Millionaires Football Club

The Azul y Blanco Millonarios Fútbol Club S.A., better known as Millionarios, is a football club from the city of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is one of the most successful and emblematic clubs in Colombia, which is why it is considered one of the largest sports entities in the country and one of the most important in South America. The origins of the team date back to the 1920s, but it began to be called as Los Millonarios in the year 1939 when its name was the Municipal Sports Club. It was officially founded on June 18, 1946 under the name Club Deportivo Los Millonarios and later as Millionarios Fútbol Club on April 20, 2011 when it was reconstituted as a Public Limited Company.

It has participated in the First A Category since its foundation in 1948, being one of the only three teams that has participated in all its tournaments, along with Independiente Santa Fe and Atlético Nacional.

It is the second most successful team in Colombian soccer with 21 official titles between national and international championships. In his record there are 15 championships of the local tournament of the Colombian League, 3 titles of the Copa Colombia and 1 of the Colombian Super League. Likewise, he managed to be crowned continental champion in the Simón Bolívar Cup in 1972 and in the last edition of the Merconorte Cup in 2001.

It disputes the Clásico from the capital against Independiente Santa Fe and the Clásico añejo against Deportivo Cali, in addition to having strong rivalries with América de Cali and Atlético Nacional.

From the beginning of the Colombian championship in 1948, he won the most local titles that were disputed and formed a team nicknamed the Blue Ballet, which was a benchmark of great importance worldwide during the first part of the decade of the 1950s, becoming considered by various South American and European specialists as the best team in the world when it achieved a large number of victories and international achievements of great relevance and importance for the time, among which stand out the 1953 Little World Cup for Clubs, the 1952 Real Madrid Golden Jubilee Championship, which he won at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, or the 1950 and 1951 Duel of Champions Trophies, which gave him the team's qualifiers Ambassador.

For the IFFHS, it is the fourth best Colombian club of the 20th century and the ninth best Colombian club so far in the 21st century. It has been included in lists of the best soccer clubs of all time prepared by important media international sports, being the only Colombian team present in them.

Regarding CONMEBOL, it is the third best Colombian club in international tournaments with 396.85 points and ranks 51st in the official ranking of Copa Libertadores clubs. It is recognized by FIFA as one of the Clubs Clásicos del Mundo and named by the entity as The First Ambassador of Colombian Soccer.

History

Beginnings and early years

In 1937, a group of students from the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé located in the Historic Center of Bogotá, decided to form a soccer team, with the aim of facing teams from other sectors of the city.

The team's first games were played on the grounds of the "La Merced" of the College at that time, where today is the Colegio San Bartolomé la Merced, and the La Merced neighborhood. Some young people wanted to call it Unión Juventud and others wanted the name Unión Bogotana. Soon after, the team, which did not have any official support, began to gain popular support and since they had not been able to decide on either of the two names, they played one game with one of the two names and the next with the other and later under the name of Bogota Youth, a union of both denominations.

After a year of life, the team quickly continues to gain the support of the people thanks to its resounding victories, so in a surprising fact, all its players, led by their spokesperson Ignacio "Nacho" Izquierdo (the first important man in the history of the institution) are summoned to form the first Colombian soccer team in history, which participated for the first time in February in the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Panama City, getting the Bronze Medal in an excellent debut.

After returning from Panama and with the team about to disappear, "Nacho" Izquierdo took advantage of the fact that the first edition of the Bolivarian Games to be held in Bogotá was approaching and found in this initial group the enthusiasm to form a more structured team, for which the team once again represented the Colombian National Team. In Mar del Plata - Argentina, the Colombian government hired Fernando Paternoster, former player of the Argentine National Team, runner-up in the 1930 Soccer World Cup, to direct the National Team.

But not only that, the equipment receives the support of the city and is acquired by the Municipality and the Bogotá Council and receives their economic assistance. It was then called Club Municipal de Deportes, thus becoming the official team of the city of Bogotá and receiving the official shield (the current one) and the colors (at that time, Black and White) of the city..

New managers join the team, several of them linked to the city authorities, such as Álvaro Rozo (Government Secretary of Bogotá), who takes over as President, Hernando Beltrán who is appointed as Secretary, Antonio José Vargas and Manuel Briceno Pardo.

Despite the sporting triumphs, the Municipality suspended the aid due to problems that arose between the founders of Juventud Bogotana and Álvaro Rozo, president of the Municipal Club; The team was then in charge of the managers Manuel Briceño Pardo, Antonio José Vargas and the Santander merchant Alberto Lega, (who enters contributing $50,000 for the hiring of five Argentine players), who took command of the team and restored the situation to normal. Now without official financial aid and without colors on their uniform, the directors sought a new name for the team: Municipal La Salle (when it passed into the hands of the students of the Instituto La Salle), Municipal Deportivo (when it was in charge of Briceño Pardo, Vargas and Lega) and later Municipal Deportivo Independiente, (this last name as a clarification of its separation from the Municipality), although in reality for the press it was he played simply as the team or selected from Bogotá.

On January 28, 1939 (already with the addition of "Independiente" in the name to clarify their separation from the Municipality), the three Argentines made their debut against the Antioquia National Team, which they defeated by (5:4) with goals from Lucífero on three occasions, Carvajal and "Nacho" Izquierdo, in what was quite a spectacle for football in the city, since it was the first time that a team from Bogotá (and the country) formed with foreign players. It was the year that he played for the last time under the name "Deportivo Independiente".

Birth of the name of Millionaires

During that year, the nickname "Los Millonarios" appeared because Vicente Lucífero met every Thursday with the team's board of directors to negotiate payments, since the The Argentines did not have an annual contract, but for those days he demanded a high salary not only for the Argentines, but for the entire team, so that the salary of the Colombian players was equal to that of the foreigners, which caused Luis Camacho Montoya, director of the sports pages of the newspaper El Tiempo, began strong criticism of the team for its separation from the Municipality and treated the leaders as nouveau riche, Los Millonarios, because they intended to keep the entire team with all his foreign hires, which required a lot of money.

This is how Camacho Montoya stated: "Argentines are very demanding, they are going to charge so much and so much, this is a club of millionaires, the Municipalistas are now millionaires". In this way, the nickname that would become its definitive name was born, since people began to know and call the team more by the nickname "Los Millonarios", than by name. It should be noted that in 1932 (7 years ago), the Argentine club River Plate already had that nickname for making large contracts at that time.

On August 13, 1939, at a meeting at Café "El Gato Negro" (16th Street with Carrera Octava) officially named the team "Los Millonarios", as part of an addition to their name (as it appears on the commemoration plaques of that day), in a kind of relaunch and re-founding of the club, which took place on that date, when they thrashed Deportivo Barranquilla 6-0, with goals from Luis Timón (1-0 "in a free offside", and 5-0), Martínez, Ruiz Díaz, Zapata and own goal by López.

In that game they debuted a blue uniform and gray socks, copied from the one worn by the Argentine team Tigre, which had just been on the cover of El Gráfico Magazine and a team of which Fernando Paternoster was a fan. This uniform is the current one, only with the change to the next game suggested by the leader Manuel Briceño Pardo, to change the shorts to white and the socks to blue (due to his relationship with the Colombian Conservative Party) and to establish it definitively as his official uniform, which was still consolidated more years later with the colors used by Santa Fe (referring to the Colombian Liberal Party).

The first team to be called Millionaires was made up of: Carlos Álvarez, Antenor Rodríguez (Captain), Ignacio ''Nacho'' Izquierdo, Alfredo Cuezzo, Alfonso ''Che'' Piedrahíta, Óscar Sabransky, Vicente Lucífero, Antonio Ruiz Díaz, Luis Timón, José Antonio ''Mico'' Zapata and Antonio Martínez.

Since its creation, Millonarios became one of the most important teams in Colombia, winning titles in amateur league tournaments and international matches that were played, in addition to making several tours throughout the country achieving important victories, and by becoming the great favorite for the title from the moment the first Colombian Professional Soccer championship arose, in 1948.

Starting in 1940 and with the team already structured and leaving aside his past as selected from the city, he entered the A.D.B. (Sports Association of Bogotá), which was the second category tournament of the Cundinamarca Soccer League, achieving in that same year the title and promotion to the first category, in which he participated from 1941 to 1945 in which he won four titles (1941, 1943, 1944 and 1945) and a third place (1942), making it the most winning team of the amateur era, before the start of Colombian professionalism.

Alfonso Senior's management towards professionalism

In 1941, two key men in the history of the institution were linked, Alfonso Senior Quevedo from Barranquilla and Mauro Mortola from Ecuador. Alfonso Senior worked as director of Roldan Calle and Compañía Agente de Aduanas in Santiago de Cali and at that time he largely managed soccer in the Valle del Cauca capital together with the secretary of the treasury, Pascual Guerrero, there he met Mortola who managed the show of ''La Ciudad de Hierro'' who came from Bogotá, and commented on a certain occasion to Senior that in Bogotá there was a team called Club Deportivo Municipal with unbeatable Argentine and Colombian figures who were also called "Los Millonarios" and he suggested bringing him on tour to Santiago de Cali because this team played soccer very well, Senior accepted because he had already heard of Millonarios.

By 1944 the money donated by the Municipality had run out and the later one contributed by Manuel Briceño Pardo and Alberto Lega, but fortunately it was decided to form a First Board with the name of Millonarios (eliminating for the first time the name of "Municipal" 34;), under the presidency of Francisco Afanador and that thanks to the contributions of the leaders, manages to return the financial situation of the team to normal, in addition, the objective was to manage and crystallize the project of a club organized at a professional level and He continued to consolidate this idea in the following two years, having as main events, two meetings held at the Athens Theater in November 1945 and the second on May 22, 1946 where Act 001 is signed and the first general assembly is held. of the new institution.

Finally, at a third meeting on June 18, 1946, its official legal constitution is held as a society with the name of Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, in the theater of the school that saw him born, the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé (Carrera Séptima with Calle 9), in the Historic Center of Bogotá, attended by the most faithful fans that already had the Municipal Sports (about 200 people), under public writing number 2.047 of the third notary of the circuit of Bogotá. Alfonso Senior Quevedo was elected as the first president, Mauro Mortola as Vice President and as Treasurer Oliverio was appointed Paco Pulido. As at that time there was no legislation on sports societies, Dr. Abel Cruz Santos suggested in making a non-profit society, it was the one who wrote the statutes in which actions were signed at $10 c/u.

After the establishment of the club as a sports society, in 1946, the three main soccer clubs in the city (Millionarios, Santa Fe and Universidad) decided to withdraw from the departmental League tournaments (which in turn entered into decline), considering that they were already at a higher level and that professionalism in the sport should be sought, dedicating themselves almost exclusively to organizing their own events, with games between them, against teams from other regions of the country and international matches, this began to cause the annoyance of those who controlled soccer in the country at that time and did not want professionalization. The last departmental tournament (1946) did not end, Millonarios was first with 3 points ahead of Santa Fe, four dates from the end. Millonarios then goes on tour to Ecuador for 4 months until 1947 has already begun.

Alfonso Senior continued to revolutionize soccer in the country, since together with the president of América de Cali, Humberto Salcedo Fernández Salcefer, they planned a national championship in 1947 and organized the only championship that could be called Interdepartmental (with teams from all the departments of the country) that was played in Colombian soccer before professionalism, a National season played in Bogotá with the participation of the most outstanding semi-professional teams in the country (practically the majority of those who started professionalism the following year), and in which Millonarios was crowned Champion of this only national tournament precedent, beating his local rival, Santa Fe, by 1 point, who finished second.

After this National season, the teams were tired of paying taxes of 5 and 10% to allow interdepartmental games to amateur soccer leagues, governed by the Colombian Soccer Association (Adefútbol), created in 1926, recognized by FIFA in 1934, which controlled the departmental leagues and was based in Barranquilla.

Finally, on June 28, 1948, the Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas de Barranquilla met simultaneously with the assembly of the Adefútbol Leagues and the representatives of the Clubs chaired by Alfonso Senior. Senior and ''Salcefer'' were appointed as the commission that would be in charge of proposing the creation of a professional championship for Adefútbol. The following day the president of Adefútbol, Carlos García, rejected the proposal, since the leagues refused to become professional, there was no agreement and the clubs withdrew from the meeting.

Then it met for the first time and the first board of directors of the Major Division of Colombian Soccer (Dimayor) was appointed with Salcefer as President and Alfonso Senior as Prosecutor, Bogotá was established as the headquarters of the entity and it was decided to organize the first Colombian Professional Soccer Championship. One thousand pesos ($1000) m/cte were collected for the affiliation of each team and the first ten members were, for Bogotá: Millonarios, Santa Fe and Universidad, for Cali: América and Deportivo Cali, for Medellín: Independiente Medellín and Atlético Municipal, for Manizales: Deportes Caldas and Once Deportivo and Atlético Junior for Barranquilla.

On August 15, 1948, Millonarios debuted at the start of professionalism, in El Campín, at 4:00 in the afternoon, with a full 25,000 spectators and a 6:0 win over Once Deportivo de Manizales, the referee was Luis Rendón and the albiazul team formed with: Rubén Rocha, Ángel Insagaray, Tomas Aves, Luis Mendoza, Alfonso Piedrahíta, Policarpo "Polo" Perez, Alfonso "Pipiolo" Rodríguez, Víctor Manuel Fandiño, Alfredo Castillo, Pedro Cabillón and Alcides Aguilera. In that first Championship he finished in fourth place. Although the star was not achieved that year, Millos obtained the highest scoring lead with 58 goals, of which 45 were from the Argentines Alfredo Castillo, the first Golden Boot of Millionaires with (31) and Pedro Cabillón (14).

The following year, 1949, began the era of the "Dorado" of Colombian soccer, with the hiring by Millonarios of Adolfo Pedernera and the subsequent arrival of Alfredo Di Stéfano and Néstor Raúl Rossi. This is how the team known as the Ballet Azul was born and the Colombian league would be filled with stars. Millos got his first title that season. In 1950 he was runner-up and then won a three-time consecutive championship (1951, 1952 and 1953). He also won the Copa Colombia in 1950-51.

The glory years of El Dorado. The Blue Ballet

The first Colombian professional soccer title for Club Deportivo Los Millonarios was obtained in what is known as the beginning of the "Golden season," beating Deportivo in the final Cali, after finishing tied with 44 points in the position table of the 1949 Colombian Championship. The final was played back and forth. In Cali, Los Millonarios won 1-0 (goal by Adolfo Pedernera). In Bogotá the blue triumph was 3-2 with goals from Alfredo Di Stéfano, Alcides Aguilera and Adolfo Pedernera; Valeriano López and Barbadillo discounted for Deportivo Cali. Pedro Cabillón was the Golden Boot with 42 goals, a current record up to the present. The technician was Carlos "Cacho" Aldabe, who was the one who recommended the bringing of Pedernera. The team managed to win 17 consecutive games (Record in Colombia) and added 20 undefeated dates, falling on the last date, which forced a tiebreaker.

Millionarios reached the last date of the 1950 Colombian Championship with the chance of being champion for the second time, but their dream was frustrated by Deportes Caldas who, with a difference of 2 points, obtained their first star and left Millonarios in the second place. On the last date of that championship, he faced Universidad de Bogotá, a match which he lost and left him in second place, since Deportes Caldas had drawn 0-0 in Manizales with América de Cali.

The following year he won his second title with superiority, adding 60 points, 11 more than the second, he won 28 games, drew four and lost two, scored 98 goals and had the fewest goals conceded, conceding only 29. This was the first team to be named the "Ballet Azul" for what the press described as his indescribable game of River Plate style. It filled all the stadiums where it played and the blue team became very popular at the national level. Alfredo Di Stéfano was the top scorer with 31 goals. Already the coach -at the same time a player- was Adolfo Pedernera, before the departure of Aldabe.

The two-time championship came to the blue team -the first Colombian team to achieve it- after winning the 1952 Colombian Championship. Once again, Millonarios was superior to the other 14 teams in the championship. He played 28 games of which he won 20, drew six and only lost two. 71 goals in favor -the best striker- and only 13 goals against for a total of 46. The runner-up was again Boca Juniors de Cali, six points behind, Millos secured the title with a 1:1 draw against Atlético Nacional in Medellin. Alfredo Di Stéfano was once again the top scorer with 19 goals, one more than Carlos Alberto Gambina from Junior.

It was the same year that Millonarios won their first Colombia Cup, beating Boca Juniors de Cali in both games, their great rival of the season, since they were also champion and runner-up respectively in the League. Win both games of the final, in the first leg in Cali 2-0 and then in Bogotá 3-2.

At this time, one of the events that marked the history of the club took place. In the month of May 1952, the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol was celebrated. By then the directives of the Spanish team thought of holding a small friendly soccer triangular among other festivities and in which some of the best teams in Europe and America were invited. On the new continent, after contacting Club Atlético River Plate, the leaders of the Argentine club sent the Spaniards to invite Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, alluding to them as the best team of the moment in America.

In the two matches of the event, the Colombian club drew 2-2 with Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, champion of Sweden and whose country was one of the most powerful soccer players in Europe, and later defeated the hosts 4- 2 at the Nuevo Chamartín Stadium, consecrating himself champion of the friendly tournament.

Throughout history, these two clubs have met seven times, being Millonarios the one that maintains an advantage over the Spanish with three victories, one achieved at the home of "los merengues" and the other two achieved in Bogotá at the Nemesio Camacho Stadium El Campín; three draws and with only one victory for the Spaniards with a score of 8-0, thus breaking the seventy-four-year undefeated record they had against Madrid. The history of both clubs was linked from the first confrontation, since at that time he was playing in the ranks of the Colombian team Alfredo Di Stéfano, considered one of the best players of the moment and leader of the well-known "Blue Ballet". The player went on to join the ranks of the Spanish team, leading him to great successes that earned him to be considered the best team of the 20th century by FIFA.

At the time, a group of sports businessmen created the Little World Cup for Clubs, a friendly competition that brought together important teams from Europe and South America. Millionaires was invited to participate in the 1952 and 1953 editions. In their first participation, the team finished runners-up with seven points, behind Real Madrid (double draw 1-1), in a tournament played over two rounds, in which Botafogo from Brazil also participated (draw 4-4 and loss 0 -2), and the host La Salle from Venezuela (double victory 4-1 and 5-1).

In their participation in 1953, the team was crowned champion of the trophy undefeated with 11 points, above River Plate of Argentina (5-1 win and 1-1 draw), Rapid Vienna of Austria (double win 2-1 and 4-0) and RCD Español de Barcelona from Spain (double victory 6-0 and 4-0). Many steps have been taken for FIFA to endorse this tournament as official, which is considered by many to be the predecessor of the Intercontinental Cup and the current FIFA Club World Cup.

The 1953 Colombian Championship was the end of the ''Dorado'', the foreign figures returned to their countries, but there was still a team far superior to the others, now without Di Stéfano, but with Adolfo Pedernera, Néstor Rossi and Alfredo Castillo, Millonarios, wins his third title in a row, and only lost one game: on the first date against Atlético Quindío 0-1 in Armenia and he did not lose again on the other dates, he won 14 games and drew 7, scored 57 goals and It was the best defense with 22 goals received, added 35 points, two more than Atlético Quindío, which was its closest pursuer. by beating Boca Juniors de Cali, his bitter rival of "Dorado" and also the Little World Cup for Clubs held in Caracas.

The post-Ballet Azul stage and the second golden age: the Four-time Championship

History seemed to be repeating itself, Millonarios reached the last date of the 1956 championship with the possibility of being champion and thus obtaining their fifth title, occupying second place with 34 points, 3 less than Deportes Quindío, which would be the champion that year, once again a team from Caldas (at that time the department of Quindío did not exist, founded in 1966 therefore Deportes Quindío was a team from Caldas) took the title from Los Embajadores, to be champions the Bogota team He needed Deportes Quindío to lose and win on the last date against Independiente Medellín. Millonarios defeated the Paisa team 3-1 but Deportes Quindío also beat Boca Juniors de Cali, which left Millonarios without the championship that year.

A similar circumstance occurred on the last date of the 1958 championship with one point less than its rival from Santa Fe, who would be champion that season, despite having won and tied more games than the red team, they also had more games lost. But he still reached the last date with a chance of obtaining the title, for that he had to wait for Santa Fe to lose or draw and win or draw with a greater goal difference against Atlético Bucaramanga, which the blue team achieved by thrashing 5-0 but the Santa Fe did the same in Barranquilla against Junior and won 3-2, which took the title from Millonarios.

After five years and with the beginning of the cycle in the technical direction of his ex-goalkeeper at the time of the "Dorado", the doctor Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, became champion again in the 1959 Colombian Championship, with the best defense (only 8 games lost) and a total of 58 points, six more than Independiente Medellín and 8 more than Deportivo Cali, their toughest rivals during the season. Of 44 games, he won 22, drew 14 and only lost 8, scored 85 goals and conceded only 52. The forward was made up of Marino Klinger, Orlando Larraz and Hugo Contreras. They secured the title by beating Cúcuta Deportivo 3:1 in the capital of the republic, making their difference indisputable.

The previous year the effort reaching the 1960 Copa Libertadores Semifinal affected the team, it returned to its best level in 1961 with an even better campaign, of the 44 games, they won 25, tied 12 and lost 7, the best forward with 95 goals, received 56 and added 62 points, making a huge difference of 8 points against their only pursuer, Independiente Medellín. Julio Cozzi, the archer of the "Ballet Azul" as a coach. Millionaires began by winning the first 6 games, but then it did not take off, the directors recognized the mistake and Ochoa, who had resigned in October 1960, returned in May and asked for the hiring of Delio "Maravilla" Gamboa, from Atlas de Guadalajara, the best Colombian player of the time, who arrived in July and was key in the recovery of the team, in an undefeated sixteen rounds and obtaining the title. He made the Olympic return on December 5, beating Atlético Nacional 5: 3 in El Campín.

Millionarios obtained the Copa Colombia title and definitively owned it after being crowned consecutive champion of the 1961, 1962 and 1963 Leagues, as stipulated by the Dimayor regulations, on December 19, 1963, just the day that crowned champion of the League, beating Deportes Tolima 4-1. Millionaires repeated what was done when they won the 1951, 1952 and 1953 Leagues consecutively.

The blue team went on for a long time, out of 44 games, they won 25, tied 11 and lost 8 in 1962, a campaign similar to the previous one, they scored 96 goals and was the best defense with 44, to add 62 points, 5 more points than Deportivo Cali, to whom on May 27 he applied a historic 7-0 beating. They were crowned champions on November 25 with three dates to go in a double against Atlético Quindío, which they beat 4-1, and Olimpia from Paraguay, which they beat by the same score and with their team of substitutes. In addition, he has not lost in the last 16 dates

With the so-called ''Brazilian Line'' they get their second three-time online championship (next to America, the only Colombian teams to do so), Millonarios brings José ''Pepe'' Romeiro Cardozo, the best player in the Colombian Championship 1963, achieves the biggest win in its history on July 7 when it thrashes Deportes Tolima 8-0. Santa Fe and Deportivo Cali harassed him until the last dates but it did not reach them. Of 48 games, Millonarios won 27, tied 9 and lost 12, scored 102 goals and conceded 60 for a total of 63 points, two more than the albirrojos and three more than the Valle del Cauca team. of the Colombia Cup, which would be awarded by DIMAYOR to the first team to win three consecutive league titles.

Millionarios reached the last date of the 1964 Colombian Championship with 57 points, two more than the second, Cúcuta Deportivo. But due to the Millionaires calendar, they had to rest on the final date, so if Cúcuta Deportivo won they could force a series for the title. After the difficulties in moving, Cúcuta Deportivo began by beating Once Caldas, but in the second half they collapses and Once Caldas draws, escaping the possibility of forcing a final against Millonarios, who won the title with a difference of one point. Of 48 games, they won 21, drew 15 and lost 12, scored 87 goals and conceded 72. In this way, "Millos" became the first team to win a four-time championship online, this time directed first by the Brazilian Joao Avelino (since Gabriel Ochoa left in February after the game against River Plate), who later retired due to health problems in the middle of the year, being replaced by his assistant, Efraín Sánchez, who in turn acted in some games as goalkeeper, sharing the position with Senén Mosquera.

1970s

The striker "BOM"

Eight years had passed since the last national championship won by Millonarios. With the return of Gabriel Ochoa Uribe to the technical bench, the club obtained its tenth title by winning the 1972 Colombian Championship. The Apertura Tournament ended with the capital team winning with 38 units. For Finalization they finished second, with the same score as Deportivo Cali (first) and Atlético Nacional (third). For this reason, a tiebreaker was held between the three, which the team from Cali won.

The triangular final was played by Millonarios, Deportivo Cali and Atlético Junior. In the last game played on January 28, 1973, Millonarios and Deportivo Cali tied 0-0 in Bogotá, which gave the "azules" the title with 5 points, followed by Deportivo Cali with 4. Atlético Junior was last with three units. The Millionaires trident was made up of Alejandro Brand, Willington Ortiz and Jaime Morón the "BOM" he would score more than 267 goals in this decade.

In that same year Millonarios played the third edition of the Simón Bolívar Cup 1972, this international tournament was played in 1973 due to problems between the Venezuelan Football Federation and the National Institute of Sports, which caused the disaffiliation of Venezuela from FIFA. Millonarios defeated Deportivo Portugués (Venezuela) in a two-game series in which Millonarios lost 2-0 in Caracas, but in Bogotá came back with a resounding 3-0. Ironically, the 1971 and 1972 finals were played in 1973, but the 1973 edition was not played.

Millionarios reached the last date of the 1973 Colombian Championship as first classified, but that year their classic rival Atlético Nacional tied them on points but with a worse goal difference. On the last date Millonarios faced Santa Fe and Atlético Nacional in turn visited Junior Millonarios was crowned champion until the minutes of replacement, but Santa Fe ended up drawing the game while in Barranquilla Atlético Nacional thrashed Junior 3-0, that literally took the title out of the hands of the Los Millonarios team. The dispute for this title marked the beginning of a legendary rivalry between the two clubs.

Once again Millonarios reached the last date as virtual champion in the 1975 Colombian Championship, but his path was interrupted again by his rival from Santa Fe, who on the last date arrived tied on points but Millonarios had a better goal difference. The only thing the Blue team had to do was win against América de Cali, which left the Blues in second place that year after losing 2-0 to the Valluno team at the Pascual Guerrero stadium, meanwhile Santa Fe won by the slightest difference in El Campín against Once Caldas.

In previous years the club had been one step away from the title by being runner-up in 1973 and 1975 and third in 1974, 1976 and 1977. However, they managed to win the 1978 Colombian Championship.

In the Finalization Tournament, the Argentine Pedro Dellacha takes the technical direction of the team, obtaining second place with 26 points and thus qualifying for the semifinals. In that instance he was second in Group B with six points.

Without Alejandro Brand (injured), but with Willington Ortiz, Jaime Morón, striker Juan José Irigoyen and Daniel Onega up front, they beat Atlético Nacional in Medellín by 2:0, and Santa Fe in the classic by 1: 0, tied with Atlético Nacional 1:1 in Bogotá and in both games with Deportivo Cali 0:0 and 1:1, to come to define everything on December 20 on the last date of the tournament in the capital derby.

With El Campín bursting, 18 minutes into the first half, the blue team was already winning 3-0 with goals from Juan Jose Irigoyen, Jaime Morón and Willington Ortiz. In the second half, Santa Fe would discount, signaling the final 3-1. It would not be enough to tie the game, let alone the championship. Millonarios with nine points won his title number 11 against his rival in Bogotá.

1980s

Millionarios reached the final in second place of the 1984 Colombian Championship with 69.25 points, 21 less than the first América de Cali. With no chance Millonarios paradoxically faced América de Cali in Bogotá that afternoon Millonarios won 3-1 but that result was only enough to maintain their place in the Copa Libertadores since Atlético Nacional, which was in third place, threatened Millonarios' possibility of participating in the international contest.

Nine years the institution had to wait to obtain a new title, produced in the 1987 Colombian Championship with Arnoldo Iguaran, Miguel Nano Price, Mario Vanemerack, Oscar "Pájaro" Juárez and Carlos Gambeta Estrada led by coach Luis Augusto "Chiqui" Garcia.

In the local tournament, he won the three tournaments and five tables of the year. The Apertura final against América with a 3-1 victory in Bogotá and a 0-0 draw in Cali; Ell Completion with 40 points, four ahead of Atlético Nacional; The Re-classification with 62 points, nine more than Nacional and the maximum bonus of 2 points.

He went undefeated in 22 dates. On the last date he was crowned champion in the final octagonal with only a draw. On December 20, he won 1-0 with a goal from Óscar "Pájaro" Juárez against Junior in Bogotá and achieved his 12th star with 22 points, two more than América de Cali. It was the best campaign in his history in that tournament system, he scored 101 goals and only conceded 54, with the best defense, in total he accumulated 86 points.

He also won the two international tournaments in which he participated: the Marlboro Cup, beating Atlético Nacional, Tottenham Hotspur from England and América from Mexico; and the Miami Cup where he defeated Colo-Colo from Chile, São Paulo from Brazil and the United States soccer team.

His 13th star was hard to come by. Despite winning the pentagonal tournament with 11 points, and winning the Finishing with 42 points, one more than Santa Fe, obtaining a bonus of 1.50.

He was playing on December 18 in Barranquilla against Junior, but at the same time Santa Fe and Atlético Nacional were playing. The Embajadores arrived tied on 23.50 points with Nacional but with a better goal difference in favor.

After the first half, Millonarios lost 0-1 in Barranquilla and Nacional was the champion, winning 1-0 in Bogotá. At minute 13 of the second half, Mario Vanemerak equalizes for Millonarios, then Santa Fe equalizes in Bogotá. Millionaires tried by all means to get the winning goal but it was not possible, they had to wait for the end in Bogotá. But finally he was able to be crowned Champion, the second of the "Chiqui" García also went a record 26 dates without losing, surpassing his own mark of 1953-54. This would be the last title for Club Deportivo Los Millonarios in the 20th century.

Sports and economic crisis

The following two decades are the most difficult in the club's history financially and in sporting success despite having good seasons at home and international cups.

1990s

Millionarios reached the last round of the 1994 Colombian Championship in third place with a homer that América de Cali led with 7 points while Millonarios followed with only 2 points difference, on the last round Millonarios played against América de Cali in El Campin. The Embajador team needed the purslane team to lose in Medellín against Independiente Medellín. That afternoon Millonarios thrashed Cali 3-0 but in Medellín the purslane scored a goal with 10 minutes to go, which was enough for Atlético Nacional to take away the title from Millonarios.

Millionarios reached the semifinals of the 1995/96 Colombian Championship (winner of the "Adequacy Tournament"). At the beginning of 1997 it was in second place in the world ranking of clubs of the IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics, with 261.5 pts, surpassed only by Juventus of Italy, with 335 pts. The total campaign de García was 76 games played, 41 wins, 20 draws and 15 losses. He had 148 points, with 113 goals for and 69 against. The 1996-97 champion America won 14 games in a row with 91 points in 4th place 31 points, placed first in group B with 12 points, more than its closest rival Atlético Nacional, in the home run defeated Deportivo Cali in Bogotá and lost in Cali, they lost against América de Cali in Cali and thrashed them at home 3-0, that night they qualified for the Copa Libertadores the following year, against Atlético Nacional they won in Bogotá and in Medellín, completing 4 victories in a row over the purslane team between the semifinal home run and the final home run, the last date came to visit Atlético Nacional with the possibility of becoming champion if América de Cali won the classic from Cali and the ambassador team also won, the first did not happen, despite the blue victory in Antioquia territory and that scored more points in the final in the framework of the celebration of the 50 years of the blue team, the star went to the sugar team, because with the bonus cation was tied on points and served as the tie-breaker.

Another outstanding campaign of the decade was the 1999 championship. Led by Luis Augusto Chiqui García, Millonarios went undefeated in 29 rounds, the longest in the club's history, and finished first in the round-robin of the tournament ending. However, when it came to playing the semifinal home runs, and despite being the favorite, the team was defeated and finished third, below Deportivo Cali and Independiente Medellín, who ultimately qualified to play the final against Atlético Nacional. Nacional won that series and in December they were crowned champions by defeating América de Cali in the annual final.

2000s

In the 2000 championship it is fourth in the Apertura, as in the Completion and in the accumulated table of the year it is fifth with 69 points, the same as Deportes Tolima, which is fourth, is left out of the final quadrangle due to difference in games won In 2001, Millonarios won the Merconorte Cup by defeating Emelec 3-1 on penalties in Guayaquil after drawing 1-1 in the two games of the final, obtaining the first official title after a 12-year drought and their first title in international tournament organized by Conmebol.

In the 2003 Finalization Tournament, Millonarios directed by Norberto Peluffo, almost qualified for the final of the championship. After finishing the round-robin phase in seventh place, with 26 points, he managed to qualify for the semifinal home runs. There, surprisingly, they began to have good results, beating Deportivo Pasto twice, Unión Magdalena once, and drawing with Deportivo Cali as a visitor. On the penultimate date, Millonarios only needed a home draw against Cali to advance to the final against Deportes Tolima. Although Cali started winning 2-0 in the first half, Millonarios managed to turn the game around in the second half and scored two goals. But when the fans were already celebrating their way to the final, and there were only five minutes left to finish the game, Milton Rodríguez scored an agonizing goal for Cali that deprived Millos of qualifying. On the last date, Millonarios lost against Unión Magdalena in Santa Marta, while Cali defeated Pasto and managed to advance to the final.

The 2004 and 2005 seasons would not be the best for the ambassador team, in which the institutional crisis would not only harm economically, leaving the club on the brink of bankruptcy, having to take advantage of law 550, but also at a sporting level, not qualifying for the semifinal home runs and finished penultimate in Finalization 2004, in that same year he participated for the first time in the Copa Sudamericana, failing to get past the second phase. In 2005, he finished thirteenth in the Apertura and fourteenth in the Finalization in which he achieved 6 consecutive wins (record since 1966) in the first 7 dates.

For the 2006 season Miguel Augusto Prince arrives as the new coach, in the Apertura the team is sixth and classifies to the semifinal home runs after more than 2 years, it would be located in the group of Cúcuta Deportivo, Atlético Nacional and Deportivo Pasto (team who would be the finalist and ultimately champion), without being able to access the final after finishing last in the group. For Finalization after losing 2-1 with Cúcuta Deportivo on date 7, Juan Carlos Osorio is appointed as coach, who wins 5 consecutive games, finishing eighth and qualifying again for home runs, where he plays in the Atlético Huila group, Independiente Medellín and Cúcuta Deportivo, would finish third, losing the pass to the final on the last date against Medellín. In the reclassification of the year, Millonarios would finish fifth, qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana for the second time.

With the direction of Juan Carlos Osorio in the Apertura 2007 after a good campaign, Millonarios classified in fourth place and entered the semifinals where they fought until the last group game where they lost against Atlético Huila, which took away their pass to the final For the 2007 Finalization Juan Carlos Osorio leaves and Martín Lasarte arrives, his stage at the club would not last long, leaving the club in the last box of the tournament, assuming Mario Vanemerak, a former player of the club, as coach in the middle of the championship. He finished in the 11th place in the league and led the team that reached the semifinals of the 2007 Copa Sudamericana, after a good campaign in the series with Atlético Nacional, Colo Colo and São Paulo, being eliminated from the pass to the final by the America from Mexico.

In the 2008 Torneo Apertura, Millonarios again missed out on the semifinal home runs after completing an irregular campaign that left him in 11th place. Despite this, the 'Azules' They fought until the last date for their entry into the Colombian soccer semifinal. During that period, two coaches passed: Vanemerak and Bonner Mosquera, who was interim.

The situation was repeated for the Finalization Tournament, since under the command of Óscar Héctor Quintabani, Millonarios was left out of the semifinal home runs, equaling in 28 points with the eighth place, who was Deportivo Cali, but with a goal less. In this way, the 'Ambassador' he completed his third consecutive championship without advancing to the semifinal instance of the championship. In the Colombia Cup they were eliminated in the group stage.

For the 2009 season, in the Apertura Tournament, the club had a bad campaign when it was eliminated for the fourth consecutive tournament from the semifinal home runs (position 15 in the tournament), which led to the departure of coach Oscar Quintabani giving way to the last dates to the minor divisions coach Nilton Bernal.

For the Finalization Tournament, the new strategist was club shareholder Luis Augusto García, who left the team close to qualifying for the semifinal home runs, in ninth place, one point behind eighth, Real Cartagena. On the penultimate date he was eighth in the table, but in the last game he drew 1-1 with América, and with Junior's 2-1 victory against Deportes Tolima he was left out of the home runs. In the reclassification it was ranked 16th and with a very bad average in the relegation for 2010. In the Colombia Cup it classified first in its group, but in the second phase it was eliminated by Atlético Bucaramanga.

Back to the hits

The following decade is characterized by the liquidation of Club Deportivo Los Millonarios and its refoundation as Millonarios Fútbol Club, a public limited company, with shares for sale that several fans acquired. Although most of the team belongs to the Amber Capital fund since 2015.

That transformation ultimately led the team to several titles, including two new stars in the national league, after several years of drought.

2010s

In 2010 the ambassador team entered the tenth position in the relegation table with 95 points, the same as Atlético Nacional, since it did not have good campaigns in the 2008 and 2009 seasons and was nine points behind difference from the last team that was Cúcuta Deportivo and five points behind the recently promoted from Primera B 2009 Cortuluá and Real Cartagena who were in a position to play the Promotion Series, the following teams Once Caldas and Envigado F.C 91 points, Deportes Quindío, Atlético Huila, América de Cali 92 points and Deportivo Pereira had 101 points, they had a difference of six more, the team despite the fact that they did not qualify for the final home runs in the Opening and Finalization Tournament, except for the category as in the Season In 2006 the blue team had the matter of saving the Category by not making good campaigns in 2004 and 2005.

In the Apertura 2011 he classified sixth to the play-offs after 4 years of absence; In the quarterfinals, they eliminated Once Caldas on penalties (Once Caldas had finished as the best team in the round-robin phase) and reached the semifinals, where they were eliminated by La Equidad. In the Finalization, he classified again to the play-offs, this time as fourth classified; in the quarterfinals they eliminated Envigado FC on penalties and in the semifinal they lost on penalties to Junior, who would ultimately be the champion of that tournament, which deprived the blue team of returning to the Copa Libertadores.

That same year, Millonarios won their second official Colombia Cup in 2011 after several years of struggle, in the group stage, in Group D, they came first, beating the teams of Santa Fe, Centauros Villavicencio, La Equidad, Academia and Bogotá F.C., then in the round of 16 they eliminated Uniautónoma, in the quarterfinals against Deportes Tolima, in the semifinal against Junior and in the grand final against Boyacá Chicó. They beat it in both games by a score of 1-0, in Tunja and Bogotá, for a 2-0 aggregate, becoming the team with the most Colombia Cup at that time and the first team to qualify for the 2012 Copa Sudamericana.. That same year, and to avoid bankruptcy, the club had been reconstituted into a limited company called Millonarios Fútbol Club, which put its shares up for sale and was capitalized.

After almost 24 years without winning the title of League champion (December 18, 1988 - December 16, 2012) and after a great campaign in the regular phase of the 2012 Completion Tournament or phase all against all, the cast Ambassador classifies with 3 dates in advance to the semifinal home runs. The Azules begin this final phase of the tournament with difficulties: they lost consecutively with Junior and Deportivo Pasto, forcing the team led by Hernán Torres from Tolima to achieve at least three victories in the remaining four games. With the added difficulty of simultaneously playing in the semifinal of the 2012 Copa Sudamericana, Millonarios reached first position in group A of the home runs after defeating Deportes Tolima at home and away and Deportivo Pasture as a local. In this way, it was consolidated for the last date of the home runs as the only team in the group that depends on its same results to qualify for the final. However, the ambassador team only managed to draw 0-0 with Junior in Bogotá and was left depending on the result of the match between Deportivo Pasto and Deportes Tolima, which was played at the same time. Moments after the end of the commitment in Bogotá, Pasto and Tolima would tie with a score of 1-1, a result that classified Millonarios to the grand final. The rival that awaited him was Independiente Medellín.

The first leg was in Medellín ending in a hopeful 0-0. The return match was held in Bogotá in which Los Embajadores went at halftime with a victory obtained in the replacement minutes due to a goal by Wilberto Cosme, but at the start of the second half Independiente Medellín managed to the tie, which forced the definition from the penalty spot after a goal by Wason Renteria (Millionaires) was annulled. The series of penalties was tied 4-4, which meant that the game was defined by the so-called sudden death which gave Millonarios the victory due to a save by goalkeeper Luis Delgado.

After the conquest of its star number 14, Millionaires consolidates its participation in the final phases of the league, despite being on the brink of the grand finale, this occurring in the 2013 Apertura Tournament against Santa Fe in home runs, finishing second in the Group A with 10 points, then the 2014 Apertura Tournament against Atlético Junior in the semifinals, 2015 Apertura Tournament against Deportivo Cali in the semifinals, 2016 Apertura Tournament against Atlético Junior in the quarterfinals, 2016 Finalization Tournament against Atlético Nacional in the quarterfinals final, and the 2017 Opening Tournament against Atlético Nacional in the semifinals.

However, the club's bad luck would change in the 2017 Finalization Tournament, with a new title. Led by Argentine coach Miguel Ángel Russo, Millonarios culminates the regular phase of the championship with 36 points as a result of 10 wins and 6 draws in 20 games played, which placed the club in fourth position, being seeded in the quarterfinals. final.

Champion Tournament Team Finalization 2017

In this instance, they face the La Equidad team, with a 1-1 result in the first leg, a goal from Ayron del Valle and 2-1 in the second leg, goals from Andrés Cadavid and David Macalister Silva, which allows them to the ambassador team the move to the semifinal where they face América de Cali, winning in Cali with a score of 2-1, with notes from Ayron del Valle and David Macalister Silva, and drawing 0-0 in Bogotá, thus achieving the long-awaited place for the grand final, which he played with his eternal rival Independiente Santa Fe. In the first leg he achieved a light victory after a headed goal from Matías De Los Santos, sentencing the score to 1-0 in favor of the Albiazules . The second leg is played on December 17 where Independiente Santa Fe officiated as the local. The first half ended with a 1-0 lead thanks to a penalty taken by Wilson Morelo. In the second half, captain Andrés Cadavid equalized the game with a header after a cross from Juan Guillermo Domínguez, who until then had given the title to Millonarios. However, at minute 82, Wilson Morelo scores to make it 2-1 for Santa Fe, forcing the definition from the penalty spot, Millonarios persists and 3 minutes later the player Henry Rojas catches a rebound from the cardinal defense, takes out a medium-distance shot that passes between the legs of Sebastián Salazar, over the head of Héctor Urrego and defeats Robinson Zapata, ties the commitment and gives the title to Millonarios thanks to the overall result, stamping his star number 15 and reaffirming himself as one one of the most successful teams in Colombian soccer.

On January 31, 2018, they faced Atlético Nacional at the El Campín Stadium in Bogotá to define the champion of the 2018 Colombian Super League. The team led by Hugo Gottardi would draw goalless against the champion of the 2017 Apertura Tournament, leaving the definition of the title in the city of Medellín

The second leg will be played on February 7 at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellín. The first goal of the match would be for the rival, at minute 21 Andrés Rentería beat Wuilker Faríñez and decreed 1-0. However, at minute 34, Paraguayan striker Roberto Ovelar scored 1-1 after receiving an assist from Jair Palacios. The first half ends with 1-1 on the scoreboard. In the second half, Atlético Nacional managed to approach Wuilker Faríñez's goal several times with goal danger without being able to make it happen, however, it would be Millonarios who would take the advantage despite the pressure from the rival. Roberto Ovelar intercepts an intention to pass from Carlos Cuesta at the start, and seeing that Fernando Monetti was ahead, he decides to throw him a ball that he ends up converting into the goal for the advantage and subsequent 2-1 victory. Millonarios ended a 7-year losing streak without being able to beat Atlético Nacional at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium and would also win the Super League trophy for the first time in its history.

The club reported on November 5, 2018 that after the poor results that led to the elimination of the tournaments in which it competed during 2018, the Argentine strategist Miguel Ángel Russo would not continue with the blue team. On November 13, 2018 Jorge Luis Pinto is confirmed as the new coach of Millionaires.

In the 2019 Colombian soccer season, Pinto achieved the best start in the club's history since semi-annual tournaments were held. of all against all with 39 points. In the home runs it is located in Group A, along with Deportivo Pasto, América de Cali and Unión Magdalena. Despite the good campaign, it finishes second in the home runs behind Deportivo Pasto.

In the Copa Colombia, they finished the group stage with 16 points, 10 goals for and 3 against, qualifying undefeated for the round of 16 of the tournament, in which they were eliminated by Deportivo Independiente Medellín, after losing 2-1 in Medellín and draw 2-2 in Bogotá.

In the 2019 Completion Tournament, Millonarios did not have the same performance and the reinforcements that arrived at the squad did not work as expected. However, he remained at the top of the table until midway through the tournament when he began to decline and was eventually eliminated. On October 30, 2019, Pinto leaves office after Millonarios' elimination from the semifinal home runs.

2020s

On December 3, 2019, Millonarios announced that Alberto Gamero would be its Technical Director, its coaching staff announced members with an albi-azul past, such as Cerveleón Cuesta and Orlando Rojas, technical assistants; and Arnoldo Iguarán, forward trainer.

Millionarios was champion of the 2022 Colombia Cup, beating Junior from Barranquilla in the final. It would be Alberto Gamero's first title as technical director of Millonarios.^{[citation required]}

Club symbols

Club shields

Hearing of the Municipal Sports Club, first of the team, inspired by the shield of the city of Bogotá.

Current Shield of Millionaires, in force since 2022.

Shield

The Millonarios shield is the official emblem of the club, which is used to identify the 'ambassador' club. In its beginnings, when the team was called Club Municipal de Deportes, the shield that belonged to the municipality was adopted as the shield, in addition to using the official colors, black and white. Since its foundation as Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, the shield has maintained the following elements: silhouette of bull skin or chasuble, which is maintained until today; a partition of tajado, showing the blue color in the upper part and the white color in the lower part; in the upper part there are two intertwined white rings, and in the lower part there is the letter 'M', for Millionaires. Previously there were the initials 'CM', referring to its old name, Club Municipal.

Shield evolution
1938 - 1939	1940 - 1946	1946 - 1955	1956 - 1978	1979 - 1985
1980	1986-1990	1991-1993	1994-1996	1996[1]
1997-1999	2000-2002	2003-2006	2006[2]	2007-2008
2009-2011	2011[3]	2011-2012[4]	2012-2014	2015
2016[5]	2017-2021	2017-2018[6]	2021 - 2022	2022 - Presente

Note¹: Special shield for the 50th anniversary of the club.

Note²: Special shield for the 60th anniversary of the club.

Note³: Special edition shield in commemoration of the El Dorado era.

Note⁴: Transition shield used between 2011 and 2012 to mark the change from Club Deportivo Los Millonarios to Millonarios Fútbol Club.

Note⁵: Special shield for the 70th anniversary of the club.

Note⁶: Shield used on some competition garments between 2017 and 2018.

Flag

Official Flag of Millionaires

The official flag brings together the two traditional colors of Millionaires, Blue and White; they are distributed horizontally in two stripes of equal size, blue at the top and white at the bottom. Blue represents the sky and the sea, which symbolizes the greatness of the club's history and the large number of fans that the team has all over the world, as well as their loyalty and love for the institution. White represents peace, optimism, coldness, serenity and fair play that must be in every game that Millionaires play.

Anthem

The club's official anthem was written by Manuel Briceño Pardo and composed by Óscar Sache. On July 11, 2016, in commemoration of the 70 years of the club, the "Official Song" of the club, which is used before matches in the stadium and in official media.

Pet

Although Millonarios does not currently have an official mascot, in the past it has adopted some ideas. The first was created in 1984 by the club's president at the time, Edmer Tamayo. He presents a blue-snouted white polar bear to the cheerleaders on June 13, 1984. The mascot would later be discarded, due to its unpopularity. In the year 2000, thanks to the Citytv program, 'Without yellow, blue and red' the new winning mascot is chosen from a contest among nearly 300 people. The mascot is baptized 'Millo'. Millo has its first appearance on August 20, 2000. However, it would not be well received either, so over time it would end up disappearing.

For the year 2016, the idea of implementing a mascot for the team is taken up again, for which reason a contest is launched aimed at the fans in search of proposals. 4 finalists are chosen among the speakers of the contest and they are left to a vote by the fans to choose the winning proposal, but due to the discontent of the fans, and breach of terms and conditions, the contest is cancelled. Again, on March 19, 2019, there is a contest open to the fans to choose the mascot of the team.

Clothing

Millionaire commemorative t-shirt "special edition of adidas" in tribute to the Blue Ballet of (The Dorado).

Historically the Millonarios uniform uses the colors blue and white. However, in its beginnings in 1938, when the club was the Municipal Sports Club, it dressed in a white shirt and black shorts, since it used what at that time were the colors of the flag of the city of Bogotá, later it came in 1939, the change to the blue color brought about by the Club Atlético Tigre of Argentina, which finally in 1941 became the current one. As of the 2009 season, and up to the present, Millionaires' clothing is made by the German multinational Adidas, which had already dressed the club between 1984 and 1987 and later in 1996.

First uniform

(See evolution)

Current uniform

Current Uniforms
Owner	Alternative	Third	Porter 1	Porter 2	Porter 3	Training 1	Training 2

Rivalries

With Independiente Santa Fe: Bogota Classic

Estadio Nemesio Camacho The Campin

Millionarios and Santa Fe are the stars of the only regional clásico that has been played without interruptions during all the seasons of first division soccer in Colombia, the clásico from Bogotá.

The background of this derby originated during the decade before professional soccer emerged in Colombia, both teams were highly recognized in the Bogotá and national soccer fields. The first official classic in professionalism was played on September 19, 1948 with a 5:3 victory for Santa Fe. Millonarios' first victory in professionalism was on October 16, 1949, by a score of 6:3, with three goals by Alfredo Di Stéfano, while Adolfo Pedernera, Alcides Aguilera and Ismael Soria scored the other three goals.

On September 16, 2007, Millonarios completed 100 victories in their clashes in the Bogota classic against Santa Fe in the 248 classic. Currently the number of Millonarios wins is 124 against Santa Fe's 89, so the difference in wins for the blues, is still more than 30. A trend that has been maintained in recent years.

As of 2015, Millonarios maintained a streak without losing against its rival from Santa Fe with three draws and six victories. The most outstanding in the Apertura Tournament, when Millonarios eliminated Santa Fe from the 8 qualifiers on the last date of the regular phase with a score of 1-3. The goals were converted by Román Torres, Fernando Uribe and Rafael Robayo.

On March 19, 2017, Millonarios cut an undefeated 22-date cardinal draw. Millonarios would win with a score of 3-0 with goals from Andrés Cadavid, Ayron del Valle and Deiver Machado. On December 13 of the same year, the ambassador team and the cardinal met in the final of the 2017 Completion Tournament. In the first leg, where Millonarios officiated at home, they took the victory after a headed goal from Matías De Los Santos In the second leg, played on December 17, Millonarios twice came back from an adverse result, first with a goal from Andrés Cadavid, and finally with one from Henry Rojas, for a 3-2 aggregate, with which he obtained his star number 15.

The greatest victories for Millonarios in the capital's classic were two wins by a score of 6:0, the first achieved on June 29, 1952 with goals from Alfredo Castillo, Alfredo Di Stéfano, two from Antonio Báez, one from Reinaldo Mourin and an Olympic goal from Adolfo Pedernera. He won again, 6:0, against Santa Fe, on August 29, 1954, with goals from Rubén Deibe, Liborio "Leticiano" Guzmán, Oscar Contreras Rossi and three notes by Julio "Stuka" Avila. Likewise, he achieved several victories by 6:1 and 5:0.^{[citation required]} Meanwhile, he suffered his heaviest defeat on February 23, 1992, with a score of 3:7 (Goals for Santa Fe by Daniel Tilger x 3, Adolfo Valencia x 2, Francisco Wittingham and Félix Hurtado. Goals for Millonarios by José Manuel Díaz, Peter Méndez and Ariel Cuffaro Russo).

The greatest scorers in the history of the Bogotá classic are the Argentines Miguel Ángel Converti (14 goals with Millonarios and 1 with Santa Fe) and Alfredo Castillo (15 goals with Millonarios), and the Colombian Leider Preciado, player of Santa Fe (15 goals with Santa Fe) and 80. On March 24, 2012, Humberto Osorio, a Millonarios player, scored a hat-trick against Santa Fe in the 4-3 defeat for the ambassador.

With Deportivo Cali: Clásico Añejo

The so-called “Clásico Añejo” is a very old rivalry in Colombian soccer, between Millonarios and Deportivo Cali. This match was by far the most important game in the country, considered the "Super Clásico de Colombia" during the decades of the 60s and 70s. In 1980, the economic crisis of Millionarios, the drought of titles for the sugar growers, the consolidation of Atlético Nacional and the appearance of América de Cali as a rival of both teams, were the causes of the decline of this club. classic.

It is the most even match in Colombia, being one of the most important in the history of Colombian Professional Soccer, due to its great sports disputes in the fight for titles and the brilliant players that have gone through their rosters. These teams have played the titles of 1949, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1978 and 1995/96, plus the 1962/63 Colombia Cup.

With Atlético Nacional: Colombian Soccer Superclassic

It is one of the strongest rivalries in Colombian professional soccer, the game that has the most stars with 32 in total, 15 stars for Millonarios and 17 stars for Atlético Nacional. It also faces the two teams with the most official titles in Colombia with 51 titles in total. To date Millonarios and Nacional have faced each other 281 times: Millonarios won 107 times, Atlético Nacional won 83 times and tied 91 times.

Protocolary event at El Campín Stadium prior to a classic between National Atletic and Millonarios.

On June 12, 1949, Millonarios thrashed Atlético Nacional 6-0 in Bogotá. Pedro Cabillón scored three goals and the tally was completed by Alfredo Castillo, Alcides Aguilera and Carlos Mosquera.

The rivalry had its first glimpses in the 1970s when both teams fought hand in hand for the 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1978 championships, with two titles for each squad (Millionarios was champion in 1972 and 1978, in both titles the triumphs over Atlético Nacional in the final were key).

But the game did not definitively become a great classic until after the disputes over the hiring of several players in 1986 and 1987 and the Championship that Millonarios won against Atlético Nacional in 1988, which allowed them to reach their 13th star (in 1987 they won almost every tournament he played and consecutively won the Completion tournament three times, in 1986, 1987 and 1988).

In 1989 they shared a new group in the Copa Libertadores de América. Millonarios reached the Quarterfinals undefeated, an instance in which they faced Atlético Nacional, falling 1:0 in Medellín and the second leg, played at the Nemesio Camacho Stadium. El Campín in Bogotá ended tied 1:1, with Chilean referee Hernán Silva.

In 1994, during the final home run of the Colombian tournament, Atlético Nacional with a goal with 10 minutes left to finish the classic Paisa, snatched the title from the ambassadors, who had won their match against América, in the city Bogotá by 3 goals to 0. In 1995, history seemed to repeat itself for the Copa Libertadores: Millonarios won their group again in the first round, with a draw against Atlético Nacional in Medellín and a victory in Bogotá; It continued advancing rounds and in the final instance, the two teams revived their 1989 confrontation. In that instance, the purslane won. In both campaigns he reached the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores. In 1996 for the Colombian Tournament, Millonarios beat him 5 consecutive times, in the regular phase and both at home and away in the semifinal home runs and in the final home run (an unprecedented event between two big teams in the country), but his dream of being champion, he was frustrated again because in the city of Cali, América tied with Deportivo Cali and thus, due to Bonus difference, the sugar team remains with the Colombian title. In 1997 he was thrashed 4:0 with three goals from Ricardo Pérez.

In the year 2000 Atlético Nacional and Millonarios played the final of the 2000 Merconorte Cup where they tied 0-0 in Bogotá and in Medellín the paisa team won 2-1 on November 9 so that Atlético Nacional became champion.

Since May 14, 2000 when they beat them 4:3, Millonarios had six years of drought in which they did not see any win against Atlético Nacional. On October 14, 2006, the Bogotá team broke this streak with a 2:0 win at home, only to lose in the subsequent match, again at their stadium, by a score of 1:0.

Nine years passed (since their 1:2 victory in the 1998 Merconorte Cup) for the blue team to defeat Atlético Nacional in Medellín. It was on September 5, 2007 with a score of 2-3, in a game valid for the Copa Sudamericana. The goals for the capital team were scored by Jonathan Estrada and Ricardo Ciciliano (twice). At that time, Atlético Nacional was the Colombian soccer champion and Millonarios was last in Finalización 2007. That night marked Mario Vanemerak's debut as Millonarios' coach. The second leg in Bogotá ended in a goalless draw, allowing Millonarios to qualify for the Round of 16 of the competition, eliminating the Antioqueño team.

The losing streak of 15 years without defeating Atlético Nacional in Medellín in a local tournament ended on the afternoon of November 2, 2011 with a 2-0 victory, with goals from Luis Mosquera and Edison Toloza.

In 2013, the ambassador and the purslane would meet again in a final, this time for the Colombia Cup, in which they would tie in the first leg in the city of Bogotá, with a score of 2-2, to later finish the second leg in the city of Medellín with a 1-0 result in favor of the Antioquia team.

Millionarios was thrashed 5-0 by Atlético Nacional on August 10, 2014, in what constitutes the biggest win received by the blue team against the green team so far.

In 2016 the ambassador and purslane would meet in the quarterfinals, this time for the Colombian tournament, in which blue won in the first leg in the city of Bogotá, with a score of 2-1, in the return match in Medellín they fell 3-0 against Nacional, who played with all their payroll since they could not play the final of the Copa Sudamérica due to the air accident suffered by the Brazilian team Chapecoense.

Once again they would meet in the semifinal of the 2017 Colombian opening tournament, this time, in the semifinals. The first match was played at the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium in the city of Bogotá, on June 7 with a balance of 0-0. The rematch would take place 4 days later, on June 11, this time at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium from the city of Medellín with a balance in favor of the Verdolagas from 1 to 0.

In 2018 they met in the 2018 Colombian Super League, facing the champion of the Apertura Tournament, Atlético Nacional, and the champion of the Finalization Tournament, Millonarios. The first leg played in Bogotá ended with a score of 0-0. In the second leg, played on February 7 in the city of Medellín, the Embajadores came back from 1-0 with a brace from Paraguayan striker Roberto Ovelar, thus winning the Super League for the first time, and breaking a losing streak of 7 years without winning at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium.

With América de Cali: Clásico de las Estrellas

Millionarios and América de Cali are the stars of one of the great classics of the country, due to the fact that between both teams they have a total of 30 titles for Dimayor, 15 for Millonarios and 15 for América de Cali. In addition, it also brings together the two pioneering clubs in the founding of Dimayor on June 26, 1948, which was achieved thanks to the efforts of their presidents, Alfonso Senior Quevedo, de Millonarios and Humberto Salcedo Fernández Salcefer, of America, in the building of the Barranquilla Public Improvement Society. This rivalry gained strength during the 80s and 90s.

In the 2007 Completion Tournament on October 13, 20, América won in Bogotá with a 2-1 result.

The classics played in 2008 ended with a victory for each one at home, first on April 2, playing date 11 of the Torneo Apertura, despite losing 20 seconds into the game. commitment, Millonarios equalized after 5 minutes through Ricardo Ciciliano, who scored again at 16. Later Roberto Carlos Cortés was sent off, but Millonarios made it 3-1 again with a goal from Ciciliano. Later, on September 28, on the same date in the Finalization Tournament, América de Cali won 1-0 with a goal from Adrián Ramos. In this (2010), they met in the Opening Tournament where América de Cali won 3-2 in an exciting match saving two penalties to the rival team and on the last date of the Finalization tournament and Millonarios again won 2-0.

On November 19, 2011, on date 16 of the 2011 Completion Tournament, a very special classic was played, in which Millonarios defeated América de Cali 2-0, thus condemning them to play the promotion series against Patriotas, which the dessert would end with the relegation of the scarlet team to the First B Category.

After 6 years without meetings between these two teams, on March 11, 2017 the teams met at El Campín; a match that would end with a score of 3-0 in favor of Millonarios. At 9 minutes Duvier Riascos would open the account with a dribble where he left the scarlet defense on the way and beat goalkeeper Carlos Bejarano, before the end of the first half, after a center by Henry Rojas Harold Santiago Mosquera would score 2-0 in head. The final goal would be scored by Eliser Quiñones after a powerful left-footed shot leaving goalkeeper Carlos Bejarano without a chance. The same year, in the semifinals, they met América de Cali, which they defeated in the first leg played at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium 2 goals against one. Millonarios would go ahead on the scoreboard with a goal from Ayron Del Valle, who evades Carlos Bejarano and marks his 11th goal in the league. A short time later, after a penalty in favor of América, saved by Nicolás Vikonis, the scarlet team would tie for a second penalty converted by Cristian Martínez Borja. Shortly after, David Macalister Silva would decree the final 2-1. After a good pass from Christian Camilo Huérfano, Silva shot to the right hand of the American goalkeeper and sealed the game. In the second leg, Millonarios and América de Cali drew 0-0, giving the ambassador team led by Miguel Ángel Russo a place in the final.

On June 5, 2019 in the home run date 6: América de Cali defeated Millonarios 2-1 in Campín after 12 years, leaving the blue team without an end and giving Deportivo Pasto a place in the final that they would face to Junior from Barranquilla.

With Junior from Barranquilla

One of the matches that has gained importance in recent years and is a classic, due to the frequent meetings that take place between these two teams, either in the regular phase or in the knockout phase, the regional difference and also because Barranquilla It is the most difficult place for Millonarios in its history, especially since the return of Atlético Junior in the 60s after several years without participating after leaving the tournament due to differences with Dimayor and an economic crisis.

The rivalry between Millonarios and Junior began almost from their return to the league in 1966 and already in 1968 the skirmishes would begin after losing a third place against the ambassador, but since then the sandy one would show a strong resistance to blue especially in the Metropolitano, against Atlético Junior, would have difficulties to win in Bogotá. They would dispute the titles of 1972 and 1976, having controversy at the end of the game when defining the opening champion. They would fight again in 1982, 1987 and 1988 that although Junior would no longer have a chance, Millionaires in these two tournaments would beat Junior even turning around in the Metropolitan winning stars 12 and 13, also this match in the 80's;s would be very tight and balanced until the short tournaments of 2011, 2014 and 2016 where Junior has eliminated the ambassador team 3 times in his favor.

In the 1990s and 2000s it would maintain the difficulty and gain strength especially due to the downturn in blue, but it was in 2011 that it would begin to have classic overtones when Millonarios lost the opportunity to qualify for the grand final of the tournament, after arriving with a score of 3-0 in favor of Barranquilla, where the rojiblanco team tied and eliminated Millonarios via penalty where later the sharks would border their seventh star on their shield.

In the 2003 Opening Tournament, the sharks and the ambassadors met in Group B of the semifinal home runs where they also faced Centauros Villavicencio and Deportivo Pereira.

In the 2011 Completion Tournament they met in the semifinals, in the first leg the ambassador won 3-0 and in the second leg they fell by the same score and in penalty shootout it was 5-4 in favor of Junior who qualifies to the grand finale

In the 2012 Completion Tournament they would meet in the semifinal Quadrangulares of Group A, in the first game Junior won 2-1 in Barranquilla and in the second game they tied 0-0 in Bogotá thus qualifying Millonarios to the grand final for having scored the most points in the group.

The two teams would meet again in 2014, in both games they would tie 0-0 and the pass to the final would be defined at the El Campín stadium, where Junior defeated Millonarios and advanced to the final again against Atlético Nacional 10 years after having won it, in which this time he was runner-up.

In 2016 the pass to the semifinals would be played, Junior would win the first leg in Barranquilla by a score of 2-0, in the second leg Millonarios would go to halftime with a score of 1-0 down (3-0 accumulated), In the second half, Andrés Escobar and Carlos Henao surprisingly made it 4-1 with which they qualified for the semifinals, but a goal in extra time by Vladimir Hernández led to the definition via penalties that would ultimately end with the elimination of Millonarios and the passage of Junior to the semifinal of the Opening Tournament 2016.

In 2017 they met in the quarterfinals of the Copa Colombia, the first leg ended with a 0-0 draw, and the second leg was 1-0 in favor of Junior after a maximum penalty converted by Jarlan Barrera, giving him the qualification to the semifinals. To date they have faced each other 10 times in roundtrip series, the popular kill kills with a favorable balance for the Barranquillas with 6 series won by 4 for the blue team.

In 2021 they met in the semifinals of the Apertura Tournament, with a score of 3-2 with a double from Carmelo Valencia and Fabián Sambueza and goals from Fernando Uribe and Cristian Arango for Azul. Later on June 13, in the second leg, the ambassador managed to turn it around with a double from Fernando Uribe and thus take the ticket for the grand final that they would lose at the hands of Deportes Tolima.

In 2022 they managed to win the Colombia Cup against Junior, with a 2-1 aggregate in favor of Millonarios.

Other rivalries

Likewise, Millonarios maintains minor rivalries with some international clubs, such as Real Madrid and River Plate. With the Merengues they first met in 1952 when the Spanish team organized their Wedding Gold, and Millionaires attended the meeting thanks to the resignation of River Plate in the football event. The Colombian team was crowned champion drawing 2-2 with IFK Norrköping of Sweden and defeating the host team 4-2, marking the history of the Spanish club after the event resulted in the arrival of Alfredo Di Stéfano in Spain where he would leave a great story and legacy as a player, just as he did in Argentina and Colombia.

After the first confrontation between the two teams, that same year in July the rematch would be played in Bogotá. Millonarios would receive Real Madrid at the El Campín Stadium on the occasion of the celebration of the Copa Ciudad de Bogotá. The whites would be beaten for the second time by the team from Bogota, this time by a score of 2-1. The annotations of that meeting would be the work of Adolfo Pedernera and Alfredo Di Stéfano.

Three days later the Merengue team would have a new opportunity to face Millonarios, this time on the occasion of the Spanish Chancellery Trophy where once again the ambassador team would prevail by a score of 2-0, both goals being scored by Antonio Báez. Later they would face each other twice in Venezuela, this on the occasion of the edition of the Little World Cup for Clubs. There in the two matches, both teams would end up tied at one goal, the Bogotá team maintaining its unbeaten record against Madrid.

Seven years later they met again, this time with Alfredo Di Stéfano playing for Real Madrid, and with the motivation of having won three European Cups, in 1959. The result would end with equality at one goal, with scores from Di Stéfano himself for the White House and Hugo Contreras for the Blues.

In homage to Di Stéfano, Real Madrid decided to invite the club from the capital to celebrate the Santiago Bernabéu Trophy for the 2012 edition. The match took place on September 26 of that year, and the result was 8-0 in favor of Real Madrid, this being the first and only time that the Spanish club defeated the ambassador team and being at the same time the biggest win for Real Madrid against Millionaires.

As for River Plate, the confrontation between the ambassador and the millionaire club arises from several factors: the Argentine team is nicknamed "Millionaire", similar to the name of the blue club. Also, historical players have passed through both clubs, such as Di Stéfano and Amadeo Carrizo, among others, and to this is also added the brotherhood that has been formed between the fans of the Argentine and Colombian clubs. In total they have faced each other 10 times; However, all the meetings between River Plate and Millonarios have been friendly. The first of these was in 1953 for the Copa República de Colombia, a match that would end 1-3 in favor of River Plate. Millionaires would win their first match the same year, this time for the Little Club World Cup, with a 5-1 result. The history has 11 matches, 1 win for Millionaires, 4 for River and the remaining 6 ended in a tie. The blue and white team scored 13 times while the cross band scored 17.

Facilities

Stadium

Hunched of Millionaires at El Campín Stadium.

In its beginnings, the first courts used by the then Bogota Youth were the "field" from the hacienda "La Merced" which had the Colegio de San Bartolomé (now called the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé) in the area where the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park and the Colegio San Bartolomé la Merced are currently located (between the current Calle 34 and Avenida 39 with Carrera Séptima and Avenida Circunvalar).

Later, he played several of his matches in the tournaments that were organized at that time on the grounds of La Salle (between the current Calle Segunda and Carrera 10). But it should be clarified that despite the error that appears in some information, the Instituto de La Salle has nothing to do with Deportivo Municipal, it was an independent team from this educational institution, which was a rival of Deportivo Municipal in the tournaments of the time and The matches were played in its field, as it was the one with the largest public capacity in the city at that time, until the construction of the El Campín stadium.

When the team in 1938 was temporarily acquired by the Municipality of Bogotá and became the Municipal Sports Club, it began to play in the recently inaugurated Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campín, currently located in the El Campín neighborhood on Avenida Norte -Quito-South (NQS) with Avenida Calle 57 (Locality of Teusaquillo), the official address is Carrera 30 No. 57-60, and it is owned by the Capital District of Bogotá and administered by the IDRD (District Institute for Recreation and the sport). After the reform so that the stadium can host the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the stadium had a capacity for 36,343 spectators.

Oriental bars

From then until now, this stadium has always been his home, with the exception of 1950 and until July 1951, at the height of El Dorado, when due to the reconstruction of the "Colossus of 57&# 34;, must have been a local at the Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium in the University City of Bogotá, which was able to witness the Ballet Azul team for the first time. Subsequently, it has only left the El Campín Stadium due to some other renovations or suspensions that the stage has suffered, although of very short duration.

Own stadium project

In 1989 they thought about building their own stadium to become the first Colombian team with their own stadium, but the project did not go very far because they could not find land near the capital large enough to house a construction of such magnitude. Later, in 1999, plans were drawn and land was purchased, but the project failed again because there were insufficient resources to build the stadium. More recently, in 2004, new plans were made and land was purchased in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Cota (northwest of Bogotá), to start the construction of the Azul stadium, but in 2005, the project failed again due to the crisis that led the team to bankruptcy leaving the project behind.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2018, the president of the club Enrique Camacho declared that the club can economically build its own stadium without any problem and land has already been seen, but due to the POT (territorial planning plan) it will not be possible to build within Bogota. He also gave the RCDE Stadium as an example as an idea of what he wants to do.

By November 2018, the president of the club Enrique Camacho together with Gustavo Serpa (club shareholder) ratified the intention to build the stadium and affirmed that land had already been acquired north of Bogotá. Later, in March 2019, the desire of the board of directors to build the club's own stadium is reaffirmed, giving the project the green light in a members' assembly. The stadium, projected for 2025, would cost between $174 million and $200 million. This would include a hotel and a shopping center, as well as advice in the area from various experts.

Previous venues

The first headquarters of the club when it was founded in 1946, was located on Carrera Séptima with Calle 25 (before Avenida El Dorado or Calle 26 was built), near the District Planetarium and Parque de la Independencia. ^{[citation needed]} At that time the team was nicknamed the 25th Street Club. In that headquarters, he also had a concentration where he hosted several of his players from the time of El Dorado, and a restaurant called El Embajador, which ended up giving its name to that passage and to the Cinema Embajador, in Twenty-fourth Street in the town of Santa Fe.

At the same time, he had another sports venue in the Minuto de Dios neighborhood in the town of Engativá, land that he bought in 1952 and which he owned until 1971, when he sold it to buy his next venue.

Their next sports venue was in a lot located in the Fontanar sector, in the town of Usaquén, on the northern outskirts of Bogotá, on the North Highway with Calle 220. This property was popularly known as La Finca , settled from the late 1980s to early 2010, had been involved in multiple disputes over the last 20 years, but finally in 2005 it was determined that he owned 70% of the club and 30% of the DNE (National Directorate of Narcotics). This was owned by the club until 2011.

In the 1980s the club had a modern country and social club located 3 km from Facatativá,^{[citation required]} with indoor pools, multiple courts and fields, a property that it also lost, as it was listed as owned by shareholders, who later suffered the extinction of ownership by the national government.^{[citation required]} In addition, in the 1990s, also acquired some land in the municipality of Sopó (in the outskirts of Bogotá), which it later delivered as part of payment to creditors when it invoked Law 550 (there it planned to build a new sports venue, something that did not materialize)..

Currently Millonarios presented its new sports headquarters called Alfonso Senior Quevedo. A 40,000 square meter piece of land, located in the area known as Arrayanes, in the north of the capital. Three soccer fields with identical dimensions to the one in Campín, and a house, also one-story, around which the new house for the ambassadors begins to rotate.

Alfonso Senior Headquarters

The team headquarters is located in the Guaymaral sector in the area known as Arrayanes. It was inaugurated in January 2017, on a 40,000-square-meter piece of land, it has three fields, two with the dimensions of the Campin Stadium field, and another larger one for tactical work.

The venue has dressing rooms, a video room, a wet area and medical offices.

His future project contemplates the construction of a concentration hotel, gym and expansion of the facilities.

Its construction began at the end of 2014 and finished in 2016. It was named after the founder and first president of the club, Alfonso Senior Quevedo.

Museum

Millionarios has its own museum, inaugurated on February 14, 2015. It is located on the western side of the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium.

It is made up of four main rooms. where trophies such as the 15 stars, the Merconorte Cup and others won by the club are located; shirts used by three of the Club's idols: Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pedro Franco and Arnoldo Iguarán; shows videos of historical matches and photographs of the 70-year history of the team.

Visitors will be able to find a room dedicated entirely to Alfonso Senior Quevedo, founder and first president of the club, who is considered the best manager in the club's history. In this room, you can find Senior's historical documents, as well as his Millionaires number 1 membership card in 1946, the FIFA card he used in the 1986 Soccer World Cup, the identity document that accredited him as a member from the FIFA committee and subscriptions from the founder for the 1986 season, among others. There is also the document that Alfonso receives as an honorary member of Real Madrid.

The museum ends with an area dedicated to the uniforms used by the team throughout its history. Here, you can see the shirts that Millionaires have used from 1977 to the present. Here you can also see "Las Clásicas" such as those of the 1987 and 1988 titles, or the commemorative of the golden wedding in 1996 when it was runner-up in the 1995-96 season. Inside this wing there is a special space reserved for the two shirts of the 14th star.

Club details

Trajectory and international participation

For more details, consult Millonaires Football Club

Millionarios occupies first place in the historical table of Colombian professional soccer points, published at the end of 2008, with 3,797 points. In this table, 2 points are assigned for victory until 1994 and 3 points for victory from 1995, and includes all the championships played from its first edition in 1948. In the attached table (see Annex: Historical Table of the Category First A) the data is constantly updated, adding the points obtained by each team since its publication by the Major Division of Colombian Soccer.

The following are the most relevant professional titles of Millionaires in their history. It stands out that it is the second team that has won the Colombian League the most times (15), which has won three editions of the Colombia Cup, being one of the teams with the greatest number of tournaments of this denomination; and internationally he was the champion of the Simón Bolívar Cup in 1972 and the Merconorte Cup in 2001.

In addition, some relevant internationals won by the club are mentioned, such as Real Madrid's Golden Jubilee in 1952, the competition organized by the Venezuelan Football Federation and the Little Club World Cup in 1953, the latter considered as history of the Intercontinental Cup for Clubs. It is one of the Colombian clubs that have won an international competition and also at the South American level.

The club's most recent official international title was the 2001 Merconorte Cup, a tournament where some teams from North America and those considered the most important teams from the northern countries of South America participated, which was played for four years and Colombia with its teams had total dominance of the competition. Millionaires participated in the four tournaments, and was one of the teams with the best results, had great performances such as the semifinal in 1998, the subtitle in the 2000 edition and the 2001 title.

Won Group B of the first phase with 12 points ahead of Guadalajara from Mexico, MetroStars from New York and Italchacao from Venezuela. Qualifying for the semifinal was on October 31 at Giants Stadium with a 1-0 victory in the 93rd minute, both achieved by Johan Viáfara.

The semifinal was against Necaxa in Mexico, where they lost the first leg 3:2 at the Estadio Victoria in Aguascalientes. The rematch in Bogotá ended with the same score, but in favor of the blues (3:2), for which the definition was reached from the penalty spot where Millonarios prevailed 3:1.

The final of the tournament was against Emelec from Ecuador. The first game in Bogotá was on December 13, and ended 1:1. On December 20, the second leg was played in Guayaquil, which ended with the same score despite the fact that Millonarios began winning with a goal from Juan Carlos Jaramillo ('29m). Emelec's equality was scored by Otilino Tenorio ('50m). In the definition by the penalty lottery, the ambassador team prevailed 3:1 thanks in part to the fact that the Venezuelan Rafael Dudamel saved two charges.

This was the last international title won by Millionaires; Millonarios ultimately won the Merconorte Cup, in addition to finishing as leader of the historical table of this competition with 54 points.

Among its participation in Conmebol Millonarios tournaments, it is one of the Colombian teams with the most participation in the Copa Libertadores de América and had an outstanding performance during the 20th century; His best participation in international tournaments being reaching the semifinals of the 1960, 1973 and 1974 editions. In the Copa Sudamericana he reached the semifinals of the 2007 and 2012 editions.

Note: in bold season champion.

Honours of Prizes

In bold current competitions.

National Tournaments (19)

National competition	Titles	Subtitles
Organized by FCF
First category A (15/10)	1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1972, 1978, 1987, 1988, 2012-II, 2017-II.	1950, 1956, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1984, 1994, 1995-96, 2021-I.
Colombia Cup (3/1)	1952-53, 2011, 2022.	2013.
Colombia (1/1)	2018.	2013.

International Tournaments (2)

International competition	Titles	Subtitles
Organized by FIFA and CONMEBOL
Copa Merconorte (1/1)	2001.	2000.
Organized by FVF
Simón Bolívar Cup (1/0)	1972. (shared record)
Little World Cup* (1)	1953 (Winter).

(*) Some clubs include it in their own personal record.

Regional tournaments (9)

Regional competition	Titles	Subtitles
Organized by LFC and LFB
Cundinamarca Football League (7)	1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948.
Sports Association of Bogotá (1)	1940.
Interdepartmental Championship in Colombia (1)	1947.

International recognition (4)

Players

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Millonary Template Football Club season 2023-I Players Technical equipment N.o Nac. Pos. Name Age Ult team. End contract Eq. training International Note Porteros 1 Colombia! 0ARQ Juan Moreno 23 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 12 Colombia! 0ARQ Camilo Romero 21 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 31 Colombia! 0ARQ Alvaro Montero 4o 27 years Sports Tolima December 2024 Millions Absolute 38 Colombia! 0ARQ Jonathan David Gonzalez 20 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Category sub-20 Defense 2 Colombia! 1DEF Andrés Murillo 26 years Equity December 2024 Equity 3 Colombia! 1DEF Omar Bertel 3o 26 years Divisions Minor December 2024 Millions 4 Costa Rica! 1DEF Juan Pablo Vargas 2nd 27 years Sports Tolima December 2023 L.D. Alajuelense Absolute 6 Colombia! 1DEF Oscar Vanegas 26 years Toluca June 2023 Petrolera Alliance 13 Colombia! 1DEF Elvis Perlaza 34 years Independent Medellín December 2023 Atletico Huila Sub-20 17 Colombia! 1DEF Jorge Arias 30 years Junior December 2023 Valledupar 18 Colombia! 1DEF Jhoan Hernández 17 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-17 Category sub-17 22 Colombia! 1DEF Israel 27 years Equity June 2023 Eleven Caldas 26 Colombia! 1DEF Andrés Llinás 25 years Valledupar F.C. December 2024 Millions Absolute 29 Colombia! 1DEF Alex Moreno 21 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-17 30 Colombia! 1DEF Ricardo Rosales 22 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 36 Colombia! 1DEF Samuel Asprilla 19 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-17 Category sub-20 Campers 5 Colombia! 2MED Larry Vásquez 30 years Junior December 2024 Academy F. C. Sub-21 8 Colombia! 2MED Daniel Giraldo 30 years Junior December 2025 Deportivo Cali Absolute 10 Colombia! 2MED Daniel Cataño 31 years Sports Tolima June 2023 Deportivo Rionegro Absolute 14 Colombia! 2MED David Silva 1o 36 years Sports Tolima December 2024 Millions 21 Colombia! 2MED Juan Carlos Pereira 30 years Union of Magdalena December 2025 Independent Medellín 24 Colombia! 2MED Dewar Victoria 21 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-17 28 Colombia! 2MED Stiven Vega 24 years Valledupar F. C. December 2024 Millions Absolute 32 Colombia! 2MED Kliver Moreno 22 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-20 33 Colombia! 2MED Nicolas Arevalo 20 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Category sub-20 34 Colombia! 2MED Óscar Cortés 19 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Sub-20 37 Colombia! 2MED Kevin Cortés 19 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Category sub-20 Delanteros 7 Colombia! 3OF THE Yuber Quiñones 20 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 9 Colombia! 3OF THE Juan David Torres 21 years Corinthians Sub-20 December 2023 Banfield 11 Colombia! 3OF THE Beckam David Castro 20 years Divisions Minor December 2025 Millions Category sub-20 15 Colombia! 3OF THE Edgar Guerra 22 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 16 Colombia! 3OF THE Jader Valencia 23 years R. C. Lens June 2023 Bogotá F. C. Sub-20 19 Colombia! 3OF THE Juan Esteban Carvajal 19 years Divisions Minor December 2025 Millions Category sub-20 20 Colombia! 3OF THE Fernando Uribe 35 years Junior December 2023 Atletico Huila Absolute 23 Colombia! 3OF THE Leonardo Castro 30 years Pereira December 2025 Pereira Sub-21 25 Colombia! 3OF THE Luis Paredes 21 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions 27 Colombia! 3OF THE Luis Carlos Ruiz 36 years Cortulua June 2023 Barranquilla F.C 35 Colombia! 3OF THE Ramiro Brochero 23 years Divisions Minor December 2023 Millions Coach(s) Alberto Gamero Physical Preparer(s) Felipe Palmezano July Charales Arnold Iguaran Coach(s) of porters Diego Rojas Assistant(s) Orlando Rojas Cuesta Delegate Oscar Cortes Physical therapist(s) Jhonatan Zolaque Fabián Hernández Doctor(s) Catalina Juan Piñeros Legend Pos.: Position Nac.: Nationality of sport Captain Mission BY / ARQ: Guardameta DEF: Defense MED / VOL: Camper OF THE: Delantero Updated on 25 February 2023 Official web template

Ups and downs 2023-I

Loan Players

Players who are owned by the team and are borrowed to act with another set, some with purchase option.

Grants
Player	Position	Lost to	Till
Daniel Ruiz		Santos F.C.	December 2023
Juan Camilo García		Jaguares de Córdoba	December 2023
Diego Abadía		Fortress CEIF	June 2023

Players on loan at the club

Players that are owned by another team and are borrowed at the club, some with purchase option.

Grants
Player	Position	Loss of	Till
Daniel Cataño		Sports Tolima	June 2023

International players

Note: in bold players part of the last call in the corresponding category.

Selection	Category	Player(s)
Colombia	Absolute	Alvaro Montero, Andrés Llinás, Stiven Vega, Daniel Giraldo, Daniel Cataño, Fernando Uribe
	Sub-21	Larry Vásquez, Leonardo Castro
	Sub-20	Elvis Perlaza, Kliver Moreno, Óscar Cortés, Jader Valencia
	Sub-17	Alex Moreno, Samuel Asprilla, Jhoan Hernández, Dewar Victoria
Costa RicaCosta Rica	Absolute	Juan Pablo Vargas

Records

Maximum gorillas			Players with more presences			Coaches with more games
1.	Alfredo Castillo	133 Goles	1.	Bonner Mosquera	550 Parties	1.	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	600 Parties
2.	Arnold Iguaran	131 Goles	2.	Francisco Zuluaga	494 Parties	2.	Luis Augusto García	332 Parties
3.	Marino Klinger	99 Goles	3.	Rafael Robayo	426 Parties	3.	Jorge Luis Pinto	192 Parties
4.	Willington Ortiz	96 Goles	4.	Alejandro Brand	385 Parties	4.	Miguel Augusto Prince	182 Parties
5.	Alfredo Di Stéfano	93 Goles	5.	Julio Edgar Gaviria	382 Parties	5.	Alberto Gamero	151 Parties
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Scorers by position

Position	Player	Nationality	Parties	Goles
Porter	Luis Delgado	ColombiaColombiana	171	4
Ombudsman	Miguel Augusto Prince	ColombiaColombiana	324	32
Mediocampista	Carlos Rendón	ColombiaColombiana	187	66
Delantero	Alfredo Castillo	Argentina	175	131

Players with the most titles

National contributions

• The club has made several contributions to world-class competitions, such as:
  • Globalist (unknown) elimination
  • World Cup of Major Soccer (12)
  • South American Championships (unknown)
  • The World Cup of Youth Soccer (6)
  • Confederations Cup (1)
  • Copa America (39)
  • Gold Cup (6)
  • Olympic Games (3)

Golden Booties

• The club goggles have got a total of 21 gold boots.
  • First Division (15)
  • South American Cup (2)
  • Copa Libertadores (1)
  • Simón Bolívar Cup (1)
  • Colombia Cup (1)
  • Superlight of Colombia (1)

Foreign players

In total there are 220 foreign soccer players of 20 different nationalities who have played for the club.

Outstanding homegrown players

Coaches

Current coaching staff

Since its foundation, and up to the present, Millonarios Fútbol Club has had a total of sixty-eight coaches. The first on this list was the Chilean Fernando Constancio between 1946 and 1947. Initially, and until 1957, the club resorted to foreign coaches, highlighting the Argentine Adolfo Pedernera in a great way. The first coach of Colombian nationality would be the former goalkeeper "Albi-Azul" Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, winner of five league tournaments, a Colombia Cup, and the Simón Bolívar Cup during his time as a coach, thus being the most winning coach in the club's history with 7 official titles. They are followed by Adolfo Pedernera with five titles, Luis Augusto García with three and Miguel Ángel Russo with two titles. Also notable are Hernán Torres, champion of the Colombian tournament after 24 years of the last tournament, and Richard Páez, champion of the Copa Colombia after 10 years without official titles.

The coach with the most games played is the Colombian Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, who directed 600 games, followed by Luis Augusto García with 332 and Jorge Luis Pinto with 192 games.

In total, the coaches are divided into: 29 Colombians and 40 foreigners; 20 of Argentine nationality, 7 Uruguayans, 4 Yugoslavs, 4 Brazilians, 2 Spaniards, 1 Chilean, 1 Paraguayan and 1 Venezuelan.

Currently the coaching staff is headed by: Alberto Gamero, technical director; Orlando Rojas and Cerveleón Cuesta, technical assistants; Arnoldo Iguarán, forward coach; and Felipe Palmezano and Julio Charales physical trainers.

Technical body
Technical Director: Alberto Gamero Technical Assistant: Orlando Rojas Cuesta Physical preparation: Felipe Palmezano July Charales Archer Coach: Diego Rojas Front trainer: Arnold Iguaran Sport delegate: Óscar Cortés Kinesiologists: Alberto Zolaque Fabian Hernández Nutritionist: Lorena Herrera Physical therapists: Fabian Hernandez Jhonatan Zolaque Psychologist: Edwin López Utileros: José Ramírez Nixon Pacheco

Presidency and board of directors

Enrique Camacho Matamoros, president of Millonarios Fútbol Club since 2014.

Steering Body[1]
Chairman: Enrique Camacho Matamoros Vice-Chairman: Liliana Méndez Cristina Jaramillo Maximum shareholder: Joseph Oughourlian President of the Board of Directors: Gustavo Serpa Financial Adviser: Peter Storrie Accountant: Jesus Suarez Fiscal review: Claudia Muñoz Sports Director: Ricardo 'Pitirri' Salazar Communications Manager: Cesar Ardila Public relations: Solomon Bitar Director of Mercadeo: Carlos García Digital content: Julián Fernández

Sports sections

Sports teams associated with Millionaires Football Club:

Minor Divisions

The lower categories or minor divisions of the club refer to the reserve and youth teams that represent Millonarios in national tournaments in lower categories. It was created in the mid-60s and has served as a platform for the Bogotá team to subtract several players for your professional squad. These categories are divided into: Sub-20 (A and B), Sub-17 (A and B), Sub-15, Sub-14, Sub-12, Sub-11 and Sub-10. The team has sports training schools in Bogotá (6 venues), Cundinamarca, Tunja and Villavicencio.

• Sub-20A millionaires.

Youth Supercoup FCF (2/1):

Champion: 2010, 2019

Sub-field: 2009

Feminine

Founded on May 9, 2018, it is in charge of representing Millonarios in the Colombian Professional Women's Soccer League. It was created in agreement with the Sergio Arboleda University to promote women's sports. The team plays its first tournament in 2019, reaching the semifinals of this.

ESports

He is in charge of representing the club in video game competitions, more specifically FIFA. It opened its calls in August 2018 in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One modality. The selection process began with the registration of about 1,500 people, a face-to-face tournament at the Titán Plaza shopping center, Bogotá between 16 players and the final phase. played in the Millionaires museum located in the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium on September 1. The chosen ones In 2019 dispute the passage to the eClub World Cup On October 13, 2018, Nicolás Rojas wins the Colombian Virtual Cup PlayStation 4 modality after beating Santa Fe eSports

In January 2020, Spanish streamer AuronPlay praised the club during a live broadcast. It is known that there is a relationship between the parties and it is not ruled out that a future representative of the institution in eSports competitions.

• Millionaires eSports Virtual Football Team, FIFA for PlayStation.

Colombian Virtual Cup (1/0):

Champion: 2018

Social Area

Hobby

Millonaires' hynchate

The club has several entertainment groups, among which three stand out: Comandos Azules, Blue Rain, and La Barra del Búfalo.

Formerly Comandos Azules #13 or CA#13 for its acronym, and currently Comandos Azules Distrito Capital or by its acronym CADC, one of the most popular bars of Millonarios. It was founded in 1992. It was located in the north stand of the Nemesio Camacho El Campín stadium, however, in 2019, after the 'family stand' was formed, the Comandos were forced to move to the south tribune of the stage. The bar is characterized by its loyalty to the club, especially during the institutional crisis experienced between 2003 and 2006. The bar was in charge of giving life to the famous "Anaconda", a flag woven for 3 years, which measures 750 x 40 meters thus becoming the first flag in the world to cover an entire stadium.

The Blue Rain (Lluvia Azul) is one of the largest barras bravas and with the most members in Colombian soccer. Founded in 1992, it is one of the most representative bars of the Bogotá club. It is located in the south stand of the Nemesio Camacho El Campín stadium. Throughout its history, the Blue Rain has been characterized as the most representative barra brava in terms of musical accompaniment.

La Barra del Búfalo owes its name to the Millonarios player in the 1980s Juan Gilberto Funes, nicknamed "El Búfalo", who was the protagonist in the 1984, 1985 and 1986 tournaments. The bar was organized in 1994, and his way of cheering with jumps and chants was an inspiration for other animation groups. In its beginnings the bar called itself "Los Sinvergüenzas de Siempre" but it was renamed "The Buffalo Bar" in commemoration of Juan Gilberto Funes. This bar is known in San Luis, Argentina, homeland of the "Búfalo" Funes. It is located in the general low and high north eastern grandstand of the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium.

Affiliate clubs

Co-ownership

Notes: The clubs are owned by Joseph Oughourlian, through his investment groups, as are Millionaires.

Male		Female
Millions	(2014-present)	Women ' s millions	(2018-present)
Lens	(2016-present)	Lens Féminines	(2020-present)
Padova	(2017-present)	Padova Femminile	(2020-present)
Real Zaragoza	(2022-present)

Influence on other clubs

• Millionaire of Rimac: The club was founded in December 1957 after a tour Millions Incas. At present he competes in the third district division of Rimac (fourth division of Peru) at hierarchical level. The last official approach between the two institutions was given in 1976 with great influence from Alfonso Senior.
• FC El Campin Bragado: The club was founded in 2017 by the former judge Millions Gabi Fernandez, in honor of his stage at the institution, currently this team competes in the (Liga Bragadense), fifth Argentine division for affiliates indirectly in AFA.

Institutional Brotherhoods

• River Plate: In the amateur era of Colombian football he for that time known as Municipal Sports Club, began to bring Argentine players so as to make a mockery they were nicknamed ("The Millionaires"). In a short time the directives decide to take that floppy as part of their official name which coincided with the beginning of the professional league and the now called Millions continued contract to a large extent players from River Plate so the relationship between the clubs became recurrent. Some of the notable transfers of players are: Néstor Raúl Rossi (from River to Millonarios) and Juan Gilberto Funes (from Millonarios to River).

• Real Madrid: The story between the two clubs is reflected in the 7 friendly games they have faced since Millions 3, 3 draws have been presented and only a merengue victory has been seen. Millions was recognized by the only foreign club to win the first golden generation of Real Madrid. In addition, among these two institutions, Alfredo Di Stéfano was handed over one of the best players in the history of world football.

Further reading

• Armando Neira (9 August 2007). «The blue cross road». Week Magazine. Archived from the original on January 8, 2008. Consultation on 13 November 2007.
• Unknown (2010). The Blue Ballet: Book by fascicles of the newspaper Q ́Hubo dedicated to Millonarios.
• Unknown (2006). Just sports, ed. Millionaires: 60 Years of Glorious History. ISSN 1909-7948.