C.F. Mérida

The Venados del Mérida Fútbol Club, usually called Mérida FC, ​​is a Mexican football club that was founded in 2003 and is based in Mérida, the capital of the state of Yucatán has.

History

After the disappearance of the financially collapsed CD Atlético Yucatán, which had reached in the years 1989 and 1999, after all, the rise of games for La Liga, was Mérida because without professional football club. This unsatisfactory situation, the brothers Arturo Millet Reyes and Mauricio called on the plan. The contractor brought immediately after the bankruptcy of Yucatán Atlético 's team Nacional Tijuana to Merida, to form the Venados del Mérida Fútbol Club as the legitimate successor of the disappeared Atlético Venados de Yucatán from her.

The Mérida FC graduated from the seasons 2003/ 04 and 2004/ 05 in La Liga 'A', but also got into financial trouble and sold its second division license for the 2005/ 06 season to the CD Irapuato. The club itself was preserved and played in the Primera Fuerza henceforth de Yucatán, a local amateur league.

Since the 2008/ 09 season, the club plays again in the second division. The return to professional football was made possible through a cooperative agreement with the club Monarcas Morelia, the transplanted his B- team to Mérida, where it now operates as a branch team of Monarcas under the name Mérida FC. The club won the Clausura 2009 and failed narrowly in the rise of games in the top league against the winner of the Apertura 2008. According to a 1:2 defeat at Querétaro FC Mérida won the return match 1-0 on their own court, but lost the subsequent penalty shoot-out with 4:5. Thus, failed in 2009, the third attempt after 1989 and 1999, launching the first major league football in the state of Yucatán.

Achievements

• Master of the Primera División A: Clausura 2009