 1984 | Juan Carlos Lorenzo | ||
| 1985 | Eduardo Luján Manera | ||
| 1986–1987 | Jorge Luis Pinto | ||
| 1988–1989 | Diego Umaña | ||
| 1989–1991 | Héctor Javier Céspedes | ||
| 1991–1993 | Jorge Luis Pinto | ||
| 1993 | Roberto Perfumo | ||
| 1993–1994 | Arturo Boyacá | ||
| 1995–1996 |  Julio Avelino Comesaña | ||
| 1996–1998 |  Pablo Centrone | ||
| 1999–2001 | Fernando Castro | ||
| 2002 | Dragan Miranović | ||
| 2003 | Arturo Boyacá | ||
| 2003 | Heberth Ríos | ||
| 2003 | Germán González | ||
| 2003 | Julio Avelino Comesaña | ||
| 2004 | Jaime de la Pava | ||
| 2005–2006 | Germán González | ||
| 2006 | Ricardo Gareca | ||
| 2006–2007 | Pedro Sarmiento | ||
| 2008 | Fernando Castro | ||
| 2008–2009 | Hernán Darío Gómez | ||
| 2009–2010 | Germán González | Obtained the 2009 Copa Colombia | |
| 2010–2011 | Néstor Otero | ||
| 2011 | Arturo Boyacá | ||
| 2011–2014 | Wilson Gutiérrez | Obtained the 2012 Categoría Primera A season and 2013 Superliga Colombiana | |
| 2014–2015 | Gustavo Costas | Obtained the 2014 Categoría Primera A season and 2015 Superliga Colombiana | |
| 2015–2016 | Gerardo Pelusso | Obtained the 2015 Copa Sudamericana | |
| 2016 | Alexis García | ||
| 2016–2017 | Gustavo Costas | Obtained the 2016 Suruga Bank Championship, 2016 Categoría Primera A season and 2017 Superliga Colombiana | |
| 2017–2018 | Gregorio Pérez | ||
| 2018–2019 | Guillermo Sanguinetti | ||
| 2019 | Gerardo Bedoya | ||
| 2019 | Agustín Julio | ||
| 2019 | Patricio Camps | ||
| 2019–2021 | Harold Rivera | ||
| 2021 | Grigori Méndez | Obtained the 2021 Superliga Colombiana | |
| 2021–2022 | Martín Cardetti | ||
| 2022 | Agustín Julio | ||
| 2022 | Alfredo Arias | ||
| 2022–2023 | Harold Rivera | ||
| 2023 | Gerardo Bedoya | ||
| 2023 | Hubert Bodhert | ||
| 2023- | Pablo Peirano |