| Full name | Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo B | ||
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| Nickname(s) | La Filial | ||
| Founded | 1999 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Monumental David Arellano Macul, Santiago, Chile | ||
| Capacity | 45,953 | ||
| Owner | Carlos Tapia | ||
| Manager | Rodolfo Madrid | ||
| League | Chilean Segunda División | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Club Deportivo y Social Colo-Colo B, usually called Colo-Colo B, is a Chilean football team from Santiago. They are the reserve team of Colo-Colo, and are currently competing in the third tier of Chilean football, the Segunda División.
Founded in January 1999, the club played its first season in the Chilean Third Division, via an under–23 team of the club called Colo-Colo Junior, in where players like Sebastián González and Luis Ignacio Quinteros, become to stars. After the bankruptcy of Colo-Colo in 2001, the club was dissolved because of the financial requirements that the team needed, despite the sport's success.
In January 2007, thanks to the success of the coach Claudio Borghi in the bench of Colo-Colo, the reserve team again was founded thanks to Gabriel Ruíz–Tagle's management, playing again in the third level of the Chilean football league system, but after another problem that affected in the reserve's team existence was the ANFA's controversial that established the rule that prevented to the filial teams in play at the Third division.
In December 2011, after the approval of the Asociación de Fútbol Profesional de Chile in create a new Segunda División, the club was re-established for play in that tournament,[1][2] debuting the next season with a 1–0 defeat with the reserve team of Rangers at the Estadio Fiscal de Talca.
- ^ Rojas Díaz, Manuel (22 November 2011). "ANFP aprueba la Segunda División Profesional, pero se viene una pelea con ANFA". Emol. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
- ^ "Colo Colo estrena su equipo filial en Talca". Colo Colo. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.