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71-496: After winning the 2010 Apertura Tournament of the Mexican Promotion League, the club obtained the right to play in the promotion final against C.D. Irapuato , which it defeated to obtain promotion to play the 2011 Apertura Tournament . The team won the first title in its history in the 2012 Apertura Tournament of Liga MX. The club is the 2nd latest in a long line of league teams in the city of Tijuana. Gallos Caliente

142-439: A hobby to the football aficionado Jorge Hank Rhon , has now been projected as a business and institution with many ambitions by his son Jorge Alberto Hank Inzunza, President of Club Tijuana, and co-owner Alberto Murguia Orozco . The president has announced several times in press conferences that the project is far bigger than a stadium and a First Division team. The institutional plan involves football schools and clinics throughout

213-495: A reserve and little by little he earned a place as a starter in the team; However, the popularity of "Caballo" reached its peak when Deportivo Toluca beat a Spanish club called Euskadi with four goals from Mendoza on June 16, 1939. The triumph of Deportivo Toluca against the Spanish surprised everyone and raised the pride of Deportivo; This was mainly due to the fact that Deportivo Toluca did not participate in any renowned tournament and

284-578: A result of 2–1. Thus Tijuana replaced the Necaxa as the new Primera Division Team in Mexico. Kicking off their inaugural season in the Primera Division, Tijuana signed José Sand , Leandro Augusto , Fernando Arce , Egidio Arévalo and Dayro Moreno would move to Tijuana for a fee of US$ 3.5 m. during summer 2011. Tijuana opened the 2011–12 season with a 2–1 home loss to Morelia . American Joe Corona scored

355-456: A run to the quarter-finals before falling to Atlético Mineiro . The Estadio Caliente, a multi-use stadium in Tijuana, Baja California, was officially inaugurated on November 11, 2007, in a game between Club Tijuana and Pumas Morelos . The attendance was 13,333, then the stadium capacity. In July 2009, the capacity was increased to 16,000. Stadium owner Jorge Hank Rhon's main reason for constructing

426-509: A surprising third place. In Deportivo Toluca's third and final campaign in the Second Division; Mr. David Albiter presents his resignation to the board and is replaced by Tomás Fábregas. The team was reinforced with the arrivals of Ovidio Arnauda, Salvador Rábago, Rubén Pichardo and Trino. The kickoff of the championship was given by Miss Elsa Maawad before an impressive crowd; The scarlet fans began to become increasingly noticeable, following

497-553: Is a Mexican association football club based in Toluca , State of Mexico . The club plays in Liga MX , the top-flight of Mexican football , from which they have never been relegated . The team was founded on February 12, 1917, by the brothers Manuel Blas and Francisco Juan Henkel Bross, owners of the farm "La Huerta" located in Zinacantepec near of Toluca City. Its headquarters are located in

568-578: The Liga de Ascenso , the second-level football league of Mexico . It consists of two separate tournaments, the Apertura and the Clausura . The winners of both tournaments will meet in a playoff to determine the team being promoted to the 2011–12 Primera Division de Mexico season. The Apertura tournament began on July, 16th 2010 with the first matches of the classification phase and ended on December, 4th 2010 with

639-413: The 1956–57 and 1957-58 seasons, Deportivo Toluca reaffirmed its good streak, achieving two runners-up finishes below Club Deportivo Guadalajara and Club Zacatepec respectively. However, a black page appears in the history of the club with the death of Don Luis Gutiérrez Dosal, on June 24, 1959, leaving Enrique Enríquez, a close collaborator of Gutiérrez Dosal, as provisional president. In that same year, at

710-429: The 2012 Clasura. Behind the league's top defense (allowing just eleven goals in 17 matches), Tijuana finished with seven wins and seven draws against just three defeats and earned their first playoff berth in the top flight, where they would fall to Monterrey . Xolos would continue their strong defense in the 2012–13 Liga MX season. In the 2012 Apertura, Xolos allowed joint-fewest goals with 15 while finishing tied atop

