CSD Municipal
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| Full name | Club Social y Deportivo Municipal |
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| Nickname(s) |
Rojos (Reds) El Mimado de la Aficion (Fans' Pampered Team) Diablos Rojos (Red Devils) |
| Founded | May 17, 1936 |
| Ground | Estadio Manuel Felipe Carrera |
| Capacity | 7,500 |
| Chairman | Gerardo Villa |
| Manager | Gustavo Machaín |
| League | Liga Nacional de Fútbol |
| 2016 Apertura | Runners up |
Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos (the Reds), is a Guatemalan football club based in Guatemala City.
They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top division in the nation, and play their home matches at the Estadio Mateo Flores. 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 29 times; their most recent title came in the 2011 Apertura tournament. They won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1974.
Municipal is the most popular football club in Guatemala and are traditional arch-rivals of club Comunicaciones, who is also located in Guatemala City.
The club was founded on May 17, 1936 by workers of the Ayuntamiento (city hall) of the Guatemala City municipality, hence the name Municipal, earning promotion to the maximum division (then called Liga Capitalina) in 1938. They finished in second place in their debut season, and have since remained in the top division.
The team won its first national league title in the 1942–43 tournament, the first ever official national league championship in Guatemala. They won three of the following six tournaments, the other three being won by Tipografía Nacional, whom which they had their first known rivalry. Municipal were coached by Manuel Felipe Carrera, one of the original founders of the club, and whose name was later given to the stadium where the team currently practices.
During the 1940s and early 1950s, Municipal's most emblematic player was the forward Carlos "Pepino" Toledo, who wore the red shirt throughout his career. He helped the club win their first four league titles, the last of them coming at the 1954–55 tournament, which was Toledo's last year of play. He scored 129 career goals, a total which remains the fourth-highest in the history of the club, and was also one of the first nationwide-recognized players, becoming a member of the national team. Later, he became Municipal's coach.
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