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Huachipato
BERJAYA
Full nameClub Deportivo Huachipato
NicknamesLos Acereros (Steelers)
Campeón del Sur
(Champion of the South)
Los de la usina (Steelmillers)
Siderúrgicos (Steelworkers)
Negriazules (Black and blues)
Founded7 June 1947; 79 years ago (1947-06-07)
GroundEstadio Huachipato-CAP Acero, Talcahuano
Capacity10,500
ChairmanHernán Rosenblum
ManagerJaime García
LeagueLiga de Primera
2025Liga de Primera, 9th of 16
Websitewww.huachipatofc.cl

Huachipato FC is a Chilean football club based in Talcahuano that currently plays in the Chilean Primera División. Huachipato was founded on 7 June 1947 by workers of the homonymous steel mill in Talcahuano, and it currently plays its home games at the Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero which it owns, being one of only five Chilean professional football clubs to own their own ground.[1]

Huachipato have been Chilean champions three times and it is the only team from Southern Chile to ever win the Chilean top flight title. Huachipato is known in Chile from its academy and youth talent production that makes up the bulk of their squad,[2] qualifying for the U-20 Copa Libertadores twice, both times as reigning youth Chilean champions.[3]

History

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In 1947, CD Huachipato was officially notarized, and the first official recorded game was played. The original fans were the local company employees of the steel industry in Huachipato. It took a few years for the club to achieve its first successes, obtaining regional championships in 1956 and 1964.

In its early seasons, "the Steelers" (Acereros), as they are known, were quite satisfactory in the second division. The 1965 debut was against Municipal de Santiago with a 3–0 victory.

After 36 games the standings would show Huachipato second with 46 points, 3 points less than that of Ferrobádminton another second-division team that took the championship and thus passage (which is how it was granted in those years) to the First Division.

However, a year later (1966), the Steelers managed promotion to the first division, after winning the second division champions Chile with 49 points, they remained well above teams like Coquimbo (42 points) and San Antonio (39) who stayed with the second and third place respectively after thirty games.

With only two years in the professionalism of Talcahuano, Huachipato was installed in the top-flight professional football in Chile, La Primera División.

With a tie on a goal, as local and against Audax Italiano, the "Steelers" debuted in the first division. In the first season of the first division, Huachipato had an acceptable term in sixth place among 18 teams, although the tournament was on two wheels. The following years were quiet for steel, culminating their shares in the mid-high zone of the standings. However, a few years after this change, Huachipato won the 1974 First Division Football Championship, with this triumph they are the only Chilean Football team from the south of Chile to obtain the title.

1974 was a year that many Huachipato fans will never forget, after 34 matches played, Huachipato had to beat Aviación to become champions in their last match, and they did it, Moisés Silva scored the only goal that crowned Huchipato champions that year.

From the end of the 1990s, Huachipato was characterized by a club trainer of players from lower divisions. Examples of these are important values steelmakers who emerged from the quarry as[clarification needed] Roberto Cartes, Cristian Uribe, Rodrigo Rain, Cristián Reynero, Rodrigo Millar, Mario Salgado, Héctor Mancilla, Gonzalo Jara, Pedro Morales, Mauricio Arias, among others.

As for sporting achievements, Huachipato reached the Semi-Finals in the Torneos Apertura in the years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In addition, since the end of the 1990s, the Huachipato classification achieved an international tournament and the Copa Sudamericana 2006 and their second championship in 38 years, after defeating Unión Española in the 2012 Chilean Clausura Tournament final.[4]

Huachipato were crowned champions of the 2023 Chilean Primera División by 1 point, and in dramatic fashion. They triumphed 2-0 against Audax Italiano at home on the final day of matches, to increase their point tally to 57, while Cobresal, who had 56 points, failed to gain any points during the same day, suffering a 1-0 away loss to Unión Española. This gave Huachipato its third overall league title, and first since 2012.[5]

As a result of their triumph of Chile's top flight in 2023, they participated in the 2024 Copa Libertadores.