781-682: The Apertura Liguilla final. The final was won by Tijuana , who defeated Veracruz 3–0 on aggregate. The Clausura tournament began on January, 7th 2011 and ended on May, 14th 2011. The final was won by Irapuato , who defeated Tijuana . The following week, Apertura champion Tijuana defeated Clausura champion Irapuato in a playoff to determine the team promoted to the 2011–12 Liga MX season. That playoff took place on 18 May 2011 and May, 21st 2011. Source: FeMexFut Deportivo Toluca F.C. Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club S.A. de C.V. also known as Club Deportivo Toluca ,

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852-679: The Clausura 2011 of the Liga de Ascenso was between Tijuana and Irapuato . The first leg was played on Wednesday May 11 in Tijuana's stadium. The game finished 1–1. The second leg played was in Irapuato, in the Estadio Sergio León Chavez . Irapuato won the game 1–0, being crowned champion of the Clausura 2011 afterwards. With the Tijuana having won the Apertura 2010 title, the Promotion Final

923-677: The Club. Faced with this situation, the then president of Deportivo Toluca, Ignacio Longares, decided to increase the shares of his shareholders, causing discouragement in many of them, who chose to sell their shares to Longares himself. In 1943, the professional era of the First Mexican Division began, made up of 5 teams from the Federal District (América, Marte, España, Atlante and Asturias), 3 from Veracruz (Veracruz, Orizaba and Moctezuma ) and 2 from Guadalajara (Atlas and Guadalajara). During

994-551: The Federal District Reserve League, losing its inaugural match by a thunderous score of 10-0 against Red Star; However, Deportivo Toluca was able to overcome its shaky start and finished the tournament in third place, only below Real España and Club América. During this stage, Deportivo Toluca obtained its last title in the Mexican State Championship, with the “Tivoli” facilities as its headquarters on

1065-497: The Ferrat family home and in the "La Valenciana" store, around the creation of a team that would represent the city in the state and national leagues. There were many meetings in which Román Ferrat Alday, Fernando and Armando Mañón, Alfonso Faure, José Estrada Madrid, Raymundo Pichardo, Joaquín Lajous, Arnulfo García Daniel Valero, Manuel Henkel, Flavio Martínez, Filiberto Navas and José Placencia participated. Finally, on February 12, 1917,

1136-568: The Mexican Football Federation, where it was ruled that no action would be taken against Xoloitzcuintles De Caliente or its parent company. Source: Liga MX Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Club Tijuana (Women) , founded in 2014, that participated in

1207-595: The Mexican Second Division, implementing the mandatory relegation of the team that finished last in the First Division. and at the same time, the promotion of the champion team in the Second Division. The Major League published a call, with a series of requirements for teams interested in entering the Second Division. The Deportivo Toluca board began to meet the requirements imposed by the Major League, however

1278-537: The Red Sharks of Veracruz in second place, who were strong favorites to win the title and set a series of records that are still remembered. The Toluca Sports Club finally obtained its promotion after 36 years of its foundation, however having achieved promotion resulted in increased expenses for the board due to the demands of the Mexican Federation increasing and also the sporting issues that required strengthening

1349-579: The US-based Women's Premier Soccer League in the summer and in the Liga Mayor Femenil in the winter. In their first year, they finished in the middle of the competitive Pac-South division of WPSL before becoming Mexican national champions. Since 2017 participates in the Liga MX Femenil . 2010%E2%80%9311 Liga de Ascenso season The 2010–11 Ascenso MX season is the second season of

1420-729: The Xolos had during the regular tournament permitted them to pass to the final against the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz . In the first leg the "Xolos" had a surprise win 0–2 in the Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente in Veracruz, while in their field they won again 1–0 and this way Tijuana obtained half a ticket towards the Mexican football maximum circuit, the Primera División Mexicana. The final of

1491-597: The charter of Deportivo Toluca was drawn up in the Ferrat-Solá family home, located at number #37 on Juárez Avenue; forming a board of directors that was joined by personalities such as Leonardo and Joaquín Sánchez, Abel Moreno and Manuel Lara. However, the founding document of the Toluca Sports Club was lost with the beginnings of the Revolution that hit Mexico at that time and was never recovered. The objective of turning

