Fixtures

Copa Libertadores 05/08 00:00 4 Deportivo Tachira vs Libertad Asuncion - View
Copa Libertadores 05/15 22:00 5 Deportivo Tachira vs Nacional De Football - View
Copa Libertadores 05/31 00:00 6 River Plate vs Deportivo Tachira - View

Results

Copa Libertadores 04/24 22:00 3 [3] Nacional De Football v Deportivo Tachira [4] L 2-1
Venezuela - Primera Division 04/20 23:00 13 [10] Deportivo La Guaira v Deportivo Tachira [7] L 1-0
Venezuela - Primera Division 04/14 21:45 12 [9] Deportivo Tachira v Carabobo [6] W 1-0
Copa Libertadores 04/10 00:00 2 [3] Libertad Asuncion v Deportivo Tachira [3] L 3-0
Venezuela - Primera Division 04/05 20:00 11 [2] UCV v Deportivo Tachira [5] L 2-0
Copa Libertadores 04/03 00:30 1 Deportivo Tachira v River Plate L 0-2
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/28 23:30 10 [6] Deportivo Tachira v Metropolitanos FC [5] W 2-0
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/25 00:30 9 [8] Inter de Barinas v Deportivo Tachira [7] D 1-1
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/21 00:30 8 [10] Deportivo Tachira v Monagas [7] W 1-0
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/15 23:00 7 [6] Angostura FC v Deportivo Tachira [4] L 2-0
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/08 22:00 6 [2] Deportivo Tachira v Academia Puerto Cabello [1] L 0-1
Venezuela - Primera Division 03/03 20:00 5 [6] Caracas v Deportivo Tachira [3] D 0-0

Statistici

 TotalGazdeOaspeti
Matches played 41 20 21
Wins 22 14 8
Draws 11 3 8
Losses 8 3 5
Goals for 53 31 22
Goals against 30 11 19
Clean sheets 18 10 8
Failed to score 11 3 8

The Deportivo Táchira Futbol Club is a professional football club of the city of San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Founded on January 11, 1974, by Gaetano Greco, the club was originally known as "San Cristobal Football Club".

The club plays its home matches at the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity of 42,500. Since 1975, it participates in the Venezuelan Primera División, making it the only Venezuelan team that has never fallen or participated in the lower category. Currently it holds the first position of the historical classification of the Venezuelan Primera División with 2229 points.

At the international level, it is the Venezuelan club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores. Its best international participation was its advance to the quarter-finals unbeaten in the Copa Libertadores 2004. It is one of two Venezuelan clubs that have advanced past the first phase of the Copa Libertadores, or reached the quarter-finals.

Deportivo Tachira has a subsidiary named Deportivo Táchira team "B", which participates in the Venezuelan Segunda División. It also has a Futsal team called Deportivo Tachira Fútsal Club, which plays in the Venezuelan Futsal League and the Superior Futsal Tournament.

Its fiercest rival is the Caracas FC, with whom it disputes the "Modern Derby" (Clásico Moderno) of Venezuelan football. It also plays the so-called "Andean Derby" (Clásico Andino) against Estudiantes de Mérida.

History

In 1970, Italian-born Gaetano Greco founded an amateur club called Juventus in San Cristóbal, named after the Juventus FC. In 1974, Greco noticed that there were no professional football clubs in Táchira, so he decided to found a club in Táchira based on the amateur Juventus club. He and twelve other people founded the club on January 11 of that year, which they named San Cristóbal Fútbol Club. Most of the club's players came from the Juventus club. Initially, the club's colors were blue and white, similar to the Italy national football team kits.

In January 1975, the club changed its colors to yellow and black, because those colors better represented the Táchira state and were the preferred colors of the Uruguayan manager José "Pocho" Gil, as they were the colors of the Uruguayan team Peñarol.

In the 2016 season, Deportivo Táchira drew an average home league attendance of 5,595 in the Apertura and 4,033 in the Clausura, the highest in the domestic league.

Naming history

Year Name
1974 San Cristóbal Fútbol Club
1975 Deportivo San Cristóbal Fútbol Club
1978 Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club
1986 Unión Atlético Táchira
1999 Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club
Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club este o echipă de fotbal din San Cristóbal, Venezuela, care evoluează în Primera División Venezolana. Este cea mai de succes echipă din Venezuela, cu 9 titluri de campioană și 6 Cupe ale Venezuelei.

Stadionul echipei este Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, cu o capacitate de 38.755 de locuri.

Culorile tradiționale ale echipei sunt portocaliu și negru.

Deportivo Táchira a participat de mai multe ori la Copa Libertadores, cea mai importantă competiție intercluburi din America de Sud. Cea mai bună performanță a echipei în această competiție a fost atingerea sferturilor de finală în 2016.

Echipa națională a Venezuelei a convocat mai mulți jucători de la Deportivo Táchira de-a lungul istoriei. Cel mai cunoscut jucător care a evoluat pentru Deportivo Táchira este Juan Arango, care a fost căpitanul echipei naționale a Venezuelei și a jucat pentru cluburi europene precum Borussia Mönchengladbach și Real Mallorca.