Athletic Club Barnechea is a Chilean Football club based in the Lo Barnechea commune of Santiago, Chile. They currently play in the second level of Chilean football, the Primera B.
The club was founded on December 23, 1929, as Club Deportivo Santa Rosa Lo Barnechea. Its name was changed to Deportivo Lo Barnechea in 1943.
Barnechea was part of the first season of the Chilean Cuarta División in 1983, where it played until 1988. A second-place finish behind Municipal Las Condes that season saw Barnechea promoted to the Chilean Tercera División.
In the 2009âÂÂ10 season the team played the Liguilla de Ascenso, finishing in 3rd place behind Trasandino and Magallanes.
The next season saw Barnechea win the Third Division, finishing 1st in the Liguilla de Ascenso, above Arturo Fernández Vial, Iberia Los ÃÂngeles and Municipal Mejillones.
In 2011âÂÂ12 it played the Chilean Primera División B, finishing in 2nd place with 66 points. It won a place to play the two-legged promotion final against the third-placed ÃÂublense. After both the first leg (1âÂÂ1) and second leg (2âÂÂ2) finished in draws, the play-off went to penalties, where Barnechea lost 7âÂÂ6.
The club had a final chance at promotion in the relegation play-off against the 16th-placed team of the Chilean Primera División, Cobresal. Barnechea won the first leg 3âÂÂ1 at the Estadio Santa Laura with goals from Ignacio Caroca and Francisco Ibañez adding to an Eduardo FarÃÂas own goal. AgustÃÂn Vuletich scored for Cobresal. However, it lost the return leg 3âÂÂ0 at Estadio El Cobre with a goal from Eduardo Martinez and two from Jose Miguel Cuéllar.
In the season 2013âÂÂ14, AC Barnechea finished in 4th place with 59 points and won a place in the Play-off for the Second Promotion to the First Division. They defeated Santiago Morning in the semi-finals, winning 2âÂÂ1 over two legs. In the finals against San Luis, Barnechea won the first leg 1âÂÂ0 but lost the return fixture by the same score. Their captain and goalkeeper Jorge Manduca scored the decisive penalty in the resulting shoot-out to send Barnechea through to the Chilean Primera División 2014âÂÂ15 by a 4âÂÂ3 margin.
On August 3, 2014, Nicolas Maturana scored Barnechea's first-ever goal in the top flight against Audax Italiano. A week later, Barnechea won their first match in the First Division, with Francisco Ibañez scoring the only goal in a 1âÂÂ0 win against San Marcos de Arica.
The club were relegated to Chilean Primera Division B at the end of the 2014âÂÂ15 season after finishing 18th.
Back to the second category, the team started with a triumph before Deportes Concepción, followed by a tie as a visitor to Deportes Iberia and other local before ÃÂublense. But already in the fourth date, began to notice the fragility of the game â except the win 5âÂÂ2 before Deportes La Serena as a visitor at the sixth date â where the results did not accompany and the game nor After the bad campaign, where the team was 13 dates without win. While they had a light of hope from the dates 20 and 21, the fall before the champion of the meeting, Deportes Temuco returned to its dark reality, such that the left trembling throughout this stage, until the equipment that came from further back, began to win games and obtain important points in his fight to save the category. The defeat before Coquimbo Unido of visit by 4âÂÂ2 in the last date, determined its eventual decline to the third category of Chilean soccer, with a meager statistics only 5 wins, 8 draws and 17 defeats, with 25 goals in favor and 54 against, which gave him a difference of âÂÂ29 and a figure of 23 points of 90 possible (its final performance was a 25.56%), ending the team in the 16th position (last), being relegated to the Segunda División for the season 2016âÂÂ17. In the following season, the team won the Segunda División, being promoted to the Primera B for 2017, and in 2018, the team reached the semifinals of the Copa Chile for the first time in its history.
Interim coaches appear in italics.