Club de Fútbol Pachuca , also C.F. Pachuca , or usually simply Pachuca , is a Mexican football team based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, and competes in the Mexican Primera División. It is the oldest professional football club in Mexico. In the last ten years, the club has been one of the most successful clubs in Mexico, winning five national championships, three CONCACAF Champions' Cup, the 2007 SuperLiga and one Copa Sudamericana in 2006. Pachuca was the first Mexican team to win in a CONMEBOL tournament. Pachuca has played La Primera División since 1998 after decades of being an irregular team that spent most of the time between the 1st and 2nd level leagues in Mexico.

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Honours

National

Amateur Era

• Campeonato del Distrito Federal: 3
• * 1904-1905, 1917-1918, 1919-1920

Professional Era

• Primera División de México

:Winners (5): Invierno 1999, Invierno 2001, Apertura 2003, Clausura 2006, Clausura 2007.

• Primera División A

:Winners (2): 1995-1996, Invierno 1998.

• Segunda División de México Cup

:Winner: 1965-1966.

• Segunda División B de México

:Winner: 1987-1988.

International

• Copa Nissan Sudamericana

:Winner: 2006.

• CONCACAF Champions' Cup

:Winners (3): 2002, 2007, 2008.

• North American SuperLiga

:Winner: 2007. FIFA World Cup Club Finished: 4th Place

Other Tournaments

• '''Copa Tower
• * 1907-08, 1911-12
• Copa Pachuca: 3
• * 2000, 2004, 2009
• Carlsberg Cup
• * 2008
• Copa Amistad
• * 2008

History

thumb Cornish emigrant miners working for the Compañía Real del Monte y Pachuca , founded the "Pachuca Athletic Club" in 1901. It is the oldest football team in Mexico and one of the oldest in America.

Originally, they practised football only as a pastime during the free time they had while working at the mines. On July 19, 1907 the Primera División de México was founded with Pachuca as one of the founding members.

In the 1908 season, a Mexican born player, David Islas, appears for the first time in the ranks of the team.

From 1910 to 1912, the Revolución Mexicana decimates professional football in Mexico and only three clubs remained, Pachuca being one of them.

By 1915, most of the players on the team were Mexicans.

From 1917 to 1920, Pachuca is champion of the league under British coach Alfred C. Crowle.

Pachuca goes into hiatus during the 1920-1921 Season when most of its players move to Mexico City.

Many years passed by until a second division Segunda División team was reassembled.

In 1967 the team is crowned champion of the Segunda División and is able to move up to the Primera División. The team fares poorly and returns to the Segunda División in the early 1970s. The "Tuzos" would have to wait 19 years before being able to return to the Primera División in the 1992-1993 season, where they would struggle to remain and were relegated at the end of that same season.

The loss of prestige of the Segunda División causes a new division of play to be created. The Primera División A is created in 1994 and the team is a sensation. However, they are unable to crown their efforts and fall to Atlético Celaya in an overtime final.

In the 1995-1996 season, the team becomes champion of the Primera "A" tournament and is promoted to the Primera División.

The team struggles yet again, and returns to the Primera División "A" once more. After the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación splits the calendar into two half-length tournaments, Pachuca becomes champion of the Winter tournament. After defeating Tigrillos in the promotion final, once again, Pachuca returns to the Primera División.

In the 1998-1999 season, the team breaks its own bad streak by defeating Atlante in the Estadio Azteca in front of 30,000 people and avoid returning to the Primera División "A" and for the first time in 30 years remaining in the top league for two consecutive years under coach Javier Aguirre.

In the winter tournament of 1999, Pachuca makes history by crowning itself for the first time since the league become professional. They defeat Cruz Azul in the second leg of the final playoff. Javier Aguirre leads an unexpected team to victory, which culminated with a golden goal scored by Argentinian striker Alejandro Glaria who used his inner thigh to push the ball into the net.

Repeatedly interviewed during quarterfinals and semifinals, Aguirre declared that he never expected to get so far, and originally expected to be on vacation by that point.

As a result of their conquest, the team is invited to participate in the now defunct Copa Merconorte.

With a strong effort from the organization, they manage to keep 85% of the original championship team and by 2001, the "Tuzos", again under Javier Aguirre, are finalists in the summer tournament. They fall to Santos Laguna in the Estadio Corona in Torreon, Coahuila.

During that season, the team lost one of its biggest figures when Pablo Hernán Gómez was killed in a car accident on January 29, 2001.

By the end of 2001, Javier Aguirre is chosen by Femexfut to coach the Mexican national football team which found itself at risk of not qualifying for the FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. The team selects Alfredo Tena to be the new coach. Tena leads the team to the 2001 Winter Tournament Finals where they face UANL in the Estadio Universitario and conquer their second league title.

