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Club Santos Laguna is a Mexican football club. They represent the urban area of Comarca Lagunera

Comarca Lagunera

The Comarca Lagunera is the 9th largest metropolitan area in Mexico, and is located between two states, Coahuila and Durango.-Geography:The Comarca Lagunera is formed by 15 municipios; 5 in Coahuila The Comarca Lagunera is the 9th largest metropolitan area in Mexico, and is located between two...

, which is made up of Torreón

Torreón

Torreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent Durango,...

, Gomez Palacio

Gómez Palacio

Gómez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipality in northeastern Durango, Mexico, located at 25°33′40″N 103°29′54"W adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila...

, and Lerdo

Lerdo

Ciudad Lerdo is a small city in the northeastern portion of the Mexican state of Durango. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....

. Santos Laguna currently plays in the Primera División

Primera División de México

The Primera División Profesional , known simply as the Primera División, is the top level of the Mexican football league system and is administered by the Mexican Football Federation. It was established in 1943 and as of 2011 has 18 clubs. Up to June 2011, it was divided into three groups competing...

. The club was founded in 1982, and reached Mexico's top division after buying the franchise belonging to the Ángeles de Puebla

Angeles de Puebla

Club Angels of Puebla was a football team that played in Primera División de México and in Primera División A, it had its home in the city of Puebla de Zaragoza in México.The team was founded in the years 1984 - 85 after the purchase of the Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec franchise. This team did not have...

. The club's debut in Mexico's top division was in the 1988/89 tournament. They have won the league championship three times: first in the Invierno 1996 tournament, second in the Verano 2001 tournament, and most recently in the Clausura 2008

Primera División de México Clausura 2008

Primera División de México Clausura 2008 was a Mexican football tournament - the second of two tournaments held in the 2007/2008 season. It began January 18, 2008 and ran until June 1, 2008. Veracruz and Morelia inaugurated the season, with Morelia winning 1-0...

tournament. They have also reached the finals in the 1993–1994

Primera División de México 1993–94

-Group 1:-Group 2:-Group 3:-Group 4:-Repechaje round:*Necaxa 0-2 ; 2-2 América*Morelia 2-2 ; 3-2 Guadalajara-Quarterfinal:*Morelia 0-3 ; 0-3 U.A.G.*América 1-1 ; 2-1 Cruz Azul*Atlante 1-1 ; 2-3 Toluca...

season, the Verano 2000 tournament, the Bicentenario 2010 tournament, and the 2010 Apertura.

1993–94 Runner-up

In the first leg the team defeated Tecos UAG 1–0 in Corona Stadium; in the second leg it lost 2–0 in 3 de Marzo Stadium.

Squad

Adrián Marmolejo Ramón Ramírez

Ramón Ramírez

Jesús Ramón Ramírez Ceceña is a retiredMexican footballer. He is one of the all-time most capped players for the Mexican national football team, and last played as a midfielder for Chivas USA in the Major League Soccer .Ramirez was meant to be one of the best Mexican players since Hugo Sánchez,...

Hector Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile....

Diego Silva Antonio Apud Nieva Daniel Guzmán

Daniel Guzmán

Daniel Guzmán is a retired Mexican professional footballer, who is the former coach of the first division Mexican teams Tigres and Santos.-External links: *...

Richard Zambrano

Luis Richard Zambrano Chávez is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a striker during his career. He obtained a total number of eight caps for the Chilean national side...

Felipe de Jesús Amezcua Jose Antonio Alcantara Jesús Gómez Ricardo Wagner de Souza

Invierno 1996 Champions

In the Invierno of 1996 Santos Laguna won its first title, defeating Necaxa

Necaxa

Necaxa is a Mexican football club and is based in the city of Aguascalientes. it plays in the Estadio Victoria. Necaxa is ranked seventh overall and 1st in ranking in Mexican football within the IFFHS Central and North America's Clubs of the Century in the CONCACAF behind CD Saprissa San Juan de...

