Moctezuma de Orizaba was a Mexican football team that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association prior to the professionalization and development of the Mexican first division. The club was based in the city of Orizaba and folded in 1950.

History

The club was founded in 1932 by workers from the Moctezuma brewery in Orizaba Veracruz. The team was created to play sports in their spare time and once the owner of the brewery saw the men he decided to sponsor the club and so the club took on the brewery name Club Moctezuma de Orizaba and joined the amateur league in Veracruz.

U.D. Moctezuma de Orizaba

Moctezuma club is remembered for being the first club from Veracruz to play in the amateur league in Mexico City, when they joined the league in 1940.

U.D. Moctezuma de Orizaba

Honours

Campeón de Campeones (1): 1947

Copa México (2): 1942–43, 1946–47

References

article on former player "Fello" Meza

See also

Football in Mexico

Albinegros de Orizaba

Works team

Defunct football clubs in Veracruz

Association football clubs established in 1932

1932 establishments in Mexico

1950 disestablishments in Mexico

Association football clubs disestablished in 1950

Primera Fuerza teams

U.D. Moctezuma de Orizaba