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Club Deportivo La Equidad, also known as La Equidad, was a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that last played in the Categoría Primera A. They played their home games at the Metropolitano de Techo stadium.

History
La Equidad was founded in 1982 by its namesake company Seguros La Equidad, and immediately after its foundation it entered the Olaya Tournament, a traditional amateur football tournament in Bogotá. La Equidad's first appearance in the 1982–83 edition of the tournament was supported by Independiente Santa Fe, which loaned a manager and several players of their youth ranks to take part in the competition, which was ultimately won by them. In 1993, La Equidad was officially constituted as an amateur club and joined the Bogotá Football League (Liga de Fútbol de Bogotá), entering the Categoría Primera C as well as the different youth tournaments organized by the regional amateur football league. In 2003, La Equidad turned into a professional club and changed its name to Club Deportivo La Equidad, joining DIMAYOR and entering the Colombian second tier competition Categoría Primera B. In their first participation in Primera B, they made it to the semi-finals after an eighth place finish in the regular season. La Equidad earned promotion to Categoría Primera A by winning the Primera B tournament in 2006 with Alexis García as manager. The Aseguradores won both of the tournaments making up the 2006 Primera B season, clinching their promotion as well as the second tier championship on 4 November 2006 after a 1–1 draw with Centauros at the Estadio Manuel Calle Lombana in Villavicencio. They got their first victory in the top tier in the ninth round of the tournament, a 2–0 win over Real Cartagena on 25 March. Thanks to this title as well as its consistent performances in its first two seasons in the top tier, La Equidad came to be among the top 100 football clubs in the world according to the rankings of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) in 2009. La Equidad made it to their second final series in the 2010 Apertura tournament, facing Junior. Although they won the first leg played in Bogotá 1–0 with a goal by Peruvian footballer Renzo Sheput, they were unable to hold on to this advantage and in the return leg in Barranquilla they capitulated by a 3–1 score with which Junior won the title and La Equidad had to settle for another runner-up finish. On 15 January 2025, it was reported that 99% of the club had been acquired by the American-based consortium Tylis–Porter Group, led by real estate investor Al Tylis and Club Necaxa executive Sam Porter, and also backed by actors Eva Longoria, Ryan Reynolds, and Rob McElhenney (the latter two co-owners of Wrexham A.F.C.) as well as MLB pitcher Justin Verlander and his wife, model Kate Upton, and NYU professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway. Talks to purchase the club started in the second half of 2024, with the takeover being finalised in early 2025. According to the terms of the operation, in which the former owners Seguros La Equidad decided to keep the symbols, colors and identity to themselves, the club would change its name and colors by January 2026, with the 2025 season being the last one the club played as La Equidad. The club's last match under that name was played on 12 November 2025, in which it defeated Deportivo Pereira 4–0 at Estadio Metropolitano de Techo. In its final season in Categoría Primera A, La Equidad placed last in the aggregate table. On 10 December 2025, Internacional de Bogotá was presented as the new club that replaced La Equidad. ==Honours==
Honours
DomesticCategoría Primera A • Runners-up (3): 2007–II, 2010–I, 2011–ICategoría Primera BWinners (1): 2006Copa ColombiaWinners (1): 2008 ==Performance in CONMEBOL competitions==
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
Copa Sudamericana: 7 appearances ::2009: First stage ::2011: Second stage ::2012: First stage ::2013: Round of 16 ::2019: Quarter-finals ::2021: Group stage ::2022: First stage ==Managers==
Managers
Fáber López (2003–2005) • Alexis García (January 2006 – December 2012) • Néstor Otero (January 2013 – September 2014) • Fáber López (September 2014 – December 2014) • Santiago Escobar (January 2015 – April 2016) • Arturo Boyacá (April 2016 – December 2017) • Luis Fernando Suárez (January 2018 – December 2018) • Humberto Sierra (January 2019 – August 2019) • Luis Guillermo Rivera (September 2019 – December 2019) • Alexis García (January 2020 – February 2025) • Jhon Jairo Bodmer (March 2025 – May 2025) • Diego Merino (June 2025 – October 2025) • Daniel Gómez (caretaker, October 2025 – November 2025) Source: Worldfootball.net ==References==
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