Bolivar Club History 1957 - 1978

 The first part:  Bolivar Club History 1925 - 1935
The Second part: Bolivar Club History 1935 - 1957

The fourth part: Bolivar Club History 1978 - 2017

1960 a 1976

On October 1, 1960, the Major Tournament was created. Given the successful experience of the previous decade with well-organized championships and national transcendence. The president of the commission in charge of this tournament was the president of the AFLP.

Subsequently, the tournament was renamed "Simón Bolívar Cup", with a regionalized character due to the difficulty to travel at that time, thus playing the final phase in the last 4 months of the year among the winners of their associations and regional tournaments.

From 1960 until 1976 in the national tournament, it won the 1966 and 1968 championships. Lauro Ocampo Crespo was then president of the institution. In 1968 Bolivar won its first title under the presidency of Mario Mercado. In 1976 it won its last title before the liguero era.

Bolívar won the 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1976 titles and the 1960, 1968 and 1974 runner-up finishes in the championship of La Paz.

In 1967 they played their first Copa Libertadores with Club Deportivo 31 de Octubre.

The Cursed Year 1964 - 1965

The black year in the Celeste's history is considered to be 1964.

A bad campaign led to relegation in that championship against a recently promoted team, Universitario de La Paz, which beat Club Bolivar 2-1.

In 1965, a new board of directors was formed, headed by Luis Eduardo Siles Salinas, with the support of Mario Mercado Vaca Guzmán, which led to the birth of the so-called "Operation Return".

Bolívar won the undefeated championship of the second division of La Paz with a team that had much more hierarchy than its rivals. Soon after Bolívar was relegated, it was thought that relegation was the beginning of the institution's debacle, as it was for others.

The Seventies 1974 - 1983

In 1975 Bolivar had one of the highest quality squads in national soccer, having discovered Carlos Aragonés, an exceptional Bolivian midfielder.

The team also had Ovidio Mezza, at that time the best national player, with the talent of the greats, a mixture of creative midfielder and attacker.

There was the goalkeeper of the national team Carlos Conrado Jiménez, Luis Gregorio Gallo, who had worn the Argentinean national team jersey, the young Edgar Góngora, a defender like Pablo Baldivieso and the great gentleman of the area Ricardo Troncone.

The Academy also won the runner-up trophies in La Paz in 1974 and 1975.

Bolívar was in the Copa Libertadores in 1970, 1976, 1977 and 1979. However, they were unable to advance beyond the first round. After their 3-2 defeat in 1970 against Boca Juniors, they began an important period in which they were not defeated playing at home in La Paz until 1983.

1977 a 1978

The structural crisis of soccer brought to light by the catastrophe of the national team in Cali led to the creation of an entity with the exclusive participation of professional clubs at the national level.

On August 23, 1977, at the then Sheraton Hotel in La Paz, 16 clubs from almost the entire country decided to create the Bolivian Professional Soccer League.

Club Bolivar won its second league championship in 1978.