FBC Melgar

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; 106 years ago
Ground	Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi, ; Arequipa, Peru
Capacity	60,000
Chairman	Ricardo Bettocchi
Manager	Nestor Lorenzo
League	Liga 1
2021	Liga 1, 5th of 18
Website	Club website

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.

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. This championship allowed them to return to the First Division Campeonato Descentralizado where they currently remain.

Melgar won the National Championship in 1981, and Melgar was the runner-up of the national championship in 1983. 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, , 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.

This year, Melgar won the national championship, besting Sporting Cristal with a score in the final minute by Bernardo Cuesta.

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 (2): 1983, 2016

Torneo Apertura:

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[]

Competition	A	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
Copa Libertadores	6	36	10	3	23	29	60
Copa Sudamericana	4	10	4	1	5	9	20
Copa CONMEBOL	1	2	0	0	2	2	6

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

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)
2020	Copa Sudamericana	Q2	Bahia	1–0	0–4	1–4

Current squad[]

As of 21 January 2021

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
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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	FW	PER	Nicolás Figueroa
19	DF	PER	Paolo Reyna
21	GK	PER
22	MF	ARG	Horacio Orzán
23	FW	PER
24	MF	PER	Walter Tandazo
25	MF	PER
26	MF	PER	Kenji Cabrera
27	FW	PER	Kevin Quevedo
28	MF	PER	Alexis Arias
29	DF	PER
30	MF	PER
31	GK	PER
32	MF	PER
33	DF	PER