4–3 on aggregate (first leg 0–1, second leg 4–2). The winning goal is still controversial, as the team's detractors assert that the scorer (Jared Borgetti

Jared Borgetti

Jared Francisco Borgetti Echavarría is a retired Mexican footballer. Borgetti is the all-time leading goal scorer for the Mexican national team, with 46 goals. A prolific goal scorer at both club and national level, Borgetti was renowned for his heading ability...

) was off-side.

Squad

Jose Miguel Francisco Gabriel de Anda Pedro Muñoz Jose Guadalupe Rubio Ricardo Wagner de Souza Nicolás Ramírez Miguel España Benjamín Galindo

Benjamín Galindo

Benjamín Galindo Marentes was a Mexican footballer. He participated with the national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.-Coaching career:...

Héctor Adomaitis Jared Borgetti

Jared Borgetti

Gabriel Caballero

Gabriel Esteban Caballero Schiker Gabriel Esteban Caballero Schiker Gabriel Esteban Caballero Schiker (born 5 February 1971 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina is a Mexican footballer midfielder, who last played for Pachuca in the Mexican First Division and is now the assistant coach of C.F...

Verano 2001 Champions

In the Verano of 2001 Santos Laguna won its second title, 4–3 on aggregate (first leg 1–2, second leg 3–1)
against Pachuca

Pachuca

Pachuca, formally Pachuca de Soto is the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca de Soto is also the name of the municipality of which the city serves as municipal seat...

Squad

Adrián Martínez

Adrian Martínez

Adrián Martínez Flores is a Mexican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Irapuato FC.He previously played for San Luis F.C. in the Primera Division de Mexico....

Héctor Altamirano

Héctor "El Pity" Altamirano Escudero is a Mexican footballer. He usually plays the position of right midfielder...

Héctor López

Miguel Ángel Carreón Mariano Trujillo

Mariano Trujillo

Mariano Trujillo is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.-Professional:...

Carlos Cariño Luis Romero Johan Rodríguez

Johan Rodríguez

Joahan Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez is a retired Mexican football midfielder. He played for Cruz Azul, Santos, Necaxa, Monarcas and lastly Queretaro FC. He has a twin brother named Omar who also played football....

Rodrigo "El Pony" Ruiz

Rodrigo Ruiz

Rodrigo Patricio Ruiz de Barbieri is a Mexican-Chilean footballer. He played for Unión Española, Toros Neza, Santos Laguna, CD Veracruz, and now plays for Estudiantes Tecos of the Primera División de México...

Joaquín Reyes Chávez Jared Borgetti

Jared Borgetti

Carlos Augusto Gomes "Guto" Robson Luiz Luis Fernando Soto Ignacio Vázquez Enrique Vizcarra

History

Club Santos Laguna was founded in 1982 under the auspices of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) of the State of Durango. IMSS Santos Laguna was the first official name of this team, which was founded and hosted in his first season with the Mexican Social Security Institute and that is where its origins.

Since the late seventies, the IMSS organized a national football tournament, with teams representing different parts of the country attended these competitions for five consecutive years, the hometown of Gomez Palacio

Gómez Palacio

Gómez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipality in northeastern Durango, Mexico, located at 25°33′40″N 103°29′54"W adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila...

, a team that won several championships and always left a good impression , this group of players who mostly played on the team, "Asturias" Gomezpalatinian League were represented at the IMSS base for their city.

Jose Diaz Couder, as head of social services in the IMSS Gomez Palacio, was invited to participate in those tournaments without having its own team, drew on the expertise to shape a team, building on the Asturias. Regularly results were good, so the insistence of Diaz Couder with senior management of the Institute to send a franchise of the second division to La Laguna.

In 1982, Tuberos de Veracruz, forming part of the Second Division "B" of Mexican soccer disappeared, giving the franchise to IMSS, one to his collection, as they had several, the most important and Oaxtepec Atlante. That franchise was offered in the last minute to Gomez Palacio, but with time running out and little infrastructure declined to accept and went to Santa Cruz, Tlaxcala, a small town, where Social Security is the resort located in La Trinidad , with a good stage there arose the first Santos Laguna, a name taken by the town, Santa Cruz, its people thus were Santos Laguna.