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1562-582: The city of Toluca , State of Mexico , playing its home games at the Estadio Nemesio Díez . Toluca has won Liga MX 10 times, making it the third most winning team, behind Club América (15) and Guadalajara (12). Besides this, the team has also won two Copa MX being the seventh most winning team and two CONCACAF Champions League making the fifth most winning team. The club also won the Campeón de Campeones de Primera División de México four times being

1633-482: The club sought to give more benefits to its members not only in the area of soccer, but also in basketball, tennis, racquetball and casino games. However, with the incursion into new sports, most of the members neglected soccer, which was only covered by Jesús Piña and Fernando Barreto. By 1931 and after having achieved a well-deserved third place in the Central Federation championship; Deportivo Toluca returned to

1704-424: The club's first top-flight goal in the defeat. They would earn their first victory as a top-flight club in a 3–1 victory at Santos Laguna on August 6; however, after five consecutive home matches without a victory manager Joaquin del Olmo was sacked and replaced by Antonio Mohamed . After having finished the 2011 Apertura with just three wins against nine draws and five losses, Tijuana would have more success in

1775-509: The confrontation of Deportivo Toluca against Libertad of Costa Rica since it represented the first international duel in the history of the Scarlets. Players like Rodolfo Muñoz, Goldoni and Hutt stand out in the match. In 1935, players such as David Albiter, Carlos Ballesteros, Alberto Mendoza and Samuel Martínez García appeared, who would be a fundamental key to the team's promotion to the First Division. In 1936, Fernando Torres became president and

1846-671: The consolidation of the Mexican Second Division would take three more years due to the merger of the Major League and the Mexican Soccer Federation, which took place between 1948 and 1950. The last team of Deportivo Toluca in the Reserves Tournament held at the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium, was made up of Porfirio Peña, Edid Isaac, Ricardo Barreto, Santiago Ramírez, Juan Moya, Miguel Vélez, José Luis Zavalla, Alfredo Becerril, Francisco García, Álvaro Pineda and Felipe Galindo. With

1917-449: The desire to entertain their farmhands during their free hours; Some time later, they launched the official creation of the "La Huerta" team, made up of the hacienda's workers. Another of the main promoters of soccer in the city of Toluca was Román Ferrat Alday, who met every Sunday with a group of friends to practice soccer on some land near Alameda Central. On his part, the Henkel family used

1988-546: The direction of Ignacio Trelles. At the end of the 1966-1967 Season, Club Deportivo Toluca competed for the title of Champion of Champions against Club León; one of the most winning teams of the time, with 4 titles, 2 cups and 2 Champion of Champions. The match was held on February 26, 1967 and Club Deportivo Toluca managed to beat the Leonese team, with a solitary goal from Manuel Cerda Canela. The Toluca Sports Club achieved its first Champion of Champions title, more than responding to

2059-450: The end of the 1953-54 season of the First Division of Mexico Deportivo Toluca achieved fifth place, tying with Club Deportivo Tampico FC and only three points behind the champion who turned out to be Club Deportivo Marte. For the 1954-55 season, Deportivo Toluca finished sixth in the general table and as a consequence it was decided to hire Fernando Marcos González in the technical direction and Gonzalo Iturbe, Gabriel Uñate, Jesús Segovia and

2130-583: The field called “Patria” located between Aurelio J. Venegas, Morelos Poniente, Felipe Villanueva and Constituciónntes streets, exactly where the Nemesio Díez Stadium is located today, known as "La Bombonera" in Toluca for its similarity to a "box of chocolates." The popularity and desire of many teams to enter the First Division motivated the Major Soccer League to begin preparations for the creation of

