S.D. Quito
Full name | Sociedad Deportivo Quito | |||
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Nickname(s) | Los Chullas quiteños La Academia (The Academy) Los Azulgranas (The Blue and Dark Reds) El Equipo de la Plaza del Teatro (The Team from the Plaza del Teatro) | |||
Founded | July 9, 1940 | , as Sociedad Deportiva Argentina|||
Ground | Estadio Ney mancheno | |||
Capacity | 35,742 | |||
Chairman | Joselito Cobo | |||
Manager | Gustavo Vásquez | |||
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Sociedad Deportivo Quito is an Ecuadorian club football club based in Quito. For most of its existence, it competed in Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. And currently competes in the Second Category of Pichincha.
Deportivo Quito has won five Serie A titles in 1964, 1968, 2008, 2009, and 2011. This places them fifth overall. The club also has four Interandean Tournament titles in 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1963. Additionally, the club was runner up in 1985, 1988, and 1997. Based on its style of play, sports journalists and fans nicknamed the club La Academia de los Ecuatorianos desde 1940 (English: The Academy of the Ecuadorians since 1940).
Deportivo Quito was officially founded in 1955, although they trace their roots to Sociedad Deportiva Argentina, which was founded on July 9, 1940. Historic rivals include
History
The club was founded on July 9, 1940, under the name Sociedad Deportiva Argentina. On October 1, 1954, the club, together with Sociedad Deportiva Aucas & Sociedad Deportiva España, founded Asociación de Fútbol No Amateur (AFNA) de Pichincha (Spanish for Non-Amateur Football Association of Pichincha). This was followed by provincial professional soccer tournaments. In accordance with AFNA bylaws, which stipulated that no team could be named after a country (except after Spain), the shareholders of Argentina got together and changed the club's name to Sociedad Deportivo Quito.
The 1950s and 1960s were fruitful decades for Deportivo Quito with the club obtaining National Championship titles in 1964 and 1968 as well as Interandean Championships (named so for inclusion of teams from both Quito and Ambato) in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1963. The 1970s were a dark period for the club, which descended and spent several seasons in the second tier
The club would wait forty years for its third championship and after a brilliant campaign in 2008, which saw Deportivo Quito in the lead throughout the tournament, the team sealed its third star against
Stadium
Deportivo Quito play their games at their training facility Ney Mancheno in 2021. Their home games were played in the Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa in the city of Quito until 2020. There have been plans to build a stadium for the year 2013 on their current training grounds Ney Mancheno in Carcelén.
On November 13, 2008, Deportivo Quito's management presented the model of the new stadium. This stadium will have a capacity of 20,000 people. The building project includes the construction of a shopping mall attached to the same stadium that will serve as a source of revenue for the institution. The plans were approved by the club socios on April 29, 2013.
Honors
Regional
- Campeonato Professional Interandino
- Champions (4): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963
National
Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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World Cup players
The following players were chosen to represent their country at the FIFA World Cup while contracted to Deportivo Quito.
- Raúl Guerrón (2002)
- Edison Méndez(2002)
- Marlon Ayoví (2002, 2006)
- Edwin Villafuerte (2006)
- Luis Fernando Saritama (2006)
External links
- Official website
- Fans, NO Official website (in Spanish)