With poor results, the team only spent a year in Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala is one of the 31 states which along with the Federal District comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipalities and its capital city is Tlaxcala....

and by the end of 1983 it was resolved that at the end of the season, the team would migrate to Comarca Lagunera

Comarca Lagunera

.

Jose Diaz Couder, Sports Coordinator of the IMSS in Gomez Palacio, received the news from Professor Lorenzo García González, Director of Soccer Schools and Social Security of Mr. Juan Antonio Carranza, Assistant Director of Corporate Services of the IMSS, so spread Diaz Couder news and chained to the Shire Santos Laguna.

A lack of facilities in Gomez Palacio, began efforts to get Moctezuma Stadium in Torreon, owned by John Abusaid, thanks to an agreement the Saints could have since then his house in the now defunct first Estadio Corona

Estadio Corona

The Estadio Corona was one of the smallest football stadiums in Mexico having only capacity for 20,100 seats. It was located in the city of Torreón, Coahuila. This sport facility was used mostly for football games and was the home of the club Santos Laguna...

.

The team was taking shape and Juan Manuel Ramírez Meza "Jainel" was the one who started with workouts, however they do not have "license" to lead in professional football, had to resort to Don Grimaldo Gonzalez, but did not have his naturalization could run as a foreigner in the lower divisions and that was when Fernando Zamora came to be the coach of the team, sitting just a few days before the start of the tournament.

The only reinforcement that came with experience as a professional was the harrier Carlos Gonzalez, who had debuted years ago with the Green Wave, old equipment neighboring towns, the rest of the players were those who represented the IMSS Gómez Palacio for years. With the aim of spreading the sport and health, the Santos team began recruiting players from the region and enrolled in professional football to establish a new circuit between the second and third divisions that the Mexican Football Federation called "II B" . Short has won 3 championships.

Second Division "B"

On September 4, 1983 the Warriors played their first game with his name Santos Laguna, winning 2 goals to 0 against the Second Division Bachilleres with annotations Leobardo Avalos and Jose Luis Hernandez. A year later, on July 8 and being champions of the Second Division "B", the Warriors defeated in the final of the Champion of Champions at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in the two games by a score 1–0. Both teams reached the Second Division "A ".

Second Division "A"

Santos Laguna changed owners, when the IMSS decided to get rid of all the professional clubs, so entrepreneur harrier Salvador Necochea Sagui bought the club. Warriors in their first year in the Second Division "A" fought to save himself in the league for non-drop, which succeeded thanks to 3 wins, 2 draws and only one defeat, the players featured were William "The Clash" Galindo, Carlos González

Carlos González

Carlos González may refer to:*Carlos González , Venezuelan-born baseball player*Carlos González , Mexican boxer*Carlos González , Mexican football player*Carlos González , Mexican football player...

, Julio Cesar Armendariz, Tomas Moreno and Fernando de la Rosa.

In 1985, the Guerreros earned the nickname after the campaign began with bad results, changed technical and managed to reach the 10° position of the table, not just that the fans began to grow in number and also achieved have its own stadium when the owners bought the old Estadio Corona.

In 1986, there were several changes to the team, previous first coat was replaced by the current shield the idea was the then owner Salvador Necochea, the latter was first played in the uniform settlement in green and white stripes and third at last a league ranked by the rise when 4 dates to finish the regular season defeat to Santos Laguna Tepic by a score of 1:0 and gets the lead in the Second Division "A".

In 1987, the Guerreros returned to be leaders and scored again at 4 days to finish the regular season, however, despite only having lost a home game in the tournament Santos Laguna went back to the shore in their struggle to ascend to the Mexican First Division

Primera División de México

.

Of the 18 founding clubs of the new professional circuit in the Second Division "B", only two made it to the first division, the Correcaminos UAT

Correcaminos UAT

Correcaminos de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas is an association football team from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas that currently plays in the Primera Division A. The team was founded in 1980, Correcaminos played in the Primera Division De Mexico in the 1986-1987 season. They play in the Marte R...

and Santos Laguna. Although the Roadrunners as monarchs of the second, moved up 87–88, after eight seasons of staggering, fell to the new branch promotion dubbed Primera A, which is still struggling to return.

