Atlante F.C.

Atlante
Full nameAtlante Fútbol Club S.A. de C.V.
Nickname(s)Los Potros de Hierro (The Iron Colts)[1]
Los Azulgranas (The Blue-and-Garnets)
El Equipo del Pueblo (The People's Team)
los Prietitos[2]
Founded18 April 1916; 108 years ago (1916-04-18) as Sinaloa 8 December 1916; 107 years ago (1916-12-08) as Atlante [3]
GroundEstadio Ciudad de los Deportes,
Mexico City, Mexico
Capacity33,000
OwnerEmilio Escalante
ChairmanJorge Santillana
ManagerVacant
LeagueLiga de Expansión MX
Apertura 20221st of 18 (champions)
Websitehttps://www.atlantefutbol.com/

Atlante Fútbol Club, is a professional football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. Founded in 1916, Atlante were original members of the Mexican Primera División when it began in 1943.

Atlante has won three national league championships, two from their original home in Mexico City, and the most recent following their 2007 relocation to Cancún before eventually returning to Mexico City. They are also three-time winners of the Copa México, and twice winners of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup / CONCACAF Champions League.

Atlante currently compete in Mexico's second-tier Liga de Expansión MX following relegation from Liga MX at the end of the 2013–14 season. They won the Apertura 2021 and Apertura 2022.

  1. ^ "#954 – Atlante FC : los Potros de Hierro" (in French). Footnickname. 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  2. ^ "#449 – Atlante FC : Prietitos" (in French). Footnickname. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  3. ^ Martínez Villar, Enrique (18 April 2020). "Atlante, el equipo con dos cumpleaños". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2020.