Full name | Club de Fútbol Monterrey Rayados, A.C. | |||
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Nickname(s) | Rayados (Striped-Ones) La Pandilla (The Gang) Los Albiazules (The White-and-Blues) | |||
Short name | MTY | |||
Founded | June 28, 1945 | |||
Ground | Estadio BBVA | |||
Capacity | 53,500[1] | |||
Owner | FEMSA | |||
Chairman | José Antonio Noriega | |||
Manager | Martín Demichelis | |||
League | Liga MX | |||
Apertura 2024 | Regular phase: 5th Final phase: Runners-up | |||
Website | rayados.com | |||
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Club de Fútbol Monterrey Rayados, A.C., simply known as Monterrey or by its nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, that plays in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1945, it is the oldest active professional club 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.[2] The team's nickname of Rayados (The Striped-Ones) stems from the club's traditional navy blue striped uniform. The uniform is reflected in the club's current crest, which is also decorated with stars above the crest representing the club's league titles and stars below representing continental.
Monterrey has won five league titles, three domestic cups, and five CONCACAF Champions League titles (notably, three consecutive tournaments in 2011, 2012 and 2013). In 2020, Monterrey became the second Mexican club to complete the continental treble.[3][4]
The club's oldest rival is Tigres UANL of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. The derby between the two, known as the Clásico Regiomontano, is considered to be one of the most heated and intensely competed rivalries in Mexican football; both teams consistently rank among the highest in attendance[5] and regularly feature among the most expensively assembled squads in the country.[6][7]