Club León

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León

Full name

Club Social y Deportivo León

Nickname(s)

Esmeraldas (Emeralds)
Panzas verdes (Green Bellies)

Founded

August 20th, 1944

Ground

Estadio León,
León, Guanajuato, Mexico
(Capacity 42,338)

Chairman

Javier Mier

Head Coach

Sergio Bueno

League

Primera A

Clausura 2008

Champions
2nd (league)





Home colours





Away colours

Club León, (simply known as León) is a football team in the Mexican Primera A.

León has won the Primera Division title five times, in 1948, 1949, 1952, 1956 and 1992. It became the first Mexican "Campeonísimo" (winner of the League and the México Cup in the same year) in 1949. In 1998, León made it to the semi-finals of CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The team has been in the championship hunt for the Primera A title since relegation from the Primera División de México in 2002.

1 Club Honours
2 Current roster
3 Notable players
4 External links

[edit] Club Honours

Campeonísimo (1) (48-49)

League Champion (5) (47-48, 48-49, 51-52, 55-56, 91-92).

Cup Champion (5) (48-49, 57-58, 66-67, 70-71,71-72, 72-73).

Champion of Champions (4) (47-48, 55-56, 70-71, 71-72, 72-73).

Primera A Champion (3) (Verano 2003, Clausura 2004, Clausura 2008).

2nd División Champion (1) (89-90).

Cocacaf Champions Cup Runner-Up (1) (93).

[edit] Current roster

As of May 25, 2008

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Eder Patiño
		DF	Jose Luis Gonzales China
		DF	Claudio Velazquez
		FW	Mauricio Romero
		FW	Freddy Bareiro
		FW	Luis Nieves
		DF	Omar Maldonado
		MF	Jorge Francisco Almiron
		MF	Tomas David Quiñonez
		FW	Andres Ugalde
		DF	Juan Manuel Garcia Zavala

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Cesar Rios
		FW	Edwin Borboa
		FW	Marco Parra
		MF	Aaron Reyes
		MF	Abdiel Villa
		FW	Raymundo Torres
		DF	Francisco Pisano
		MF	Juan Rojas
		MF	Eduardo Gomez
		GK	Antonio Perez
		MF	Hector Omar Gomez