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Club Atlético Morelia is a Mexican professional
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club based in
Morelia Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid; Otomi language, Otomi: ) is a city and municipal seat of the municipalities of Mexico, municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. It is both th ...
,
Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, compose the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The stat ...
, that competes in
Liga de Expansión MX Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Mexico and the second level of the Mexican football league system. It was founded in 2020 as part of the Mexi ...
, the second level division of Mexican football. The club plays their home matches at the
Estadio Morelos Estadio Morelos is a football stadium located along Periférico Independencia, in the Independencia sector, near the base of Cerro del Quinceo in northwest Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. It is the site of professional football teams, it currently ...
. Founded in 1950 as Club Deportivo Morelia, it was one of the founding members of the
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. It changed to its current name in 1974, and then changed its name to Club Monarcas Morelia in 1999. The club was refounded on June 26, 2020, under the same name that the club used from 1974 to 1999. Between 1981 and 2020, the club was a competitor in Mexico's premier football league, achieving victory in the Invierno 2000 championship. On June 2, 2020, Monarcas Morelia was relocated to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and rebranded as
Mazatlán F.C. Mazatlán Futbol Club is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, that competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. The club was established in June 2020 ...
Two weeks later,
Atlético Zacatepec Zacatepec Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club based in Zacatepec, Morelos, that competes in Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football. Founded in 1948 as Club Social y Deportivo Zacatepec by workers of the Mexi ...
was transferred to Morelia, Michoacán, and adopted the name Atlético Morelia in Liga de Expansión MX. On June 11, 2024, Atlético Morelia announced it had acquired the Monarcas Morelia brand, crest, and history, thus reestablishing itself as the original club founded in 1950. Morelia has won the Liga de Expansión championship, in the Clasura 2022 season. It was the clubs second title, in a second division league.


History


Beginnings

In 1950 "Oro Morelia" changed the name to Club Deportivo Morelia. Morelia was among the teams that founded the
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. After the 1956–1957 season, in which they ended up in second place, they were officially promoted into the Primera División to replace
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. After an unsuccessful season, in 1968 Atlético Morelia was relegated back to the Segunda División. During mixed 1968–1971 seasons, C.A. Morelia appointed Nicandro Ortiz as chairman. Ortiz acquired the team and strengthened its position in the league. The July 1974 changes name in Club Atlético Morelia The 1978–1979 season thrust Morelia into contention for promotion; Ortiz acquired the team and strengthened its position in the league, Nicandro Ortiz as chairman in 1980, Atlético Morelia played under manager Diego Malta who helped his team towards the Mexico Championship and finally promotion to the Primera División in 1981. In 1986 before the World Cup in Mexico Atletico Morelia played friendlies against Germany Losing 2-1 and against the URSS again losing 4-1. In 1996 the major broadcast company
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bought the team. In 1999 the club started playing under the name Club Monarcas Morelia. Although the team had played Mexican professional football for 70 years, it had never won a first division tournament until winter 2000, when the club raised the cup after beating
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on penalties. The team was crowned champions away in the Bombonera Stadium. On the day after the victory, a crowd that some estimate at 100 thousand people welcomed the team as it paraded along Morelia's main avenue, Avenida Madero on their way to the stadium where the crowd congregated as the team raised the cup and the fans congratulated the team for its first ever first division trophy. After missing the playoffs for three consecutive tournaments, Morelia finished in third place in the general table in the Apertura 2009. Morelia defeated
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in the first round, 4–2 on aggregate. Morelia was then defeated by
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in a semi-final that was filled with controversy due to Cruz Azul player Joel Huiqui intentionally using his hand to hit the ball away and prevent Morelia midfielder Wilson Tíago from scoring. (Huiqui later played for Morelia.) With a 2–1 aggregate score, Morelia was eliminated. Morelia qualified for the
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by ending in third place in the classification phase. It was the second time that Morelia participated in the Copa Libertadores, the first being in 2002. Morelia was the Runner-up of the Clausura 2011, after a hard-fought final against Pumas. Pumas won the tie 3–2 on aggregate, taking the trophy home. In 2010, Morelia became the
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champion, with a 2–1 victory in the finals over the
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in which
Miguel Sabah Miguel Sabah Rodríguez (born 14 November 1979) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a striker. Throughout his career, he played for Guadalajara, Cruz Azul, Monarcas Morelia, and Club León. Sabah made his debut in the ...
scored both Morelia goals. On November 5, 2013 Monarcas Morelia won their first Copa MX title in a 3–3 match that went to penalties, where they would take the victory. This title also allowed them to participate in the inaugural edition
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, which they won against
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with a global score of 5–4.