Instead, the Guerreros arrived at the maximum circuit for the purchase of the franchise Angeles de Puebla

Angeles de Puebla

and justified his rise over time because not won on the field becoming 15 years in a successful club it is today.

Early years in First Division

Santos Laguna was promoted in 1988 to buy the franchise of Angeles de Puebla

Angeles de Puebla

and although it was not sporting manner as warriors with reinforcements Wilson Graniolatti, Martin Zuniga

Martín Zúñiga

Martín Zúñiga was a Mexican soccer goalkeeper, who last played for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer....

and Miguel Herrera

Miguel Herrera

Miguel Ernesto Herrera Aguirre is a retired football defender and the head coach of Club América. He was born in Cuatepec, Hidalgo, México.-Club career:...

gave a good image in the Cup Tournament with 3 wins, 4 draws and one defeat. Santos Laguna in this tournament began with a tie at 1 as against Atlético Morelia, and scoring the first goal in the first division Lucas Ochoa. Warriors in the hands of Carlos (the banana) Ortiz would be saved from falling, when, thanks to two goals from Miguel Herrera, Santos Laguna defeated Atletico Potosino 3:1 Potosino in Week 34.

In 1991, the company Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico, It has 63% of the Mexican beer market, and exports beer to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada . Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico...

became majority shareholder of the club. That same year would mean one of the saddest for Santos Laguna when Roberto Matos save the Warriors in the last round thanks to a miraculous 0:0 tie against Atlético Morelia, young Ramon Ramirez also make his debut in First Division scored in the Chivas de Guadalajara. In late 1992, the club gets hit very hard by the death of its president, Armando Navarro Gazcón, who perished along with his wife in a car accident.

In 1993 begins the ascent sports club with the arrival of President Alberto Canedo and Chilean coach Pedro Garcia, who after finishing the 1991–1992 season indicated to the local press newspaper Noticias El Sol de La Laguna continue only on the computer if you gave players to be within the top 10 in Mexico and it was. There was a strong investment between Ruben Martinez stressed reinforcements who arrived after being crowned three-time scoring in Chile and achieved the championship in the Libertadores Cup in 1991, the Recopa Sudamericana in 1991 and in 1992 with the Chilean Colo-Colo

Colo-Colo

Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean football club based in the commune of Macul, Santiago. It competes in the Primera División, the top-flight football league in the country, from which they have never been relegated. Their home ground is the Estadio Monumental David Arellano.Colo-Colo...

, Antonio Apud (who was injured in his right knee before his arrival but I get to wear the Argentina

Argentina national football team

The Argentina national football team represents Argentina in association football and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association , the governing body for football in Argentina. Argentina's home stadium is Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti and their head coach is Alejandro...

jersey.), Daniel Guzmán

Daniel Guzmán

Daniel Guzmán is a retired Mexican professional footballer, who is the former coach of the first division Mexican teams Tigres and Santos.-External links: *...

, Olaf Heredia

Olaf Heredia

Olaf Heredia is a Mexican football goalkeeper who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Tigres de la UANL.-External links:*...

, Diego Silva

Diego Silva

Diego Pelicles da Silva is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Muharraq Club.-Biography:Born in Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, Diego started his career at hometown club América . He played twice in 2003 Copa do Brasil. He finished as the runner-up of 2005 Campeonato Brasileiro Série...

, Héctor Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile....

(a young man who came to be a stranger and national football eventually became a benchmark of soccer in the Comarca Lagunera) and Richard Zambrano

Richard Zambrano

Luis Richard Zambrano Chávez is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a striker during his career. He obtained a total number of eight caps for the Chilean national side...

, who joined the players who came from the second division as Guadalupe Rubio and Pedro Muñoz

Pedro Muñoz

Pedro Muñoz is a municipality in the autonomous community named Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It lies in the province of Ciudad Real, in the extreme northeast of the province on right basin of the Záncara river. It is in the La Mancha region, in the "Mancha Alta" sub-region...

