Independiente Medellín

Deportivo Independiente Medellín, popularly known by its initials as the DIM, is a football club from Colombia founded under the name “Medellín Football Club” on 14 November 1913 by Alberto Uribe Piedrahíta. It belongs to the city of Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia. It currently plays in the Categoría Primera A of Colombian professional football. It plays its home matches at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot, and its local rival is Atlético Nacional, against whom it plays the so-called Clásico Paisa. Its owner is Equipo del Pueblo S. A., headed by Raúl Giraldo as the club's majority shareholder.

During the amateur era, the club was national champion eight times. It also won the Liga Antioqueña de Primera División championship eight times.

Since the start of professionalism in 1948, Independiente Medellín has won the Colombian championship six times (1955, 1957, 2002-II, 2004-I, 2009-II and 2016-I), and the Copa Colombia on three occasions (1981, 2019 and 2020). It has been absent from the Categoría Primera A in four seasons: 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1971.

It is one of the most representative teams in the country. Figures of the calibre of Jackson Martínez, Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama, Luis Amaranto Perea, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Juan Fernando Quintero, Orestes Omar Corbatta, Eduardo Malásquez, Franco Navarro, Mauricio Molina, David Montoya, Roberto Carlos, José Manuel Moreno, Germán Cano and David González, among others, have passed through its ranks.