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Club Atlético Morelia 
Full name Club Atlético Morelia Nickname(s) La Monarquia (The Monarchy)
Los Canarios (The Canaries)
Los PurepechasFounded November 21st, 1924 Ground Estadio Morelos
Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
(Capacity: 41,056)Owner TV Azteca Chairman Álvaro Dávila Manager Tomás Boy League Primera División de México Clasura 2011 2nd (league) 
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Current seasonClub Atlético Morelia is a Mexican professional football club based in Morelia, Michoacán currently playing in the Mexican First Division. The team is owned by the TV broadcasting company TV Azteca and plays its home games in Estadio Morelos.
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History
Club Atlético Morelia was founded November 21, 1924, as "Oro Morelia" in Morelia, Michoacán. In 1950, Club Deportivo Morelia is amongst the temas that founded the Segunda División. After the 1956–1957 season, in which they ended up in second place, they are officially promoted into the Primera División to replace Puebla, receiving a designated spot for promotion to the Primera División. After an unsuccessful season, in 1968 Monarcas Morelia was relegated back to the Segunda División. During a mixed 1968–1971 seasons, C.A. Monarcas appointed a new chairman who goes by the name Nicandro Ortiz, who acquired the team and helped the club positively merge and acquisite a strong position in the Primera División A leaderboard. During the same year, the archaic change of the foundation's name was replaced with today's current name, Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia.
1978–1979 season gave Morelia a positive thrust towards contendership, being on a good position for promotion; during the year 1980, Monarcas Morelia played under the direction of general manager Diego Malta who in turn, helped his team towards the Mexican Championship and finally promotion to the Primera División de México in 1981.
In 1996 the major broadcast company TV Azteca bought the team. In 1999, the team changed its name to "Club Atletico Monarcas Morelia" or simply "Monarcas Morelia". Over the years Monarcas Morelia has risen to become one of the main protagonists in the Primera División.
Despite that the team had a history of 70 years playing in Mexican professional soccer the Club Monarcas Morelia had never won a first division tournament. This changed on a day in Winter 2000, when the club raised the cup after beating the Club Toluca in a series of penalty kicks. Unfortunately and because the final is played in two stadiums Morelia was crowned in the Bombonera Stadium and not in Morelia. The Morelos Stadium has never seen its team actually winning the final. The day after the victory a crowd which some estimate was of 100 thousand people welcomed the team as it parade it through Morelia's main avenue avenida Madero. Later they arrived to the stadium where the crowd congregated as the team raised the cup and all the fans congratulated the team for their first ever championship in first division.
Monarcas Morelia has played three other finals (Clausura 2002, Apertura 2003,Clausura 2011) which they lost to Toluca and Monterrey and last to Pumas respectively.
Tomás Boy was hired as their new mangager in February 2009, replacing Luis Fernando Tena.
After missing the playoffs for three straight tournaments, Morelia ended up in third place in there general table in the Apertura 2009. Morelia defeated Santos Laguna in the first round in a 4–2 aggregate. Morelia was defeated by Cruz Azul in a semi-final that was filled with controversy because Cruz Azul player Joel Huiqui intentionally used his hand to hit the ball away and prevent Morelia midfielder Wilson Tíago to score. Ironically Joel Huiqui now plays with Monarcas Morelia. With a 2–1 aggregate score, Morelia was eliminated. Morelia qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores by ending up in third place in the classification phase. It will be the second time that Morelia will participate in the Copa Libertadores, they last appeared in 2002. Morelia is the Runner-up of the Clausura 2011, after a hard fought final. Pumas won with a 3–2 aggregate, taking the trophy home.
Morelia is the 2010 SuperLiga champion, with a victory in the finals over the New England Revolution 2–1 in which Miguel Sabah scored both goals.
Clubs Kit
The clubs colors are generated from the city's flag which are yellow and red, which are the same colors in the Spanish flag, because the city is a novohispana city.
In the club's beginnings the club went under the name of Oro and were known as the canarios (canary) until 1999 when the club changed its name to Monarcas, due to the 3 monarchs found in the city's flag, which has been used from its foundation.