. This season was achieved for the first time qualifying for the playoffs in the first division and reached the final in their tenth anniversary of the foundation, which lost in overtime to Tecos UAG.

Current years

Champions of Clausura 2008

Primera División de México Clausura 2008

In the Clausura 2007 season, Santos was in grave danger of being relegated to the Primera División A along with other teams Querétaro

Querétaro FC

Querétaro Fútbol Club, is a Mexican professional football club based in the city of Querétaro, Mexico. Queretaro plays in the Primera División of Mexican football league system, after being promoted at the end of the 2008-2009 season from the Primera División A...

and Tigres UANL. Despite having bought several important players such as Oswaldo Sánchez

Oswaldo Sánchez

Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra is a Mexican footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper for Santos Laguna in the Mexican Primera Division, where he is also the team captain. He has 99 caps for Mexico.-Early career:...

, Daniel Ludueña

Daniel Ludueña

Daniel Emmanuel Ludueña is an Argentine football attacking midfielder better known as "El Hachita", who currently plays with Santos Laguna in Primera División de México...

and Vicente Matías Vuoso

Vicente Matías Vuoso

Vicente José Matías Vuoso is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as a striker for América.-Early Career:Matías Vuoso began his career in Argentina with Independiente. Playing alongside Diego Forlán, Vicente scored seven goals in 29 games for Independiente in 2000-01 and another seven in 35...

, the team lost five games of their first seven. However, the team managed to keep a steady pace and scored 22 points during the season. They were benefited by the "20/11 rule", which made Querétaro

Querétaro FC

lose three points for not using enough players under 20 years, 11 months. Thanks to this, Santos remained in the Primera División

Primera División de México

. Not only did they save themselves from relegation, but they made enough points to play the repechage

Repechage

Repechage is a practice amongst ladder competitions that allows participants that failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round.- Types of repechage :...

. There they would face the preferable San Luis to whom they had lost the 1st leg 1–0 at home, but miraculously came from behind and won the 2nd leg 2–0, thus eliminating San Luis. In the quarter finals, Santos would lose to the champion of the season, Pachuca in a global score of 2–2 eliminating Santos for the positioning on the table.

The Apertura 2007 season was a much better season for Santos leaving them first place on the regular season standings, eliminating Monarcas Morelia with a global score of 5–2 in the quarter-finals, but they were defeated by Pumas UNAM with a global score of 5–4 in the semi-finals.

Clausura 2008 Champions

In the Clausura 2008 season Santos would come out champion by defeating Monterrey in the semi-finals with a last minute goal, and finally Cruz Azul by an aggregate score of 3–2.

Torneo Bicentenario

They were runners up on this tournament. They played after the FC Toluca. On the first game, the final score was 1–1 with a goal of Vicente Matias Vuoso. On the second game the scored was tied 0–0 and on the penalty kicks, Santos was 2 penalties ahead of Toluca, the ones that scored the penalties were: Lacerda, Chato and Ludueña, what Santos only neded to do was to score a goal and the championship was for them, but Vuoso tried to get the goal in the left but was far of the goal, then toluca scored, then Morales did the same than Vuoso but for the right side, the penalty kicks were 3–3, then Arce failed the shoot, and the Toluca scored, leaving the Santos in the second place.

Stadium

Santos Laguna currently play at Estadio Nuevo Corona

Estadio Nuevo Corona

Estadio Corona is a stadium in Torreón, Coahuila, México, and the home stadium of Santos Laguna of Primera División de México. Completed in 2009, it has a standard capacity of 30,000, with 20,000 for special events. The stadium's total cost was $100 million USD. The stadium replaced the older...

, which holds 30,050 people. The new stadium cost $100,000,000 USD. Construction started on February 22, 2008. On November 11, 2009 the new stadium opened its doors hosting a friendly match between Santos Laguna and Santos FC, of the Brazilian Série A. The sold out crowd included Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, and Brazilian legend, Pelé. Santos Laguna won 2–1.

