Independiente Santa Fe

Independiente Santa Fe was officially founded on February 28, 1941, as an amateur football team. The club's founders were mainly graduates from the Gimnasio Moderno and of a high social class. Santa Fe was at first going to be a team based on ex-students of Gimnasio Moderno, but later incorporated players from other schools. The primary objective of the club was to participate in a local tournament hosted by the Sports Association of Bogotá. Their first recorded game was against Universal, a match that ended in a goalless draw. The team ended the tournament as runner-up with 20 points, being beaten by Legión Militar Deportiva de los Taxis Rojos, a representative of a transportation company. In 1942, Santa Fe was coached by Jack Greenwell, former Barcelona player and coach, notable for having won three times the Copa del Rey and the 1939 South American Championship with Peru. That year Santa Fe played in the first division of the A.D.B., which was canceled in the middle of that year. That same year also reached the final of the Torneo de Cundinamarca, which lost against América de Cali. Jack Greenwell died on November 20 of that year. On 21 May 1948 the DIMAYOR was established in Colombia, which would serve to manage Colombian professional football. They agreed to hold the first professional championship for the second half of the year. On August 15, Santa Fe played its first game in the professional championship against Deportes Caldas, a match that ended 3–3. Santa Fe…

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Runner-up finishes

Categoría Primera A Runners-up (7): 1963, 1979, 2005–I, 2013–I, 2017–II, 2020, 2024–I Copa Colombia Runners-up (3): 1950–51, 2014, 2015 Copa Libertadores Semifinals (2): 1961, 2013 Copa CONMEBOL Runners-up (1): 1996 Copa Merconorte Runners-up (1): 1999 Recopa Sudamericana Runners-up (1): 2016