- Melgar FBC
Football club infobox
clubname = Melgar
fullname = Foot Ball Club Melgar
nickname = "Los Domino"
founded = 1915
ground =Estadio Mariano Melgar ,Arequipa
capacity = 20,000
chairman = Anibal Calle
manager = Gustavo Bobadilla
league =Primera División Peruana
season = 2007
position = 7th
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leftarm2=FFFFFF|body2=FFFFFF|rightarm2=FFFFFF|shorts2=FFFFFF|socks2=FFFFFFFBC Melgar is a
Peru vian soccer club based inArequipa ,Peru . It is one of Peru's oldest soccer teams, founded onMarch 25 ,1915 by a group of soccer enthusiasts from Arequipa.The team first participated in the Peruvian football league ("Campeonato Descentralizado") in 1919 in
Lima and later was invited to the first truly national championship in 1966, when four teams from outside of the capital city were invited to join the championship, formerly played only by teams from Lima and Callao. Melgar won the Descentralizado championship for the first time in 1981 and again in 1983, but that year the top six teams played an extra short tournament to decide the year's champion and Melgar ended second. The team also won theCopa Peru in 1971, which gave them the right to play in first division.They play their home games at the
Estadio Mariano Melgar , but since theEstadio de la UNSA was built in 1990 with a capacity of 40,000, it has used both. The club uses the smaller stadium because it costs them less to use it.Current Squad
As of January 24, 2008 according to [http://peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2008/01/24/DetalleNoticia99846.asp Futbolperuano.com]
Achievements
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Primera División Peruana :
**Winner (1): 1981 National Champion 11 player of heart**Runner-up (1): 1983
*Copa Peru :
**Winner (1): 1971Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
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Copa Libertadores : 2 appearances::Best: First Round in 1982, 1984*
Copa CONMEBOL : 1 appearance::1998: First Roundee also
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Peru national football team
* List of Peruvian Stadiums
*Arequipa
*Mariano Melgar External links
* [http://www.hinchasfbcmelgar.com/ Official Melgar Fan Home Page] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.geocities.com/fbcmelgar/ Official Melgar F.B.C homepage] (in Spanish)
* [http://fpf.org.pe/ Peruvian Soccer Federation] (in Spanish)
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