Rangers de Talca

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Rangers de Talca
Rangers de Talca - Escudo.svg
Full nameClub Social de Deportes Rangers
Nickname(s)Los piducanos
Los rojinegros
El gigante del Maule
FoundedNovember 2, 1902;121 years ago (1902-11-02)
Ground Estadio Fiscal, Chile
Capacity16 070
OwnerRojinegro SADP
ChairmanFelipe Muñoz
Manager Dalcio Giovagnoli
League Primera B
2023 11th
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the second level of the Chilean football system. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of 16,000 seats.

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History

The name Rangers was chosen by a Scotsman, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club on behalf of Mrs. Amalia Neale de Silva, the first benefactress of the club.

The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black. Another possible reason is the use of red and black in the socks of Rangers of Scotland (formed 1872) to represent the district colours of their local burgh of Govan. Fans of the Scottish club returned to using red and black scarves in 2012 to help raise funds for the club.

In 1952 was accepted into the Segunda División, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División.

Rangers qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1970, being its only participation in a CONMEBOL international tournament.

Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes.

Rangers was relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from FIFA to throw out the Chile national team of the 2010 World Cup if the case continued. [1] Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs. [2]

In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP". [3]

On November 27, 2011, Rangers was promoted to Primera División after beating Everton de Viña del Mar in the final match. Manager Dalcio Giovagnoli was fired in 2013, and replaced by Fernando Gamboa, who was considered mainly responsible of the team's relegation in 2014. Gamboa was fired too, but current manager Jorge Garcés wasn't able to avoid the side's relegation after two and a half years in the first division of Chilean football to the second division, the Primera B after finishing in the last place of both the Clausura and the accumulated table. The club's new owners confirmed Garcés will remain as the club's manager for the 2014–15 season, with the goal of gaining promotion to the first division. In October 2014, in a ceremony at the Talca Country Club, the marquess Luis Silva de Balboa transferred the trademark Rangers to the club. The trademark was his property until such time, and by a legal agreement, the transfer contains restrictions as to the limitation for the club to move out of the City of Talca of its ownership in hands other than people from Talca.

National honors

1988, 1993, Apertura 1997
Runner-up: 1969, Apertura 2002

South American cups history

SeasonCompetitionRoundCountryClubHomeAwayAggregate
1970 Copa Libertadores Group 3 Flag of Paraguay.svg Guaraní 0–10–26th Place
Flag of Paraguay.svg Olimpia 4–41–5
Flag of Colombia.svg América de Cali 2–00–1
Flag of Colombia.svg Deportivo Cali 0–22–3
Flag of Chile.svg Universidad de Chile 1–71–2

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Rangers de Talca as of 11 December 2021 ( edit )
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site

No.PositionPlayer
1Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG GK Yair Bonnín
2Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Javier Rivera
3Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Nelson Rebolledo
4Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Agustín Donoso
5Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Ignacio Carrasco
6Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Mauricio Iturra
7Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Brayan Valdivia
8Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG MF Federico Illanes
9Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG FW Lionel Altamirano
10Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Juan Gutiérrez
11Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Fernando Cordero
12Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Carlos Espinosa
14Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Sebastián Acuña
15Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Matías Faúndez
16Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Sergio Bobadilla
No.PositionPlayer
17Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG FW Sebastián Pol
18Flag of Uruguay.svg  URU DF Sergio Felipe
19Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG DF Ezequiel Luna
20Flag of Chile.svg  CHI FW Bastián Martínez
21Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Claudio Jopia
22Flag of Chile.svg  CHI FW José Tomás Herrera
23Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Juan Abarca
24Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG MF Alfredo Ábalos
25Flag of Chile.svg  CHI DF Christopher Díaz
27Flag of Chile.svg  CHI MF Ignacio Caroca
28Flag of Chile.svg  CHI FW Manuel Lolas
30Flag of Chile.svg  CHI GK Sebastián Aravena
31Flag of Chile.svg  CHI GK Marcelo Vásquez
34Flag of Chile.svg  CHI FW Lucas Fierro

Manager: Felipe Cornejo

2021 Winter transfers

In

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
11 MF Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG Ricardo Blanco (loan from Deportes Antofagasta)
20 FW Flag of Chile.svg  CHI Mario Briceño (from Lautaro de Buin)
No.Pos.NationPlayer
32 FW Flag of Chile.svg  CHI Juan Sebastián Ibarra (loan from Colo-Colo)

Out

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
11 FW Flag of Palestine.svg  PLE Yashir Islame (to Khon Kaen United)
18 MF Flag of Ecuador.svg  ECU Andrés Mena (loan to Atlético Santo Domingo)
No.Pos.NationPlayer
20 MF Flag of Argentina.svg  ARG Marcos Fernández (released)

Notable players

Managers

Official sponsors

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References

  1. "Domestic case jeopardizes Chile's World Cup participation". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-26. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
  2. "Chile OK for World Cup after club backs down". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-27. Archived from the original on 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
  3. "Piduco SADP, los nuevos dueños de Rangers de Talca" (in Spanish). Solamente Fútbol. 2010-08-26. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-08-27.