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| Full name | Foot Ball Club Melgar | |||
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| Nickname(s) | El Dominó (The Domino) Los Rojinegros (The Red-and-Blacks) El León del Sur (The Lion of the South) El Sangre y Luto (Blood and Struggle) | |||
| Founded | 25 March 1915 | |||
| Ground | Estadio Virgen de Chapi | |||
| Capacity | 40,370[1] | |||
| Chairman | Ricardo Bettocchi | |||
| Manager | Walter Ribonetto | |||
| League | Liga 1 | |||
| 2024 | Liga 1, 3rd of 18 | |||
| Website | http://www.fbcmelgar.com.pe | |||
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Foot Ball Club Melgar, known simply as FBC Melgar or Melgar, is a Peruvian professional football club based in Arequipa, Peru. It is one of Peru's oldest football teams, founded in 1915 under the name Juventud Melgar by a group of football enthusiasts from Arequipa.[2][3] The club currently participates in the Peruvian Primera División, the top tier of Peruvian football.
The team first participated in the Peruvian football league in 1919 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. Previously, only teams from Lima and Callao had been allowed to compete for the 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 Primera División where they have remained to this day. Melgar won the Primera División for the first time in 1981 and 2015.
FBC Melgar has had a huge long-standing rivalry with Cienciano of Cusco, known as the Clásico del Sur. The rivalry is one of the fiercest and oldest in Peru. Melgar also has rivalries with FBC Aurora, Sportivo Huracán and FBC Piérola.
The club began playing its home games at the Estadio Mariano Melgar, but moved to the Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi was built in 1990 with a capacity of 40,370. In recent years, Melgar have been considered the fourth best team in Peru, after the big three, Universitario, Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal. Along with a men's team, Melgar also has a women's football team that participates in the Primera División Femenina.
- ^ "Área de Espectadores | IDUNSA". Archived from the original on 4 September 2013.
- ^ "HISTORIA DEL CLUB". fbcmelgar.com.pe. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Ficha técnica de FBC Melgar de Arequipa, campeón del Descentralizado 2015". andina.pe (in Spanish). 2015. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.