Independiente Santa Fe

Club Independiente Santa Fe, also known simply as Santa Fe, is a football club founded on 28 February 1941 in the historic centre of the city of Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. It is one of the football clubs with the greatest tradition and history in the country, and one of the most decorated. It is considered one of the biggest and most popular clubs in the country, and one of the most important in South America, being recognised mainly for having been the 2015 Copa Sudamericana champion. It plays its matches at the Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campín and has been identified since its beginnings with the colours red and white.

It was the first champion of Colombian professional football, crowned in 1948. In addition, its women's side was the first to be champion of the Liga Profesional Femenina, in 2017, which makes it the only first champion of Colombian professional football.

It has competed in the top category of the División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano, the Categoría Primera A, since its foundation in 1948, being one of only three teams that have taken part in every tournament.

The club was founded at the tables of the Café del Rhin, specifically in the Plazoleta del Rosario, located in the historic centre of the city of Bogotá, by several graduates of the Gimnasio Moderno school, some of whom studied at the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Thanks to this, it became one of the ten founding teams of the División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano, contributing to the start of Colombian professional football.

It is one of the most decorated teams in Colombian football, with eighteen official titles. At national level, it has won the Primera A on 9 occasions, has 2 Copa Colombia titles, in 1989 and 2009, and 4 Superliga de Colombia titles, in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021, making it the most successful team in the tournament. It also won the continental Copa Simón Bolívar in 1970 and the Copa Sudamericana in 2015, and the intercontinental Suruga Bank Cup in 2016, with the particularity of having been the first Colombian team to be champion of the aforementioned international competitions and the first Colombian team to be champion of an international competition recognised by Conmebol.

It plays the capital derby against Millonarios, and also has fierce rivalries with América de Cali, in the so-called clásico de rojos, and with Atlético Nacional.

It was the seventh best football club in the world in 2015, with 240 points, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, the best team in the Americas and consequently in Colombia.