Foot Ball Club Melgar, known simply as FBC Melgar or Melgar, is a Peruvian football club based in Arequipa, Peru. It is one of Peru's oldest football teams, founded on 25 March 1915 by a group of football enthusiasts from Arequipa.[2][3]

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Melgar

Full name	Foot Ball Club Melgar
Nickname(s)	El Dominó Los Rojinegros El León del Sur El Sangre y Luto
Founded	25 March 1915; 107 years ago (1915-03-25)
Ground	Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, Arequipa, Peru
Capacity	60,000[1]
Chairman	Ricardo Bettocchi
Manager	Pablo Lavallén
League	Liga 1
2021	Liga 1, 5th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

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 (Ch) 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 40,000, it has used both.

History

The club won nine cups in the departament of Arequipa, and won the Copa Perú in 1971.[4][5] This championship allowed them to return to the First Division Campeonato Descentralizado where they currently remain.

Melgar won the National Championship in 1981,[6][7][8] and Melgar was the runner-up of the national championship in 1983.[9] In both these years this qualified them to play in the Copa Libertadores.

In 2014, Juan Reynoso, who come from México, was appointed as the new manager. He signed players like Piero Alva, Nelinho Quina, Minzum Quina, Luis Hernández, Alejandro Hohberg, Lampros Kontogiannis and Edgar Villamarín to make an impressive campaign where Melgar was the best team during the whole season finishing 1st in the accumulated table, but due to some bad results in the final matches and the poor organization of the tournament they weren't able to dispute the Play-off for the championship and only qualified for the Copa Sudamericana.

In 2015, year of Melgar's centenary, and still with Reynoso as the manager, the team signed important players like Raúl Ruidíaz, Carlos Ascues, Johnnier Montaño, Rainer Torres and Daniel Ferreyra to make an impressive team and fight for the title. Then, Melgar won the national championship, besting Sporting Cristal with a score in the final minute by Bernardo Cuesta.

In 2022, Melgar took part of Copa Sudamericana, where they finished 1st in their group. They took on Deportivo Cali, where they drew 0-0 in Cali, and then Melgar took the victory in a 2-1 win in Arequipa, with Bernardo Cuesta scoring both 2. In the Quarter-Finals, they took on Sport Club Internacional, where they drew 0-0 in Arequipa, and then they drew 0-0 in Beira Rio. They beat Internacional on penalties, 3-1, with Carlos Cáceda, Melgar’s goalie, saving 3 shots and only conceding 1 with Luis Iberico making the last penalty shot to take Melgar to the Semi-Finals against C.S.D. Independiente del Valle. The Ecuadorian side would prove too strong for Melgar over the two legs, winning both games 3-0, thus bringing the historic continental adventure to an end.

FBC Melgar

Location of FBC Melgar (Arequipa)

Rivalries

FBC Melgar has had a long-standing rivalry with Cienciano, Sportivo Huracán, Aurora and Piérola.

Honours

National

League

• Peruvian Primera División:

Winners (2): 1981, 2015

Runner-up (3): 1983, 2016, 2022

• Torneo Apertura:

Winners (1): 2022

Runner-up (2): 2014, 2015

• Torneo Clausura:

Winners (2): 2015, 2018

• Torneo de Verano:

Winners (1): 2017

• Copa Perú:

Winners (1): 1971

Runner up (1): 1969, 1970

National cups

• Copa Presidente de la República:

Runner-up (1): 1970

Under-20 team

• Torneo de Promoción y Reserva:

Winners (2): 2014-II, 2015-II

Runner-up (1): 2015-I

Regional

• Liga Departamental de Arequipa:

Winners (6): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971

• Liga Distrital de Arequipa:

Winners (9): 1928, 1929, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

A = appearances, P = matches played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, GF = goals for, GA = goals against, DG = difference goals, Pts = points.

