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| Full name | Club Universidad de Chile | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Azules (The Blues) La U (The U) El Romántico Viajero (Wanderlust) El Bulla (The Noise) El Chuncho (The Owl) León (Lion) La Chile (The Chile) | |||
| Founded | May 24, 1927 | |||
| Ground | Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos | |||
| Capacity | 48,665[1] | |||
| Chairman | Michael Clark | |||
| Manager | Gustavo Álvarez | |||
| League | Primera División | |||
| 2023 | Primera División, 9th of 16 | |||
| Website | http://www.udechile.cl | |||
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Club Universidad de Chile (Spanish pronunciation: [kluβ uniβeɾsiˈðað ðe ˈtʃile]) is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, that plays in the Primera División.
Founded on 24 May 1927, Universidad de Chile is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the league title 18 times.[2] In the last 10 years, the team has been crowned champion six times, including their undefeated run to the 2011 Copa Sudamericana title. The team has been associated with the colour blue throughout its history, blue is present on the logo, which was officially adopted in 1943. The club rivalries are with Colo-Colo and Universidad Católica, with whom they regularly contest the Santiago derbies known as Clásicos.
Despite not owning its stadium, the club usually rents and plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, in the commune of Ñuñoa in Santiago.
Universidad de Chile was the champion of the Copa Sudamericana 2011. In this tournament, the club had an excellent performance: wasn't defeated, won all their matches in Chile and had the top scorer of the tournament's history (Eduardo Vargas). Universidad de Chile has reached semi-finals in the Copa Libertadores four times (years 1970, 1996, 2010 and 2012).
- ^ Inauguran remodelado Estadio Nacional
- ^ Juan Pablo Andrés and Eric Boesenberg. "Chile – List of Champions and Runners Up" (Rec.Sport.Football Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) ed.). Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.