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| Full name | Foot Ball Club Melgar | |||
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| Nickname(s) | El Dominó (The Domino) Los Rojinegros (The Red-and-Blacks) El León del Sur (The Lion of the South) El Sangre y Luto (Blood and Struggle) | |||
| Founded | 25 March 1915 | |||
| Ground | Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi | |||
| Capacity | 60,370[1] | |||
| Chairman | Ricardo Bettocchi | |||
| Manager | Pablo de Muner | |||
| League | Liga 1 | |||
| 2023 | Liga 1, 4th of 19 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Foot Ball Club Melgar, known simply as FBC Melgar or Melgar, is a Peruvian professional football club based in Arequipa, Peru. It is one of Peru's oldest football teams, founded in 1915 by a group of football enthusiasts from Arequipa.[2][3] The club currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División, the top tier of Peruvian football.
The team first participated in the Peruvian football league in 1919 in Lima and later was invited to the first true National football league, the Torneo Descentralizado, in 1966, when four teams from the provinces were invited to join the league. Joining them were Atlético Grau from Piura, Club Octavio Espinoza from Ica and Alfonso Ugarte from Trujillo. Previously, only teams from Lima and Callao had been allowed to compete for the national championship. Due to a low finish the first year, Melgar was dropped from the league after the first year. After winning the Copa Perú they returned to the First Division where they have remained to this day. Melgar won the Torneo Descentralizado for the first time in 1981. In the 1983 season the club finished first in the First Stage and at the end the top six teams played a play-off tournament to determine the year's champion, which Melgar finished in second.
FBC Melgar plays its home games at the Estadio Mariano Melgar, but since the Estadio de la UNSA was built in 1990 with a capacity of 60,370, it has used both. In recent years, Melgar have been considered the fourth best team in Peru.
- ^ "Área de Espectadores | IDUNSA". Archived from the original on 4 September 2013.
- ^ "HISTORIA DEL CLUB". fbcmelgar.com.pe. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Ficha técnica de FBC Melgar de Arequipa, campeón del Descentralizado 2015". andina.pe (in Spanish). 2015. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.