Club Sport Emelec is a famous sports club from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Emelec has won the highest total number of Ecuadorian championship cups in all sports (boxing, swimming, baseball, basketball, judo, chess, etc.). An assembly of employees of the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador (an electric company in Guayaquil) founded the club on 1929-04-28. The assembly was directed by George Capwell, an executive officer of the company who came from the U.S.. The club was initially a baseball and boxing club.
The club got involved in football during the 1947 Copa América, the South American national-team competition, which was played in Ecuador. Back then the Copa América was known as Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol. Emelec was the first champion of Ecuador in 1957, with a "dream team" that included Yu Lee, José Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos Raffo, Jaime Ubilla, Daniel Pinto, Rómulo Gómez and Suárez-Rizzo. They were coached by Eduardo "Tano" Spandre.
The club has won championships in 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002. In 1995 Emelec was a Copa Libertadores semi-finalist. Emelec was defeated by the champion of that year Gremio from Brasil. In 2001, Emelec was a Copa Merconorte finalist playing against Millonarios from Colombia. They played 2 finals. The first final was in Colombia, the score was 1-1. The score from the final in Ecuador was 1-1. They went to penalty kicks and the winner was Millonarios.(Colombia) Emelec only scored 1 from 4 penalty kicks losing the final, and losing the possibility to be the first Ecuadorian team to win an international tournament.

The George Capwell Stadium
Emelec is famous in Ecuador for always having fierce forwards, and the team has had the Ecuadorian topscorer of the year in many ocacions through out Ecuadorian championship history. The following is a list of Emelec's topscorers of the year in history:

1963 Carlos Alberto Raffo 4 goals
1979 Horacio Miori 26 goals
1996 Ariel Graziani 29 goals
1997 Ariel Graziani 24 goals
1998 Jaime Ivan Kaviedes 43 goals (Topscorer in a single year in Ecuadorian history - Top Scorer of the world on 1998)
2000 Alejandro Kenig 25 goals
2001 Carlos Alberto Juarez 17 goals
2002 Otelino Tenorio(+) 20 goals
2006 Luis Miguel Escalada 29 goals Top Goal Scorers

Enrique Alvarez
Mariano Larraz
Jorge Larraz
Galo Solis
Carlos Alberto Raffo
Enrique Raymondi
Cipriano Yu - Lee
Jose Vicente Balseca
Jorge Lasso
Carlos Pineda
Galo Pulido
Alfredo Encalada
Jaime Delgado Mena
Jorge Bolaños Carrasco
Bolivar Merizalde
Roberto Ortega
José Romanely
Eduardo García
José Maria Piriz
Eduardo de Maria
Luis Lamberk
Felix Lasso
Angel Liciardi
Americo Paredes
Nelsinho
Miguel Angel Onzari
Carlos Torres Garcés
Jorge Guzman
Jorge Valdez
Lupo Quinonez
Ricardo Armendariz
Ubaldo Quinteros
Horacio Miori
Alcides de Oliveira
Jesús Cárdenas
Israel Rodriguez
Xavier Baldriz
Miguel Falero
Ruben Beninca
Jose Federico Minda
Enrique Verduga
Raul Avilés
Juan Carlos De Lima
Luis Capurro
Kléber Fajardo
Ivo Ron
Jorge Bernabe Vargas
Iván Hurtado
Maximo Tenorio
Dannes Coronel
Angel Fernandez
Vidal Pachito
Eduardo Smith
Jorge Batallas
Marcelo Morales
Marcelo Benítez
Roberto Oste
Eduardo dos Santos, EDU
Juan Carlos Almada
Pedro Mauricio Muñoz
Jorge Vasquez
Eduardo Hurtado
Alexi Lalas
Joe-Max Moore
Augusto Poroso
Ariel Graziani
Carlos Alberto Juárez
José Manuel Rey
Gabriel Miranda
Iván Kaviedes
Otilino Tenorio (+)
Moisés Candelario
Carlos Hidalgo
Wellington Sanchez
Daniel Viteri
Rorys Aragon
Cristian Gomez
Alejandro Kenig
Carlos Quiñonez
Jorge Rojas
Juan Triviño
Cristian Noboa
Hamilton Ricard
Marcelo Elizaga
Marcos Mondaini
Luis Miguel Escalada
Luis Guillermo Rivera Famous Players