2201-705: The fourth edition of the Concacaf Champions Cup began, with as participants Club Deportivo Toluca (Mexican Champion), New York Greek-American (United States Champion), Somerset CC ( Champion of Bermuda), Scherpenheuvel (Champion of the Netherlands Antilles), SV Transvaal (Champion of Suriname), Aurora FC (Champion of Guatemala), Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (Champion of Costa Rica), Club Deportivo Olimpia (Champion of Honduras) and Alianza (Champion of El Salvador). Club Deportivo Toluca debuted on September 29, 1968, defeating New York Greek-American 4 to 1 and 3 to 2 in

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2272-473: The goalkeeper Manuel Camacho as reinforcements for the campaign in which the red team finished in fourth place overall. The first title for the institution would be a Mexico Cup that would come in the year 1956, when Club Deportivo Toluca defeated Club Irapuato on May 27, 1956 with a final score of two goals to one with players like Manuel Camacho, Segovia, Jorge Romo, Hernández, Máximo Vázquez, Wedell, Enrique Sesma, Blanco, Uñate, Carlos Láscarez and Barraza. In

2343-487: The ground and lower sections of the stadium. In the second phase, the stadium's capacity was increased. Club Xoloitzcuintles added 4,000 seats to its home field of Estadio Caliente, pushing its capacity to 20,000, according to the team's management. The team also remodeled the players’ dressing rooms and resurfaced the dirt parking lot with a stone surface. Among the construction projects is the installation of stadium lights, which should not be an issue. What first seemed to be

2414-477: The head of a club in the Primera División de México. The team obtained its first title in the Apertura 2010 tournament, after having finished as general leader during the regular tournament, which gave them a direct pass to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals the Xolos faced Albinegros de Orizaba . In both semifinal legs, the Xolos and Albinegros finished 0–0, with the aggregate score 0–0 too. The position that

2485-455: The highest league of play in the country. Its accumulated record positions it as the fifth most successful team in Mexican association football, with a total of 18 official titles. Soccer in Toluca came with the idea of the German brothers Manuel and Francisco Henkel, owners of the "La Huerta" hacienda located in Zinacantepec near the city of Toluca. The Henkels implemented soccer on the farm, with

2556-413: The inspiration of the Toluca Sports Club for its nickname of the "red devils"). "); However, it was not specified whether the players had been loaned or had been acquired as reinforcements for the club. With the end of the Revolution, the country entered into crisis and many shareholders of Deportivo Toluca were forced to emigrate from the Mexican capital. With this, Deportivo Toluca entered into crisis and

2627-518: The leader of each group having to face each other in a final. Group A was made up of Atlante, América, Guadalajara, León, Monterrey, Pachuca, Puebla, Torreón and Veracruz, and Group B was made up of Atlas, Cruz Azul, Jalisco, Laguna, Irapuato, Necaxa, Toluca, Pumas and Zacatepec. Deportivo Toluca finished as leader of Group B and played the final against a powerful América, leader of Group A. The first match took place in La Bombonera on June 25, 1971 with

2698-399: The newly formed Segunda División; having as its official headquarters the “Tivoli” field and Rodolfo Butch Muñoz as technical director and David Albiter as his assistant. The tournament concluded on May 27 and the champions turned out to be those of Club Zacatepec who were promoted to the First Division to take the place of Club San Sebastian; For its part, Deportivo Toluca was not successful in

2769-482: The newly formed team, acquiring land located on Colón Avenue (today Paseo Colón) where the first official headquarters of Deportivo Toluca was established, which consisted of a small soccer field. And some wooden stands with a covered section to protect the ladies who attended the game. In 1919, the land of the so-called "Gachupines Dam" located on the streets of Vasco de Quiroga, Hidalgo poniente, Aurelio Venegas and Buenaventura Merlín, which were owned by Francisco Negrete,

2840-468: The next two years, the Federation began to receive new applications to join the league, so teams such as León, Oro de Jalisco, Puebla, Monterrey, San Sebastián and Tampico joined. In 1945, Mr. Samuel Martínez García became president, who soon became identified with Deportivo, with whom he won the Mexican State Championship that same year. After winning the championship, Deportivo Toluca was invited to play in

