Independiente del Valle
Association football club in Ecuador / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Club de Alto Rendimiento Especializado Independiente del Valle,[1] known simply as Independiente del Valle, is a professional football club based in Sangolquí, Ecuador, that currently plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
Full name | Club de Alto Rendimiento Especializado Independiente del Valle | |||
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Nickname(s) | Los Negriazules (The black-and-blues) | |||
Founded | March 1, 1958; 66 years ago (1958-03-01) | |||
Ground | Estadio Banco Guayaquil Quito, Ecuador | |||
Capacity | 12,000 | |||
Chairman | Franklin Tello Núñez | |||
Manager | Javier Gandolfi | |||
League | Ecuadorian Serie A | |||
2023 | Serie A, 3rd of 16 (Finals runner-up) | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Founded in 1958, the club plays its home games at Estadio Banco Guayaquil, which opened in March 2021 and has a capacity for 12,000. In the 2013 Serie A Independiente finished runners-up, and they won their first league title in 2021.
In CONMEBOL competitions, it reached the final of the 2016 Copa Libertadores after famously defeating powerhouses River Plate and Boca Juniors,[2] it won its first title in 2019,[3] and three years later the club would become one of the few two-time Sudamericana champions after defeating São Paulo in the 2022 final.
The club is also known for producing youth talent, and a good example of this is the club's U-20 Copa Libertadores title in 2020.[4] Some well-known footballers the club has produced are Jefferson Montero, Junior Sornoza, Arturo Mina, Cristian Ramírez, Gonzalo Plata, Moisés Caicedo, Piero Hincapié, Willian Pacho and Kendry Páez .[5]