Deportivo Lara

Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara (usually called Deportivo Lara, ACD Lara or just Lara) is a professional football club based in Barquisimeto, Lara State, that played in the Venezuelan league for the first time in 2009, in their first year of existence.

It was one of four teams that has won the Venezuelan Primera División championship by winning both short tournaments of the season as well as being the team that has accrued the most points in a season, when it obtained 83 points in the 2011–12 campaign, under the reins of Eduardo Saragó and the help of players with experience in the Venezuela national team such as Miguel Mea Vitali, José Manuel Rey and Rafael Castellín.

One of the club's most significant milestones was achieved on March 1, 2018, in their first 2018 Copa Libertadores match, when they beat the top winner of the competition Independiente 1–0 with a goal by Carlos Sierra.