Tipografía Nacional (football club)

Infobox Football club
clubname = Tipografía Nacional


fullname = Club de Foot-ball Tipografía Nacional
nickname = "Tip Nac", "Tipógrafos"
shortname = Tip Nac
founded = 1924
ground = Various venues
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Tipografía Nacional (""Tip Nac") is a defunct football club that was based in Guatemala City, Guatemala. It remains the fourth-most successful team in the history of Guatemalan football in terms of national titles won, and was one of the most traditional in the country in the 20th Century. The team was founded in 1924 and was the oldest in the nation's "Liga Mayor / Liga Nacional", the nation's top division. It was named after the national printing house, "Tipografía Nacional".

The team entered the then "Liga Capitalina" in 1928, and won three local titles between 1938 and 1940. Between 1937 and 1941, they had a streak of 51 matches scoring at least one goal.cite web
url=http://www.prensalibre.com/especiales/ME/guatefut/16.html
publisher="Prensa Libre"| title="Guatemala, 100 años de fútbol - Clásicos de antaño" | accessdate=2007-02-22] The team also won three official championships between 1943 and 1953. After Municipal won the first Liga Mayor championship in 1943, Tipografía won back-to-back titles in the 1943 and 1944-45 tournaments, being undefeated during the first one, collecting eight wins and two draws. Tipografía and Municipal engaged in the first known rivalry in the league, which faded after Comunicaciones and Municipal became the two most dominant clubs and each other's arch-rival.

Tipografía also finished as league runner-up once, and won one domestic cup. In 1981, they finished at the bottom of the table, being relegated to the "B" division (now "Primera División"). They earned promotion back to the Liga Mayor after two seasons, but suffered relegation again in the 1992-93 season; due in good part to lack of financial support, [cite web
url=http://www.lahora.com.gt/07-03-01/paginas/deportes.htm#n2
publisher="Diario La Hora"
title="Al rescate de Tipografía Nacional"
accessdate=2007-02-22] the team continued descending to lower categories, until it ultimately disappeared in 2002. [Source: http://www.prensalibre.com.gt/pl/2007/diciembre/30/PDFs/PLMT30122007.PDF]

Its uniform colours were red-and-white vertical striped shirt and blue shorts.

Honours

* "Liga Mayor" titles: 3
**1943, 1944-45, 1952-53

*"Liga Capitalina" titles: 3
**1938, 1939, 1940

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