CF Nuevo León

The Club de Fútbol Nuevo León was a Mexican football club from Monterrey , the capital of the state of Nuevo León , after which the club, founded in 1957, was named. He was virtually the legal successor to Deportivo Anáhuac , whose team last played in the old League North.

The newly founded CF Nuevo León , who was soon nicknamed Jabatos ( boar ), made his second division debut in the 1958/59 season. In the 1959/60 season, the team advanced to the final, in which they should meet the local neighbor CF Monterrey . It was certainly not beneficial for the performance of the team that the club underwent profound changes in those days. Due to financial difficulties, he came under the patronage of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL for short, just before the promotion games. In the final games that were lost, the team entered under its new name Tigres (after the university's mascot). Two years later, the President of the UANL gave the association its license back on his own responsibility, so that with effect from September 21, 1962, the association could be renamed in its original name.

By winning the second division championship in 1965/66, he was promoted to the Primera División , where the club should spend the next three seasons. After you had achieved a sensational sixth place in the promotion year (1966/67), you had to be relegated two years later. The game against Oro de Jalisco , who was tied for the bottom of the table, ended 1-1 after extra time in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City . Because the winner had not yet been determined by penalty shoot-out at the time, a second game was necessary, which also did not find a winner and ended 2-2 after extra time. Only a necessary third game found a 1-0 winner with Oro.

For CF Nuevo León, this defeat meant relegation from the top division of Mexican club football, to which the club could never return. Two years later, the club even crashed into the third division. Because such a league did not yet exist in northern Mexico at the time, the club initially did not take part in any tournament initiated by the FMF . When the third division was also introduced in northern Mexico two years later, the club was one of the founding members. The Jabatos played here until they were dissolved at the end of the 1978/79 season.

For the 1987/88 season, the club was revived by the Rivero brothers. He started in the third division, which he won straight away and thus secured promotion to the second division. Due to the lack of support from potential donors in Monterrey and the lack of interest from the local audience, who were far more interested in the first division clubs CF Monterrey or UANL Tigres , the Rivero brothers sold the license to the "Botanas Leo Group" in early 1990 who formed the Leones de Saltillo from this . That was the end of the Jabatos.