Irapuato FC

Irapuato

Full name	Club Irapuato Por Siempre
Nickname(s)	La Trinca, Freseros, La Trinca Fresera (The Strawberry Lashers)
Founded	November 1910
Ground	Estadio Sergio León Chavez (Capacity: 35,000)
Chairman	Roberto Martínez Calderón
Manager	Omar Arellano Nuño
League	Liga de Ascenso
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The Club Deportivo Irapuato, is located in Irapuato, Mexico. That has mostly played in the second tier of Mexican football (Now called the Liga de Ascenso). From 2000 to 2004, the team briefly rose to prominence and to the first division reaching the playoffs or liguilla. Historically, Irapuato has spent 26 years in the first division never quite excelling to challenge for the title.

The team was relegated in 2004 but not because of their on-field performance but because of financial irregularities. The team then took a turn for the worse being relegated to its current position in the regionalized third division or Segunda Division.

The team finally returned to Primera División A when the filial team of Pachuca, Pachuca Juniors, decided to move to Irapuato, and also change their name to Irapuato FC, once again giving Irapuato a soccer team for them to stay behind. However, there is no indication of how this move or name change might have taken place. But it is known that such action has happened when Pachuca Juniors won promotion to Primera División A, and, as stated on the FMF website, moved to Irapuato and changed their name to Irapuato FC.

History

The club dates back to 1910 in the city of Irapuato where a club was founded under the name Club Mutualista Irapuatense by Pedro Garnu and by Diego Mosqueda who was and important person in the sports development in the city , who would later go on to establish the clubs rival Athletic Leon in the 1920s.In does first years many clubs were formed in order to create a futbol league deportivo Irapuato, Internacional,Club Marte,ISCO and Atlético Leon inaugurated the league in 1925.That first tournoment was unofully won by Club Marte due to the fact that the tournament was not Finnish to problems between Irapuato and ISCO.In 1928 the club reach the final and played it against Deportivo Internacional, the clubs squad was mas made up by Kurt Lenk as keeper Antonio Aguilar and José Núñez playinf defende Julián Ramírez, Francisco Belman ND Salvador Silva in the mid fild and Antonio “El Gato” Baltazar, Crisoforo Juárez, Secundino Alvarado , Teofilo and Juan Aguilera playing forward.The club managed to come out with a 1-0 victory and by so winning its first league title. this club wore a white shirt with black shorts and socks.

The club that plays today under the name Club Deportivo Irapuato was founded in 1948 where it had trouble staying in the first division.in the late 1940s there were various clubs that represented the city of Irapuato and it was until 1948 when they decide to merge in order to become more competitive and so they did and join the Second division in 1949.The man in charge of the merge were Coronal Oscar Bonfilio and Jesús Vaca Gaona both who had participated in the 1928 Olympic games in Amsterdam. The club would once againg changed is name this time to Club Deportivo Irapuato, A.C which many people believe to be the date the club was establish.

First promotion

The club was one of the first club to inaugurate the Segunda División de México in the 1949-50 tournament where after 3 tournament the club managed to win its first promotion against Club Deportivo Zamora 2-1 under the care of Profe Castañeda.The club made it debut First Division debut in the league on August 22, 1954 against Zacatepec who they beat 4-5. In the secoud round the club played at home in the old Revolución stadium against Puebla FC who they also defeated 4-0.The club also revive its rivalry which had stop in the late 1930s against the club from Leon who now played under the name Club Leon, that game ended in a 1-1 draw.

The clubs best tournament was played in 1963-64 where the club finished with 32 points only 1 behind that years champions C.D. Guadalajara who finished with 33.The clubs played mediocre tournaments the following years were in the 1971-72 season the club found itself playing in group b with clubs Monterrey, Guadalajara, Puebla FC, Atlante, Pachuca, UNAM, Toluca and Torreón.At the end of the tournament the club finished last and had to play a relegation series against the other last place teams.The series was played against Torreon Atletico Espanol and Veracruz.the first match was played against Veracruz who defeated them 3-1 ,the second ended in a 0-0 draw.The last game was played against Torreon in Guadalajara where the club lost 1-0 and was regelated for the first time to the second division after 18 years.

1970s struggles

Back in the second division the club became a top club reaching the final in its first year back against Tampico Madero. The first game was played in Irapuato which they won 1-0. It seemed the club would clinch its promotion having the second match at home but surprisingly Ciudad Madero came out with a 2-0 victory and so earning its promotion.

In the 1974-75 tournament the club had its second opportunity when they once aging reach the final this time played against Tecos. Thos time the club would loss that final 1-0 match that took place in Mexico City.

The club would get its third opportunity to earn a promotion in 1978 this time against Zacatepec. This time a series was played the first match ended in a 1-0 victory for Zacatepec. The secound match ended in a 4-1 victory for Zacatepec and so the club would lost its third Promotion series in 6 years.

Second promotion 1980s

In the 1908s the club had a streak of qualifying to the quarterfinals but not been able to reach the final. After 4 years the club finally managed to reach the final in the 1984-85 tournament under the management of Diego Malta Solano against Pachuca. The first match was played in Irapuato were they took a 2-1 advantage in the return match Irapuato came out with a win and finally earn the promotion after 13 years. Notable players from that club were Anselmo Romero, Rafael Lira, Jesús Montes, Eugenio Constantino and Teodoro Orozco.

Year by year statistics

Temporada	GP	GW	D	GL	GS	GA	PTS
1954–1955	22	5	6	11	26	38	16
1955–1956	26	8	6	12	35	43	22
1956–1957	24	12	2	10	38	36	26
1957–1958	26	7	9	10	40	45	23
1958–1959	26	10	7	9	32	32	27
1959–1960	26	10	8	8	43	35	28
1960–1961	26	7	7	12	39	47	21
1961–1962	26	10	5	11	35	47	26
1962–1963	26	8	6	12	32	48	22
1963–1964	26	12	8	6	40	35	32
1964–1965	30	7	9	14	29	46	23
1965–1966	30	11	5	14	41	39	27
1966–1967	30	10	10	10	28	35	30
1967–1968	30	7	11	12	34	41	25
1968–1969	30	7	9	14	38	52	23
1969–1970	30	8	8	14	26	36	24
México 70	28	9	7	12	30	35	25
1970–1971	34	8	13	13	34	53	29
1971–1972	34	2	12	20	26	50	16
Prode 1985	8	1	3	4	8	14	5
México 86'	18	4	9	5	18	21	17
1986–1987	40	9	18	13	45	49	36
1987–1988	38	12	7	19	40	67	31
1988–1989	38	9	14	15	43	57	32
1989–1990	38	10	17	11	38	42	37
1990–1991	38	7	12	19	38	72	26
Invierno 2000	17	6	7	4	28	26	25
Verano 2001	17	3	4	10	27	38	13
Invierno 2001	18	4	7	7	27	26	19
Apertura 2003	19	6	4	9	23	32	22
Clausura 2004	19	6	8	5	23	30	26
Apertura 2008	16	8	6	2	20	6	30
Clausura 2009	16	5	5	6	15	16	20
Apertura 2009 (Liga de Ascenso)	16	10	2	4	28	18	32
Bicentenario 2010 (Liga de Ascenso)	14	5	5	4	20	17	20

Past Kits

First kit evolution

1985

1985 Away

2001

2003

2006

2008

2009

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Adrián Martínez 2 DF Margarito González (on loan from Querétaro F.C.) 3 MF Pedro Javier Jiménez 4 DF Juan Carlos Arellano 5 DF Ezequiel Brítez 6 DF Francisco Razo 7 MF Juan de Dios Hernández 8 MF Jorge Manrique 9 FW Ulises Mendivil (on loan from Club Necaxa) 10 DF Cuauhtemoc Blanco 11 FW Ariel González (Captain) 12 FW José Israel Valadéz

No. Position Player 13 FW Luis Efrén Hernández 14 GK Manuel Gerardo Corona 15 MF Paulo César Chávez (on loan from Club Necaxa) 16 DF Mario Méndez (on loan from Deportivo Toluca F.C.) 17 MF Efraín Cruz 18 MF Esteban Alberto González 19 MF Jonathan Miramontes 20 DF Denis Caniza 21 GK Pedro Hernández (on loan from Club Atlas) 22 MF Ramón Eduardo Arriaga 23 DF Javier Saavedra 26 DF Alessandro Luna 27 FW José Cruz Gutiérrez 28 MF Carlos Pinto (on loan from Querétaro F.C.)

Former players

Carlos Alberto Etcheverry Antonio Mohamed Americo Scatolaro Edson Marcelo de Faria Juvenal Olmos Rónald Gómez Mauricio Solís Edison Méndez

Ninrod Medina Peter Isaacs Kenji Fukuda Fernando Arce Jaime Belmonte Ariel González Fernando Lopez Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales

Aldo Adorno Bernardino Aguilar Aureliano Torres Germán Carty Carlos Miloc Kalusha Bwalya Danilo De Oliveira Silva

Club Honors

• Primera División A: 3

Verano 2000, Verano 2002, Clausura 2011

Runner-up (1): Apertura 2008

• Segunda División: 2

1953–54, 1984–85

References

• Official site