Badges
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First Badge 1924–1972
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Second badge 1973–1982
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Third Badge 1983–1999
Stadium
Monarcas Morelia Stadium Estadio Morelos
Towards the end of the 1980s it was decided that their stadium (Estadio Venustiano Carranza) was lacking capacity and that a new stadium with a greater number of seats needed to be constructed. On April 9, 1989, after several construction delays, Stadium Jose Maria Morelos and Pavón (located on the outskirts of the Quinceo mountain) was opened, and the inaugural game was between Atletico Morelia and Club America (who are Morelia's main rivals). The stadium has an official capacity of 45,000, although on inauguration in 1989 it is estimated that more than 50,000 were in attendance. Morelia won the match with the score 2–1. In 2011, the stadium was given a new look, seeing as the FIFA U-17 World Cup was taking place in Mexico.
Players
Morelia has had some notable players in their history. Marco Antonio Figueroa is the club's all-time leading scorer with 130 goals. Adolfo Bautista, Rafael Márquez Lugo, Moisés Muñoz, Miguel Sabah, Adrian Aldrete, and Elias Hernandez,Miguel Sabah are some of the players that were called up to the Mexican national team while playing with the team.
Current squad
Squad
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 Carlos Felipe Rodríguez 2 DF Enrique Pérez 3 
GK Federico Vilar (captain) 5 DF Mauricio Romero 6 
MF Ernest Nungaray 7 FW Rafael Márquez Lugo 8 MF Jorge Gastélum 9 FW Miguel Sabah 10 
FW Joao Rojas (on loan from Independiente) 11 FW Luis Alonso Sandoval 13 FW Miguel Sansores 14 MF Luis Miguel Noriega 15 DF Felipe Ayala No. Position Player 16 DF Adrián Aldrete 17 MF Yasser Corona 18 MF Damián Manso (on loan from Chiapas) 19 MF Manuel Pérez (on loan from Monterrey) 20 FW Ángel Sepúlveda 21 MF Jaime Lozano (on loan from Cruz Azul) 22 DF Diego Jiménez (on loan from Tecos) 23 MF Édgar Lugo 24 DF Marvin Cabrera 28 
MF Aldo Ramírez 33 DF Joel Huiqui 34 FW Luis Ángel Landín Out on loan
No. Position Player DF Jesús Castillo (loan to Chiapas) DF Ever Guzmán (loan to Atlante) DF Fernando Salazar (loan to León) DF Omar Trujillo (loan to Celaya) No. Position Player MF Ignacio Carrasco (loan to Correcaminos UAT) MF Jaime Durán (loan to Puebla) MF Eder Morales (loan to Celaya) FW Luis Gabriel Rey (loan to Chiapas) Notable former players
This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.
- Jorge Almiron
- Damián Álvarez
- Ángel Comizzo
- Darío Franco
- Ariel Garcé
- Sergio Verdirame
Alex- Wilson Tiago
Hugo Droguett- Marco Antonio Figueroa
- Aníbal González
- David Henriquez
- Reinaldo Navia
- Jaime Patricio Ramírez
- Jaime Vera
- Juan Carlos Vera
- José Luis Villanueva
- Mauricio Molina
- Ramón Morales
- Moisés Muñoz
- José Antonio Noriega
- Johan Rodríguez
- Fernando Salazar
- Mariano Trujillo
- Omar Trujillo
- Miguel Zepeda
Andrés Mendoza- Roberto Palacios
- Cle Kooiman
- Jorge Salcedo
Gabriel Alvez- Carlos Miloc
Honours
Domestic
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- Invierno 2000
- Runner-up (3): Apertura 2002, Clausura 2003, Clausura 2011
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- 1981
- Copa Pachuca: 1
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- 2001
- Runner-up (1): 1999
- Copa Mexico: 0
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- Runner-up (1): 1964–65
International
- Superliga: 1
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- 2010
- CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 0
References
- ^ "Monarcas Morelia squad". Femexfut.org.mx. http://femexfut.org.mx/portalv2/secciones.aspx?s=913. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ^ "Monarcas Morelia squad". Fuerzamonarcas.com.mx. http://www.fuerzamonarca.com/monarcas4.0/aspnet/PrimerEPlantel.aspx?Sub=Equi. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
- ^ "Morelia squad". Fuerzamonarcas.com.mx. http://www.mediotiempo.com/equipo/morelia&id_liga=1. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
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