Relegation struggles

After 15 years, a dismal 2014–15 campaign left Monarcas as one of the last teams in the relegation table, an aggregate of a club's most recent points totals that decides which teams will be relegated. As a result, Enrique Meza was chosen to be the coach for the
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season. Meza had already saved Morelia before, in the 1995–96 season. After no notable improvement in team performance, Meza was let go from the position of head coach in 2016, with Roberto Hernandez taking over as interim manager. Hernandez's tenure would coincide with the signing of Peruvian forward Raul Ruidiaz on loan from
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. The signing of Ruidiaz would prove to be crucial to the club's fortunes, as he would go on to score 20 goals throughout the 2016-2017 Liga MX season, finishing as top scorer with 11 goals in the Apertura and 9 goals in the Clausura. In the following season, Morelia was in danger of being relegated on the final match day of the Apertura, residing in last place in the relegation table and needing a victory over Monterrey to avoid the drop. Tied 1-1 in injury time, Raul Rudiaz scored a crucial winner that moved them out of the relegation zone, with Jaguares de Chiapas being relegated in their stead. Ruidiaz's goal additionally qualified them for that season's liguilla, its first since the 2016 Clausura.


Relocation

On May 23, 2020, various news outlets in Mexico reported the club would be relocating from Morelia to
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,
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and would be called
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The club's owner,
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, reportedly were asking for $400 million MXN per year from the Government of
Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, compose the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The stat ...
to keep the team in the city. The move was very unpopular among supporters, former players, and the sports media across Mexico. Despite stay-at-home orders due to the
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, over 7,000 fans took to the streets of Morelia to protest the team's move. On June 2, 2020, the club and Liga MX announced the club's relocation to Mazatlán, just two days before the club's 70th anniversary.


Rebirth of Atlético Morelia

On June 26, 2020,
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President Enrique Bonilla announced
Atlético Zacatepec Zacatepec Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club based in Zacatepec, Morelos, that competes in Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football. Founded in 1948 as Club Social y Deportivo Zacatepec by workers of the Mexi ...
would be relocating to Morelia due to financial problems. The next day in a press conference at Estadio Morelos, it was announced the club would be called Club Atlético Morelia, the club's name for over 25 years before
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changed it in 1999. It was announced the ownership group would consist of former
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President José Luis Higuera as well as various businessmen from the state of Michoacán. The ownership group acquired the rights to the club's name and logo, both which were owned by Grupo Salinas.


Badges

;Names Changes *Oro Morelia (1924–1950): Name of the club at its foundation, used in the period before entering professional football. *Club Deportivo Morelia (1950–1972): Official name of the club after reaching the Segunda División. *Club Atlético Morelia (1972–1999): Name assumed after returning from suspension in 1971. *Club Monarcas Morelia (1999–2020): Name assumed two years after acquisition by broadcaster TV Azteca. *Club Atlético Morelia (2020–present): Name assumed after acquisition of the Zacatepec franchise.


Kit

The club's 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'' (
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) 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.


Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors


Stadium

Towards the end of the 1980s it was decided that their stadium (
Estadio Venustiano Carranza Estadio Olimpico Venustiano Carranza is a multi-use stadium in Morelia, Mexico, used mostly for football matches and also for athletics. It was initially used as the stadium of Monarcas Morelia matches. It was replaced by Estadio Morelos when M ...
) 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 Atlético Morelia and
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. 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
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was taking place in
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.


