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| Full name | Once Caldas S.A. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | El Blanco (The White); El Blanco Blanco de Manizales (Manizales's White-White); Los Albos (the Albos); El Equipo Albo (The Albo Team) | |||
| Founded | 16 April 1947 (Foundation of Deportes Caldas) 15 January 1961 (Merger with Once Deportivo)[1] | |||
| Ground | Estadio Palogrande | |||
| Capacity | 28,678[2] | |||
| Chairman | Tulio Mario Castrillón | |||
| Coach | Hernán Darío Herrera | |||
| League | Categoría Primera A | |||
| 2023 | Primera A, 16th of 20 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Palogrande stadium.
The club was founded in 1961[1] after the merger of Deportes Caldas and Deportivo Manizales (also known as Once Deportivo).[3] In 2004, they won their first international title after winning the 2004 Copa Libertadores.
- ^ a b "Colombia – Foundation Dates of Clubs". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ FIFA.com
- ^ (in Spanish) History of Once Caldas Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine