Liceo de Varones
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Club Liceo was a former Mexican football club that played in the Liga Occidental De Jalisco
Liga Occidental De Jalisco
Liga Amateur de Jalisco was a former football league in Mexico founded by Federación Deportiva de Occidente de Aficionados , where clubs from the city of Guadalajara played from 1908 to 1943.The league folded in 1943 when the Primera División de México the first professional league in Mexico was...

. This club along with Guadalajara, Atlético Occidental, Excelsior, Cuauhtémoc and Iturbide were the first clubs to be founded in the state of Jalisco
Jalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

 in 1906. The club folded in 1915 when the tournament wasn't held and decided not to come back in 1917 when the tournament came back.

History

The club's history dates back to 1906 and was one of the first clubs to be establish in the state of Jalisco
Jalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

 along with Guadalajara, Excelsior, Liceo de Varones, Cuauhtémoc and Iturbidewho were also estalbish that same year.Most of the other clubs were private schools that had taken up the sport.The club was mostly made up of seminarians who had brought the sport from Europe.The Liga Occidental De Jalisco
Liga Occidental De Jalisco
Liga Amateur de Jalisco was a former football league in Mexico founded by Federación Deportiva de Occidente de Aficionados , where clubs from the city of Guadalajara played from 1908 to 1943.The league folded in 1943 when the Primera División de México the first professional league in Mexico was...

 was establish in 1908 with a great success that first year Guadalajara took the title.The following year the club would Finnish runner up to Guadalajara who would take the cup for the second year.In that short period of time a great rivalry started with Guadalajara and was the first Derby in the league.The club would go on to win the next 2 championships and in both years Guadalajara would finish runner up makings the matches between this 2 clubs even more intense , with several Violante incidents in the matches.

The league did not held the tournament in the 1914 or 1915 and once the league came back in 1916 the club did not return due to the dismantlement of the Institution of Liceo de Varones.

Amateur Era

  • Liga Occidental De Jalisco
    Liga Occidental De Jalisco
    Liga Amateur de Jalisco was a former football league in Mexico founded by Federación Deportiva de Occidente de Aficionados , where clubs from the city of Guadalajara played from 1908 to 1943.The league folded in 1943 when the Primera División de México the first professional league in Mexico was...

    (3):
    1910-11, 1912–13, 1913-14.
  • Runner-up 1909-10 y 1911-12.
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