15 Facts About CF Monterrey

CF Monterrey has won five league titles, three domestic cups, and five CONCACAF Champions League titles .

In 2020 CF Monterrey became the second Mexican club to complete the continental treble.

Club de Football Monterrey was founded on 28 June 1945, near the end of World War II by a group of industrial businessmen headed by Ramon Cardenas Coronado, Enrique Ayala Medina, Paul C Probert, Rogelio Cantu Gomez and Miguel Margain Zozaya.

The following year CF Monterrey finished runner up to Club America who went on to win the league title that year against Toluca.

CF Monterrey was placed in group 2 along with Pumas UNAM, Tigres UANL and Zacatepec.

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In 1999, CF Monterrey was facing a fierce relegation battle of its own against Puebla, culminating on May 9,1999, when the teams faced each other at the Estadio Tecnologico to decide which team would get relegated.

In 2002, CF Monterrey hired Argentinian coach Daniel Passarella and started to form a strong and competitive side featuring the likes of Guillermo Franco, Walter Erviti, Jesus Arellano and Luis Perez.

In 2009, CF Monterrey hired coach Victor Manuel Vucetich and formed a team that would become one of the strongest in the league, with an attack led by Humberto Suazo and new acquisition Aldo de Nigris, a midfield featuring veteran players Luis Ernesto Perez and Jesus Arellano along with Walter Ayovi and a defence led by Jose Maria Basanta, Duilio Davino and goalkeeper Jonathan Orozco.

However, CF Monterrey managed to make a dramatic comeback and scored four goals, with a brace from Aldo de Nigris and a goal each from Humberto Suazo and Neri Cardozo.

CF Monterrey won their third consecutive CONCACAF Champions League title and the fifth overall title in the Vucetich Era.

CF Monterrey replaced Cruz with Carlos Barra, who had worked as an assistant coach for Vucetich.

Colombian striker Dorlan Pabon re-joined the team, and with new signings such as Stefan Medina and Pablo Barrera, CF Monterrey started the Apertura 2014 tournament with high expectations.

CF Monterrey has recently held somewhat of a regional rivalry with state neighbors Santos Laguna, whom they have played a total of four finals, with CF Monterrey winning three of them and Santos one.

CF Monterrey played their home matches at the Estadio Tecnologico from 1950 to 2015, though for a period of time from 1973 to 1980 they played at the Estadio Universitario, the stadium was opened on July 17,1950, by Mexican president Miguel Aleman Valdes, it was the second oldest football stadium in Mexico, after Estadio Azul.

In July 2015, CF Monterrey moved to a new stadium called Estadio BBVA, located in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, in Greater CF Monterrey.