Jabatos de Nuevo León

The Club de Fútbol Nuevo León was a Mexican football club from Monterrey, the capital of the state of Nuevo León, after the club was founded in 1957, is named. He was quasi legal successor of the Deportivo Anáhuac, whose team last played in the old League North.

The CF newly founded Nuevo Leon, nicknamed Jabatos received ( boar ) soon, made ​​his second league debut in the season 1958/59. In the 1959/60 season the team came before to the final, where they should just hit the local neighbors CF Monterrey. Surely it was for the performance of the teams do not necessarily conducive that the club learned profound changes, especially in those days. Due to financial difficulties, he fell namely immediately before the rise of games under the auspices of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL short. In the finals, which were lost, the team entered already under its new name Tigres (after the mascot of the University ). Two years later, the president of the UANL gave the club its license in ownership back, so that with effect from 21 September 1962, the designation of the association could be made back to its original name.

By winning the second division championship 1965/66 promotion to the Primera División succeeded where the club would spend the next three seasons. After you had the rise year (1966 /67) a sensational sixth is, you had two years later in the play-offs. The game against the tied bottom club Oro de Jalisco ended 1-1 after extra time at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City. Because the winner has not yet been determined at the time by a penalty shootout, a second game was required, but that also did not find a winner and ended 2-2 after extra time. It was only a necessary become third game was with Oro a 1-0 winner.

For the CF Nuevo León that defeat meant the relegation from the top division of the Mexican association football, in which the association could never return. Two years later the club plunged even from the third league. Because such a league in northern Mexico at the time, but did not yet exist, the club took first at any of the FMF initiated tournament more. Two years later, the third division was also introduced in northern Mexico, the club was one of the founding members. Here the Jabatos played until its dissolution at the end of season 1978 / 79th

For the 1987/88 season the club was revived by the brothers Rivero again. He started in the third division, which he immediately won and so the rise in the second division secured. Due to the lack of support from potential donors in Monterrey and also lack of interest of the local audience that was interested in a much greater degree for the first division club CF Monterrey and UANL Tigres, the Rivero brothers sold the license in early 1990 to the " Botanas Leo group " that from this the Leones de Saltillo formed. That was the end of Jabatos.

  • Former Mexican football club
  • Nuevo León
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