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| Full name | Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Zorros del desierto (desert foxes) Loínos Mineros (Miners) Naranjas (Oranges) | |||
| Founded | January 7, 1977, as Club de Deportes Cobreloa | |||
| Stadium | Estadio Zorros del Desierto Calama, Chile | |||
| Capacity | 12,102 | |||
| Coordinates | 22°27′36″S 68°55′14″W / 22.46000°S 68.92056°W | |||
| President |  Marcelo Pérez | |||
| Head coach |  Dalcio Giovagnoli | |||
| League | Primera División | |||
| 2023 | Primera B, 1st (champions) | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ ðe ðeˈpoɾtes koβɾeˈloa] ), commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a Chilean football professional club based in Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. They compete in the Primera División. The club's home ground is the Estadio Zorros del Desierto.
Founded on 7 January 1977, by the initiative of various local groups and the Chilean state-owned enterprise, CODELCO. This club was created starting from the Legal Personality of the local club, Deportes El Loa. On 30 March 2006, the club changed to a Limited sports company with the unanimous approval of 56 of its socios (members).[1] According to the 2018 year public report, the capital of the club is $4.534 billion CLP ($6.697.624,8 USD) spread on 1.000.000 shares of stock without nominal value, mostly owned by the socios (members of club) with 999,999 of them and the chairman of the club with 1 share.[2] In 2018 the first team budget was $100 million CLP.[3]
The club's professional debut in Segunda división professional de Chile was in 1977, achieving the promotion to Primera División in the same year. The club has won the Primera División title 8 times, and the 1986 Copa Polla Lan Chile. Some of its rivalries are with Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo team in the Clásico Albo-Loíno,[4] Club de Deportes Cobresal who dispute the Clasico del Cobre[4] and Deportes Antofagasta in the Clasico de la región de Antofagasta.[5]
In 2019, The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation sorted out in the 71st position in the Worldwide Historical Ranking of Clubs.[6] In CONMEBOL Libertadores Ranking 2021 it is in 68th position.[7]
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- ^ "Cobreloa S.A.D.P. memoria anual" (in Spanish). Comisión para el Mercado Financiero. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Presupuesto Anual 2019" (in Spanish). Comisión para el Mercado Financiero. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ a b Montenegro Araya, Iván (12 September 2015). "Los clásicos del fútbol chileno" (in Spanish). Sinfonia de Gol. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "ANTOFAGASTA SUPERÓ A COBRELOA EN EL CLÁSICO REGIONAL" (in Spanish). Asociación de fútbol profesional de Chile. 25 March 2012. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Worldwide Historical Ranking of Clubs". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Ranking 2021" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.