Sociedad Deportivo Quito
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| Full name | Sociedad Deportivo Quito | ||
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| Nickname(s) | La Academia Chullas Los Azulgrana |
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| Founded | February 27, 1955 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa Quito, Ecuador (Capacity: 40,948) |
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| Chairman |  Fernando Herrera |
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| League | Serie A | ||
| 2008 | 1st | ||
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Sociedad Deportivo Quito is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. Deportivo Quito plays in Serie A, Ecuador's premier football league. Deportivo Quito is the current Serie A champion, having won their third title in 2008; they also won titles in 1964 and 1968. The club also has four Interandean Tournament titles (1955, 1956, 1957, and 1963). Additionally, the club was runner up in 1985, 1988, and 1997. Historical rivals include Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, Sociedad Deportiva Aucas, and Club Deportivo El Nacional. Based on its style of play, sports journalists and fans nicknamed the club La Academia de los Ecuatorianos desde 1940 (English: The Academy of the Ecuadorians since 1940).
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[edit] History
The club was founded on July 9, 1940, under the name Argentina. On October 1, 1954, the club, together with Sociedad Deportiva Aucas & Sociedad Deportiva España, founded Asociación de Fútbol No Amatur (AFNA) de Pichincha (Spanish for Non-Amateur Football Association of Pichincha). This was followed by provincial professional soccer tournaments. In accordance with AFNA bylaws, which stipulated that no team could be named after a country (except after Spain), the shareholders of Argentina got together and changed the club's name to Sociedad Deportivo Quito.
The 50's and 60's were fruitful decades for Deportivo Quito with the club obtaining National Championship titles in 1964 and 1968 as well as Interandean Championships (named so for inclusion of teams from both Quito and Ambato) in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1963. The 70's were a dark period for the club, which descended and spent several seasons in the second tier Serie B of the Ecuadorian Football League. The 80's and 90's brought a return measure of success for the club which came in as runners up in 1985, 1988, 1997 and qualified to participate in Copa Libertadores. 1989 also saw the transfer of one of the brightest players in Ecuadorian soccer history, Alex Aguinaga to Club Necaxa of Mexico.
The club would wait forty years for its third championship and after a brilliant campaign in 2008, which saw Deportivo Quito in the lead throughout the tournament, the team sealed its third star against Club Social y Deportivo Macara of Ambato. Fans celebrated the long awaited championship in the popular Plaza del Teatro in Quito.
[edit] Stadium
Their home games are played in the Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa in the city of Quito but there have been plans to build a stadium for the year 2010 on their current training grounds Ney Mancheno in Carcelén.
On November 13, 2008, Deportivo Quito's management presented the model of the new stadium. This stadium will have a capacity of 20,000 people. The building project includes the construction of a shopping mall attached to the same stadium that will serve as a source of revenue for the institution.
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Achievements
- Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A
- Champion (3): 1964, 1968, 2008
- Runner-up (3): 1985, 1988, 1997
- Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie B
- Winner (1): 1980 E1
- Runner-up (4): 1972 E1, 1974 E2, 1976 E1, 1977 E2
- Campeonato Professional Interandino
- Champion (4): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963
- Runner-up (1): 1960
[edit] Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
- Copa Libertadores: 5 participations (1965, 1969, 1986, 1989, 1998, 2009)
- Best performance: Round of 16 (1989)
- Copa Sudamericana: 1 participation (2008)
- Best performance: First round (2008)
[edit] External links
- Official website (Spanish)
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