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Atlante Fútbol Club, also known as Atlante, is a Mexican professional football club. Atlante plays in the Primera División de México. The club is based in Cancún, Quintana Roo, and plays its home games in Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo. Atlante is the current champion of the Mexican First Division.

• National League Championships: 5 1924-1925, 1925-1926, 1926-1927, 1931-1932, 1940-1941

• Runner-Up: 4 1945-1946, 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1981-1982

• Runner-Up: 4 1943-1944, 1945-1946, 1948-1949, 1962-1963

• Professional Era Championships: 3 1946-1947, 1992-1993, Apertura 2007

• Cup Titles: 3 1941-1942, 1950-1951, 1951-1952

• Champion of Champions: 2 1941-1942, 1951-1952

• Runner-Up: 2 1946-1947, 1950-1951

• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1 1983

Atlante was founded in 1916 with the name Sinaloa by a group of young Mexican football enthusiasts led by Refugio "El Vaquero" Martínez. The team played in the La Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. In the 1930s, players of the stature of Horacio Casarín and Juan "el Trompo" Carreño* helped propel Atlante to become one of the most popular teams in all of Mexico and their popularity was even brought to the big screen in many films of the country s cinematographic golden era. Some of those films are Los Hijos de Don Venancio, Los Nietos de Don Venancio, El Vividor, El que con niños se acuesta, among many others. To this day, the rivalry between Necaxa and Atlante is the oldest in Mexican football. * Atlante s magical player Juan Carreño scored Mexico s first goal in Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928 and also scored Mexico s first ever goal in a World Cup during the first match game against France in Uruguay 1930

Through the beginnings of the history of the football of Mexico, when foreign teams of fame began to challenge the Mexican teams, they swept with most clubs except one team, Atlante. What today many do not recall is that Atlante was the first Mexican team that acquired national fame by knocking down those foreign  giants . In 1929, Atlante defeated the powerful Sabaria of Hungary 3-1. In 1930, Atlante defeated two times the Sportivo of Buenos Aires 2-1 and 3-2 along with their famous "Fiera" Bernabé Ferreyra, the most fearsome South American bomber of that epoch. And one of their more recalled feats was the 3-2 victory in 1931 over Bellavista of Uruguay who had eight players that won the first World Cup celebrated in Montevideo. Throughout its history, Atlante has managed to beat international adversaries such as Inter Milan, Barcelona, CA Independiente, Ferencváros, Stuttgart FK, Gremio, Dynamo, Sochaux, Bayern, Bayer Leverkusen, Nancy, Slovan Bratislava, Racing Club, among many others.

Atlante was one of the founders of the professional league in 1943 and it became the fourth team to win the championship in the 1946-1947 season. In 1945 the team established the Latin American record for most goals in a single season with 121 goals in 30 matches. That's more than four goals per game! Atlante also became the first Mexican team to be crowned in the Champion of Champions tournament during the 1941-1942 season.

After finishing in second place in 1982, Atlante won its first continental title with the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1983. A decade later, with players like Luis Miguel Salvador, Miguel Herrera, Felix Férnández, Daniel Guzmán, René Isidoro García, Ricardo la Volpe, and the present manager Jose Guadalupe Cruz, Atlante won its latest title in 1992-1993, and was runner-up in the 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup to C.S. Cartaginés.

After the team began losing popularity in the 90's, a failed relocation in Neza was tried, but the team kept playing its home games at Estadio Azteca, as the entrance for the games were lower and lower every season, in August 2007, the team announced its relocation to Cancún.

Atlante has debuted 46 players in the past decade making it the team that has debuted the most players in the Mexican football league.

On December 9th, 2007, Atlante won the Apertura 2007 after defeating UNAM 2-1.

2007 Cancun Atlante team roster

Squad changes for 2007 season

• 
  Giancarlo Maldonado transferred from O'Higgins of Chile
• 
  José Joel González return from CF Monterrey
• 
  Alain Nkong free agent

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