The team that has achieved so much was part of the past. Fernando Cavallieri had to cope with the transition in 1991, but the following year the club had the necessary budget to make up a team that could go after the lost glory.

10 new players arrived to Cobreloa: Leonardo Canales, Juan C. Almada, Pedro Jaque, Hugo Gonzalez, Fernando Cornejo, Marcelo Miranda, Norberto Retamar, Jaime Vera, Carlos Fuentes and Andres Roldan.

Internal conflicts and the elimination from the Apertura Cup despite not having lost a single game (the elimination came through penalty kicks) made Cavallieri and Almada leave the team. But when the National Tournament was just beginning, Jose Sulantay added his touch. His first task was to unite the group, affected with conflicts between the new and the old players.

A vitoryover Palestino in Calama and a loss against Union Espanola in Santiago were the beginning of Sulantay (in the first game, Cobreloa lost to Colocolo in Santiago with Mario Osben, the goalkeeper, as the coach). But from then on, the team remained unbeaten for 27 games with and efficient and all-proof way of playing.

The arrival of Edgardo Fuentes and Ramon Perez gave fresh air to the team, which after beating Colocolo on September 18th (with an antological goal by Hector "Ligua" Puebla) started to believe that the title was just a step away.

The afternoon of December 13th was the final touch to such and spectacular campaign. With goals scored by Covarrubias, Perez and Vera, Cobreloa defeated Fernandez Vial and won the chanpionship. Cobreloa formed a team to be champions, and it it responded to the expectations.