Club Necaxa

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Club Necaxa
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Basic data
Surname Necaxa Fútbol Club
Seat Aguascalientes , Mexico
founding August 21, 1923
Colours Red White
Website clubnecaxa.mx
First soccer team
Head coach Guillermo Vázquez
Venue Estadio Victoria
Places 20,000
league League MX
Clausura 2019 Quarter finals
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The Necaxa Fútbol Club , Club Necaxa for short or simply Necaxa , is a Mexican football club from Aguascalientes . In 2000, the club , which at the time was still based in Mexico City , took part in the first FIFA Club World Cup in Brazil. At this tournament, Club Necaxa took third place behind the two hosting clubs Corinthians São Paulo and Vasco da Gama .

history

At the beginning of the 1920s, William H. Frasser , engineer and manager of the electricity company "Luz y Fuerza", set up two soccer teams, which initially both functioned as a kind of company sports group: Luz y Fuerza (light and strength), the team of said power plants and tranvias (trams), the public transport team. These two teams played in the 1922/23 season in the Primera Fuerza , the then amateur championship in Mexico . The team from Luz y Fuerza had already taken part in the Campeonato del Centenario , a special tournament in 1921 that was expanded to include the best teams from the leagues of Jalisco and Veracruz, which replaced the regular league operations of the 1921/22 season.

After only one season, the Tranvias with the 5th place and Luz y Fuerza with the 7th place (of a total of 8 teams) had not successfully finished, the two teams merged on August 21, 1923 to the Necaxa Fútbol Club . The name Necaxa was taken from the river of the same name , which rises in the neighboring state of Puebla and is used to generate electrical energy, from which the association's original home, Mexico City, also benefits. The new club replaced its two predecessor clubs with immediate effect in the Primera Fuerza and worked in the same without interruption until their last season 1942/43.

When the professional league was introduced in 1943/44, Necaxa decided not to participate because the club was strictly against professional football at the time. However, because he threatened to lose his connection, he got into the Primera División in 1950, at which point he benefited from the simultaneous withdrawal of the clubs Asturias , España and Moctezuma and in their place - while reducing the league from 14 to 12 Teams - was accepted into the football club.

In 1971, Necaxa was acquired by Spanish business people who wanted to give the club a new image and who, in memory of the 15-time Mexican champions Real Club España , who are also based in Mexico City, withdrew from professional football in 1950 - renamed Atlético Español . In 1982 it was renamed Necaxa.

The club had two successful epochs in which it won its seven championship titles: four of them result from the 1930s and the other three from the 1990s. The star of the 1930s was the team itself, also known as Once hermanos (The Eleven Brothers). The star of the 1990s was Álex Aguinaga . Despite its sporadic sporting successes, Club Necaxa, which was based in Mexico City until 2003, has always been overshadowed by its capital city rivals ( America and Atlante as well as later also by Cruz Azul and UNAM Pumas ), all of which are more popular since the introduction of the Mexican professional football league enjoyed. Therefore, the club moved to Aguascalientes before the 2003/04 season in the hope of opening up a new environment there. The first division adventure in Aguascalientes ended after just a few years with the descent of Club Necaxa at the end of the 2008/09 season.

The Club Necaxa master teams

Due to the lack of sources, it is no longer possible to trace all the players from the respective squad of the Club Necaxa championship teams. Therefore, all players whose participation in at least one championship title has been proven are listed below in alphabetical order. It should be noted that due to the incomplete documentation, some of the players mentioned could possibly win more championship titles than stated here. The presentation takes place in two separate sections, whereby first the players of the four championships in the 1930s and then the players of the three championships in the 1990s are listed.

Players who became champions with Necaxa in the 1930s

Players who became champions with Necaxa in the 1990s

successes

Amateur era

  • Championship: 1932/33, 1934/35, 1936/37, 1937/38
  • Cup: 1924/25, 1925/26, 1932/33, 1935/36

Professional era

  • Championship: 1994/95, 1995/96, Invierno 1998
  • Cup: 1959/60, 1965/66, 1994/95, Clausura 2018
  • Campeón de Campeones: 1965/66, 1994/95
  • Copa de campeones de la CONCACAF: 1975, 1999
  • Copa Gigantes de CONCACAF: 1995
  • Participation in the FIFA Club World Cup: 2000

Celebrity fans

Well-known fans of the Necaxistas include:

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The player data for the championship teams comes from the following sources:

  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano - Tomo 2 (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), p. 317ff (on the championships of the 1930s)
  • Necaxa at Mediotiempo (the championship teams of the 1990s)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Armando Lara: Es divertido ver al Necaxa jugar: Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo (Spanish; article from May 1, 2016)
  2. ↑ Necaxa recuerda a su mejor hincha 'Don Ramón' (Spanish; article from September 2, 2017)
  3. ↑ Óscar Morín: Alex Aguinaga no salió del Necaxa gracias a Ernesto Zedillo (Spanish; article from December 1, 2016)