Club Sport Emelec

Emelec
	Emelec
Basic data
Surname	Club Sport Emelec
Seat	Guayaquil , Ecuador
founding	April 28, 1929
president	Nassib Neme
Website	emelec.com.ec
First soccer team
Head coach	Mariano Soso
Venue	Estadio George Capwell
Places	40,000
league	Series A
2018	3rd place in the overall table and runner-up

The Club Sport Emelec is a sports club from the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador . It was founded in 1929 in Barrio Astillero , the historic shipyard district, under the leadership of the North American George Capwell. The first soccer team plays in Serie A, the first Ecuadorian league.

history

On April 28, 1929, George Capwell, an American who was director of the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador (EMELEC) electricity company , founded the EMELEC sports club with friends, employees of his company and other athletes. In addition to football, which was initially not one of the favorite sports of the North American Capwell, the club has swimming, baseball, boxing, basketball and athletics departments.

Capwell decided that the club needed its own stadium, which opened in 1945, but initially for the Emelec baseball team. On October 21, 1945, the Estadio George Capwell opened with a baseball game. The first soccer game took place on December 2nd of that year. It was the only club-owned stadium in Ecuador at the time. In 1947 all games of the Campeonato Sudamericano (today: Copa America ) were played in the Estadio George Capwell .

Since 1946 Emelec played in the first regional league and took part as Guayaquil champion of the year 1946 for Ecuador in the Copa de Campeones de América , a one-time forerunner of the Copa Libertadores , and finished in the tournament held in Santiago de Chile after a draw against Colo Colo Santiago and five defeats last place.

In 1948 the first official meeting between Emelec and Barcelona SC took place during the "Torneo del Pacifico" tournament. These encounters between the Emelec team, which is nicknamed cuadro millonario ( German "millionaire self" ) due to the wealth of its founder, and the Barcelona team, which comes from a traditionally poorer quarter, still form the most important derby in the Ecuadorian league, the Clásico del Astillero .

In 1951 Emelec was one of the founders of professional football in Ecuador and competed in the regional league organized by the newly founded Asociación de Fútbol del Guayas . In 1956 and 1957 Emelec won his first two professional championships in the province of Guayas. When an Ecuadorian championship was held for the first time in 1957, Emelec won the final round with two professional teams each from the provinces of Guayas and Pichincha before Barcelona SC , Deportivo Quito and SD Aucas won.

With the beginning of regular national championships (1960) Emelec consolidated itself as one of the most successful clubs in Ecuador. During their first "golden era" between 1961 and 1972, the team was three more times champion (1961, 1965 and 1972) and four times runner-up (1962, 1966, 1967 and 1970). In the mid-1960s, the so-called “Blue Ballet” from Emelec, trained by the Argentinian Fernando Paternóster , took part repeatedly in the tournament for the Copa Libertadores , where victories against Universidad Católica (Chile) in 1962 , 1967 and 1968 were among others . In 1968, Emelec became the first Ecuadorian team to survive the preliminary round of the Copa Libertadores. In those years, they defeated Chacarita Juniors (Argentina), the reigning Copa Libertadores winner Peñarol Montevideo , Vélez Sársfield , Corinthians São Paulo and Borussia Dortmund in friendly matches .

Emelec had a second golden era in the 1990s and 2000s when the team won four championship titles in ten years (1993, 1994, 2001 and 2002). In 1995 Emelec reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores , but was eliminated against Gremio Porto Alegre . In 2001 Emelec was runner-up in the Copa Merconorte after losing the final on penalties against Millonarios from Colombia .

In the 2009 and 2010 seasons, Emelec won the first round series and reached the most points in the totaled table of all games, but only had to settle for third or second place in the championship round. In 2013 Emelec celebrated the eleventh and in 2014 the twelfth championship in its history. The number 13 championship title followed in 2015 and number 14 in 2017.

Stadion

Emelec plays its home games at the Estadio George Capwell , which was inaugurated on October 21, 1945. It is nicknamed La Caldera ( German "The Kessel" ). In 1991 the facility was reopened after renovation, and in 1993 the Copa América games were played here. The venue was renovated from 2015 to 2017 and currently offers space for 40,000 spectators. It is located south of the center of Guayaquil in the Barrio Astillero on the main thoroughfare Avenida Quito .

successes

National

Amateur champion Guayaquil: 1945, 1948
Professional championship Guayaquil / coastal region: 1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1966
Ecuadorian champion: 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017

International

Vice champion Copa Merconorte 2001
Semi-finals Copa Libertadores 1995, quarter-finals 1968, 1990

Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 28 ×

1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.