Eduardo Spandre (1957 Ecuadorian Champions)
Mariano Larraz (1961 Ecuadorian Champions)
Fernando Pasternoster (1965 Ecuadorian Champions)
Jorge Lazo (1972 Ecuadorian Champions - 1998 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
Eduardo Garcia (1979 Ecuadorian Champions)
Juan Ramon Silva (1988 Ecuadorian Champions - 1995 Copa Libertadores Semifinalist)
Angel Castelnoble(1989 Runners Up)
Salvador Capitano (1992 Ecuadorian Runners Up - 1993 Ecuadorian Champions)
Carlos Torres Garces(1994 Ecuadorian Champions - 2006 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
Ricardo Armendariz(1996 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
Carlos Sevilla(2001 Ecuadorian Champions - 2001 Copa Merconorte Runners Up)
Rodolfo Motta (2002 Ecuadorian Champions) Notorious Managers
As of July 18, 2007
Current Squad

The Cradle of Ecuadorian Football

The Fans
The fan group known as "Boca del Pozo" (mouth of the well) was founded July 25, 1980 by Giussepe Cavanna Chavez (today part of the club's staff). The group adopted that name because their clubhouse, known as Cavanna's Place, was located in a neighborhood with the same name. The fan base gained recognition and grew in number. The group is known to usually gather behind the goals. It also has several factions in different cities of Ecuador.
"La Boca del Pozo" has becomed the first Ecuadorian fan group that has made a notorious international trip to support the team, traveling through more than 5000 kilometers to Argentina to face Velez Sarsfield in the Copa Libertadores 2007.
Boca del Pozo
The group know as Legión Azul was founded in the year 2001 before we got the championship. It started with 10 to 15 members. There are more or less 250 members of this group now. They are located right in front of "La Boca del Pozo" behind the other goal.
Legión Azul (Blue Legion)
Emelec's founder George Capwell did not like football, he was a huge baseball fan and when he created the sports club he intended it to be a Baseball and Boxing club only.
It is common knowledge that in the club's early days the only way to become a member was to fight at least once on a boxing ring against one of the club's best boxers.
After years of sharing Titles with the another Team of Guayaquil, Barcelona SC in the amateur and regional tournaments, in 1957 Emelec won the first professional Ecuadorian football Championship ever.
Emelec was the first team in Ecuador to have its own stadium.
Emelec was the first team making a millionaire hiring $1´650.000 for the Argentina player from Boca Juniors Walter Pico, this transaction has not been passed already, not even by this year's most announced transaction when Luis Miguel Escalada's (Emelec's last year top scorer) soccer rights were bought by Liga de Quito in $1,000.000.
In 1948 Emelec became the first Ecuadorian team in history to compete on an international event. They were invited as Guayaquil's champions to represent Ecuador in the "Copa Campeones" in Chile, which in time became the famous "Copa Libertadores de America".
In 1962 Emelec became the first Ecuadorian team to win a match in the "Copa Libertadores de America", they won 4 - 2 against C.D. Millonarios from Colombia. The team also holds the largest score any Ecuadorian team has ever manage to obtain in the "Copa Libertadores", 7 - 2 against Universidad Catolica from Chile, also in 1962.
After winning the 1979 championship, in 1980 Emelec went to Ecuadorian Second Division, called "Serie B" because they made the worst presentation in played games during that year.
Emelec golden years were in the decades of the 60's when they won the Ecuadorian League in the years 1961, 1965 and 1972 and they were in second place in the years 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1970.
The late Eduardo "Che" Perez founded the first organized group to follow any Ecuadorian team. He followed Emelec anywhere the team went until his death in 2003. The largely organized group "Boca del Pozo" was the first "Barra Brava" in the country and the Emelec fan is commonly referred to as the most faithful fan in the country.
Another fact from Emelec is that they won two times the Championship twice in a row. In the years 1993 - 1994 and in the years 2001-2002.
Emelec's historical top scorer is Carlos Alberto Juarez with more than 110 goals scored in five years. His runner up is Jesus Cardenas. Facts

