Club Deportivo Malacateco-Coatepeque is a
GuatemalaGuatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
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footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club based in
MalacatánMalacatán is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala, located to the west of San Marcos town. It is fairly close to the border with Mexico - the border-crossing point is in the nearby village of El Carmen.-Sports:...
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San MarcosSan Marcos is a department in Guatemala. The capital is the city of San Marcos.-Departmental history:The department was created by a governmental decree on 8 May 1866, together with Huehuetenango, Izabal and Petén departments...
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They play their home games in the
Estadio Santa LucíaEstadio Santa Lucía is a soccer stadium located in Malacatán, Guatemala. It is home to Primera División club Deportivo Malacateco. Its capacity is 7,000 people....
.
History
Nicknamed
Los Toros, the club was founded on 8 September 1962 after a merger of clubs
Morazán,
Interrogación and
Juvenil and by initiative of Humberto Bermúdez, Evelio de León, Felipe Sánchez, José María Munguía, José Rivera, Vicente López and Feliciano Boj. Forty five years later, they earned their historic promotion to
Liga MayorLiga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...
by defeating
Juventud Retalteca Club Social y Deportivo Juventud Retalteca is a Guatemalan professional football club based in Retalhuleu and who compete in the Liga Nacional, the nation's top footballing division. They play their home games at the Estadio Dr...
3-0 (3-2 agg.) in the
Primera División de AscensoThe Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...
2007
Clausura final. This was also the first time in
Primera División de Ascenso history that the same team won both the
Apertura and
Clausura tournaments, thus being automatically promoted without a need of an "extra" game. In 2008, they were relegated to
Primera DivisiónThe Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...
after ending in last place in the
Liga MayorLiga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...
. In 2010, the club returned to the top division in Guatemala.
Carlos Mercedes Vásquez
In November 2010, first team squad member Carlos Mercedes Vásquez was kidnapped and murdered. A note on his body parts claimed he was killed for messing with another man's woman.
Current squad
List of coaches
Francisco "Avioneta" Pineda (1980–81) Paulo César Barros (2007–08) Adán Onelio Paniagua (2009) Franklin Cetre (2009–10)