Puebla A.C.

The Puebla Athletic Club was a Mexican sports club based in Puebla, which was founded in 1895 by the British and in the beginning mainly tennis was played.

Establishing the football section

With the beginning of the onset of the British community football boom ( the football championship of Mexico was launched on July 19, 1902 to life ) finally emerged also a football department at Puebla AC, whose team in the three seasons between 1904/ 05 and 1906/ 07 in the Football Championship of Mexico participated. She graduated from their home games at Campo Velódromo in which at that time also, baseball was practiced.

Sporty performance of soccer players

Presented once in the first season 1904/ 05 the team has ever been again negative record: they lost all eight games and not scoring a single goal! The Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano indicates their goal difference with 12:11, while the site of RSSSF quantified goal difference with 0:9. The second season was equally catastrophic, but at least this time the team was able to achieve a draw and finished the season off with 7 losses and 1:20 gates. Only in the third (and last) season 1906/ 07 of Puebla AC achieved a positive balance sheet and ended the season with 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses and a goal difference of 8:6 in third place.

The end of the football team

After the 1906/ 07 season the team fell apart because they consisted of various, only temporarily working in Puebla professionals, some of whom left the city again at this time. For the football for about a decade disappeared from the city before it came to the creation of new clubs. One of the first was a club called Reforma, which was founded in 1917 and mainly consisted of Mexicans, some French and two Germans. The next two clubs emerged a short time later within the Spanish community. But the most successful flagship of the city, Puebla FC, ​​came only in 1944 with the introduction of professional football.