Mexican association football club
This article is about the men ‘s football baseball club. For the women ‘s football club, see C.D. Veracruz ( women ) football club
Club Deportivo Veracruz, normally known as Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, was a mexican professional football cabaret based in the city of Veracruz. El Aston was founded in 1943, and played in the Liga MX of Mexico. Their nickname, “ Tiburones Rojos ”, means loss sharks.

In December 2019, the Mexican Football Federation announced the disaffiliation of Veracruz from Liga MX due to economic debts with first team players, its youth organization, and the league. [ 1 ]

history [edit ]

The club was founded around April 1943 under the name of Club Deportivo Veracruz after two clubs from the city submit of Veracruz, Iberia de Córdoba and Veracruz Sporting Club, merged in order to join the Mexican First Division. At the time, both clubs played in Liga Veracruzana, an amateur league in Veracruz. These two clubs had dominated the Liga Amateur de Veracruz, winning 21 titles combined. Each of these clubs had a short quell in the Primera Fuerza – a now defunct amateur football league in Mexico City – in the early 1920s but due to the distance, the clubs by and large played in the local league which was less competitive. The golf club kept the Veracruz Sporting Club colors, crimson and black, which they used in the early character of its universe and a few years late would switch the black to white, keeping red as the club ‘s chief shirt color. In their first year the club played in Parque Deportivo Veracruzano sharing the battlefield with baseball club Rojos del Águila de Veracruz. The club ‘s dub was given by Manuel Seyde who had besides help merge the two clubs. The golf club had the honor of having been one of the beginning baseball club to play in the master league angstrom well as having been the first golf club not from Mexico City to win the tournament. Among other records the club holds is most relegations ( four times ) including being relegated in 2008 by its hat rival Puebla who had just been promoted the class earlier. The club has played in the Liga de Ascenso always since, coming close to promotion a couple of times but falling brusque each time. The club played its first base game in the 1943–44 Copa México tournament against Atlante who beat them 5–1. The club ‘s first gear goal was scored by Manuel Rodríguez Angues, nicknamed as Manolín. In their 1945–46 league Veracruz played 18 games with a streak of 14 wins and 4 draws. Veracruz besides won their first title in that year. In the season 1947–48 they won their first mexican Cup by beating the Chivas 3–1. Soon Veracruz won their moment deed, in the 1949–50 season, with the most overpowering victory in the history of Mexican football, beating Monterrey, 14–0. Years former Veracruz acquired celebrated players such as René Higuita, Braulio Luna, Adolfo Ríos, Luis Hernández, Fernando Arce, Alfredo Tena and others. After being relegated to the Primera División A Veracruz came back in 2002 after being declared Primera División A champions and finished 11th place in the Summer of 2002. The Apertura 2004 season had been one of the best for Veracruz as they finished 1st place thanks to new signings such as Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Christian Giménez, Kléber Boas and others. Veracruz has had 59 managers so far, as of 2008. On the nox of Friday April 25, 2008 at Luis “ Pirata ” Fuente stadium ( Home of the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz ), UNAM defeated Veracruz with a final grudge of 4–2, sending Veracruz to the Primera A division league. Veracruz was officially relegated from the Mexican Primera División league on the night of Friday May 2, 2008 in the final match of the regular season against Tecos UAG ending in a 0–0 draw .

first claim [edit ]

1945–46 backing golf club. In the baseball club ‘s third year of being in the 1945–46 tournament, the cabaret went on to win 18 games with a criminal record of 14 wins and 4 draws, wangle to win 8 straight. The golf club scored 105 goals that year, leading the club in marking was the Argentine Jorge Enrico followed by Raimundo Gonzalez with 24. Luis de la Fuente was considered the baseball club ‘s best actor because of his unique play vogue. It was on 2 June 1946, in the second to last round of the tournament in the Parque Asturias in Mexico City, home of Real Club España where the club won 2–3 and then were able to claim themselves champions for the first time. With goals scored by José Valdivia, Luis de la Fuente and Raimundo Gonzalez, they ended a 26-year streak of the tournament being won by a cabaret from Mexico City. That lapp year the club went on to lose the Campeón de Campeones title against Atlas .

first Copa México title [edit ]

