First International Participation
On May 9, 2010 the team sealed it's pass to the Copa Sudamericana 2010, after being in 4th place in the 2008/09 first division, and so after 44 years to bring back an international tournament to Lara state after Lara FC did so in 1966 but this time in Libertadores.
Deportivo Lara played their first leg at home on August 17 against Colombia's Santa Fe in the Estadio Metropolitano de Cabudare with favorable outcome for the local 2:0, and the second leg was held in El Campin home of the Santa Fe in Bogota on Thursday August 26. There, the club could not maintain its early lead and fell by the score of 4:0 leaving the competition with aggregate score of 4:2 in favor of Santa Fe.
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