On 1993 left wing back Luis Enrique Capurro Bautista was named best in his position in South America by the prestigious Uruguayan newspaper, Diario El Pais. Capurro played his best years defending the Emelec shirt, he also played for Cerro Porteno, and Barcelona S.C.. Capurro is the best left wing back in Ecuador's history and along side center back Ivan Hurtado, the best defender Emelec has ever had.
On 1998 Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored 43 goals and became the all time top scorer in Ecuadorian history and that year's world top scorer. The next year Kaviedes was sold to Perugia for USD 5.5M. and after that he played in several teams all over the world including Celta de Vigo, Real Valladolid, Puebla, Porto, Crystal Palace, Barcelona S.C., Deportivo Quito, and Argentinos Juniors. Although he has had so many opportunities during his career, and almost nine years after scoring 43 goals in a single year with Emelec, he has not been able to accumulate another 43 goals with both club and country from 1999 to 2006.
The late forward Otilino Tenorio became famous with Emelec not only because of his goals that helped the club win the 2001 Ecuadorian Championship and reach the Copa Merconorte final, but also because every time he scored a goal, Otilino took out a blue Spiderman mask from his pants and wore it to celebrate with the fans. Otilino died on 2005 in a tragic traffic accident, and since many forwards all over the world adopted the Spiderman celebration in his honor. His last game was against Emelec, his beloved team, were during the game a penalty kick was sanctioned against Emelec and in favor of El Nacional, where he was playing. He asked to kick it and before the referee blew his whistle he looked up to the sky. He missed the shot and the whole stadium (Emelec was local) sang his name. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored the third goal in Ecuador's victory over Costa Rica and to celebrate it he used a yellow Spiderman mask honoring once again the great Otilino Tenorio.
Emelec is known for always promoting new exciting young players and during the 1998 season, Emelec used an all new team consisting in a large base of young players that included names like Moises Candelario, Otilino Tenorio, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes, Carlos Hidalgo, Luis Moreira, Pavel Caicedo, and a few experienced ones Like Carlos Juarez, Marco Etcheverry, and Augusto Poroso . In a smart promotional move, the new players were brilliantly baptized as the "extraterrestrials" . The young team qualified for the 1999 Copa Libertadores and reached the Ecuadorian final against Liga de Quito. The next year archrivals Barcelona attempted to do the same, and baptized their own group of young players as the "Mutants" . The group was a fiasco and Barcelona was barely able to stay in Ecuadorian first league that year.
The final match day of 2002 season will always be remembered as a miracle day for Club Sport Emelec. Three teams were competing for the title, El Nacional were the favorites as they only had to tie at home against a weak Deportivo Quito. Barcelona SC had to visit LDU Quito at their stadium and needed a victory to become the champions, while the least optioned team was Emelec that played in their stadium against Aucas and needed to win. El Nacional and [[Barcelona Sporting Club|Barcelona needed to lose. Ecuadorian football officials were so convinced that the champion was going to be either El Nacional or Barcelona, that they had the cup in Quito and were ready to send it to either one of the stadiums of the city where the two teams were playing. All 3 games were played simultaneously, and surprisingly El Nacional was soon losing to Deportivo Quito 1 – 4, while Barcelona and Liga were tied at zero. Emelec struggled to score until the last few minutes of the game when defender Augusto Poroso sent a spectacular volley into the net to beat Aucas. Minutes later, El Nacional and Emelec finished their game, but Barcelona's match had a few minutes more to go. In the Capwell Stadium Emelec fans waited anxiously for the match to end when suddenly at the last minute Barcelona scored, tears were starting to fall down when suddenly the ref signaled an offside nullifying the goal, a couple of minutes later the game was over and Emelec had won their 10th and last crown so far. The team and fans had to wait a few hours on the stadium's pitch for the Cup to come from Quito to Guayaquil.
Two times consecutive best goalkeeper in the Ecuadorian championship, Marcelo Elizaga, has shown so much of his skills that Ecuador's coach, Colombian Luis Fernando suarez, asked him to become an Ecuadorian citizen so he could use him in Ecuador's team for the Copa America 2007 and the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers. Ecuadorian law allows foreigners to become Ecuadorian citizens once they have stayed at least 3 years in the country. Elizaga has played in Ecuador only two seasons so far, however he openly declared his love to the country and his intention to become an Ecuadorian, he also has an Ecuadorian son, Ignacio Elizaga (born in Guayaquil, November 16, 2005) and he is known as a respected member of the community. For all of these reasons, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa granted him with the Ecuadorian citizenship on February 7, 2007.
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa is a devoted Emelec fan, and has openly promised to help the club with their current financial situation, and also push forward several projects regarding Emelec's stadium and training ground. Curiosities and Trivia

Barcelona Sporting Club, the match between them is know as "Clásico del Astillero" and it is the most important match in the country. Other Rivals
Emelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is by far the most important sports club of the country. In their trophy room Emelec has hundreds of cups and medals that have been gained over the years in many different sports disciplines. The list includes:
33 Consecutive National Boxing Championships
13 Baseball National Championships
11 Male Basketball National Championships
18 Female Basketball National Championships
7 Cycling National Champsionships
5 Tae Kwon Do National Championships
5 Judo National Championships
1 Weight Lifting World Championship by Johnny Constante