Business

On December 9, 2010, Santos formed a partnership with Scottish giants Celtic

Celtic F.C.

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

Honours

Primera División de México
Primera División de México
The Primera División Profesional , known simply as the Primera División, is the top level of the Mexican football league system and is administered by the Mexican Football Federation. It was established in 1943 and as of 2011 has 18 clubs. Up to June 2011, it was divided into three groups competing...

: 3

Invierno 1996, Verano 2001, Clausura 2008

Runner-up (4): 1993–94, Verano 2000, Bicentenario 2010, Apertura 2010

Interliga
InterLiga
The InterLiga was a football competition from 2004 to 2010 between Mexican clubs to determine qualifying spots for that country in South America's premier club competition, the Copa Libertadores....

: 1

2004

Copa Independencia
Copa Independencia
The inaugural Copa Independencia tournament was held on September 26, 2007 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The tournament featured clubs from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico....

: 1

2007

Current squad

For recent transfers, see List of Mexican Football Transfers Summer 2011.
As of June 9, 2011

Out on loan

Notable players

Héctor Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile....

(El Ruso) Antonio Apud Antonio Apud Nieva (El Turco) Martin Boasso

Martín Boasso

Martín Mariano Boasso is an Argentine naturalized Mexican footballer.- External links :...

"(El Tincho)" Mauricio Caranta

Mauricio Caranta

Maurico Ariel Caranta is an Argentine footballer goalkeeper who plays for Lanús.-Career:Caranta started his career with Instituto de Córdoba in 1999. He helped Instituto to win the Primera B Nacional Apertura in the 2003-04 season and promotion to the Primera División at the end of the 2003-04...

Hugo Norberto Castillo (El Misionero) Walter Jiménez

Walter Jiménez

Walter Adrián Jiménez is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for Puebla FC in the Primera División de Mexico.-Club:Santos Laguna* Primera División de México - Clausura 2008...

(El Lorito) Cristian Lucchetti

Cristian Lucchetti

Cristian David Lucchetti is an Argentine football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Banfield in the Argentine Primera División.-Career:...

(El Aucha)

Daniel Ludueña

Daniel Emmanuel Ludueña is an Argentine football attacking midfielder better known as "El Hachita", who currently plays with Santos Laguna in Primera División de México...

(El Hachita) Fernando Ortiz

Fernando Ortiz (footballer)

Fernando Ortiz is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for Vélez Sársfield in the Argentine Primera División.-Career:...

(El Tano) Sixto Peralta

Sixto Peralta

Sixto Raimundo "Mumo" Peralta Salso is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for CFR Cluj.- Career :He made his professional debut against Lanús, 23 August 1996...

(El Mumo) Sergio Verdirame

Sergio Verdirame

Sergio Verdirame is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina, Chile and Mexico....

Antonio Carlos Santos

Antônio Carlos Santos

Antônio Carlos Santos is a retired Brazilian footballer who played the bulk of his career for Club América in Mexico City...

Júnior César

Júnior César Eduardo Machado

Júnior César Eduardo Machado or simply Júnior César , is a Brazilian left back who currently plays for Flamengo.-Career statistics:according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website and Flaestatística....

Ricardo Wagner de Souza Robson Luiz Veiga Fabián Estay Cristián Montecinos

Cristian Montecinos

Cristian Antonio Montecinos González a retired Chilean football player who played for a number of teams in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and also in the United Arab Emirates, as well as playing for national team.-Club career:...

Rodrigo Ruiz

(El Pony) Richard Zambrano

Richard Zambrano

Luis Richard Zambrano Chávez is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a striker during his career. He obtained a total number of eight caps for the Chilean national side...

Miguel Asprilla Carlos Darwin Quintero

Carlos Quintero

Carlos Darwin Quintero Villalba is a Colombian football striker, currently playing for Santos Laguna in the Primera Division de Mexico....

(El Cientifico del Gol)
Elvis Brajkovic

Elvis Brajkovic

Elvis Brajković is a retired Croatian football player.He played for several clubs, including NK Rijeka, 1860 München , Hellas Verona F.C. , Hajduk Split, NK Pomorac and HNK Sibenik...