Team colours and symbols

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From its foundation in 1947 and until 1966, Huachipato wore a red shirt, blue pants and white socks uniform in the same vein as the Chile national football team. Upon Huachipato's first promotion to the top flight in 1967, the team switched to its current black and blue uniform, inspired by Inter Milan's colours.[6]

Huachipato's name is derived from the Mapudungun eponomyous term that coined the area where the team is located, with the term meaning "Bird-catching trap".[7]

Huachipato's badge was inspired by the Steelmark logo owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute, bearing a similarity to the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers logo, given both teams' steelmaking roots.[8]

Club data

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Honours

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National

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Regional

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  • Asociación de Fútbol de Talcahuano
    • Winners (1): 1950
  • Campeonato Regional de Fútbol
    • Winners (2): 1956, 1964

Women's team

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South American cups history

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Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1975 Copa Libertadores Group 2 Chile Unión Española 0–0 2–7 2nd Place
Bolivia The Strongest 4–2 0–1
Bolivia Jorge Wilstermann 4–0 0–0
2006 Copa Sudamericana First Round Chile Colo-Colo 1–2 2–1 3–3 3-5p
2013 Copa Libertadores Group 8 Brazil Fluminense 1–3 1–1 3rd Place
Brazil Grêmio 1–1 2–1
Venezuela Caracas 1–2 4–0
2014 Copa Sudamericana First Round Bolivia San José 3–1 3–2 6–3
Second Round Ecuador Universidad Católica 2–0 0–1 2–1
Round of 16 Brazil São Paulo 2–3 0–1 2–4
2015 Copa Sudamericana First Round Paraguay Olimpia 0–2 0–2 0–4
2020 Copa Sudamericana First Round Colombia Pasto 1–0 1–0 2–0
Second Round Uruguay Fénix 1–1 1–3 2–4
2021 Copa Sudamericana
First Round Chile Antofagasta 3–0 1–0 4–0
Group A Argentina San Lorenzo 0–3 1–0 2nd Place
Argentina Rosario Central 1–1 0–5
Paraguay 12 de Octubre 0-0 2-1
2024 Copa Libertadores Group C Argentina Estudiantes 1–1 4–3 3rd Place
Bolivia The Strongest 0–0 0–4
Brazil Grêmio 0-1 2-0
2024 Copa Sudamericana Knockout round play-offs Uruguay Racing (URU) 2–3 1–0 3–3 3-0p
Round of 16 Argentina Racing (ARG) 0–2 1–6 1–8

Club records

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Other sports

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Up until 2015, Huachipato was a multisports club, maintaining basketball, karate, taekwondo, artistic roller skating, roller hockey, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, and futsal branches.

Supporters and rivalries

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Huachipato's supporters, nicknamed the Acereros, largely come from its home city of Talcahuano, with groups of fans coming from cities belonging to the Greater Concepción conurbation. A smaller group of fans reside in Santiago, often attending away games.

Huachipato's main rivals are Naval, who are also based in Talcahuano and with whom Huachipato contest the Clásico Chorero, and Deportes Concepción, from the neighbouring city and regional capital, with whom Huachipato contest the Clasico del Gran Concepción.[9]

Huachipato and O'Higgins F.C. have a longstanding mutual friendship, originating from the Tomé tragedy of 2013, where 16 travelling O'Higgins fans tragically lost their lives in a road accident in Tomé, while returning from Estadio CAP after a 2-0 O'Higgins victory.[10] In every fixture played between both teams since, both clubs organize a memorial ceremony previous to each match. Huachipato installed a permanent commemorative plaque at Estadio CAP in 2018, in remembrance of the tragedy,[11] and since 2022, both clubs symbolically contest the Copa 16 (Trophy of the 16), in honour of the departed fans.[12]

Players

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Current squad

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Current squad of Huachipato FC as of 19 August 2026 (edit)
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site

