Deportes Linares

Deportes Linares
Full nameDeportes Linares
NicknamesLinarenses, Los albirrojos
Founded19 November 1955
GroundEstadio Fiscal de Linares,
Linares, Chile
Capacity7,000
OwnerMadhavan Ramakrishnan
CoachRodrigo Melendez
LeagueSegunda División
20221st (Tercera A, promoted)

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

Honours

Squad

As of 8 August 2026. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  CHI Celso Castillo
2 DF  CHI Ignacio Sierra
3 DF  CHI Flavio Rojas
4 DF  CHI Claudio Fernández
5 DF  CHI Ignacio Castillo
6 MF  PAN Julián Rodríguez
7 FW  IRQ Abdullah Al-Hamidi
8 MF  CHI José Molina
9 FW  USA Nathan Hayes
10 MF  ARG Nicolás Candado
11 FW  CHI Bastián Gómez (loan from Universidad Católica)
13 DF  CHI Fernando Valdivia
14 DF  CHI Baltazar Hernández
15 FW  CHI Claudio Galaz
16 FW  CHI Jesús Mercado
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW  CHI Diego Vallejos (c)
19 DF  CHI Lukas Sepúlveda
20 MF  CHI Héctor Basoalto
21 MF  CHI Cristian Arrué
22 FW  CHI Sebastián Peñaloza
24 MF  CHI René Meléndez
25 GK  CHI Branko Gezan
26 FW  CHI Fils Nsengiyumva
27 FW  CHI Benjamín Rojas
28 DF  CHI Patricio Navia
29 FW  CHI Hugo Toro
30 DF  CHI Alberto Hernández
32 DF  CHI Joaquín Aros
33 FW  CHI Camilo Astroza (loan from Santiago Wanderers)

Managers

See also