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Club Aurora
Full name	Club Deportivo Aurora
Nickname(s)	El equipo del pueblo (People's team)
Founded	27 May 1935; 88 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, commonly known as 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 edit

National honours edit

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 edit

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 edit

As of 15 April, 2023

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	BOL	Nicoll Taboada
3	DF	BOL	Luis Barboza
4	MF	BOL	Enrique Troncoso
5	DF	BOL	Fernando Aguilar
7	FW	COL	Oswaldo Blanco
8	MF	BOL	Rodrigo Ramallo
9	FW	BRA	Igor Limas
10	DF	BOL	Jair Torrico
11	FW	ARG	Maximiliano Gómez
12	GK	BOL	Luis Cárdenas
14	MF	BOL	Brayan Aranibar
15	MF	PAR	Sebastián Zaracho
16	MF	BOL	Sergio Moruno


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	FW	BOL	Jair Reinoso
19	FW	BOL	Gabriel Montaño
20	MF	BOL	Amílcar Sánchez
21	DF	BOL	Ramiro Ballivián
24	MF	BOL	Carlos Sejas
26	MF	BOL	Didí Torrico
28	DF	BOL	Oscar Vaca
29	DF	PAR	Nelson Amarilla
30	MF	BOL	Dario Torrico
31	DF	ARG	Ezequiel Michelli
70	MF	BRA	Serginho
80	MF	BOL	Jorge Sangari
99	GK	BOL	David Akologo

Managers edit

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 edit

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.