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| Full name | Club Deportivo Albinegros de Orizaba | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Albinegros (The White-and-Blacks) | ||
| Founded | 1898 | ||
| Dissolved | 18 December 2019 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Socum | ||
| Capacity | 7,000 | ||
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Club Deportivo Albinegros de Orizaba was a football club of the city of Orizaba, in the state of Veracruz. Founded in 1898 as "Orizaba Athletic Club", it was founded by Scottish migrant Duncan Mac Comish Mac Donald who owned a local steel company. In the beginning, the club hosted cricket among other sports.
The club had the honour of being Mexico's first ever football champion in 1903 when the club played in the old Primera Fuerza. The club was among the first other to play in the Primera División de México in 1943 which was the first ever professional league in the nation history. The club has been playing in the Liga de Ascenso since 2009 after spending a few years playing in the Segunda División. After playing in their home stadium Estadio Socum for the first six months after their returning to the Liga de Ascenso in the first half of 2009, the team had to play most of their home matches in the seasons 2009-10 and 2010–11 in the Estadio Luis de la Fuente in the city of Veracruz, sharing it with Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz because Estadio Socum was not accepted anymore to be host of second-division games. Since the 2011–12 season they are playing in the Segunda División Profesional, between 2011 and 2018 in their own stadium, since February 2018, they moved again to the Luis "Pirata" Fuente because the team management had commercial disagreements with the company that owns the Estadio Socum.
On 18 December 2019. Orizaba was dissolved due to the disaffiliation of Veracruz. Orizaba was the Veracruz reserve team and was registered with the same legal name as Veracruz.[1]
- ^ "¡ADIÓS A ORIZABA SIN INTERVENCIÓN!". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.