José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes (born 23 June 1983), known as José Rojas, is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a defender. Primarily a central defender, he could also be deployed as a left-back.
Rojas has played the whole of his career for Universidad de Chile except a brief stint with Argentine side Independiente in 2006. He has won four league championships with Universidad de Chile, in Apertura 2004, Apertura 2009 and Apertura and Clausura 2011. For the 2011 season he was selected by his teammates as captain, after Miguel Pinto left the club. In 2011, he captained Universidad de Chile to its first international title as they won the 2011 edition of the Copa Sudamericana in Santiago.
In 13 February 2023, he announced his retirement after twenty years as a professional footballer.
He made his debut with Chile national team on 9 May 2007, in a friendly against Cuba scoring a goal in the game.
Rojas is the uncle of Alonso Rodríguez Rojas, a footballer from the Universidad de Chile youth ranks.
Primera División de Chile (6): 2004–A, 2009–A, 2011–A, 2011–C, 2012–A, 2014–A 1
(1): “A” and “C” refer the Apertura and Clausura tournaments that divide the Chilean football champions.
José Rojas at National-Football-Teams.com
Primera División Argentina statistics at Futbol XXI (in Spanish)
Jose Manuel Rojas at BDFA (in Spanish)