No. Position Player
1 BERJAYA CHI GK Sebastián Mella
2 BERJAYA CHI DF Guillermo Guaiquil
3 BERJAYA CHI DF Benjamín Mellado
4 BERJAYA CHI DF José Castro (loan from Universidad de Chile)
5 BERJAYA CHI MF Rafael Caroca
6 BERJAYA CHI MF Claudio Sepúlveda (c)
7 BERJAYA CHI FW Mario Briceño
9 BERJAYA ARG FW Lionel Altamirano
10 BERJAYA ARG MF Ezequiel Cañete
11 BERJAYA CHI FW Juan Figueroa
12 BERJAYA CHI GK Christian Bravo
13 BERJAYA ARG DF Renzo Malanca
14 BERJAYA CHI DF Nicolás Vargas
15 BERJAYA CHI FW Maximiliano Rodríguez
16 BERJAYA CHI FW Luciano Arriagada
18 BERJAYA CHI MF Benjamín Ampuero
20 BERJAYA CHI DF Cristian Toro
21 BERJAYA CHI MF Carlos Herrera
No. Position Player
22 BERJAYA CHI MF Nicolás Cárcamo
23 BERJAYA PAR FW Cris Martínez
24 BERJAYA CHI MF Maicol León
25 BERJAYA URU GK Rodrigo Odriozola
26 BERJAYA CHI FW Harold Antiñirre
27 BERJAYA CHI DF Lucas Velásquez
29 BERJAYA CHI MF Claudio Torres
30 BERJAYA URU MF Kevin Altez (loan from Defensor Sporting)
33 BERJAYA CHI FW Álvaro Abarzúa
36 BERJAYA CHI DF Ezequiel Osorio
38 BERJAYA CHI DF Sebastián Melgarejo
42 BERJAYA CHI FW Pablo Bohle
49 BERJAYA CHI GK Ignacio Cruzat
51 BERJAYA CHI MF Martín Torrejón
52 BERJAYA COL FW David Larrahondo
53 BERJAYA COL FW Freddy Alegría
– BERJAYA URU FW Sergio Núñez (loan from Liverpool Montevideo)

Manager: Jaime García

2026 Winter Transfers

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In

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW BERJAYA URU Sergio Núñez (loan from Liverpool Montevideo)

Out

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
8 MF BERJAYA URU Santiago Silva (loan to Nacional)

Managers

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In Italics, the caretaker managers of Huachipato. In bold, the managers who won a title with Huachipato.

References

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  1. ↑ "Se viene el quinto equipo con estadio propio en el fútbol profesional chileno" [Soon, the fifth Chilean club with its own ground in professional football] (in Spanish). Santiago: Encancha. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023. In Chilean professional football, only 4 teams own their own ground, Colo Colo (Estadio Monumental), Universidad Católica (San Carlos de Apoquindo), Unión Española (Santa Laura) y Huachipato (CAP de Talcahuano).
  2. ↑ ""Línea de sucesión": el plan que fortalece a Huachipato" [" Succession line", the plan that strengthens Huachipato]. chile.as.com (in Spanish). Diario AS. 28 February 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Huachipato y O'Higgins, dos ejemplos a imitar" [Huachipato and O'Higgins, examples to be followed]. elagora.net (in Spanish). El Agora. 15 June 2023. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Huachipato logra su segunda corona en dramática definición". La Tercera. 10 December 2012. Archived from the original on 23 October 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  5. ↑ Gonzalez Lucay, Carlos (8 December 2023). "Huachipato es campeón por tercera vez: aprovecha el tropiezo de Cobresal y alcanza la gloria máxima". La Tercera. Archived from the original on 17 September 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "El origen de los colores de los clubes de Primera División" [The origins of the colours of Chilean top flight football clubs]. asifuch.cl (in Spanish). Asifuch [es]. 7 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "El origen de los nombres de los clubes chilenos" [The origins of Chilean football names]. economiaynegocios.cl (in Spanish). La Tercera. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Las 11 cosas que no puedes dejar de conocer sobre el nuevo campeón del fútbol chileno" [11 Things to know about the new Chilean football champions]. latercera.com (in Spanish). La Tercera. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  9. ↑ ""Chorero", "Huaso", "Universitario" y más: Los partidos clásicos del fútbol chileno que tienen nombre "oficial"" ["Chorero", "Universitario", "Huaso" and more: Chilean football's derby matches with an "official" name]. encancha.cl (in Spanish). Encancha. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "La emotiva trastienda del duelo entre Huachipato y O'Higgins" [The emotional backstory of the fixture between Huachipato and O'Higgins]. eltipografo.cl (in Spanish). El Tipógrafo [es]. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "Tremendo gesto: Huachipato rindió homenaje con una placa en el CAP a los 16 hinchas fallecidos de O'Higgins" [Inmmense gesture, Huachipato honours 16 departed O'Higgins supports with plaque at Estadio CAP]. biobiochile.cl (in Spanish). Publimetro [es]. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  12. ↑ "Amistad de O'Higgins y Huachipato suma un nuevo capítulo: honrarán a los 16 hinchas fallecidos en Tomé" [Friendship between O'Higgins and Huachipato adds a new chapter, honouring the 16 departed fans]. biobiochile.cl (in Spanish). Radio Bío-Bío. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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