FBC Melgar

Foot Ball Club Melgar, known simply as FBC Melgar or Melgar, is a Peruvian football club based in Arequipa, Peru. It is one of Peru's oldest football teams, founded on March 25, 1915 by a group of football enthusiasts from Arequipa.

This article is about the Peruvian football club. For other uses, see Melgar.
Melgar
Full nameFoot Ball Club Melgar
Nickname(s)El Dominó, Los Rojinegros,
El León del Sur, El Sangre y Luto
FoundedMarch 25, 1915 (1915-03-25)
GroundEstadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi,
Arequipa, Peru
Capacity60,000[1]
Chairman Ricardo Bettocchi
Manager Nestor Lorenzo
LeagueLiga 1
2020Liga 1, 8th
WebsiteClub website

The team first participated in the Peruvian football league in 1919 in Lima and later was invited to the first true National football league, the Torneo Descentralizado, in 1966, when four teams from the provinces were invited to join the league. Joining them were Atlético Grau from Piura, Club Octavio Espinoza from Ica and Alfonso Ugarte (Ch) from Trujillo. Previously, only teams from Lima and Callao had been allowed to compete for the national championship. Due to a low finish the first year, Melgar was dropped from the league after the first year. After winning the Copa Perú they returned to the First Division where they have remained to this day. Melgar won the Torneo Descentralizado for the first time in 1981. In the 1983 season the club finished first in the First Stage and at the end the top six teams played a play-off tournament to determine the year's champion, which Melgar finished in second.

FBC Melgar plays its home games at the Estadio Mariano Melgar, but since the Estadio de la UNSA was built in 1990 with a capacity of 40,000, it has used both.

History

The club won nine cups in the departament of Arequipa, and won the Copa Perú in 1971. This championship allowed them to return to the First Division Campeonato Descentralizado where they currently remain.

Melgar won the National Championship in 1981, and Melgar was the runner-up of the national championship in 1983. In both these years this qualified them to play in the Copa Libertadores.

In 2014, Juan Reynoso, who come from México, was appointed as the new manager. He signed players like Piero Alva, Nelinho Quina, Minzum Quina, Luis Hernández, Alejandro Hohberg, Lampros Kontogiannis and Edgar Villamarín to make an impressive campaign where Melgar was the best team during the whole season finishing 1st in the accumulated table, but due to some bad results in the final matches and the poor organization of the tournament they weren't able to dispute the Play-off for the championship and only qualified for the Copa Sudamericana.

In 2015, year of Melgar's centenary, and still with Reynoso as the manager, the team signed important players like Raúl Ruidíaz, Carlos Ascues, Johnnier Montaño, Rainer Torres and Daniel Ferreyra to make an impressive team and fight for the title.

This year, Melgar won the national championship, besting Sporting Cristal with a score in the final minute by Bernardo Cuesta.

Rivalries

FBC Melgar has had a long-standing rivalry with Cienciano, Sportivo Huracán, Aurora and Piérola.

Honours

League
Winners (2): 1981, 2015
Runner-up (2): 1983, 2016
Runner-up (2): 2014, 2015
Winners (2): 2015, 2018
Winners (1): 2017
Winners (1): 1971
Runner up (1): 1969, 1970

National cups
Runner-up (1): 1970

Under-20 team
Winners (2): 2014-II, 2015-II
Runner-up (1): 2015-I

Regional
Winners (6): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
Winners (9): 1928, 1929, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
Competition A P W D L GF GA
Copa Libertadores636103232960
Copa Sudamericana410415920
Copa CONMEBOL1200226

A = appearances, P = matches played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, GF = goals for, GA = goals against.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1982 Copa Libertadores Group Stage Deportivo Municipal 2–1 2–0 Second place
Olimpia 0–3 0–4
Sol de América 3–2 2–0
1984 Copa Libertadores Group Stage Sporting Cristal 2–0 2–3 Fourth place
Universidad de Los Andes 0–1 0–1
Portuguesa 1–2 0–4
1998 Copa CONMEBOL R1 LDU Quito 1–3 1–3 2–6
2013 Copa Sudamericana Q1 Deportivo Pasto 2–0 0–3 2–3
2015 Copa Sudamericana Q1 Junior 4–0 0–5 4–5
2016 Copa Libertadores Group Stage Atlético Mineiro 1–2 0–4 Fourth place
Independiente del Valle 0–1 0–2
Colo-Colo 1–2 0–1
2017 Copa Libertadores Group Stage Emelec 1–0 0–3 Fourth place
Independiente Medellín 1–2 0–2
River Plate 2–3 2–4
2018 Copa Libertadores Second Stage Santiago Wanderers 0–1 1–1 1–2
2019 Copa Libertadores Second Stage Universidad de Chile 1–0 0–0 1–0
Third Stage Caracas 2–0 1–2 3–2
Group Stage San Lorenzo 0–0 0–2 Third place
Junior 1–0 1–0
Palmeiras 0–4 0–3
Copa Sudamericana Q2 Universidad Católica 0–0 0–6 0–6
2020 Copa Sudamericana Q1 Nacional Potosí 0–2 2–0 2–2 (4–3 p)
Q2 Bahia 1–0 0–4 1–4

Current squad
As of 08 February 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
10 MF  PER Joel Sánchez
12 GK  PER Carlos Cáceda
13 DF  PER Matias Lazo
14 FW  PER Jhonny Vidales
15 DF  PER Alec Deneumostier
18 FW  PER Michel Rasmussen
19 MF  PER Walter Tandazo
23 DF  PER Paolo Reyna
27 DF  PER Leonardo Mifflin
28 MF  PER Alexis Arias
29 DF  PER Pedro Ibañez
— FW  PER Emilio Saba
— GK  PER Ricardo Bettocchi
— GK  PER Jose Cabezudo
— MF  PER Pablo Labrin
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  PER Yimy Gamero
— MF  PER Kenji Cabrera
— MF  PER Diego Rodriguez
— MF  PER Jefferson Caceres
— FW  PER Luis Iberico
— DF  PER Alejandro Ramos
— DF  PER José Luján
— MF  PER Freddy Oncoy
— GK  PER Ricardo Farro
— MF  ARG Horacio Orzán
— FW  ARG Bernardo Cuesta (captain)
— FW  PER Bruno Portugal
— DF  ARG Fabio Pereyra
— FW  PER Kevin Quevedo

Notable players

Historical list of coaches

See also

References
  1. http://www.unsa.edu.pe/idunsa/infraestructura/estadio-unsa/
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