C.F. Monterrey

This article is about the men's football club. For the women's football club, see C.F. Monterrey (women).

Monterrey
Full nameClub de Fútbol Monterrey
Nickname(s)Rayados (Striped-Ones)
La Pandilla (The Gang)
Los Albiazules (The White-and-Blues)
Founded28 June 1945; 79 years ago (1945-06-28)
GroundEstadio BBVA
Capacity53,500[1]
OwnerFEMSA
ChairmanJosé Antonio Noriega
ManagerMartín Demichelis
LeagueLiga MX
Clausura 2024Regular phase: 4th
Final phase: Semi-finals
Websitehttps://www.rayados.com/
Current season

Club de Fútbol Monterrey is a Mexican professional football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León. The team plays in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Founded on 28 June 1945, it is the oldest active professional team from the northern part of Mexico. Since 1999 the club has been owned by FEMSA, Latin America's largest bottling company. Its home games have been played in the Estadio BBVA since 2015.[2] The team's nickname of Rayados (The Striped-Ones) stems from the club's traditional navy blue striped uniform. The uniform is reflected in the club's current crest, which is also decorated with stars above the crest representing the club's league titles and stars below representing continental.

Monterrey has won five league titles, three domestic cups, and five CONCACAF Champions League titles (notably, three consecutive tournaments in 2011, 2012 and 2013). In 2020, Monterrey became the second Mexican club to complete the continental treble.[3][4]

The club's oldest rival is Tigres UANL of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. The derby between the two, known as the Clásico Regiomontano, is considered to be one of the most heated and intensely competed rivalries in Mexican football; both teams consistently rank among the highest in attendance[5] and regularly feature among the most expensively assembled squads in the country.[6][7]

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