FBC Melgar

FBC Melgar
	FBC Melgar
Basic data
Surname	Foot Ball Club Melgar
Seat	Arequipa , Peru
founding	1915
Website	fbcmelgaraqp.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Carlos Bustos
Venue	Estadio Monumental de la UNSA
Places	40.217
league	Primera División
2019	6th place (overall)
home	Away

The Foot Ball Club Melgar is a football club from the Peruvian metropolis Arequipa . The club, founded in 1915, has played in the Primera División , the country's top division, without interruption since 1971 , and won the championship in 1981.

history

The FBC Melgar was founded on March 25, 1915 and named after the poet Mariano Melgar (1790-1815), a hero of the Peruvian independence movement. In 1919 the FBC Melgar made its first guest appearance in the capital Lima, around 750 km away . The association gained its first international experience in 1930 on a trip to Chile .

In the years 1928-1929 and between 1962 and 1970 FBC Melgar won a total of nine times the Primera Division de Arequipa , these titles qualifying from 1966 to participate in the national championship. In 1971 Melgar was first in the Copa Perú , as the second division was called at the time, and has been in the Primera División Peruana , the top division of Peru, without interruption . There the FBC Melgar was able to secure the title of Master of Peru for the first and so far also last time in 1981.

This title and a runner-up in 1983 qualified the club twice for participation in the South American Copa Libertadores of the following year, but Melgar could not impress there and was eliminated in the group stage.

Also when participating in the Copa Conmebol 1998 and the Copa Sudamericana 2013 and 2015 the first round was over. At the 2015 edition, Melgar managed almost a miracle after a 5-0 defeat in the first leg against the Colombian club Junior in the second leg. With a 4-0, Melgar narrowly missed the setting of the result of the first leg.

With Genaro Neyra 1985 with 22 goals, Juvenal Briceño (1986/16), Ysrael Zúñiga (1999/32), Fabián Artime (2002/24) and Gabriel García (2004/35) Melgar was the top scorer of the championship five times.

More important local rivals of Melgar in Arequipa in recent history have included Sportivo Huracán in the 1970s and Atlético Universidad and Total Chalaco FC , formerly known as Total Clean, which has since left the city in the first decade of the 21st century . All of these three clubs managed to win the Peruvian Cup once each.

Stadion

The club plays its home games in the Estadio Monumental de la UNSA , which opened in 1993 and has seats for 40,217 spectators.

successes

Championship of Peru : 1981, 2015
Runner-up in Peru: 1983, 2016
Copa Perú: 1971
Primera División de Arequipa: 1928, 1929, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 6 ×

1982 : first round

1984 : first round

2016 : group stage

2017 : group stage

2018 : 2nd qualifying round

2019 :