Full name | Club Social y Deportivo Municipal | ||
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Nickname(s) | Los Rojos (The Reds) El Equipo del Pueblo (The People's Team) El Mimado de la Afición (Fans' Pampered Team) Diablos Rojos (Red Devils) | ||
Founded | 17 May 1936 | ||
Ground | Estadio El Trébol | ||
Capacity | 7,500 | ||
Chairman | Gerardo Villa[1] | ||
Manager | Sebastián Bini | ||
League | Liga Nacional | ||
Clausura 2024 | 1st (Champions) | ||
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Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos (the Reds), are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City.
They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football, and play their home matches at the Estadio El Trébol. As of 2015, they are the team that has remained the most years at the top level in Guatemala, having done so since the inception of the national league in 1942. They have won the domestic league 32 times, most recently winning the 2024 Clausura tournament. They won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1974.
Municipal are the most popular football club in Guatemala and are traditional rivals of Comunicaciones, who are also based in Guatemala City, and with whom they share the lead in all-time league titles in the country with 32 each as of 2024.