10 Facts About CSD Municipal

Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, known as Municipal or Los Rojos, is a Guatemalan football club based in Guatemala City.

CSD Municipal is the most winner and popular football club in Guatemala and are traditional arch-rivals of Comunicaciones, who is based in Guatemala City.

CSD Municipal were coached by Manuel Felipe Carrera, one of the original founders of the club, and whose name was later given to the stadium where the team currently practices.

CSD Municipal was one of Guatemala's first national stars and was chosen for the national team.

In 1948, CSD Municipal won its first international honors at a friendly tournament held in Havana, Cuba to commemorate the Cuban Independence.

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The Comunicaciones-CSD Municipal match emerged as a high-profile local derby, the biggest in the country.

CSD Municipal managed a group of players that included defender Alberto Lopez Oliva, midfielders Benjamin Monterroso and Jose Emilio "Pepe" Mitrovich, and forward Julio Cesar Anderson.

In 2000, after the league's competition format was changed to two yearly tournaments on the Apertura and Clausura fashion, CSD Municipal won the title again after Comunicaciones had set a record by winning the previous four; CSD Municipal surpassed that record in 2006 when they won the 2006 Apertura tournament, their fifth consecutive title, under coach Enzo Trossero.

CSD Municipal is believed to have the largest fan base of all Guatemalan clubs, and that their popularity have earned them nicknames like El mimado de la aficion and El equipo del pueblo.

CSD Municipal has set a record in Guatemalan football by being the club that has spent the most consecutive seasons in the maximum division, having remained there uninterruptedly since 1938.