# Rangers de Talca

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.

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

## Honours
### National

* Primera B
** Winners (3): 1988, 1993, Apertura 1997

### Regional

* Torneo Provincial de Chile
** Winners (1): 1969

## South American cups history

| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 1970 | Copa Libertadores | Group 3 | Guaraní | 0–1 | 0–2 | 6th Place |
| 1970 | Copa Libertadores | Group 3 | Olimpia | 4–4 | 1–5 | 6th Place |
| 1970 | Copa Libertadores | Group 3 | América de Cali | 2–0 | 0–1 | 6th Place |
| 1970 | Copa Libertadores | Group 3 | Deportivo Cali | 0–2 | 2–3 | 6th Place |
| 1970 | Copa Libertadores | Group 3 | Universidad de Chile | 1–7 | 1–2 | 6th Place |

## Players
### Current squad

Current squad of Rangers de Talca as of 11 December 2021 Sources: ANFP Official Web Site
| No. | | Position | Player |
| 1 | ARG | GK | Yair Bonnín |
| 2 | CHI | DF | Javier Rivera |
| 3 | CHI | DF | Nelson Rebolledo |
| 4 | CHI | DF | Agustín Donoso |
| 5 | CHI | MF | Ignacio Carrasco |
| 6 | CHI | MF | Mauricio Iturra |
| 7 | CHI | MF | Brayan Valdivia |
| 8 | ARG | MF | Federico Illanes |
| 9 | ARG | FW | Lionel Altamirano |
| 10 | CHI | MF | Juan Gutiérrez |
| 11 | CHI | DF | Fernando Cordero |
| 12 | CHI | MF | Carlos Espinosa |
| 14 | CHI | DF | Sebastián Acuña |
| 15 | CHI | MF | Matías Faúndez |
| 16 | CHI | MF | Sergio Bobadilla |
| No. | | Position | Player |
| 17 | ARG | FW | Sebastián Pol |
| 18 | URU | DF | Sergio Felipe |
| 19 | ARG | DF | Ezequiel Luna |
| 20 | CHI | FW | Bastián Martínez |
| 21 | CHI | DF | Claudio Jopia |
| 22 | CHI | FW | José Tomás Herrera |
| 23 | CHI | DF | Juan Abarca |
| 24 | ARG | MF | Alfredo Ábalos |
| 25 | CHI | DF | Christopher Díaz |
| 27 | CHI | MF | Ignacio Caroca |
| 28 | CHI | FW | Manuel Lolas |
| 30 | CHI | GK | Sebastián Aravena |
| 31 | CHI | GK | Marcelo Vásquez |
| 34 | CHI | FW | Lucas Fierro |
Manager: Emiliano Astorga

### 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. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Ricardo Blanco (loan from Deportes Antofagasta) |
| 20 | FW | CHI | Mario Briceño (from Lautaro de Buin) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 32 | FW | 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. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | FW | PLE | Yashir Islame (to Khon Kaen United) |
| 18 | MF | ECU | Andrés Mena (loan to Atlético Santo Domingo) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | ARG | Marcos Fernández (released) |

## Notable players

* Walter Behrends
* Vicente Cantatore
* Atilio Herrera
* Elvio Porcel de Peralta
* Germán Portanova
* Arturo Rodenak
* Héctor Scandolli
* Iván Azócar
* Juan Cortés
* Juan Soto
* Sergio Velasco

## Managers

* Nemesio Lora (1952)
* Óscar Andrade (1952)
* Charles Bown (1953)
* Ladislao Pakozdi (1953–55)
* José Luis Boffi (1956–57)
* Renato Panay (1957)
* José Klamar (1958)
* Guillermo Báez (1959)
* Sergio Sagredo (1959)
* Renato Panay (1960)
* Omar Cabral (1960–61)
* José Dunevicher (1961)
* Donato Hernández [es] (1962)
* Adolfo Rodríguez [es] (1963–66)
* Ladislao Pakozdi (1967)
* Hernán Rodríguez (1967)
* José Santos Arias (1968)
* Óscar Andrade (1968–71)
* Sergio Cruzat (1971)
* Hernán Gárate (1972)
* Jorge Reyes (1972)
* Miguel Montuori (1972)
* Pedro Areso (1972–74)
* Constantino Mohor (1975)
* Adolfo Rodríguez [es] (1975–76)
* Eladio Benítez (1976)
* Eugenio Jara (1976)
* Jorge Venegas (1977)
* Ramón Climent (1978)
* Carlos Collado (1978)
* Carlos Contreras (1978)
* Arturo Rodenak (1978–79)
* Antonio Vargas (1980)
* Sasha Mitjaew (1980)
* Sergio Gutiérrez (1980)
* Alfonso Sepúlveda (1981)
* Germán Cornejo (1981)
* Gastón Guevara (1982)
* Arturo Rodenak (1982)
* Orlando Aravena (1983)
* Gustavo Cortés (1984)
* Eugenio Jara (1984)
* Antonio Vargas (1985)
* Arturo Rodenak (1985–86)
* Armando Tobar (1986)
* Sasha Mitjaew (1986)
* José Lagos (1987)
* Germán Cornejo (1987)
* Hugo Solís (1988–89)
* Miguel Ángel Leyes (1989)
* José Lagos (1989)
* Jorge Luis Siviero (1990)
* Patricio Gutiérrez (1990)
* Arturo Rodenak (1990–91)
* Eduardo Prieto (1991)
* Sergio Gutiérrez (1991)
* Eugenio Jara (1991–92)
* Francisco Valdés (1992)
* Hugo Solís (1993–94)
* Antonio Vargas (1994)
* Patricio Gutiérrez (1994)
* Guillermo Páez (1995)
* Raúl Toro (1996–99)
* Eduardo Fournier (1999)
* José Sulantay (1999)
* Miguel Ángel Castelnoble (2000)
* Juan Ubilla (2000–01)
* Oscar del Solar (2002–03)
* Daniel Salvador (2004)
* Gerardo Reinoso (2004)
* Yuri Fernández (2005)
* Ramón Castro (2006)
* Gerardo Reinoso (2006)
* Juan Carlos Hernández (2007)
* Oscar del Solar (Dec 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2008)
* Juan Carlos Hernández (2008)
* Juan Ubilla (2009)
* Oscar del Solar (March 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009)
* Rubén Vallejos (2010)
* Fernando Cavalleri (2010)
* Roberto Mariani [es] (Jan 1, 2011 – June 1, 2011)
* Marcelo Peña (2011 – Sept 26, 2011)
* Gabriel Perrone (Sept 25, 2011 – March 26, 2012)
* Dalcio Giovagnoli (March 26, 2012 – Sept 28, 2013)
* Fernando Gamboa (Sept 29, 2013 – March 22, 2014)
* Jorge Garcés (March 23, 2014– 2014)
* Carlos Rojas [es] (2014–2015)
* Héctor Almandoz (2015–2016)
* Víctor Rivero (2016-)

## Official sponsors

* Lotto
* Productos Fernández