In the 1947–48 Copa México tournament, with the deviation of the club ‘s best players ( the Argentine Jorge Enrico along with other good players such as Lazcano and Pachuco Durán, and possibly the club ‘s most significant flight simulator, Palomini ) the however club managed to win its first Copa México. The final was played against Guadalajara with a final score of 3–1 under the management of the Spaniard Joaquin Urquiaga. That is the only cup to date the cabaret has won, finishing runner-up 3 times : in 1949–50, 1967–68 and 1994–95 .

second deed [edit ]

In the 1949–50 tournament the club managed to win its death mexican Primera División style public treasury date. The golf club started off that class with a rejuvenate police squad led by Juan Luque de Serrallonga who had just come from a stay with the Mexico national football team the year earlier. This year is besides remembered because the club had its beginning goal scoring champion : the peruvian Julio Ayllon, besides known as El Negro, total darkness promotional football players in Mexico being uncommon at that clock time ; Julio went on to score 30 goals that year .

The end of a Golden era [edit ]

The club welcomed the newly ten with the startle of the end of its golden age. The 1950–51 tournament became the first lose class ascribable to economical problems the club faced under the ownership of Miguel Alemán Valdez and governor of the state of matter Marco Antonio Muñoz. The worst season came in the 1951–52 tournament after a hanker relegation fight that came down to the goal against Club América ; they lost and were relegated for the first gear time in history to the newly created Segunda División de México. That class the clubhouse finished with a record of 3 wins, 6 draw, and 13 losses allowing 54 goals and only scoring 22 for a total of 12 points, merely 3 behind Club América ( who kept the category and is one of two clubs that has never been relegated since the professionalization of the sport in Mexico ). In the 1952–53 tournament, playing in the Segunda División de México, the clubhouse finished the class merely one point away from been promoted behind Toluca, who has played in the first division ever since. After that disappointing year about all the players left the club following the 1953 cup tournament. As a result, the leagues decided to disband the golf club .

fall 1960s–1970s [edit ]

In 1961, thanks to a group of supporters, they established a patronize in which José Lajud Kuri was named president of the united states and indeed revived the club in order to take part in the 1961–62 Segunda División de México tournament. The first couple of years were mediocre and they did n’t have any achiever. In 1964 the baseball club was presented with an opportunity to be promoted after the league decided to increase the number of clubs from 14 to 16. That year, the worst first division clubhouse, Nacional de Guadalajara, played a promotional playoff tournament against Segunda División de México Petroleros de Ciudad Madero. Poza Rica and Veracruz had finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th ( not counting Cruz Azul who had earn an automatic promotion after winning the tournament ). That tournament ended with Nacional de Guadalajara and Veracruz earning first and second base with Petroleros de Ciudad Madero third and Poza Rica fourth. The club had returned to the first gear class after 12 years of bitter, bitter waiting. In the 1964–65 first division tournament the club played their first game on June 7, 1964 against Atletico Morelia in the city of Morelia in a 3–3 draw. The club ‘s first goal since coming back was scored by Jesus Mercado. That year the golf club had a record of 10 wins, 8 drawing card, and 12 defeats ; they scored 41 and allowed 44 for a total of 28 points and fishing 10 overall in the league. Their best game was played in the 8th round when they defeated Zacatepec 5–1. In 1978–79 the golf club was relegated for the second gear time after losing 22 games allowing 83 goals and finishing last in the competition. One thing to citation is that the clubhouse had five unlike trainers that year. One week before their last game in the foremost division the club secured their relegation after losing, 5–2, against Club Universidad de Guadalajara in the city of Guadalajara. The last game the baseball club played in that tournament was against Tigres de la UANL one June 3, 1979, at base where they had a drawing card of 1–1 and sol ended their second stay in the first division while ending another ten .

