Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara

Club Deportivo Lara was founded on July 2, 2009, by Arid García, Luís Yépez, Juan Conde, and Carlos Eduardo Hernández to maintain a Venezuelan Primera División team in the Lara State as the former team Guaros de Lara had been struggling financially and eventually disappeared. The new team was created under the slogan "Believe in Lara." In its first year in the top flight, the team placed in the top four of the cumulative overall, just behind Caracas, Deportivo Táchira and Deportivo Italia, the latter having its title aspirations severed by the team in both the Apertura and Clausura.

First international participation

On May 9, 2010, the team sealed its qualification for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, after placing fourth in the 2009–10 season's aggregate table, bringing back an international tournament to the Lara state after 44 years when Lara FC did so in 1966 but in the Copa Libertadores back then. Deportivo Lara played their first leg at home on August 17 against Colombia's Santa Fe at the Estadio Metropolitano de Cabudare with a favorable outcome for the local 2–0, and the second leg was held at El Campín in Bogotá on Thursday August 26. There, the club could not maintain their lead and fell by the score of 4–0 leaving the competition with an aggregate score of 4–2 in favor of Santa Fe.

First title

In December 2010 the club hired coach German "Basílico" González, who brought a new coaching staff including Arturo Boyacá and Óscar Gil as technical…