C.D. Municipal Limeño

Municipal Limeño

Full name	Club Deportivo Municipal Limeño
Nickname(s)	Los Chancheros Santarroseños Cucheros
Founded	11 September 1949
Ground	Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, Santa Rosa de Lima
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Romulo Gomez
Manager	Carlos Romero
League	Liga de Plata Salvadoreña
Apertura 2015	Apertura 2015 Grupo "B"
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Municipal Limeño is a Salvadoran football club based in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union, El Salvador. The club currently participates in the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. Their home stadium is Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, with a capacity of 5,000.

History

The club was founded on 11 September 1949 and started and continue to be based in the town of Santa Rosa de Lima in the department of La Union. The club began playing in the second division and spent almost twenty years there until in 1971 Municipal Limeño got promoted to the top flight at the expense of UCA.

First tenure in the first division (1972–1975)

Municipal Limeño campaign of the 1972 season was exceptional one for a newly promoted team with them coming in sixth place with sixteen points their team was lead strongly by the Guatemalan Tomas Gambo, who scored five goals (the team leading goalscorer) and enabled the club to qualify to the semi final group. However their experience was an unhappy one with the team losing all their games and bowing out of championship contention. Limeno 1973 and 1974 season were unhappy campaign with the team struggling and finishing in the relegation group, however both time the team managed to survive relegation at the expense of Excelsior and Sonsonate. But after several near relegation, Municipal Limeño finally were relegated in the 1975 season after only earning 16 points from 33 games. The club were forced to play a promotion-relegation battle against Once Municipal in which the team lost and were relegated to the second division along with Juventud Olimpico.

Second Tenure in the first division (1993–2005)

It would not be until 1993, 18 years after getting relegated, that they would make a return to the first division. during their second tenure (1993–2005) in the first division they reached the semi finals six times, including reaching the grand final in the apertura 1999 and apertura 2000 under the coaching off Oscar Emigdio Benites however both time the club lost in the grand final against C.D. Águila. They were once again relegated in 2005, after they lost a promotion-relegation match against coca Cola of soyapango.

Third Tenure in the first division (2009–2010)

On 26 June 2009, C.D. Chalatenango going through financial troubles, sold their spot in the Salvadoran Primera División to Limeño. This resulted Municipal Limeño's return to the first division after a four-year absence. However their campaign was an unhappy one with them finishing second last and forcing them to play a promotion/relegation match against Once Municipal which they lost and were relegated to the second division and that's where the club has remained ever since.

Stadium

Municipal Limeño plays their home matches on the Estadio Jose Ramon Flores in the surburb of Santa Rosa de Lima in La Union . The Estadio Jose Ramon Flores has been Municipal Limeño's home stadium since its creation 1963.

Home stadiums

• Estadio Jose Ramon Flores; Santa Rosa de Lima (1963–present)

Honours

Domestic

• Primera División

• Runners-up (2) – Apertura 1999, Apertura 2000

• Segunda Division: 4

• Winners (1) – 1971, 1992, 1993, 2015 Apertura

Current squad

As of 2015: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Abiel Aguilera 2 Cesar Hernandez 3 Mario Machado 4 Kevin Cruz 6 Mario Cruz 7 Heriberto Velasquez 8 Otoniel Lopez Carlos Palacios 9 Jefferson Viveros 10 Luis Barrios 11 Misael Contreras 17 Edwin Hernandez 22 Cristopher Galeas 23 Pastor Melgar 31 Jan Carló Cruz 32 Bryan Hernandez 33 Roberto Alvarez Irving Flores Gilber Alvarez Ramon Valdez

Squad Changes for the Clausura 2016

In:

• Jefferson Viveros – Transferred from Juventud Independiente
• TBD – Transferred from Free Agent

Out:

• TBA – Transferred to TBA

List of coaches

Name	From	To
Juan Francisco Barraza	1974	1975
Luis ``Chispo´´ Santana	1975	1976
Salvador Rivas	1983	1984
Moises Gonzales	1984	TBA
Elmer Rodriguez	1988	TBA
Nelson Brizuela	1993	1994
Henry Vanegas	1997	1997
Oscar Emigdio Benítez	August 1999	December 1999
Ruben Alonso	January 2000	July 2000
Agustín Castillo	August 2000	April 2001
Hernán Carrasco Vivanco	April 2001	July 2001
Kiril Dojcinovski	July 2001	2001
Oscar Emigdio Benítez	2002	May 2002
Omar Sevilla	May 2002	June 2002
Henry Vanegas	June 2002	April 2003
Antonio Carlos Vieira	April 2003	May 2003
Rubén Guevara	June 2003	September 2003
Jorge Alberto García	Oct 2003	June 2004
Ricardo Ortiz "Tato" Ruiz	July 2004	September 2004
Raul Cocherai	September 2004	December 2004
Nelson Brizuela	Jan 2005	2007
Hugo Coria	2006	May 2006
Nelson Brizuela	2006	2007
José Mario Martínez	2008	Nov 2008
Jorge Alberto García	Dec 2008	June 2009
Miguel Aguilar Obando	June 2009	Aug 2009
Víctor Coreas	Aug 2009	Jan 2010
Eraldo Correia	Jan 2010	May 2010
Juan Ramón Paredes	May 2010	August 2010
Carlos Romero	Jan 2011	Dec 2012
Jose Manuel Romero	Jan 2013	Dec 2013
Jose Mario Martinez	Jan 2014	June 2014
Fidel Antonio Bonilla	July 2014	Sep 2014
Esteban Melara	Sep 2014	Feb 2015
David Ramirez	Feb 2015	June 2015
Carlos Romero	June 2015	Present

Winners of Man shot Chart Salvadoran Newspaper

• Magdonio Corrales (Apertura 1999) Goals Scored (9)
• Rudis Corrales (Clausura 2001) Goals Scored (13)

External links

• Information about the club (Spanish)
• Profile at El Grafico (Spanish)