Club de Fútbol Monterrey, often known simply as Monterrey or their nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico. The team currently plays in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Founded on 28 June 1945, it is the oldest active professional team from the northern part of Mexico. Since 1999 the club has been owned by FEMSA, Latin America's largest bottling company. Its home games have been played in the Estadio BBVA since 2015.
Team lineup in 1945.
Portuguese football legend Eusébio briefly played for the club in 1975
Guillermo Franco (pictured in 2010) played a vital role in the club's Clausura 2003 title win.
Monterrey in Clausura 2012
Nuevo León is a state in northeast Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi, and has an extremely narrow international border with the U.S. state of Texas. With a population of 5.78 million people, it is the seventh-most populous federal entity in Mexico and the fourteenth most densely populated as of 2020. Nuevo León is the 13th-largest federal entity in Mexico by area, with a total land area of 64,156 square kilometers.
The Provincias Internas in 1815, showing the territory of Coahuila, the New Kingdom of León, Nuevo Santander, and Texas.
Portrait of Servando Teresa de Mier
Monterrey from Independence Hill, in the rear of the Bishop´s Palace. On stone by F. Swington, colored by G. & W. Edicott, New York, 1847. Depiction of Monterrey under U.S. occupation.
Santiago Vidaurri, governor of Nuevo León and Coahuila (1855–1864)