2001 was also a celebration year for the team. It became the first Mexican professional football team to reach 100 years of existence. The team organized a large number of special events, among them the inauguration of a university with a curriculum that revolves entirely around football related fields Universidad del Fútbol .

In 2003, the team captured yet another championship, again against UANL, and again in their stadium. This time, the coach was Víctor Manuel Vucetich.

In its recent history, Pachuca has become a team to be respected in Mexican football and is nicknamed "El Equipo de México" (Mexico's Team).

Between 2003 and 2006 the team devoted more attention to social and marketing issues and failed to make the playoffs during two consecutive seasons. President Jesús Martínez however, vowed that the team would return to be among the headliners of the Primera División.

As a result, Pachuca won the Clausura 2006 championship in a final against San Luis after having an exceptional season which saw it finish in 1st place of the general standings. It was the first time that Pachuca won the championship by playing the return match in its home stadium. Consequently, Pachuca is the first qualifier to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2007, and defeated Guadalajara in the final.

Pachuca on May 27, 2007 won their 5th domestic title, in a final that was disputed against America, in winning this championship Pachuca has won 4 trophies in the past 17 months, 2 domestic exactly one year apart, and two international championships The Copa Sudamericana and the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. In winning Pachuca will have the honor of defending their Champions' Cup title during the 2008 Champions' Cup Tournament.

On July 31, 2007, Pachuca entered into a with the in the USA. The alliance will include a home-and-home annual series between the clubs, an exchange of best business practices, and the establishment of the at , which was officially launched on Oct. 1, 2007. The move established the Rapids as Pacucha's official partner club in the United States, in a move designed for promotion of both on the field development, player exchanges, and business incentives for both clubs on either side of the border.

A recent title is the "SuperLiga" trophy, a tournament between teams from the Mexican League and Major League Soccer from the United States. Pachuca beat the Los Angeles Galaxy in penalty kicks (4-3) after tying 1-1 after overtime. The main prize besides the trophy was a million dollars to the winner. With this, Pachuca added its 5th tournament victory in 15 months. The CONCACAF awarded Pachuca, 2007 CONCACAF Team of the Year for their 5 titles in 15 months.

With the victory over Guadalajara, Pachuca claimed a spot in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup, scheduled for December 7-December 16 2007. They were knocked out by their first rival in the tournament, CAF champions Étoile Sportive du Sahel from Tunisia on December 8.

On April, 2008, Pachuca reclaimed the CONCACAF Champions Cup and secured a berth for the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup scheduled for December 2008 in Japan.

Recently, Pachuca has been developing an outstanding youth program including several young players (most of them under 16), this proposal involves a football training camp during summer. The club is not willing to release any names yet, but some press found out the most notable players included: José Ramón Velázquez from Puebla, Mexico, Alberto Madero, from Monterrey, and Yosgart Musquiz.

Copa Sudamericana

In December, 2006, Pachuca played its first continental championship game ever, facing Colo Colo from Chile. The first leg ended in a 1-1 draw, and in the return game, played in Chile, Pachuca won the Copa Sudamericana championship by a score of 2-1. Pachuca's goals for the title were made at first, by their symbol Gabriel Caballero and in an excellent play Chitiva gave the ball to Christian "El Chaco" Giménez who scored the "Golden Goal" for their greatest conquer in their history.

In doing so, Pachuca became the first Mexican team and CONCACAF team to win a CONMEBOL championship. Pachuca is also the only team in the world to have won a club competition in a Confederation outside of its own.

Current Squad

As of January 18,2009 ^[1]

No. Position Player 1 {{flagicon Miguel Calero 2 {{flagicon Leobardo López 4 {{flagicon Marco Iván Pérez 5 {{flagicon Gregorio Torres 6 {{flagicon Jaime Correa (footballer) 7 {{flagicon Damián Ariel Álvarez 8 {{flagicon Gabriel Caballero 9 {{flagicon Ulises Mendivil 10 {{flagicon Edgar Benítez 11 {{flagicon Juan Carlos Cacho 12 {{flagicon Juan Carlos Rojas 13 {{flagicon Eder Cruz 15 {{flagicon Luis Montes 16 {{flagicon Carlos Gerardo Rodriguez

No. Position Player 18 {{flagicon José Francisco Torres 19 {{flagicon Christian Giménez (1981) 21 {{flagicon Damián Manso 22 {{flagicon Paul Nicolás Aguilar 23 {{flagicon Carlos Velázquez 24 {{flagicon Raúl Martínez (footballer) 26 {{flagicon Javier Muñoz Mustafá 27 {{flagicon Edy Germán Brambila 29 {{flagicon Víctor Mañon 43 {{flagicon Braulio Godínez 79 {{flagicon Fernando Leonel Cortés 92 {{flagicon Rodolfo Cota