Personnel


Management


Coaching staff


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,
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Moisés Muñoz Moisés Alberto Muñoz Rodríguez (born 1 February 1980) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Muñoz began his career in 1999 with Monarcas Morelia, playing in over 200 matches for the club, before eventually ...
,
Miguel Sabah Miguel Sabah Rodríguez (born 14 November 1979) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a striker. Throughout his career, he played for Guadalajara, Cruz Azul, Monarcas Morelia, and Club León. Sabah made his debut in the ...
, Joel Huiqui,
Adrián Aldrete Adrián Alexei Aldrete Rodríguez (born 14 June 1988) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Club career Morelia Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Aldrete began his football career with Monarcas Morelia as a defen ...
, Enrique Pérez,
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and
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, are some of the players that were called up to the Mexico national team while playing with the team. Raul Ruidiaz was the first Morelia player to achieve a Liga MX top scoring title.


First-team squad


Reserve teams

; :Reserve team that plays in the
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, the third level of the Mexican league system. ;Atlético Morelia-Universidad Michoacana :Reserve team that plays in the
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, the fourth level of the Mexican league system.


World Cup players

The following players were called to represent their country at the
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whilst playing for Morelia: *
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Olympic players

The following players were called to represent their country at the
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whilst playing for Morelia: * Pablo López (
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Top Goalscorers

*Includes top scorers from both Atletico Morelia & Monarcas Morelia *Does not include international competition goals


Honours


National


International


Regional

;Notes: * * shared record


Managers

* Carlos Miloc (1979–80) *
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(1982) * Antonio "Tota" Carbajal (1984–94) *
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(1989–90), (1991–93) * Carlos Miloc (1995–96) *
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(Feb 24, 1996 – June 30, 1996) *
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(Sept 6, 1996 – June 30, 1997) * Eduardo Solari (1997–98) *
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(Oct 27, 2001 – Feb 16, 2002) * Rubén Omar Romano (Feb 24, 2002 – Feb 22, 2004) *
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(Feb 24, 2004 – June 30, 2004) * Eduardo Acevedo (2004–05) *
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(July 1, 2006 – Sept 18, 2006) * Marco Antonio Figueroa (Sept 22, 2006 – June 30, 2007) *
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(July 1, 2007 – Oct 22, 2007) *
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(Oct 22, 2007 – March 16, 2008) *
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(March 17, 2008 – Feb 19, 2009) *
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(Feb 20, 2009 – June 30, 2012) * Rubén Omar Romano (July 1, 2012 – Feb 18, 2013) * Carlos Bustos (Feb 18, 2013 – Jan 26, 2014) *
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(Jan 27, 2014 – March 1, 2014) * R. Hernández ''(interim)'' (March 2, 2014 – March 10, 2014) *
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(May 17, 2015– October 23, 2016) *
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(Dec 2, 2016- Feb 6, 2017) * R. Hernández (Feb 07, 2017– Feb 24, 2019) *
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(Feb 28, 2019 - August 18, 2019) * Pablo Guede (August 18, 2019 - June 1st 2020) *  Ricardo Valiño (June 26, 2020 - May 28, 2022) *
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(May 29, 2022 – February 27, 2023) *
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(February 27, 2023 – October 20, 2023) *
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''(interim)'' (October 20, 2023 – December 5, 2023) *
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(December 5, 2023 – February 21, 2024) * Norberto Scoponi (February 22, 2024 – April 16, 2024) *
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(April 17, 2024 – November 12, 2024) * Nacho Castro (November 18, 2024 – June 2, 2025) *
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(June 9, 2025 – )


See also

* Monarcas Morelia (women)


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morelia Football clubs in Michoacán Association football clubs established in 1924 Liga MX teams 1924 establishments in Mexico Sports team and club relocations Phoenix clubs (association football)