C.S.D. Municipal
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 division in the nation, and play their home matches at the Estadio Mateo Flores.
The club was founded in 1936, and as of 2011, 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 are the nation's most successful team, having won the domestic league 29 times; their most recent title came in the 2011 Apertura tournament. They are the only Guatemalan club ever to win the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, a title they obtained in 1974. That win, as well as their participation in the Copa Interamericana the same year remains the highest international achievement by a Guatemalan club.
Municipal are considered to be the most popular club in Guatemala, and are traditional arch-rivals of club Comunicaciones, who are also located in the capital city.
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Famous quotes containing the word municipal:
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)