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Independiente Santa Fe

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Also known as Santa Fe

Colombian association football club

Key facts

2025
Primera A, 5th of 20 (Apertura champions)
Full name
Club Independiente Santa Fe
Nicknames
Los Cardenales (The Cardinals ), El Expreso Rojo (The Red Express), Los Leones (The Lions), El Primer Campeón (The First Champion)
Founded
28 February 1941 ; 85 years ago ( 1941-02-28 )
Ground
Estadio El Campín
Capacity
36,343
Owner
Perlun S.A.S. (52%)
Chairman
Luis Eduardo Méndez
Manager
Pablo Repetto
League
Categoría Primera A
Website
independientesantafe .co

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Named after
Santa Fe
Country
Colombia
Headquarters
Bogotá
Official website
independientesantafe.com
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Commons category
Club Deportivo Independiente Santa Fe
topic's main category
Category:Independiente Santa Fe
inception
1941-01-01
category for members of a team
Category:Independiente Santa Fe footballers
social media followers
648796
head coach
Pablo Repetto
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Encyclopedic overview

Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the three most successful teams in Colombia, winning nineteen titles, which include ten national championships (most recently in 2025), five Superliga Colombiana, two Copas Colombia, and international titles such as one Copa Sudamericana, one Suruga Bank Championship, and one Copa Simón Bolívar. Santa Fe is one of the three clubs that has played every championship in the Categoría Primera A.

Santa Fe became the first Colombian team to win the Copa Sudamericana, and the first and only Colombian team to win an official tournament outside America. The club was recognized as one of the ten best clubs in the world in 2015 by the IFFHS, occupying the seventh position and being the best ranked of South America.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Independiente Santa Fe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.