Full name Club Deportivo Jalapa Chairman Edmundo Ruano Ground Estadio Las Flores | Ground Capacity 15,000 Manager Franklin Cetre Founded 1978 | |
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Nickname(s) Los Tigres del Jumay (The Jumay's Tigers) League Liga Nacional de Fútbol | ||
Jalapa is a Guatemalan professional football club who played in the Liga Nacional, the top level division in the country. They are based in Jalapa and their home stadium is the Estadio Las Flores.
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History
The team was founded on July 10, 1978.
Having been promoted to the Liga Nacional in 2001 under coach Benjamín Monterroso, Jalapa won the domestic cup three times, in 2002, 2005, and 2006.
The club's biggest achievement has been winning the 2007 Apertura tournament, which was the first national championship won in the club's history. The title earned them a berth in the CONCACAF Champions League 2008-09.
Jalapa won their second league championship by defeating Guatemalan great C.S.D. Municipal in the Claus 2009 final. This was their second championship in two years.
2010's
After Jalapa become champions, they entered into an economic situation resulting in the departure of most of the players, they were relegated to the Liga de Ascenso Nacional. Things did not change for them, they had more economic issues which resulted in their relegation to the Segunda Division and continue being relegated until the team folded.
2012
There is a new team which play in the same stadium Las Flores called Los Tigres de Jumay which won the Tercera Division and promoted to Segunda Division.