Club Universidad de Chile

Club Universidad de Chile is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, which plays in the Primera División.

The club was founded on May 24, 1927, as Club Deportivo Universitario. Universidad de Chile is the second most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the league title 14 times. In the last 10 years, the team has been crowned champion three times.

The team has been throughout its history associated with the color blue, also present on the logo, which was officially adopted in 1943.

Despite having no stadium of its own, the club usually plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional de Chile, in the commune of Ñuñoa in Santiago. The Estadio Nacional's modernization process, forced the team to play home games in various stadiums across Chile in 2010. Universidad de Chile made a return to the Estadio Nacional on August 2010 against Club Deportivo Guadalajara during the 2010 Copa Libertadores Semifinals.

Universidad de Chile has a large fan base and many rivalries against other teams in the first division. The most notable of these are their rivalries are with Colo-Colo and Universidad Católica, with whom they regularly contest the Santiago derbies known as Clásicos .

Since 2008, the club has also a women’s team that plays in the first division of women's football in Chile.

History

The club was founded on May 24, 1927, as Club Deportivo Universitario by the merger of Club Náutico and Federación Universitaria....
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