Club Aurora

Club Aurora
Full name	Club Deportivo Aurora
Nickname(s)	El equipo del pueblo (People's team)
Founded	27 May 1935; 89 years ago
Ground	Estadio Félix Capriles; Cochabamba, Bolivia
Capacity	32,000 [1]
Chairman	Jaime Cornejo
Manager	Mauricio Soria
League	División Profesional
2023	División Profesional, 4th of 17
Website	Club website

Club Deportivo Aurora is a football club from Cochabamba, Bolivia, that plays in the División de Fútbol Profesional, the top tier of Bolivian football. The club was founded 27 May 1935, and plays its home games at the Estadio Félix Capriles.

Achievements

National honours

First Division – Professional Era: 2

1963, 2008-C

Runners-up (4): 1960, 1961, 1964, 2004-A

Copa Simón Bolívar: 2

2002, 2016–17

Runners-up (1): (2000)

Copa Aerosur:

Runners-up (2): 2004, 2011

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 3 appearances

1964 - Group stage

2009 - Group stage

2024 - 2nd stage

Copa Sudamericana: 4 appearances

2004 - Preliminary round

2011 - Round of 16

2012 - 2nd round

2015 - 1st round

Current squad

As of 26 May

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ARG	Agustin Cousilas
2	DF	BOL	Mauricio Cabral
3	DF	BOL	Luis Barboza
4	MF	BOL	Enrique Troncoso
5	DF	BOL	Fernando Aguilar
6	MF	BOL	Carlos Sejas
7	FW	COL	Oswaldo Blanco
8	MF	BOL	Darlo Torlico
10	DF	BOL	Jair Torrico
11	MF	BOL	Antonio Bustamante
12	GK	BOL	Luis Cárdenas
16	MF	BOL	Yesit Martinez
17	MF	BOL	Jaime Cornejo
18	FW	BOL	Jair Reinoso
19	FW	BOL	Gabriel Montaño
20	MF	BOL	Amílcar Sánchez


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	DF	BOL	Ramiro Ballivián
23	FW	BOL	Yerco Vallejos
24	DF	BOL	David Robles
26	MF	BOL	Didí Torrico
27	MF	BOL	Ariel Flores
28	DF	BOL	Oscar Vaca
29	DF	PAR	Nelson Amarilla
30	MF	BOL	Dario Torrico
31	DF	ARG	Ezequiel Michelli
39	MF	BOL	Luis Zeballos
50	MF	URU	Martin Alaniz
70	MF	BRA	Serginho
80	MF	BOL	Jorge Sangari
99	GK	BOL	David Akologo

Managers

Mario Ortega
Julio César Baldivieso (July 1, 2008 – July 24, 2009), (April 2, 2011 – Nov 2, 2011)
Jorge Habegger (Jan 5, 2012 – Feb 13, 2012)
Julio César Baldivieso (June 20, 2012 – Dec 31, 2012)
Victor Hugo Antelo (March 14, 2013 – Sept 30, 2013)
Miguel Ángel Zahzú (Jan 7, 2014 – July 7, 2014)
David Torrico (Aug 1,2014 – Oct 11, 2014)
Luis Manuel Blanco (Oct 13, 2014 - June 30, 2015)
Marcelo Claros (July 1, 2015 - September 2, 2015)
Roberto Pérez Valdez (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017)
Miguel Ángel Zahzú (January 1, 2018 - April 16, 2018)
Marcos Ferrufino (August 8, 2018 - April 8, 2019)
Thiago Leitão (April 8, 2019 - June 1, 2019)
Julio Fuentes (June 8, 2019 – September 9, 2019)
Julio César Baldivieso (January 1, 2020 - December 16, 2020)
Humberto Viviani (January 1, 2021 - October 18, 2021)
Sergio Zeballos (October 18, 2021 - February 1, 2022)
Francisco Argüello (February 1, 2022 - September 13, 2022)
Roberto Pérez Valdez (October 15, 2022 - October 31, 2023)
Mauricio Soria (November 15, 2023 -)

Reserve team

Aurora has a reserve team named Club Deportivo Pasión Celeste, founded on 2 February 2015.^[1] The club first reached the Copa Simón Bolívar in 2023.

References

^ "Pasión Celeste, el otro Equipo del Pueblo valluno" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 10 December 2018. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.

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[1] "Pasión Celeste, el otro Equipo del Pueblo valluno" (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 10 December 2018. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.

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