Club de Alto Rendimiento Especializado Independiente del Valle, known simply as Independiente del Valle, is a professional football club based in Sangolquí, Ecuador, that currently plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
The club was founded on 1 March 1958. In the 2013 Ecuadorian Serie A Independiente finished as runner-up, which is the closest it has been to winning the league.
In CONMEBOL competitions, it reached the final of the 2016 Copa Libertadores after defeating River Plate, Pumas UNAM and Boca Juniors, and won its first ever title with the 2019 Copa Sudamericana.
The club is also known for producing youth talent, and a good example of this is the club's U-20 Copa Libertadores title in 2020. Some well-known footballers the club has produced are Jefferson Montero, Junior Sornoza, Arturo Mina, and Cristian Ramírez.
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