Notable players

Mexico: Alberto Rodríguez Francisco Gabriel de Anda Marcelino Bernal Sergio Santana Jaime Correa Fausto Pinto Juan Carlos Cacho Leobardo López Jared Borgetti Antonio Torres Servín Ismael Herrera Rafael Márquez Lugo Joel Huiqui Luis Ángel Landín Gerardo Rodríguez Octavio Valdéz Ulises Mendivil Cesareo Victorino Gabriel Caballero Jesús Palacios Juan Pablo Alfaro Argentina: Christian Giménez Damián Álvarez Pablo Hernán Gómez Ignacio González Eduardo Fuentes Alejandro Glaría Walter Silvani Javier Muñoz Mustafá Bruno Marioni Guillermo Rivarola Bolivia: Carlos Trucco

Brazil: Christian Corrêa Dionisio Claudio Da Silva Chile: Rodrigo Pérez Rodrigo Ruiz Colombia: Luis Gabriel Rey Andrés Chitiva Miguel Ángel Calero Aquivaldo Mosquera Franky Oviedo Costa Rica Hernán Medford Rolando Fonseca Roy Myers Ecuador: Iván Hurtado Honduras Milton "Tyson" Núñez Panama Blas Perez Paraguay Julio César Manzur Nelson Cuevas Hugo Brizuela Edgar Benítez Jose Saturnino Cardozo Dario Veron Uruguay Richard Núñez Hernán Rodrigo López Gabriel Álvez Venezuela: Juan Arango

Notable managers

Mexico: Javier Aguirre Enrique Meza José Luis Trejo Alfredo Tena Víctor Manuel Vucetich Bolivia: Carlos Trucco Argentina: Andrés Fassi Rubén Omar Romano

Most League Appearances

	Gabriel Caballero	284
	Miguel Calero	276
	Jaime Correa	253
	Alberto Rodríguez	245
	Andres Chitiva	230
	Gabriel De Anda	176
	Manuel Vidrio	165
	Sergio Santana	157
	Octavio Valdez	154
	Fausto Pinto	152
	Juan Carlos Cacho	123
	Cesáreo Victorino	121
	Marco Garces	117
	Alfonso Sosa	116

Most League Minutes Played

1	Miguel Calero	24,511
2	Gabriel Caballero	22,224
3	Alberto Rodríguez	21,619
4	Jaime Correa	21,173
5	Andrés Chitiva	16,719
6	Francisco Gabriel De Anda	15,429
7	Octavio Valdez	14,228
8	Manuel Vidrio	13,630
9	Fausto Pinto	12,125
10	Sergio Santana	9,832
11	Alfonso Sosa	9,194

Most Sub Appearances

1	Juan Carlos Cacho	59
2	Marinho Ledesma	53
3	Cesáreo Victorino	39
4	Damian Alvarez	32
5	Andrés Chitiva	31
6	Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez	30
7	Gabriel Caballero	29
8	Luis Montes	29
9	Gerardo Mascareno	28
10	Luis Ángel Landín	27

Most Career League Goals

Christian Gimenez	92	2	Gabriel Caballero	49
3	Juan Carlos Cacho	41
4	Sergio Santana	38
5	Andrés Chitiva	34
6	Christian Gimenez	31
7	Lorenzo Saez	28
8	Alejandra Glaria	23
9	Francisco Gabriel De Anda	21
10	Nelson Cuevas	16
11	Damián Álvarez	16

Most Career League Assists

1	Gabriel Caballero	38
2	Damian Alvarez	26
3	Andrés Chitiva	23
4	Christian Giménez	19
5	Octavio Valdez	13
6	Hernán Medford	12
7	Alberto Rodríguez	12
8	Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez	11
9	Cesareo Victorino	10
10	Juan Carlos Cacho	7

Most Career League Yellow Cards

1	Andrés Chitiva	71
2	Jaime Correa	56
3	Manuel Vidrio	50
4	Francisco Gabriel De Anda	46
5	Gabriel Caballero	41
6	Alberto Rodríguez	32
7	Alfonso Sosa	30
8	Fausto Pinto	29
9	Marco Garcés	28
10	Miguel Calero	27

Most Career League Red Cards

1	Manuel Vidrio	10
2	Alberto Rodríguez	6
3	Jaime Correa	5
4	Fausto Pinto	5
5	Marco Garcés	5
6	Andrés Chitiva	4
7	Israel Velázquez	4
8	Alfonso Sosa	3
9	Miguel Calero	3
10	Marco Sánchez Yacuta	3

References

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