Christian Benítez (Chucho) Edison Mendez

Edison Méndez

Édison Vicente Méndez Méndez is an Ecuadorian football midfielder who plays for Emelec and the Ecuadorian national team.-Playing style:...

(Kinito) Pedro Quiñónez

Pedro Quiñónez

Pedro Ángel Quiñónez Rodríguez is an Ecuadorian footballer. He currently plays for Emelec.-Club career:Quiñónez signed with El Nacional at the age of 16. He played for the clubs Sub 16, Sub 18, and Sub 20 team before finally getting a senior team cap in 2004...

Mauricio Cienfuegos

Mauricio Cienfuegos is a retired Salvadoran soccer player.-Club career:Cienfuegos began his professional career in 1985 with Racing Junior...

Martín Machón

Martín Alejandro Machón Guerra is a Guatemalan former professional footballer.He played mostly in the midfield for local club Comunicaciones and Major League Soccer clubs Los Angeles Galaxy and Miami Fusion, and also became a member of the Guatemala national team, which he represented during three...

Dolmo Flores Juan Flores

Juan Flores

Juan Flores was a 19th century Californio bandit who, with Pancho Daniel, led an outlaw gang known as "las Manillas" and later as the Flores Daniel Gang, throughout Southern California during 1856-1857...

Mauro Camoranesi

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(El Cholo) Héctor Altamirano

Héctor Altamirano

Héctor "El Pity" Altamirano Escudero is a Mexican footballer. He usually plays the position of right midfielder...

(El Piti) Fernando Arce

Fernando Arce

Fernando Enrique Arce Ruiz is a Mexican international football midfielder. He currently plays for Xolos de Tijuana in Mexico.-Club career :...

Cuauhtemoc Blanco

Cuauhtémoc Blanco

Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo is a Mexican professional footballer currently signed for Irapuato in the Mexican Liga de Ascenso.Known for his aggressive yet charismatic personality on the field, playing most of his career as a deep-lying forward and his last years as an attacking midfielder...

(El Temo) Jared Borgetti

Jared Borgetti

(El Zorro del Desierto)

Gabriel Caballero

Francisco Gabriel de Anda Miguel España Jorge Iván Estrada

Jorge Iván Estrada

Jorge Iván Estrada Manjarrez is a Mexican professional footballer, currently playing as a defender for Santos, wearing jersey #4. He made his debut October 20, 2004 against Pachuca, a game which resulted in a 1-0 loss for, his then-team, Dorados de Sinaloa...

(El Guti) Benjamín Galindo

Benjamín Galindo

Benjamín Galindo Marentes was a Mexican footballer. He participated with the national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.-Coaching career:...

(El Maestro) Jesus Gomez

Jesús Gómez

Jesús Gómez Portugal Montenegro is an equestrian from Mexico and Olympic medalist.-References:*Sports-Reference...

Daniel Guzmán

Daniel Guzmán is a retired Mexican professional footballer, who is the former coach of the first division Mexican teams Tigres and Santos.-External links: *...

(El Travieso) Miguel Herrera

Miguel Herrera

Miguel Ernesto Herrera Aguirre is a retired football defender and the head coach of Club América. He was born in Cuatepec, Hidalgo, México.-Club career:...

(El Piojo) Eduardo Lillingston

Eduardo Lillingston

Eduardo Fabián Lillingston García is a Mexican footballer player who plays for Estudiantes Tecos in the Primera División de México.-Club:...

(El Monstruo de Zapopan) Hector Lopez

Héctor López

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"(El Toto)"
Adrian Martínez

Adrian Martínez

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(El Grande) Rafael Medina

Rafael Medina

Rafael Medina Rodríguez is a Mexican professional footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for Tecos UAG, wearing jersey #15. He made his debut July 22, 2001 with La Piedad against CD Guadalajara. A game which resulted in a 1-1 tie.-External links:*...

Luis Ernesto Michel

Luis Ernesto Michel Vergara is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays in Guadalajara of Primera División de México as a goalkeeper. Michel stands at and weighs 75 kilos.-Club career:...

