Atlético Celaya

Club Atlético Celaya is a Mexican football club that was founded in 1994 through the merger of the clubs Atlético Cuernavaca (from the state of Morelos ) and Escuadra Celese de Celaya. Soon Atlético Español merged into the fledgling club. All merged clubs have introduced a piece of their old identity into the new club: Atlético Cuernavaca, the name was chosen ( of course can be found here also the former Atlético Español again), by Celeste de Celaya, the sky-blue colors and Atlético Español heraldic animal, the stomping bull that earned the club the nickname " toros " ( bull ).

Atlético Celaya took in the season 1994 /95 the second league Place one of its predecessor societies and on first attempt the climb. The first season in the Primera División should also prove to be the most successful in the club's history. Only Celaya was group winners and in the subsequent play-offs could advance to the finals. Here Atlético defeated only because of the force at that time away goals with 1:1 and 0:0 against Necaxa.

From now on, it went with the club, however, permanently downhill. Often it was only last group. There were financial problems that eventually led to the sale of Erstligalizenz to an industrialist from Morelos during the winter break of the season 2002/ 03. This created a short-term team named CF Cuernavaca Colibries which, however, immediately dismounted and as quickly disappeared again, as it once appeared.

But Atlético Celaya has not since been represented in professional football, so since the same time reactivated older city club Celaya FC represented the city in professional football. This was done by moving the in La Liga 'A' playing CF La Piedad Celaya. But later the Club Celaya a farm team of Querétaro FC, ​​who absorbed the recently reactivated club after his own descent from the House of Lords was football, whereby the Celaya FC disappeared once more in the summer of 2007.

Runner-up in 1995/96

With the following squad was Atlético Celaya runner-up of the 1995/96 season: Hugo Pineda, Homero Pasallo (Tor ) - Víctor Díaz Leal, Joel Cruz, Armando Cabrera, Apolinar González, Iván Hurtado, Israel Castillo, Jose Antonio Alcántara, Sergio Bueno, José Alderete, Antonio González Pérez, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez ( Defence) - José Damasceno, Juvenal Patiño, Emilio Butragueño, Francisco Javier Cruz, Salvador Mercado, Felipe Aguirre, Inés Franco, José Santos, Luis Manuel Flores ( Midfield) - Richard Zambrano, Carlos Hernández, Amarido SOAREZ, Milton Nunez, Alfonso Malibran, Paulo Rocha, Arturo Rico ( storm ). Coach: Juan Manuel Álvarez.

Well-known former players

• Emilio Butragueño
• Diego Cagna
• Julio César de León
• Iván Hurtado
• Diego Latorre
• Jaime Arturo Lozano Espín
• Míchel
• Antonio Mohamed
• Carlos Pavón
• Hugo Sánchez
• Rafael Martín Vázquez