Deportes Linares is a Chilean Football club, their home town is Linares in Chile and play in the 3rd tier of Chilean football, the Segunda División.
The club was founded on November 19, 1955 as Lister Rossel (a famous local pediatrician and amateur sportsman). In 1974 the club name was changed to Deportes Linares.
The year 1992 the team's name was changed again, to be known as Frutilinares.
A new name, this time Linares Unido, was given to the club in 2006. And finally, in 2011, the club took back their current name, Deportes Linares.
Linares lifted the cup in the match against Provincial Ranco after winning 3-0 with 2 great goals from Mauricio cortez at 17', 54' and one from Sergio Bobadilla at 37' and as the cherry on top, debutant goalkeeper Iván Ahumada would save a penalty at the end.
Seasons 39 seasons in Primera B 12 seasons in Tercera División 1 season in Cuarta División
Honours
Tercera División: 3 1994, 2019, 2022 Cuarta División: 1 2011
Squad .
Managers
Ovidio Casartelli Omar Cabral Díaz (1957) José Luis Boffi (1958–1960) José Luis Boffi (1962–1963) Guillermo Báez (1964) (1965) Tucapel Bustamante (1966) Ramón Climent Morales (1967) Tucapel Bustamante (1967–1968) Guillermo Báez (1969) José Valdebenito (1971) Tucapel Bustamante (1971) Tucapel Bustamante (1974) Tucapel Bustamante (1976) Sasha Mitjaew (1977) Tucapel Bustamante (1979) Jaime Campos (1980) Tucapel Bustamante (1980–1982) Jorge Venegas (1982) Alfonso Sepúlveda (1983) Tucapel Bustamante (1983–1984) Víctor Adriazola (1985) Tucapel Bustamante (1985) Arturo Rodenak (1988) Tucapel Bustamante (1988) Hernán Godoy (1989) Francisco Graells (1989) Tucapel Bustamante (1989) Hugo Pedraza (1990) Francisco Graells (1990) Tucapel Bustamante (1992) Carlos Durán (1993–1994) Óscar Zambrano (1994) Eduardo Apablaza (1995) Víctor Adriazola (1995) Rolando García (1995) Eugenio Jara (1996) (1997) Juan Páez (1997) (1998) (1999) Rolando García (1999–2001) Osvaldo Hidalgo (2005) Ítalo Díaz (2008) Jhon Greig (2009–2010) Jaime Nova (2011–2013) Ramiro Míguez (2013–2014) Jaime Nova (2014–2015) Héctor Balocchi (2016) Manuel González (2017–2018) Leandro Méndez (2018) Rubén Martínez (2018) Luis Pérez (2019) Rodolfo Neme (2020) (2020) Nibaldo Rubio (2020) Luis Pérez (2020) Ramón Climent Labra (2020–2021) Jaime Nova (2021) Luis Pérez (2022–2023) Eduardo Lobos (2023–2024) Rodrigo Valdés (2024) Rodrigo Meléndez (2024–2025) Nikolaos Issaris (2026) Rodrigo Meléndez (2026–Present)
See also
Chilean football league system
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