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Necaxa
Full name	Club Necaxa
Nickname(s)	Rayos (Lightning Bolts)
Founded	August 21, 1923
Ground	Estadio Victoria Aguascalientes, Ags.
Capacity	27,500
Chairman	Javier Pérez Teuffer
Manager	José Luis Trejo
League	Primera División de México
Apertura 2006	Did not qualify for playoffs 15th (league) 6th (group)
Home colours 　 Away colours

Club Necaxa is a Mexican professional football club. Necaxa plays in the Primera División de México. The club plays its home games at Estadio Victoria, located in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Contents 1 History 2 Honours 3 Current roster 3.1 Squad changes for Clausura 2007 season 4 Notable Players 5 External link

Necaxa was founded August 21, 1923 with the support of the Compañía de Luz, from which they drew a nickname, the "Electricistas". They were very successful in the early days of the Mexican league, winning championships in the 1932-33, 1934-35, 1936-37, and 1937-38 seasons.

Necaxa's fortunes declined after the professionalization of the Mexican league following the 1942-43 season, as they were excluded from the newly formed, 10-team Liga Mayor.

Necaxa went the next fifty years without winning a single championship, before finally returning to prominence in the mid-1990s. They won consecutive championships in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons under manager Manuel Lapuente.They finished runners-up three times.

Their 2000 3rd place finish in the FIFA World Club Championship (Global Confederation Championship) is the highest by any Mexican club team (Club America played in the Consolation Round but lost in 2006).

• FIFA World Club Championship
  • 3rd Place (January 2000)
• League Championships: 3
  • 1994-1995, 1995-1996, Invierno 1998
• Playoffs Cup: 6
  • 1926, 1933, 1936, 1960, 1966, 1995
• Champion of Champions: 4
  • 1931, 1936, 1966, 1995
• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1
  • 1999
• Interliga : 1
  • 2007

1 Iván Vázquez 2 Pablo Quatrocchi 3 Joaquín Beltrán 4 Horacio Cervantes 5 Víctor Gutiérrez 6 Salvador Cabrera 8 Juan Manuel Salgueiro 9 Aarón Padilla 10 Alfredo Moreno 11 Everaldo Barbosa 13 Luis Omar Hernández 14 Mario Pérez 15 Oscar Zea 16 Gerardo Galindo 18 Ricardo Navarro

19 Emmanuel Sánchez 20 Osvaldo Lucas 22 Luis Alberto Padilla 23 Kléber 24 Mario Padilla 26 Alexandro Álvarez 27 Luis Francisco García 28 Luis Alberto Valdés 29 Héctor Gimenez 30 Jaime Ruíz 31 Marinho Ledesma 33 Aldo Diaz 65 Jorge Enrique Camacho 88 Franky Oviedo 179 Fernando Morales COPA LIBERTADORES ONLY 7 Julio Marchant

In:

• Fernando Morales on loan from UNAM Pumas
• Juan Manuel Salgueiro on loan from Danubio
• Everaldo Barbosa transferred from Jaguares de Chiapas
• Horacio Cervantes transferred from CF Atlante
• Pablo Quatrocchi transferred from San Lorenzo

Out:

• Nicolas Olivera transferred to CF Atlas
• Edgar Zapata transferred to Veracruz
• Fabiano Pereira due to an injury

• Alex Aguinaga
• Ricardo Peláez
• Ivo Basay
• Alberto García Aspe
• Horacio Casarín
• Ignacio Ambríz
• Nicolás Navarro
• Sergio Zárate
• Luis Hernández
• Sergio Vázquez
• Agustín Delgado
• Luis Roberto Alves
• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Carlos Hermosillo
• Efraín Herrera

• Official Website

Primera División de México, Apertura 2006 & Clausura 2007 v • d • e
Group 1 Necaxa | Cruz Azul Guadalajara | Querétaro Atlas | Chiapas	Group 2 UAG | Monterrey Veracruz | Pachuca Atlante | San Luis	Group 3 América | Morelia Toluca | UNAM UANL | Santos
League Levels
Primera División de México | Primera División A  | Segunda División | Tercera División
Miscellaneous
List of champions | El Clásico (Regiomontano) | InterLiga | SuperLiga