Club de Fútbol Torreón

The Club de Fútbol Torreón was a Mexican football club from the city of Torreón in Coahuila state. The club was founded in 1960 as Club El Cataluña and renamed in 1963 in CF Torreon ( tower). As an emblem of the tower was chosen, who once gave the town its name, and who was both erected to monitor the amount of water of the nearby river Nazas as well as protecting against the then still usual attacks of the natives.

A year after his former city rivals CF Laguna succeeded in the summer of 1969 under the Peruvian coach Grimaldo Gonzalez also the CF Torreón promotion to the Primera División, the top division of the Mexican club football. In the five common Erstligajahren both teams from Torreón moving regularly in the lower table region. These meetings allowed the CF Torreón least three times better placement, so that he had left to a higher place in the table to the CF Laguna only twice. The CF Torreón ended all seasons between rank 13 and 16, his greatest sporting success, therefore, the Association celebrated by reaching the Cup final in 1970, which went against Chivas Guadalajara lost.

Because of their all-white game clothing the crew of the CF Torreón in its early days Palomas ( pigeon ) and later Diablos Blancos (white devil) was called. In the summer of 1974, the CF Torreón was dissolved and sold its Erstligalizenz to the UdeG Cachorros.

• Former Mexican football club
• Torreón