Boyacá Chicó F.C.

Boyacá Chicó Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Tunja playing in the Categoría Primera A starting from 2018. The club was founded on March 26, 2002[1] in Bogotá as Deportivo Bogotá Chicó F.C.,[2] named after one of the city's neighborhoods. After gaining promotion from Primera B in 2003[2] and playing one more season in the capital, the club was relocated to its current ground and renamed Boyacá Chicó F.C. They play their home games at the Estadio de La Independencia stadium.

Boyacá Chicó
Full nameDeportivo Boyacá Chicó Fútbol Club S.A.
Nickname(s)Los Ajedrezados (The Checkered)
Founded26 March 2002 (2002-03-26) (as Bogotá Chicó)
1 April 2005 (2005-04-01) (officially)
GroundEstadio La Independencia
Tunja, Colombia
Capacity20,630
ChairmanRicardo Hoyos Ángel
ManagerJhon Jaime Gómez
LeagueCategoría Primera A
2019Primera B, Runners-up (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

History

The club was founded in 2002 as Chicó Futbol Club, after the neighborhood of Chicó, in the locality of Chapinero in Bogotá, where Eduardo Pimentel, the manager of the project and former player of Millonarios, América de Cali, Independiente Medellín, Deportivo Pereira and the Colombia national football team, was born. The club played their first season in Primera C, finished as champions and were promoted to Primera B. The club won the Primera B championship in 2003, beating Pumas de Casanare in the double-legged final series and earned further promotion to Primera A.

After its move to Tunja and the arrival of manager Alberto Gamero in 2006, Boyacá Chicó started enjoying consistent results which allowed them to reach the semifinals of the domestic championship in the 2006 Finalización and both tournaments of the 2007 season, qualifying for the 2008 Copa Libertadores. In 2008, the club won its first Primera A title, defeating América de Cali in the Torneo Apertura final.[3] In 2016, after thirteen seasons in Primera A, the team was relegated.[4][5] However, the club only spent one season in the second tier, being promoted back to the Primera A after winning the Primera B championship in 2017.

Honours

Domestic
Winners (1): 2008–I
Winners (2): 2003, 2017
Runners-up (1): 2019
Winners (1): 2000
Runners-up (1): 2011

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

The club has appeared in the Copa Libertadores twice, reaching the preliminary round in 2008 and the group stage in the 2009 edition.

Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Agg.
2008 Copa Libertadores FS Audax Italiano 4–3 0–1 4–4 (a)
2009 Copa Libertadores GS Aurora 2–1 3–0 3rd
Grêmio 0–1 0–3
Universidad de Chile 3–0 0–3

Players

Current squad
As of 27 January 2020[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  COL Rogerio Caicedo
2 DF  COL Jhonathan Muñoz (captain)
8 MF  COL Juan Camilo Vela
9 FW  COL Edinson Palomino
10 MF  COL Mateo Palacios
11 FW  COL Luis Páez
12 GK  COL Pablo Mina
16 DF  VEN Delvin Alfonzo
17 DF  ARM Jordy Monroy
18 MF  COL Juan David Díaz
19 DF  COL Frank Lozano
20 FW  COL Jossymar Gómez
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 GK  COL Sebastián Arango
25 DF  VEN Jhon Edwar González
26 DF  COL Camilo Pérez
27 DF  COL Jarol Martínez
29 MF  COL Bryan Urueña
30 FW  VEN César Magallán
— GK  ARG Carlos Franco
— DF  COL Dayron Benavides
— DF  COL Jhon Mena
— MF  COL José Hurtado
— FW  COL Diego Echeverri

Managers
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References
  1. "Dimayor.com - Boyacá Chicó". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
  2. Dimayor.com - Historia Primera B Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Boyacá Chicó, del argentino Caneo, campeón inédito del fútbol de Colombia" (in Spanish). AFP. Archived from the original on 10 July 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  4. http://www.rcnradio.com/deportes/boyaca-chico-desciende-la-b-tras-12-anos/
  5. http://www.futbolred.com/liga-aguila/boyaca-chico-perdio-3-2-con-medellin-y-descendio-a-la-b+16743771
  6. "Boyacá Chicó". Dimayor. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
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