1980s [edit ]

The baseball club started the 1980s in the Segunda División de México. After the 1983–84 tournament the golf club was sold to the city of Yucatán where it became Venados de Yucatán. This clubhouse lasted a couple years before pen up in 1998. After respective years of not having a football baseball club representing the state of Veracruz, respective attempts were made in order revive the club. One such was to buy the Ángeles de Puebla franchise which at the time was on sale ascribable to the miss of supporters. The club had been in the lapp city as Puebla who had won two league titles and 2 Copa México titles in the 1980s. But in 1989, a group of local businessmen along with fund by the governor of the city of Veracruz bought the newly promoted cabaret Potros Neza which at the time was affiliated with first base division golf club Atlante. The club played their first tournament game that lapp year and lost to Puebla under the management of Héctor Sanabria. That class the club finished 5th in group 4 with a total of 34 – however the club managed to win over supporters by been a club that played with a draw of center. [ clarification needed ] Players such as Davidovich, José Luís Marroquín, Castañon, Salcedo, Pascual Ramírez, Jardon Eduardo Rergis, Eduardo Moses, Omar Palma, and Jorge Comas stood out. That year is remembered as La Tiburomania because no matter where the cabaret played it always had a big distribute [ clarification needed ] of hold no matter the distance. The golf club fall started a euphoria in the city in the 1989–90 tournament when the club had 19 directly sell-outs. It all came to a climax when the golf club played top baseball club Club América in the Estadio Azteca where 50,000 Veracruz supporters poured into a stadium with a capacity of 114,000 and they set a record for the most supports attending an aside game. That game ended in a 3–5 win for the base team in a controversial match referee by Javier Castellanos. That lapp year there was a four-way particular tournament inviting brazilian club Botafogo, Spanish club Real Madrid and local anesthetic cabaret UNAM. Botafogo ended up taking home the cup but the fans remember this tournament because the club beat real number Madrid, 4–2, with a goal by the Argentine Omar Palma .

1990s [edit ]

The 1990s began with a group of players and a winnow al-qaeda which became known as La Tiburomaniam who cheer own fan front-runner players Jorge Comas Adolfo Ríos, Joaquín Del Olmo, Octavio Becerril, Pascual Ramírez, José Luís González China under management of the brazilian Edu. The baseball club failed to qualify to the play-offs after a long conflict for 2nd place in group 3 against Cruz Azul. In the 1991–92 tournament the cabaret give its supporters something to cheer for after a bad begin of the tournament which caused the existed of them club taker Angel Lopez who was replaced by Roberto Matosas. After the change of trainer the baseball club had a much better tournament which qualified the club to a hard play-off series against Correcaminos UAT which they won, 4–3, which they handed done since the club was reform in 1970. The golf club faced Necaxa in quarterfinals where they lost, 6–2. In the 1993–94 the club celebrated its 50 anniversary with a special ceremony prior to the tournament where erstwhile club greats reunited to play a limited match. That preseason the club signed former greats Carlos Poblete and Rubén Omar Romano. That year is besides remembered for that big friendly match the baseball club had against Atlético Madrid. In the 1994–95 tournament under the management of Anibal Ruiz who with a peculiar [ clarification needed ] defensive style of coaching made the fans lose concern in the club however the clubhouse qualified to play a knock-out match against its hat rival Puebla who advanced to the quarterfinals after a 1–1 draw moving on due to a better position in the league. The baseball club came conclusion that year to winning the 1994–95 Copa México title after beating Irapuato, Estudiantes Tecos and Santos Laguna in that order facing Necaxa in the final match that took stead in inert ground in the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in the city of Puebla where the golf club fell 2–0. In 1995 the golf club was sold to local television network Televisa who brought in better playgoers to the club reviving once again the hopes of the supporters. In the 1996–97 the new owners signed José Mari Bakero who had just finished a farseeing career with spanish giant Barcelona along with key players from the colombian national team Leonel Álvarez, Iván Valenciano, Alexis Mendoza mating important players and winnow favored goalkeeper Adolfo Ríos. With the hype of the clubhouse ‘s new players many gave the club a luck of taking the league championship but after a tournament field with injuries and with a divided locker-room the club managed to gain only 9 points and finished stopping point leaving the club in relegation problems for the nest campaign. In the 1997–98 tournament the club let go most of the players bringing in the international known goalkeeper René Higuita along with players that were stranger in the league in regulate to avoid their 3rd delegating. With lack of know the players had the club ended that tournament with a record of 3 wins, 5 attract losing 9 games for a sum of 14 points and sol once selling their 3rd relegation in clubhouse history. In the Invierno del 98 playing now in the Primera A the club started their travel to return once again to the top division hiring Juan Manuel Alvarez who had achieved this undertaking before with Club Celaya a few years back. With the supports hush hurt by the delegating at mid tournament Juan Manuel Alvarez was replaced by “ El Turco ” Aude coach who had much have in the league and managed to rally the players reaching the semi-finals that year, losing the series to Venados de Yucatán. In 1999 the baseball club was sold to city of Veracruz along with local anesthetic occupation owners. The club had one of the worst seasons in its history that inverno 99 with a club largely formed by veteran players along with young experience players. In that tournament the baseball club failed to qualify for the play-offs and the promotion seemed impossible each day – and that is how the cabaret ended that ten with some potent clubs in the early part of the decade and with the club ‘s third sexual intercourse at the end of it .

