Irapuato FC

The Club Deportivo Irapuato de Fútbol is a Mexican football club that was founded in 1911. As such, it is the oldest club in the state of Guanajuato, who was ever represented in the Primera División.

History

After the revolution break due to the football in Guanajuato until 1924 came gradually back on track. In Irapuato, a city championship was first held in 1928, which found its first winner in Deportivo Irapuato.

In the summer of 1954, the promotion to Primera División in the, which also known as " Trinca Fresera " (strawberry triumvirate ) team known henceforth belonged to 18 years without interruption until the descent in the summer of 1972. Later still managed three times to return to the top flight: first for several years between 1985/86 and 1990 / 91st Then for two short-term guest appearances in 2000 and 2001, and in the season 2003/04.

Had the descent in the years 1972 and 1991 still sporting reasons, as was the loss of Erstligazugehörigkeit in the new millennium economic. The end of 2001 Irapuato was transferred to the CD Veracruz, who was in the rise of games on the end of the season 2000/ 01 still failed in competition and against Atlante.

After Irapuato was exposed in the second half of the 2001/02 season, the club acquired in the summer of 2002, the second division license of Querétaro FC ( who in turn had acquired the Erstligalizenz of CF La Piedad ), immediately won the second division championship ( the final calculated against the old rival León) and rose again on the first division. Because the majority of club bosses at end of season 2003/ 04 the reduction of the Primera División had decided from 20 to 18 teams, the newcomer CD Irapuato and Queretaro were FC Gallos Blancos (the one club, two years earlier bought the Erstligalizenz and its second division license to Irapuato had passed ) unloaded. After Irapuato had to digest the shock only once by exposing the season 2004/ 05, the FC acquired in summer 2005 from Mérida eligible to play for the second-class La Liga 'A', but was found a year later for two seasons (2006 / 07 and 2007/ 08) in the third-tier Segunda División ( Grupo Bajío ) again. Only the purchase of the eligibility of the ascended straight to the second division Pachuca Juniors brought the club in 2008/ 09 back in the Primera División 'A'. There Irapuato made ​​in his first round of the Apertura 2008, caused a sensation when you could advance to the finals in the play- offs, where they failed only towards the later promoted Querétaro FC.

Known player

  • Ligorio López; the only World Cup participants (1958 ) in club history while part of Irapuato.
  • Jaime Belmonte; also participated in the 1958 World Cup and was from 1959 to 1972 in Irapuato under contract.
  • Mexican Football Club
  • Guanajuato (State)
Irapuato, Guanajuato Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz
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