2911-595: The professional era for Toluca began in 1950, 33 years after its foundation, becoming one of the founding teams of the Segunda División de México and the third team with the most seasons in Mexican First Division. And the third team with the most seasons in the Mexican First Division. It is, along with the Cruz Azul and Pumas UNAM , one of few clubs in Mexico to have never been relegated once being promoted to

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2982-430: The region, including San Diego and Los Angeles, professional football training, talent recruitment squads; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd division affiliates; foundations and green campaigns, and a heavily invested commercial complex. Controversy surrounded the lease, because the team would have ties to a company whose major business is that of betting on sports events, including football . The case was presented to high authorities in

3053-460: The season and finished in penultimate place in the general table. For the following season, two more teams join the Second Division, while Club Deportivo Toluca carries out a restructuring of its board of directors, with Engineer José Martínez Ruíz becoming president. Other personalities who made up the new sports board were Manuel Zárate as treasurer (later replaced by Artero González), and Fernando Barreto, Samuel Martínez and Jesús Piña as members of

3124-400: The season as last overall. The long-awaited promotion finally took place on January 18, 1953 with a three-goal draw against Club Deportivo Irapuato with a double score from Rubén Pichardo and one from the tournament's top scorer Mateo de la Tijera; finally establishing themselves as champions at the end of the tournament. The title obtained by the Toluca Sports Club gained importance by leaving

3195-476: The second leg held on October 6, however, the tournament did not end successfully after the disqualifications of Aurora FC and SV Transvaal, so Club Deportivo Toluca was declared champion. In 1970, after the World Cup, the Mexican Football Federation changed the way the tournaments were played; The 18 teams were divided into 2 groups and at the end a league was played to determine the champion. The league consisted of

3266-728: The services of the outstanding physical trainer Filiberto Navas Valdés, who was distinguished by his career in athletics, basketball, Greco-Roman wrestling and boxing. The Henkels' idea of promoting soccer in Toluca was carried out with the creation of a second team, called Xinantécatl in honor of the Nevado de Toluca and made up of workers from the Toluca-Tenango Railway and the Light Company, directed by Eduardo Henkel, father of Manuel and Francisco. As time went by, concern about soccer in Toluca increased and meetings began to be organized in

3337-469: The son of Jorge Hank Rhon , is the President of the team. They became the Apertura 2012 champions after defeating Toluca 4–2 in a two-legged series. The team advanced to the Primera División de México with a win at home over Irapuato , 2–1 on May 21, 2011. Jorge Alberto Hank and Gog Murguia Fernandez, the vice president, became the youngest executives in the history of Mexican professional football to be at

3408-419: The stadium was his wish to have a professional football club in the city. Because the Mexican Football Federation says that teams participating in the First Division must have a stadium with a capacity over 15,000, Club Tijuana officially became qualified for promotion to the Primera División de México when the capacity was increased. The construction of the stadium was planned in two parts. The first part finished

3479-400: The state championships; arriving with the aura of having played a tournament with the three most outstanding teams in the Federal District. The prestige that the team had been enjoying increased further with the matches that Deportivo played against Club España, Atlas de Guadalajara and Club América, whom it defeated 3-2 on December 21, 1930. Another of the most relevant events at this time was

3550-477: The suggestion of the then president of Mexico, Mr. Adolfo López Mateos, a man arrived at the institution who is remembered as the great "patron" of the Nemesio Díez Riega team, who acquired Deportivo Toluca as well as the stadium (twice World Cup winner) which several years later would bear his name. The second title for the institution and first in the league would come in the 1966-1967 season. The tournament

3621-614: The table with Toluca . Seeded #2 in the La liguilla, they would avenge the previous season's defeat to Monterrey before rallying from a 2–0 deficit against León in the semi-finals. They would win the Liguilla over Toluca with a 4–1 aggregate victory, achieving the title in the shortest time after promotion to the top flight in Mexican history. Xolos would falter in the Clausura, finishing in 10th place, two points outside of Liguilla qualification. However, invited to Copa Libertadores , Tijuana would make