2000s [edit ]

In the 2000–01 tournament the club ultimately lived up to its expectation becoming a competitive club in the Primera A the first have under the management of Carlos Trucco and Roberto Saporiti in other half, these two managers went on to win respective games that would qualify them to the playoff where they were eliminated but had revived interest in the locals. At the end of that tournament the first division expanded from 18 to 20 which promoted two clubs that year. La Piedad was promoted after winning the Verano 2001 Primera A tournament and going on to win the Promotion match against Toros Neza. A forwarding series was played between Atlante who had the worst delegating share against the cabaret that had gain the most points in the Primera A that been Veracruz. A second forwarding meet was played between those two clubs the first match was played in jam packed Estadio Luis de la Fuente in Veracruz in pit that ended in a 0–0 draw. The moment match was played in the Estadio Azteca where Atlante defeated the Veracruz, 4–1, and remained in the top division .

2002 forwarding [edit ]

In 2002 they were promoted to the Mexican Primera División following their play-off victory against Léon. [ 2 ]

2008 delegating [edit ]

In the 2007 Aperture the baseball club finished second to last in the share table just above Puebla and below Tigres UANL with a percentage of 1.0706. In the Primera División de México Clausura 2008 the club once again had a regretful year with a record of 4 wins, 5 draw and losing 8 for a sum of 17 points finishing 16 in the league. The baseball club shed its delegating after losing at family against their conduct rivals in the relegation fight Puebla with a score of 2–0. The club ‘s delegating was made official in the watch peer against UNAM at dwelling losing 4–2 and setting a new league record for a delegating with 4. The baseball club played in the Liga de Ascenso since the Apertura 2008 and came conclusion respective times but constantly coming curtly .

2011 Disaffiliation [edit ]

On June 3, 2011, the FMF disaffiliated the Tiburones Rojos because of a failure of payments to the FMF. “ The Federacion Mexicana de Futbol Asociacion, AC informs that the Ordinary General Assembly at its meet today, once it analyzed the site of Representaciones Soha, Inc., SA de CV, ( Club Veracruz and / or Club Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz ), a member of the Liga de Ascenso, The Mexican Football Federation, AC unanimously decided, with its power under Articles 17, 25 and other relate and applicable codified of the FMF, revoke the Certificate of Membership and consequently disaffiliate such an entity, for failing to meet its fiscal obligations to FMF and its affiliates. ” [ 3 ] After that announcement, it was accorded between Veracruz and Albinegros de Orizaba to unify their teams after the debts the team had .

2013 Club Change [edit ]

Club San Luis was relocated to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas to play at the Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna, under the name Chiapas Football Club. Club La Piedad was relocated to the state of Veracruz to play at the Estadio Luis “ Pirata ” Fuente, under the appoint of Veracruz .

2019 disaffiliation [edit ]

After enduring a 41-game winless run dating from September 2018 to October 2019, multiple reports of players not receiving payment, an in-game protest against Tigres UANL in the 2019 Apertura, they conceded 3 goals in the first gear 8 minutes because Tigres had no compunction, and repeated discontent with owner Fidel Kurri, the FMF formally disaffiliated Veracruz from Liga MX following the 2019 Apertura. Their players became dislodge agents, free to sign with any club, and their women ‘s team was besides kicked out of the Liga MX Femenil. All other branches of the club, including its academies and reserves, dissolved vitamin a well. As a result, Liga MX began its 2020 Clausura with only 18 teams .