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1982	Copa Libertadores	Group Stage		Deportivo Municipal	2–1	2–0	Second place
				Olimpia	0–3	0–4
				Sol de América	3–2	2–0
1984	Copa Libertadores	Group Stage		Sporting Cristal	2–0	2–3	Fourth place
				Universidad de Los Andes	0–1	0–1
				Portuguesa	1–2	0–4
1998	Copa CONMEBOL	R1		LDU Quito	1–3	1–3	2–6
2013	Copa Sudamericana	Q1		Deportivo Pasto	2–0	0–3	2–3
2015	Copa Sudamericana	Q1		Junior	4–0	0–5	4–5
2016	Copa Libertadores	Group Stage		Atlético Mineiro	1–2	0–4	Fourth place
				Independiente del Valle	0–1	0–2
				Colo-Colo	1–2	0–1
2017	Copa Libertadores	Group Stage		Emelec	1–0	0–3	Fourth place
				Independiente Medellín	1–2	0–2
				River Plate	2–3	2–4
2018	Copa Libertadores	Second Stage		Santiago Wanderers	0–1	1–1	1–2
2019	Copa Libertadores	Second Stage		Universidad de Chile	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Third Stage		Caracas	2–0	1–2	3–2
		Group Stage		San Lorenzo	0–0	0–2	Third place
				Junior	1–0	1–0
				Palmeiras	0–4	0–3
	Copa Sudamericana	Q2		Universidad Católica	0–0	0–6	0–6
2020	Copa Sudamericana	Q1		Nacional Potosí	0–2	2–0	2–2 (4–3 p)
		Q2		Bahia	1–0	0–4	1–4
2021	Copa Sudamericana	Q1		Carlos A. Mannucci	3–2	2–1	5–3
		Group Stage		Metropolitanos	0–0	3–2	Second place
				Aucas	2–0	1–2
				Athletico Paranaense	1–0	0–1
2022	Copa Sudamericana	Q1		Cienciano	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Group Stage		Cuiabá	3–1	0–2	First place
				River Plate (Uru)	2–0	2–1
				Racing Club	3–1	0–1
		Round 16		Deportivo Cali	2–1	0–0	2–1
		Quarter-finals		Internacional	0–0	0–0 (3–1 p)	0–0(3–1 p)
		Semi-finals		Independiente del Valle	0–3	0–3	0–6

Current squad

As of 3 August 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  PER Ricardo Farro 2 DF  ARG Leonel Galeano 4 DF  PER Alejandro Ramos 5 DF  PER Alec Deneumostier 6 DF  PER José Luján 7 FW  ARG Cristian Bordacahar 9 FW  ARG Bernardo Cuesta (captain) 10 MF  PER Joel Sánchez 11 MF  ARG Martín Pérez Guedes 12 GK  PER Carlos Cáceda 13 MF  PER Freddy Oncoy 14 FW  PER Jhonny Vidales 15 FW  PER Bruno Portugal 16 FW  PER Luis Iberico 17 MF  PER Jean Pierre Archimbaud

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  PER Nicolás Figueroa 19 DF  PER Paolo Reyna 21 GK  PER Jorge Cabezudo 22 MF  ARG Horacio Orzán 23 DF  PER Diego Rodríguez 24 MF  PER Walter Tandazo 25 MF  PER Jefferson Caceres 26 MF  PER Kenji Cabrera 27 FW  PER Kevin Quevedo 28 MF  PER Alexis Arias 29 DF  PER Pedro Ibañez 31 GK  PER Ricardo Bettocchi 32 MF  PER Marcelo Cervantes 33 DF  PER Matias Lazo

Notable players

• Eduardo Márquez
• Armando Palacios
• Genaro Neyra
• Ernesto Neyra
• Raúl Obando
• Gustavo Bobadilla
• Walter Zevallos
• Ysrael Zúñiga
• Bernardo Cuesta
• Omar Fernández

Historical list of coaches

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Foot Ball Club Melgar.

• Arequipa
• Mariano Melgar
• List of Peruvian Stadiums
• Peru national football team

References

External links

• Official Melgar fans site (in Spanish)

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