CF Pachuca

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Pachuca

  fullname = Club de Futbol Pachuca|

nickname = Tuzos
(Gophers)| founded = 1901| ground = Estadio Hidalgo
Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico|

  capacity = 33,000|
  chairman = José de Jesús Martínez|
  manager  = Enrique Meza|

league = Primera División de México|

  season   = Clausura 2006|

position = Champions|

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leftarm2=000044|body2=000044|rightarm2=000044|shorts2=000044|socks2=FFFFFF|Club de Futbol Pachuca, also known as Pachuca, is a Mexican professional football club which competes in the Primera División de México. It is the oldest team in the league.

CF Pachuca plays in the Mexican city of the same name, the capital of Hidalgo state in central Mexico.

Honours

*League Championships: 7
** 1905, 1918, 1920, Winter 1999, Winter 2001, Open 2003, Closure 2006
*CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1
** 2002
*Primera "A" League Championship: 2
** 1996, Winter 1998

Rivalries

*Pachuca vs. Tigres
** Pachuca gained promotion by elimintating Tigres' affiliate Tigrillos in the promotion final. In First Division, Pachuca has defeated Tigres in the League Final twice at the Estadio Universitario. Because of this, Tigres fans have a sense of rivalry against Pachuca. This rivalry has been recently fueled by the signing of José Luis Trejo as Tigres coach only a day after Pachuca won the Clausura 2006 final, an action that Pachuca considered a "lack of ethics" by Tigres.

History

English miners from the Compañia Real del Monte de Pachuca founded the team in 1901. It is the oldest soccer team in Mexico.

Originally, they practiced soccer only as a pastime during the free time they had while working at the mines. On July 19, 1907 the Primera Liga Mexicana de Futbol was founded with the teams that were founded immediately after Pachuca.

In the 1908 season, a Mexican born player, David Islas, appears for the first time in the ranks of the team.

From 1910 to 1912, the Revolución Mexicana decimates professional soccer in Mexico and only three teams remained. Pachuca was one of them.

By 1915, most of the players on the team were Mexicans.

From 1917 to 1920, Pachuca is champion of the league under British coach Alfred Crowle.

Pachuca disappears during the 1920-1921 Season when most of its players move to Mexico City.

Many years passed by until a second division Segunda División the team was reassembled.

In 1967 the team is crowned champion of the Segunda División and is able to move up to the Primera División. The team fares poorly and returns to the Segunda División in the early 1970s. The Tuzos would have to wait 19 years before being able to return to the Primera División in the 1992-1993 season, where they would struggle to remain and fall back that same season.

The loss of prestige of the Segunda División causes a new division of play to be created. The Primera División A is created in 1994 and the team is a sensation. However, they are unable to crown their efforts and fall to Atletico Celaya in an overtime final.

In the 1995-1996 season, the team becomes champion of the Primera "A" tournament and is enabled to return to the Primera División.

The team struggles yet again, and returns to the Segunda División "A" once more.

After the Femexfut Federacion Mexicana de Futbol splits the calendar into two half-length tournaments, Pachuca becomes champion of the Winter tournament. After defeating Tigrillos in the promotion final, once again, Pachuca returns to the Primera División.

In the 1998-1999 season, the team breaks its own bad streak by defeating Atlante in the Estadio Azteca in front of 30,000 people and avoid returning to the Primera División "A" and for the first time in 30 years remaining in the top league for two consecutive years under coach Javier Aguirre.

In the winter tournament of 1999, Pachuca makes history by crowning itself for the first time since the league become professional. They defeat Cruz Azul in the second leg of the final playoff. Javier Aguirre leads an unexpected team to victory, which culminated with a golden goal scored by Argentinian striker Alejandro Glaria who used his inner thigh to push the ball into the net.

Repeatedly interviewed during quarterfinals and semifinals, Aguirre declared that he never expected to get so far, and originally expected to be on vacations by that point.

As a result of their conquest, the team is invited to participate in the now defunct Copa Merconorte.

With a strong effort from the organization, they manage to keep 85% of the original championship team and by 2001, the Tuzos, again under Javier Aguirre, are finalists in the summer tournament. They fall to Santos Laguna in the Estadio Corona in Torreon,Coahuila.

During that season, the team lost one of its biggest figures when Pablo Hernán Gómez was killed in a car accident on January 29, 2001.

By the end of 2001, Javier Aguirre is chosen by Femexfut to coach the Seleccion Nacional Mexicana (Mexican National Team) which found itself at risk of not qualifying for the FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. The team selects Alfredo Tena to be the new coach. Tena leads the team to the 2001 Winter Tournament Finals where they face UANL Tigres in the Estadio Universitario and conquer their second title.

2001 was also a celebration year for the team. It became the first team to reach 100 years of existence. The team organized a large number of special events, among them the inauguration of a university with a curriculum that revolves entirely around soccer related fields Universidad del Futbol.

In 2003, the team captured yet another championship, again against Tigres, and again in their stadim. This time, the coach was Victor Manuel Vucetich.

In its recent history, Pachuca has become a team to be respected in Mexican soccer.

Recently, the team has devoted more attention to social issues and has failed to make the playoffs liguilla for the second consecutive time. President Jesus Martinez however, has vowed that the team will return to be among the headliners of the Primera División.

As a result of this, Pachuca won the Clausura 2006 championship in a final against Club San Luis. It was the first time that Pachuca won the championship by playing in its stadium. Consequently, Pachuca is the first qualifier to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2007.When Pachuca wins a championship,they would win every 2 years,but failed in Apertura 2005.