Boyacá Chicó F.C.

Boyacá Chicó

Full name	Deportivo Boyacá Chicó Fútbol Club S.A.
Nickname(s)	Los Ajedrezados (The Checkered)
Founded	26 March 2002 (2002-03-26)
Ground	Estadio La Independencia Tunja, Colombia
Ground Capacity	20,630
Chairman	Ricardo Hoyos Ángel
Manager	Jhon Jaime Gómez
League	Categoría Primera B
2016	Primera A, 20th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Boyacá Chicó Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Tunja. In 2017, the team will play in the Categoría Primera B after having been relegated. 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.

History

The club was founded in 2002 as Chicó Futbol Club, after the district of Chicó, in Chapinero, 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 enjoyed 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]

Honours

Domestic Honours

• Categoría Primera A:

Winners (1): 2008–I

• Categoría Primera B:

Winners (1): 2003

• Categoría Primera C:

Winners (1): 2000

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 1 February 2017

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Víctor García 2 DF Jhonny Mostasilla 3 DF Jhon Peña 5 DF José Díaz 6 DF Daniel Mosquera 8 MF Miguel Caneo 9 FW Edwards Jiménez 10 MF Neider Morantes 11 MF Misael Riascos 12 GK José Escobar 15 DF Carlos Díaz

No. Position Player 17 FW Christian Vaquero 19 DF Alí Manouchehri 20 DF Fabio Castillo 22 MF Tomás Sierra 23 MF Felipe Ponce (on loan from Atl. San Luis) 27 FW Óscar Balanta 28 GK Eder Chaux 29 DF Fausto Obeso — DF Daniel Duarte (on loan from UAT) — MF José Barreto — FW Michel Vázquez (on loan from BUAP)

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player – MF Ángel Watt (at Real Cartagena)

No. Position Player – FW Jeysen Núñez (at Atlético Bucaramanga)

Managers

• Eduardo Pimentel (2004–05)
• Mario Vanemerak (2005)
• Alberto Gamero (July 2005 – Dec 13)
• José Ricardo Pérez (Jan 2014 – Dec 14)
• Eduardo Lara (Dec 2014–15)
• Eduardo Pimentel (2015)
• José Ricardo Pérez (2016)
• Darío Sierra (2016)
• Nelson Gómez (2016)
• Darío Sierra (2016)
• Nelson Olveira (2016–17)
• Jhon Jaime Gómez (2016)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boyacá Chicó.

• Official Website of Chicó F.C.