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{{short description|Mexican football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Atlético Celaya
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| fullname = Club Atlético Celaya
| nickname = Toros
| founded = 1994
| dissolved = 2003
| ground = [[Estadio Miguel Aleman]]<br>[[Celaya|Celaya, Guanajuato]]
| capacity = 35,500
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The '''Club Atlético Celaya''' was a Mexican [[association football|football]] club from [[Celaya|Celaya, Guanajuato]]. The club was formed in 1994 when the two second-division clubs Atletico Cuernavaca (Morelos) and Escuadra Celeste de Celaya (Guanajuato) merged. Another team, [[Atlético Español F.C.|Atlético Español]], was also merged at a later date. The club folded in 2003.

==History==
All merging clubs have brought a piece of their old identity into the new formed club: from Atlético Cuernavaca were taken the name to the new club (although its name is also identical with former Atlético Español), from Celeste de Celaya were taken their light blue colors and from Atlético Español the mascot, the bull, which has also given the new team their nickname ''toros'' (bulls).

Atlético Celaya has taken the second-division position of their predecessors and has immediately reached the top-level. The first year in [[Primera División de México|Primera División]] was also their most successful season ever. First, they could win their group and in the play-offs they could make their way up to the finals in which they lost only due to the away-goal-rule after playing 1–1 and 0–0 with [[Necaxa]].

But from now on the club finds itself in lower regions of the table. They had also financial problems which led to the sale of their first-division-license to an industrialist from Morelos in winter 2002–03. He formed a new team with the name [[Colibríes de Morelos]] but it disappeared as fast as it once appeared. At the same time when Atlético Celaya has disappeared, their older city neighbour [[Club Celaya]] was reactivated again when [[CF La Piedad]] moved to Celaya.

==Crest and colours==
The club's original colors in the 1950s were red and white. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the club started using black and white with a topical v shape across the chest for home games and a black stripe shirt for away games, which they still use to this date.

===Colours===

;First kit evolution
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|
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 body = ffffff |
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 title = 1997 Home
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|
{{Football kit |
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 pattern_b = _celayat3|
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|}

==Famous players==

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* {{Flagicon|Argentina}} [[Diego Cagna]]
* {{Flagicon|Argentina}} [[Diego Latorre]]
* {{Flagicon|Argentina}} [[Antonio Mohamed]]
* {{Flagicon|Chile}} [[Richard Zambrano]]
* {{Flagicon|Ecuador}} [[Ivan Hurtado]]"El Avetruz"
* {{Flagicon|Honduras}} [[Julio César de León]]"El Leon Indomable"
* {{Flagicon|Honduras}} [[Carlos Pavón]] "El Tanque Catracho"
* {{Flagicon|Mexico}} [[Ignacio Ambríz]]
* {{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[José Damasceno]] "Tiba"
* {{Flagicon|Mexico}} [[Félix Fernández (footballer)|Félix Fernández]]
* {{Flagicon|Mexico}} [[Jaime Lozano]]
* {{Flagicon|Mexico}} [[Hugo Sánchez]]
* {{Flagicon|Peru}} [[José Soto (footballer, born 1970)|Pepe Soto]]
* {{Flagicon|Spain}} [[Emilio Butragueño]]
* {{Flagicon|Spain}} [[Rafael Martín Vázquez]]
* {{Flagicon|Spain}} [[José Miguel González Martín|Míchel]]
* {{Flagicon|Spain}} [[Rafael Paz]]
{{div col end}}

==Honours==
*Won promotion to the Primera División in 1994–95
*Emilio Butrageño & Hugo Sanchez retired from Atletico Celaya

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[[Category:Football clubs in Celaya]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1994]]
[[Category:Ascenso MX teams]]

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