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3692-473: The team alive. On August 8, 1954, the Nemesio Díez Stadium was formally inaugurated, which was later renamed: "Héctor Barraza", "Luis Gutiérrez Dosal", "Toluca 70", "Toluca 70- 86", "La Bombonera" (the name that identifies the stadium to this day) and finally "Nemesio Díez". All this arose about the location of Campo Patria. The first official match of Deportivo Toluca in the First National Division

3763-451: The team even in their away games. The championship was made up of twelve teams; Deportivo Toluca, San Sebastián de León, Moctezuma de Orizaba, Atlético de Veracruz, Deportivo Zamora, La Concepción de la Ciudad de Puebla, Veracruz, Irapuato, Morelia, Veracruz, Querétaro, Estrella Roja and Monterrey. The team played 22 games, of which they won 14, tied 7 and only suffered one defeat at the hands of Club de Fútbol Monterrey, who curiously finished

3834-421: The team in order to achieve a worthy campaign in the First Division of Mexico. The total expense was out of the reach of the red board and in order to maintain the team, José Ramírez Ruiz decided to form a board of trustees made up of the city's main businessmen, among whom stood out; Juan Salgado, Pedro López, Manuel Villaverde, Jaime García, Francisco Negrete, Mario Mena Palacios, and Luis Gutiérrez Dosal, who kept

3905-428: The team into a protagonist of national football began with the hiring of Moisés Plata who had started at Xinantécatl. The board of directors of the Toluca Sports Club acquired the land of the so-called "Gachupines Dam" located on what is now Vasco de Quiroga Street, between Hidalgo Poniente, Aurelio J. Venegas and Buenaventura Merlín, property of Francisco Negrete. The Ferrat family was in charge of financially supporting

3976-499: The team retained the title of National Amateur Champion with players such as Horacio Garduño, Manuel Esquivel, Eustolio Enríquez, Aníbal Espinoza, Alfonso García, Manuel Estana, Guillermo Estrada, Ricardo Barraza, Héctor Barraza, Pascual Valdés, Rodolfo Guadarrama, Vicente Quintana and Aurelio Moreno. One of the great players who emerged in Deportivo during this era was Alberto Mendoza, known as "El Caballo". Alberto started at Deportivo as

4047-432: The team the two-time championship. Toluca won its second Champion of Champions title, facing Atlas in a series of two games in which points and not goals would count. The first match was won by Deportivo Toluca 3 to 1, and the second match was won by Atlas 1 to 0; After the end of regular time, both teams faced each other in a series of penalties that Deportivo Toluca won with 3 scores from Albino Morales. On April 3, 1968,

4118-603: The team was replaced by "Cuauhtémoc" and this in turn by "Reforma". In 1921, the governor of the State of Mexico, Manuel Campos Mena, organized a series of celebrations in which Deportivo Toluca participated, with the Tivoli field as its headquarters, which is currently a residential area that it preserves in its name. According to a newspaper from that time, players from Barreto's team appeared in Toluca such as Reynaldo Torres, Francisco Silva and Juan Albarrán, better known as "the devil" (later

4189-489: The team. The team begins to use the grounds of "Campo Patria" to hold its games, thanks to the offer of Mr. Aníbal Espinoza. During the second round of the tournament, the readaptation of the stands begins, as well as the placement of the fencing, the latter being one of the main requirements of the Football Federation. David Albiter remains in charge of the technical direction of the team and without assistants achieves

4260-595: The third most winning team. And also won the Segunda División de México and Campeón de Campeones de Segunda División de México when the club was competing in the second division, to which it never returned. In addition, the club also achieved a runner-up finish in the Copa Interamericana in 1969. In addition, the club won the Mexiquense State Championship 14 times. Despite being one of the oldest teams in Mexico, with more than 100 years of history,

4331-421: The tournament took place on January 7, 1968 when Deportivo Toluca received a visit from Club Universidad Nacional three dates before the end of the tournament. The party was dominated by the university; However, in the 22nd minute, Vicente Pereda scored the first goal for the red team in a "popcorn" play from a pass from Ruvalcaba, the victory for Toluca was assured by Juan Dosal who scored 2 Final -0 that would give

