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| Full name | Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club S.A. de C.V. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Diablos Rojos | |||
| Founded | 12 February 1917 as Club Deportivo Toluca | |||
| Ground | Estadio Nemesio Díez | |||
| Capacity | 30,000 spectators | |||
| Coordinates | 19°17′14″N 99°40′0″W / 19.28722°N 99.66667°W | |||
| Owner | Valentín Díez Morodo | |||
| Chairman | Arturo Pérez Arredondo | |||
| Manager | Renato Paiva | |||
| League | Liga MX | |||
| Clausura 2024 | Regular phase: 3rd Final phase: Quarter-finals | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club S.A. de C.V. also known as Club Deportivo Toluca, is a Mexican association football club based in Toluca, State of Mexico. The club plays in Liga MX, the top-flight of Mexican football, from which they have never been relegated. The team was founded on February 12, 1917, by the brothers Manuel Blas and Francisco Juan Henkel Bross owners of the farm "La Huerta" located in Zinacantepec near of Toluca City. Its headquarters are located in the city of Toluca, State of Mexico, playing its home games at the Nemesio Diez Stadium.
Toluca has won Liga MX 10 times, making it the third most winning team, behind Club América (15) and Guadalajara (12). Besides this, the team has also won two Copa MX being the seventh most winning team and two CONCACAF Champions League making the fifth most winning team. The club also won the Campeón de Campeones de Primera División de México four times being the third most winning team. And also won the Segunda División de México and Campeón de Campeones de Segunda División de México when the club was competing in the second division, to which it never returned. In addition, the club also achieved a runner-up finish in the Copa Interamericana in 1969.
In addition, the club won the Mexiquense State Championship 14 times. Despite being one of the oldest teams in Mexico, with more than 100 years of history, the professional era for Toluca began in 1950, 33 years after its foundation, becoming one of the founding teams of the Segunda División de México and the third team with the most seasons in Mexican First Division. And the third team with the most seasons in the Mexican First Division. It is, along with the Cruz Azul and Pumas UNAM, one of few clubs in Mexico to have never been relegated once being promoted to the highest league of play in the country.
Its accumulated record positions it as the fifth most successful team in Mexican association football, with a total of 18 official titles. On social networks, the club has 3.4 million fans, adding up the main social networks on the internet. Meanwhile, a survey carried out by Mitofsky in 2022 says that the club has 3% fan preference nationwide; which would be 3.8 million fans according to the population census of that year. This makes the club the team with the seventh-largest number of fans in the country.
It is also recognized as one of the classic clubs by FIFA in CONCACAF, along with Club América, Guadalajara, Pumas UNAM, Cruz Azul and Pachuca. Additionally, it is considered by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics World's Fifth Best Club Team of the Decade in CONCACAF for the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010). It is considered the team of the 2000s in Mexican soccer, being the team's top winner with four titles. The club also has other merits and achievements such as 3rd place in the historical table of the Liga MX, 3rd place in the historical table of the Copa MX and 13th place in the historical table of the CONCACAF Champions League.