Celaya FC
| Celaya FC | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Celaya Fútbol Club | ||
| Seat | Celaya | ||
| founding | 1954 | ||
| president | José Juan Luna | ||
| Website | celayafc.com.mx | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Miguel Fuentes | ||
| Venue |
Estadio Miguel Alemán , Celaya , Guanajuato |
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| Places | 30,000 | ||
| league | Liga de Ascenso | ||
| Clausura 2013 | Quarter finals | ||
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The Celaya Fútbol Club is a Mexican football club from the city of Celaya in the Mexican state of Guanajuato , which was founded on February 4, 1954 and immediately accepted into the Segunda División , then the second highest division in Mexican club football .
history
As early as 1955/56 Celaya FC managed the runner-up in this league, but this brought little profit at the time, as promotion was reserved for the champions, in this case CF Monterrey . With a little luck, the club could have achieved the right to play for the Primera División .
Because Puebla FC was in serious financial difficulties at the time, the club asked to be allowed to sit out one year in the top division of Mexico in order to return the following year. Therefore, the championship in the Primera División 1956/57 was held with only 13 teams instead of 14 teams, as was common between 1955/56 and 1963/64. Because the financial problems at Puebla had not improved significantly even after a year (without league play), the club withdrew completely from the top division. This led to the fact that at the end of the 1956/57 season, the then current runner-up in the second division, Atlético Morelia, was allowed to perceive the promotion to replace the outgoing Puebla in the 1957/58 season. If Puebla had already withdrawn in the previous year, Celaya would have risen ...
But Celaya FC finally managed to fight their way into the football club without the support of financially troubled clubs. Just one year later, at the end of the 1957/58 season, the club won the championship in the second division and was rewarded with promotion to the Primera División.
With only one point ahead of relegated CD Cuautla , Celaya finished 13th (out of 14 teams) at the end of his first first division season 1958/59. In the 1959/60 season, the team was even able to improve and achieved 12th place with seven wins and 22 points (from 26 games). But this was already the best result in the club's history, because from now on things went downhill rapidly. At the end of the 1960/61 season they finished last with 19 points and were relegated to the second division.
In the following years Celaya even fell back into the third class and finally disappeared entirely; despite a third division championship in 1973/74 and the associated promotion to the second division.
It was not until the beginning of 2003 that a "successor club" of Celaya FC with a related name appeared. After the previous decade in the city had been dominated in football terms by Club Atlético Celaya , which was only formed through a merger in 1994 , but this got into considerable financial difficulties and had to sell its license in the winter break of 2002/03, the second division club CF moved away for similar reasons La Piedad after Celaya and henceforth called Club Cajeteros de Celaya ( Cajeteros was the nickname of the former Celaya FC). The artificially revived club, however, only had a brief heyday. In the summer of 2005, the right to play for the Primera División 'A' was sold to the Petroleros de Salamanca . By this measure Celaya slipped for the season 2005/06 from in the third division, where one incidentally again took up under its original name Celaya FC. A year later, the club found itself again in the second division due to the license transfer from Tijuana Gallos Caliente . But this was just a short-term guest appearance. Like Tijuana before, Celaya was now a farm team for the first division club Querétaro FC and it is worth mentioning in this context that in Mexico since the 2006/07 season every club playing in the Primera División has been required to have a farm team in the second division to chat. But when Querétaro was relegated to Primera División A in the summer of 2007, Club Celaya became superfluous as a farm team and was completely absorbed by the former first division club, as a result of which Celaya FC disappeared again for a short time before it was replaced with a new heraldic animal - the (in the Representation modified) bull of the former city rival Atlético - reappeared.
Historical logos
First logo 
Second logo 
Third logo
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano, Tomo II (B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961), p. 461