Nacional de Guadalajara

The Club Nacional de Guadalajara, commonly referred to as Nacional de Guadalajara, is a Mexican sports club in Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco. Its football team was 1961-1965 represented in the highest Mexican league.

History

The roots of the club go back to 1915, when some street boys a football team put in a less affluent district of the city of Guadalajara on the legs, which they gave the name Victoria. In neighboring Barrio Del Fuerte some other guys also walked along the paths of the English sport and so it happened that the two teams competed for a showdown against each other. Soon, they decided to merge and gave her the name of the merged project Unión.

For this hustle and bustle of a real football club, was named Nacional with effect from May 31, 1917 came into being. This had been chosen in accordance with the National Railway Company Ferrocarriles Nacionales, in which most of the players were employed in their main job as a laborer.

As the actual founder of the Club Deportivo Nacional applies Teófilo Zúñiga, who was also the driving force of the association in the early years. In addition, he worked first as a player and then as coach of the football team.

Nacional quickly closed the leading clubs of the city, and was also one of the founding members of the State League of Jalisco, whose title was a total of seven times won: . 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937 and 1939 only the Club Deportivo Guadalajara, known as Chivas, could win this title more often.

However, in establishing the national professional league 1943/44, was not included in the Nacional, the club fell back into the second division. Although succeeded Nacional 1961 finally promotion to the first division in 1963 with the sixth even a moderate success. But in 1965 fell back into the second tier Nacional. Since relegation from the Segunda División at the end of the season 1978/79 the club plays only in the (now fourth division ) Tercera División.