2020 reestablishment of reserves [edit ]

In 2020, their former reservation team ( 2013–2016 ), Atlético Veracruz, was one of the teams reestablished to play in the Liga de Balompié Mexicano. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] On February 10, 2021, the club announced its retirement from the LBM to seek integration into the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol, with the aim of being able to participate in the Liga de Expansión MX as of the 2021–22 season. [ 6 ] Subsequently, the team decided to redirect their application and began the procedure to join the Liga Premier de México. [ 7 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

The club had a long-standing competition with Puebla. This competition dated back to the amateur era from the early 1930s, before both clubs had been admitted into the professional division in 1944. In all Puebla and Veracruz played 68 official matches including league and Copa México. Puebla had the best record with 30 wins 15 draws .

beginning kit evolution [edit ]



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1950





1960




1978




1990




1995




2001




2008



2013

Honors [edit ]

  • Primera División: 2
1945–46, 1949–50
  • Primera División A: 1
2001

record [edit ]

Season Pyramid Level Regular Season 1 Playoffs 1 Regular Season 2 Playoffs 2 Copa México CONCACAF
2001–02 2 and 1 4th Champions 11th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2002–03 1 18th Did not qualify 7th Semifinals No Longer played Did not qualify
2003–04 1 12th Did not qualify 20th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2004–05 1 1st Quarter-finals 17th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2005–06 1 18th Did not qualify 16th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2006–07 1 9th Repechaje 18th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2007–08 1 13th Did not qualify 16th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2008–09 2 11th Did not qualify 3rd Semi-finals No Longer played Did not qualify
2009–10 2 4th Semi-finals 15th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2010–11 2 5th Second Place 5th Disqualified No Longer played Did not qualify
2011–12 2 8th Did not qualify 13th Did not qualify No Longer played Did not qualify
2012–13 2 12th Did not qualify 4th Quarter-finals 4th (DNQ)
3rd (DNQ) 		Did not qualify
2013–14 1 12th Did not qualify 18th Did not qualify 3rd (DNQ)
1st (Semi-finals) 		Did not qualify
2014–15 1 17th Did not qualify 3rd Quarter-finals 3rd (DNQ)
3rd (DNQ) 		Did not qualify
2015–16 1 8th Quarter-finals 17th Did not qualify 1st (Quarter-finals)
1st (Champions) 		Did not qualify
2016–17 1 17th Did not qualify 13th Did not qualify 2nd (Round of 16)
2nd (DNQ) 		Did not qualify
2017–18 1 17th Did not qualify 16th Did not qualify 2nd (DNQ)
3rd (DNQ) 		Did not qualify
2018–19 1 18th Did not qualify 18th Did not qualify 3rd (DNQ)
1st (Quarter-finals) 		Did not qualify
2019–20 1 19th Did not qualify Disaffiliated Did not qualify 2nd (DNQ) Did not qualify

golf club Records [edit ]

  • Longest undefeated streak: 18 (1945–46)
  • Most game without a draw: 19 (Invierno ’99)
  • Most games without a win: 40 (Clausura 2019)
  • Longest winning streak: 8 (1945–46 y Apertura 2004)
  • longest draw streak: 5 (1990–91)
  • Longest losing streak: 9 (Verano 2002)
  • Longest scoring streak: 28 (1946–47)
  • Longest streak without a goal: 4 (1970–71)
  • Longest streak with allowing a goal: 4 (1967–68 e Invierno 2000)
  • Biggest win: 14–0 May 26, 1946 vs. Monterrey
  • Biggest loss: 9–2 April 13, 2019 vs. C.F. Pachuca Veracruz vs. 0-7 Necaxa

All time circus tent Goalscorers [edit ]

These are the top 10 all time finish scorers in the club history. [ 8 ]

Goal marking champions [edit ]

Players [edit ]

First-team police squad [edit ]

As of 30 July 2019[11]

Reserve teams [edit ]

Albinegros de Orizaba
Reserve team that plays in the Liga Premier in the third level of the Mexican league system.

Managers [edit ]

References [edit ]