Monarcas Morelia
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| Full name | Club Atlético Morelia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Monarcas (Monarchs) La Monarquia (The Monarchy) Los ates Los Canarios |
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| Founded | November 21st, 1924 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio Morelos Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico (Capacity 41,500) |
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| Chairman |  Álvaro Dávila |
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| Manager | Luis Fernando Tena |
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| League | Primera División de México | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apertura 2007 | Quarterfinals 10th (league) |
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Club Atlético Morelia or simply Monarcas, is a Mexican professional football club. Monarcas Morelia plays in the La Primera División. The team is owned by the TV broadcasting company TV Azteca. Monarcas Morelia is based in Morelia, Michoacán, and plays its home games in Estadio Morelos.
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[edit] Honours
- 2nd Division Championship: 1
- 1981
- League Championships: 1
- Invierno 2000
- CONCACAF Champions' Cup Runner Up: 2
- 2002, 2003
[edit] History
Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia was founded November 21, 1924, as Atlético Monarcas Morelia in Morelia, Michoacán.
In 1951, Club Atlético Morelia are officially promoted into the Primera División after having a successful run through the Segunda División & defeating Puebla, receiving a designated spot for promotion to the Primera División. After an unsuccessful season, in 1967, Monarcas Morelia was relegated back to the Segunda División. During a mixed 1968-1971 seasons, C.A. Monarcas appointed a new manager who goes by the name Nicandro Ortiz, who helped the team positively merge and acquisite a strong position in the Primera División A leaderboard. During the same year, the archaic change of the foundation's name was replaced with today's current name, Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia.
The 1979 clausura season gave Morelia a positive thrust towards contendership, being on a good position for promotion; during the year 1980, Monarcas Morelia played under the direction of general manager Diego Malta who in turn, helped his team towards the Mexican Championship and finally promotion to the Primera División de México.
[edit] Stadium
On the late years of the 80s it was decided that the old stadium Venustiano Carranza where the morelia hosted their home games was lacking capacity and that a new stadium with greater number of seats needed to be constructed, on April 9, 1989 after several construction delays Stadium Jose Maria Morelos and Pavón located on the outskirts of the Quinceo mountain was inaugurated, the inaugural game was between Atletico Morelia and Club America, which is at present time the archi-rival of the Monarcas. The Stadium has an official capacity for 45 thousand spectators, although on inauguration day in 1989 it is estimated that more than 50 thousand people attended the event.[citation needed]
In the year of 1996, the major broadcast company Tv Azteca bought the team. In 1999, the team changed its name to "Club Atletico Monarcas Morelia" or simply "Monarcas Morelia".
[edit] First title
Despite that the team had a history of 70 years playing in Mexican professional soccer the Club Monarcas Morelia had never won a first division tournament. This changed on a day in Winter 2000, when the club raised the cup after beating the Club Toluca in a series of penalty kicks. Unfortunately and because the final is played in two stadiums Morelia was coronated on the Bombonera Stadium and not in Morelia. The Morelos Stadium has never seem its team actually winning the final. The day after the victory a crowd which some estimate was of 100 thousand people welcomed the team as it parade it through Morelias main avenue avenida Madero. Later they arrived to the stadium where the crowd congregated as the team raised the cup and all the fans congratulated the team for their first ever championship in first division.
Monarcas Morelia has played two other finals which they lost.
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Confirmed Transfers
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Fernando Salazar Transferred From Pachuca |
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Marvin Cabrera Transferred From Pachuca |
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