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Monarcas Morelia

Full name

Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia

Nickname(s)

Monarcas (Monarchs)
La Monarquia (The Monarchy)
Los ates
Los mariposones

Founded

November 21st, 1924

Ground

Estadio Morelos
Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
(Capacity 41,500)

Chairman

Álvaro Dávila

Manager

David Patiño Oviedo

League

Primera División de México

Clausura 2007

10th (playoffs)
10th (league)
4th (group)





Home colours





Away colours

Monarcas Morelia or simply Monarcas, is a Mexican professional football club. Monarcas Morelia plays in the Primera División de México. 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.

1 Honours
2 History
3 Stadium
4 First title
5 Copa Libertadores
6 Apertura 2006
7 Current squad
- 7.1 Squad Changes for Clausura 2008 season
8 Notable Players
9 External links

2nd Division Championship: 1
- 1981
League Championships: 1
- Invierno 2000
CONCACAF Champions' Cup Runner Up: 2
- 2002, 2003

Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia was founded November 21, 1924, as Atlético Monarcas Morelia in Morelia, Michoacán.

In 1951, Club Atlético Monarcas are officially promoted into the Primera División de México after having a successful run through the Primera División A & defeating Puebla, receiving a designated spot for promotion to the Primera División. After a unsuccessful season, in 1967, Monarcas Morelia was relegated back to the Primera División A. 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.

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.

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".

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.

In the edition of Copa Libertadores 2002, under the command of coach Rubén Omar Romano, they reach the semifinals. Their performance in the Copa Libertadores made them deserving of the title "Best Team in the World" granted in April 2002 by FIFA.

In the Apertura of 2006 with Coach Hugo Hernandez in charge but was later replaced by Marco Antonio Figueroa in the 10th game. The team occupied the 12th place in the general table for which made them unable to participate in the Liguilla.

The Monarcas have a sister team relationship with the Chicago Fire MLS team. A cooperative agreement that both partnership incorporates playing, coaching, and executive personnel, as well as sharing of business and development practices.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Miguel Ángel Fraga
3	DF	Alejandro Pliego
5	MF	Wilson Tiago Mathías
7	FW	Sebastián Fernández
8	MF	Ignacio Carrasco
9	FW	Luis Ángel Landín
10	MF	Aldo Ramírez
11	MF	Gonzalo Choy González
13	MF	José Alberto Hernández
14	FW	Ever Guzmán
16	DF	Adrian Aldrete
18	FW	Alejandro Leyva

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Ricardo Adrian Martínez
24	DF	Alberto Lucio
23	GK	Moisés Muñoz
26	DF	Mauricio Martín Romero
25	DF	Horacio Cervantes
27	DF	Omar Trujillo (C)
34	DF	Rodrigo Prieto
35	DF	Jesús Castillo