Club Xelajú MC

Club Social y Deportivo Xelajú Mario Campo Seco, mostly shortened as Club Xelajú MC or referred to in the shortest form as Xela, is a Guatemalan football club from the city of Quetzaltenango, which is also known as the Mayan name Xelajú.

History

Creation and club name

The club was founded in 1928 under the name Germania and renamed Asociación Deportiva Independiente de 1942 in Xelajú ( ADIX ). With the suffix recorded in 1952, the club honors his former player Mario Campo Seco, who is regarded as the best player in the club's history and 1951 in a plane crash was killed.

Achievements at national level

In the season 1957/58 Xelajú won the championship of the second league and entered the first time in the top flight. Already in its fourth Erstligasaison 1961/62 won Xelajú for the first time, the Guatemalan football championship. For more league titles followed in the seasons 1980, 1995/96, Clausura 2007 Clausura, 2012. Moreover Xelajú won twice so far the Guatemalan cup competition in the seasons 1972/73 and 2010.

Successes at international level

The greatest success at the international level was reaching the finals of the 1982 Copa Inter Clubes Copa Centroamericana, the Xela against Honduran club Real España ( 1:2 and 0:0) lost.

So far Xelajú took a total of five times in the CONCACAF Champions League, the most important competition of the CONCACAF, and was able at the first four appearances at best qualify for the second round. By setting one could merely against more " unnamed " opponents such as CD Vida in Honduras ( 1963), Real Verdes of Belize ( 1997) and Tauro FC of Panama (2007/ 08 ) before the 2012/13 season with the Mexican giants Chivas Guadalajara one of the most renowned clubs in the area of ​​CONCACAF could be turned off for the first time.

Achievements

• Guatemalan champion: 1962, 1980, 1996, Clausura 2007, Clausura 2012
• Guatemalan Cup Winners: 1973, 2010