| Full name | Club de Deportes Cobresal | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Mineros (Miners) Legionarios El Milagro del Desierto (The Desert's Miracle) | ||
| Founded | 5 May 1979 | ||
| Ground | Estadio El Cobre El Salvador, Chile | ||
| Capacity | 12,000[1] | ||
| President | David Agüero Martinez | ||
| Manager | Gustavo Huerta | ||
| League | Campeonato Nacional | ||
| 2023 | Primera División, 2nd of 16 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Club de Deportes Cobresal or simply Cobresal, is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador, Atacama, a Chilean mining camp, and participates in Campeonato Nacional. The team was founded on 5 May 1979, and the name of the club comes from the local copper mine establishment. Since its inception, the club has played its home games at the El Cobre Stadium. With a capacity of approximately 12,000,[2] the stadium is able to seat more than the entire population of the town (7,000).
During the history of Cobresal, the club has been champion once (2015 Clausura) and achieved one Copa Chile title in 1987, with players like the Chilean legend Iván Zamorano, Rubén Martínez and the club's historic top-scorer Sergio Salgado, footballers that also played in the 1986 Copa Libertadores, in the first international tournament for the club.
Cobresal's classic rival was Regional Atacama, where both teams disputed the III Region derby, but since the disappearance of that team as a result of financial problems, the team now plays the Copper derby with Cobreloa of Calama. Another important rivalry has been formed with another team from the Atacama region, Deportes Copiapó.
- ^ "Estadios | Estadio Seguro". Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ "Estadios | Estadio Seguro". Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.