Carlos Morales Pedro Muñoz José Antonio Noriega

José Antonio Noriega

José Antonio Noriega known as El Tato Noriega is a former Mexican footballer who played 14 years for various clubs in the Primera División de México. Noriega played with seven different clubs in Mexico, his most years coming with Monterrey. Noriega played for the Mexico national football team in...

(El Tato) Nicolas Ramírez

Nicolás Ramírez

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Ramón Ramírez

Joaquín Reyes Johan Rodríguez

Johan Rodríguez

Jorge Rodríguez

Jorge Rodríguez (footballer)

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Juan Pablo Rodríguez

Juan Pablo Rodriguez

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(El Chato) Oswaldo Sánchez

Oswaldo Sánchez

(San Oswaldo) Mariano Trujillo

Mariano Trujillo

Mariano Trujillo is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.-Professional:...

Vicente Matías Vuoso

(El Toro) Felipe Baloy

Felipe Baloy

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Denis Caniza Hugo Ovelar

Hugo Ovelar

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Luis Romero

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Javier Manjarin

Edgar Castillo (El Homie)

Club records

{| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;margin-left:1em"
|-
| bgcolor="#04B404" align="center" colspan="5"|Santos Laguna Top Scorers
|-
!Rank
!Player
!Goals
|-
|1 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Jared Borgetti

|| 189
|-
|2 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Vicente Matías Vuoso
Vicente Matías Vuoso
Vicente José Matías Vuoso is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as a striker for América.-Early Career:Matías Vuoso began his career in Argentina with Independiente. Playing alongside Diego Forlán, Vicente scored seven goals in 29 games for Independiente in 2000-01 and another seven in 35...

|| 94
|-
|3||style="text-align:left;"|

Rodrigo Ruiz
Rodrigo Ruiz
Rodrigo Patricio Ruiz de Barbieri is a Mexican-Chilean footballer. He played for Unión Española, Toros Neza, Santos Laguna, CD Veracruz, and now plays for Estudiantes Tecos of the Primera División de México...

|| 59
|-
|4 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Daniel Ludueña
Daniel Ludueña
Daniel Emmanuel Ludueña is an Argentine football attacking midfielder better known as "El Hachita", who currently plays with Santos Laguna in Primera División de México...

|| 54
|-
|5 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Christian Benítez || 51
|-
|6 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Héctor Altamirano
Héctor Altamirano
Héctor "El Pity" Altamirano Escudero is a Mexican footballer. He usually plays the position of right midfielder...

|| 37
|-
|7 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Johan Rodríguez

|| 31
|-
|8 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Héctor Adomaitis

Héctor Adomaitis is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile....

|| 30
|-
|9 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Juan Flores|| 29
|-
|10 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Gabriel Caballero

|| 27
|}

Players in bold are currently active with Santos Laguna
Players in italic are still active but are not currently with Santos Laguna

{| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;margin-left:1em"
|-
| bgcolor="#04B404" align="center" colspan="5"|Santos Laguna Most Appearances
|-
!Rank
!Player
!Games
|-
|1 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Jared Borgetti

|| 311
|-
|2 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Carlos Cariño|| 251
|-
|4 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Pedro Muñoz || 241
|-
|5 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Héctor Altamirano
Héctor Altamirano
Héctor "El Pity" Altamirano Escudero is a Mexican footballer. He usually plays the position of right midfielder...

|| 237
|-
|6 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Adrian Martinez
Adrian Martínez
Adrián Martínez Flores is a Mexican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Irapuato FC.He previously played for San Luis F.C. in the Primera Division de Mexico....

|| 223
|-
|8 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Johan Rodríguez

|| 204
|-
|9 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Jorge Alberto Campos|| 194
|-
|10 ||style="text-align:left;"|

Miguel España|| 187
|}

Players in bold are currently active with Santos Laguna
Players in italics are still active but not currently with Santos Laguna

All goals and appearances correct as of April 30th, 2011
All goals and appearances counted for the domestic league only.

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