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Deportes La Serena

Club · Chile · Primera División

«Los Papayeros»

238 Matches

87 wins

60 draws

91 losses

300–338 Goals

−38 Difference

1.3 Scored per game

Form L D W D W W

La Serena sits on Chile's Norte Chico coast in the Coquimbo region, a place known for papaya groves as much as for anything else. Club de Deportes La Serena grew out of a merger with a local amateur side, Deportivo Sindempart, and the new team took shape on 9 December 1955.

The badge settled on granate and white, with orange kept as the accent that ties the shirt back to the papaya trade and to Los Papayeros. La Serena has spent much of its history moving between the top flight and the second division rather than sitting still in either. The club won promotion in 1957, 1987, 1996 and again in 2024, each time climbing back out of Primera B. The best of it came early: third place in the Chilean championship in 1958 and 1963, and a Copa de Preparación win in 1960, when La Serena beat Santiago Wanderers 4-1 in the final.

Wilson Fre remains the name attached to the club's best scoring years, a forward who came through the ranks and returned across two spells in the late 1980s and again in 1996, finishing among the leading marksmen in the history of Chile's second division.

Home games are played at Estadio La Portada, which holds 18,500.

Latest results

All matches

6 Sep	Primera División	Ñublense H	2:1	W
31 Aug	Primera División	Union La Calera A	1:0	W
23 Aug	Primera División	Cobresal H	3:3	D
15 Aug	Primera División	Universidad de Concepción A	2:0	W
8 Aug	Primera División	Coquimbo Unido A	1:1	D
2 Aug	Primera División	O'Higgins H	1:2	L

Standing

Primera División

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
7	Ñublense	22	8	8	6	27:28	32
8	Concepción	22	9	3	10	24:25	30
9	Deportes La Serena	22	7	9	6	34:35	30
10	Coquimbo Unido	21	8	5	8	29:28	29
11	O'Higgins	22	8	3	11	28:35	27

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 238

238 Matches

87 wins

60 draws

91 losses

300–338 Goals

−38 Difference

1.3 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 238

87 60 91

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	238	120	118
Scored	300	160	140
Conceded	338	155	183
Scored per game	1.3	1.3	1.2
Conceded per game	1.4	1.3	1.6
Difference	−38	+5	−43

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Jeisson Andrés Vargas Salazar Forward 17 Matches

Bruno Giuliano Gutiérrez Vilches Defender 16 Matches

Francis Manuel Mac Allister Midfielder 16 Matches

Felipe Sebastián Chamorro Aspe Midfielder 16 Matches

Joaquín Ignacio Gutiérrez Jara Defender 16 Matches

Fernando Dinamarca Defender 16 Matches

Nicolás Iván Orellana Acuña Midfielder 16 Matches

Matías Nicolás Marín Vega Midfielder 16 Matches

Squad of Deportes La Serena

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
10	Jeisson Andrés Vargas Salazar	Forward	17
21	Bruno Giuliano Gutiérrez Vilches	Defender	16
4	Francis Manuel Mac Allister	Midfielder	16
14	Felipe Sebastián Chamorro Aspe	Midfielder	16
16	Joaquín Ignacio Gutiérrez Jara	Defender	16
26	Fernando Dinamarca	Defender	16
28	Nicolás Iván Orellana Acuña	Midfielder	16
23	Matías Nicolás Marín Vega	Midfielder	16
11	Diego Rubio	Forward	15
33	Rafael Delgado	Defender	15
8	Gonzalo Escalante	Midfielder	14
5	Lucas Bastián Alarcón Ancapi	Defender	14
17	J. Salazar	Defender	13
6	Sebastián Díaz	Midfielder	12
29	Matías Pinto	Defender	10
1	Federico Vicente Lanzillota	Goalkeeper	10
20	Milovan Velázquez	Midfielder	9
22	Eryin Alexis Sanhueza Mora	Goalkeeper	9
9	Ángelo José Henríquez Iturra	Forward	8
31	José Tapia	Goalkeeper	8
19	Bastian Sandoval	Forward	8
2	Raúl Andrés Zanini	Defender	8
34	Ián Franco Rasso	Defender	7
34	Nicolás Marcelo Stefanelli	Forward	7
15	Bastian Contreras	Forward	7
27	Cristóbal Sepúlveda	Midfielder	6
38	Ignacio Saes	Goalkeeper	5
7	Alexander Antonio Oroz Huerta	Forward	4
2	Gonzalo Gabriel Figueroa	Forward	3
30	Angel Carvajal	Forward	3
3	Matias Perez	Defender	2
25	Daniel Cordero	Forward	2
28	J. Orellana	Midfielder	1
24	Fabrizio Dias	Forward	1