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4402-463: The trust that men like Albino Morales, Eduardo Monrroy, Alfonso Faure, Germán Sánchez and Carlos Zarza, the Peruvian, had placed in the group. Claudio Lostaunau, among others. For the 67-68 Season, Deportivo Toluca maintained its same level and basically its same squad, except for the additions of Tomás Reynoso and Felipe Ruvalcaba as well as the losses of Carlos Lara and Claudio Lostanau. The key match of

4473-931: The unification of Mexican football, the creation of the Second Mexican Division was accelerated, founded by the Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club, the Club Deportivo Zamora, the Pachuca Club de Fútbol, the Monarcas Morelia, the Club Deportivo Irapuato, the Querétaro Fútbol Club and the Club Atlético Zacatepec; being the founding teams of the new division. The Toluca Red Devils officially debuted on February 18, 1951 in

4544-405: Was a purely amateur team. The squad that Deportivo Toluca presented in that victory was made up of Almaquio Castañeda, Martí Ventolrà, José Gómez, Ricardo Barraza, Jorge Quesada, Adolfo Téllez, José Quesada and Amado López, Óscar Hernández, among others. Between 1944 and 1945, Deportivo Toluca faced an economic crisis because the fees paid by its shareholders were not enough to maintain the needs of

4615-415: Was acquired. Between 1918 and 1919 new teams emerged such as; the “Azteca”, the “Unión” and the “Águila”, the latter sponsored by Fernando Barreto who would later be linked to Deportivo Toluca; Fernando Barreto ventured into soccer with the creation of several teams, with which he sought to win the Mexican State Championship. His first team was "Águila", however it only achieved a runner-up finish in 1919 and

4686-490: Was against the colts of Club de Fútbol Atlante in which Toluca would take the victory by a final score of two for one. In said match the team's fans were present and it was then that a character dressed as a devil appeared as a mascot in the Sports City who; It was immediately adopted by the fans as the club's official mascot, which prevails to this day and gave the Mexican team its characteristic nickname of "the red devils." At

4757-515: Was forced to invite new investors, among whom was Fernando Barreto. In mid-1926, Barreto received an invitation from Atlético León to play a series of three games in the City of León, of which Deportivo Toluca achieved two unexpected victories. By 1930, the two most important championships in Mexico City were that of the Football Federation and that of the Central Federation. That same year, Deportivo Toluca

4828-516: Was going to be, yet again, Tijuana vs Irapuato. The first leg was played in Irapuato on Wednesday May 18 and it remained 0–0, with the second leg deciding what team was going to be promoted to the Primera División de la Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (now known as Liga MX). Played in Tijuana's Estadio Caliente , the second leg saw the Club Tijuana being crowned champion of the Promotion Final with

4899-514: Was instituted in the summer of 2006 but it disappeared that same year. Then some businessmen from Tijuana bought the Guerreros de Tabasco and moved it to Tijuana, becoming Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente. The team and owner announced the construction of the Estadio Caliente , a new stadium with a capacity for 33,333 people near Grupo Caliente's Agua Caliente Racetrack . Jorge Alberto Hank,

4970-464: Was invited to participate in one of the two most important championships in the Federal District, organized by the Central Federation together with traditional teams such as España, Necaxa and América that had separated from the Mexican Football Federation. that same year. Since 1930, Deportivo Toluca carried out a restructuring through which Deportivo became a Public Limited Company with the prolonged contributions of Moisés Plata. With this restructuring,

5041-481: Was very close and became important when the dispute for the title was between Club América and Deportivo Toluca; Both teams faced each other on matchday 27, with a 0-0 tie prevailing that did not allow the title to be defined; However, being on the last day of the tournament, Club América tied their match against Nuevo León, while Club Deportivo Toluca beat Necaxa 2 goals to zero, both scored by Juan "el maestrito" Dosal, thus conquering their first league championship, under

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