Boxing team
Emelec
Club · Ecuador · Liga Pro
«Bombillo»
Emelec built the count in bursts rather than a steady climb — titles in 1957 and 1961, then a long push through the 1990s and 2000s, then a run of three straight in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and a fourteenth in 2017. The gaps between those clusters say as much as the total: long stretches where the league belonged to someone else, then years where Bombillo pulled it back.
The name traces to the company that gave the club its shirt colours and its nickname. Founded on 28 April 1929 by workers at the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, the club kept the connection alive in the way people still refer to it — Bombillo, the lightbulb, alongside Eléctricos. Blue and silver have carried that identity through since.
Guayaquil gave Emelec its earliest rivalries too, in tournaments that no longer exist in the same form — amateur city championships in the 1940s, professional Guayas titles through the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, seven of those in all. A domestic cup has stayed out of reach; a 1969 final against Everest ended the wrong way.
Home games are played at the Estadio George Capwell, expanded in a 2015–2017 rebuild to hold around 40,000. One promotion sits on the record too, from 1981, a reminder that even a club with Emelec's honours list has had to come back up before it could win again.
It started with electricity workers looking for a team of their own.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 20 Sep | Liga Pro |
Libertad Asunción
H
|
1:2 | L |
| 13 Sep | Liga Pro |
Macará
A
|
0:1 | L |
| 8 Sep | Liga Pro |
Manta
H
|
1:0 | W |
| 4 Sep | Liga Pro |
Libertad Asunción
A
|
1:1 | D |
| 31 Aug | Liga Pro |
Leones del Norte
H
|
2:1 | W |
| 24 Aug | Liga Pro |
LDU Quito
A
|
0:2 | L |
Standing
Liga ProGroup stage · Liga Pro - Quadrangular
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Libertad Asunción
|
31 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 35:35 | 44 |
| 2 |
Leones del Norte
|
31 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 32:33 | 40 |
| 3 |
 Guayaquil City
|
31 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 34:37 | 40 |
| 4 |
 Emelec
|
31 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 26:36 | 39 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 267| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 267 | 133 | 134 |
| Scored | 331 | 185 | 146 |
| Conceded | 292 | 112 | 180 |
| Scored per game | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Conceded per game | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
| Difference | +39 | +73 | −34 |
Key players
by appearances over the last year
Angelo Javier Mina Jara
Midfielder
19 Matches
Víctor Alfredo Griffith Mullins
Midfielder
19 Matches
Mario Valero
Goalkeeper
19 Matches
Sergio Quintero
Midfielder
19 Matches
Stalin Valencia
Defender
18 Matches
José Francisco Cevallos Enríquez
Midfielder
18 Matches
Estalin Tiberio Segura Cortés
Defender
17 Matches
Gonzalo Nápoli Soria
Midfielder
17 Matches
Squad of Emelec
by appearances over the last year| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | |
Angelo Javier Mina Jara |
Midfielder | 27 | 19 |
| 6 |  |
Víctor Alfredo Griffith Mullins |
Midfielder | 25 | 19 |
| 1 | |
Mario Valero |
Goalkeeper | 30 | 19 |
| 16 | |
 Sergio Quintero |
Midfielder | 27 | 19 |
| 51 | |
Stalin Valencia |
Defender | 22 | 18 |
| 21 | |
 José Francisco Cevallos Enríquez |
Midfielder | 31 | 18 |
| 4 | |
Estalin Tiberio Segura Cortés |
Defender | 26 | 17 |
| 8 |  |
Gonzalo Nápoli Soria |
Midfielder | 26 | 17 |
| 7 |  |
 Luka Klimovich |
Forward | 22 | 17 |
| 10 | |
 Francisco Andrés Pizzini |
Forward | 33 | 17 |
| 2 | |
 Aníbal Andrés Leguizamón Espínola |
Defender | 34 | 16 |
| 27 | |
 Luis Fernando León Bermeo |
Defender | 33 | 16 |
| 15 | |
 Luiz Fragoso |
Forward | 16 | 15 |
| 3 | |
 Ignacio Guerrico |
Defender | 28 | 15 |
| 19 | |
 Juan Pablo Ruíz Gómez |
Midfielder | 32 | 14 |
| 80 | |
 Orlando Herrera |
Defender | 22 | 13 |
| 17 | |
 Jaime Javier Ayoví Corozo |
Forward | 38 | 12 |
| 28 |  Tobar Bolivar |
Midfielder | 11 | ||
| 12 |  Pedro Alfredo Ortíz Angulo |
Goalkeeper | 11 | ||
| 30 |  Ariel Mina |
Defender | 11 | ||
| 24 |  Andrés Viteri |
Forward | 10 | ||
| 18 |  Matías Karabali |
Defender | 10 | ||
| 13 | |
 Luis Fernando Gómez Angulo |
Defender | 26 | 8 |
| 32 | |
 Jefferson Valverde |
Midfielder | 27 | 8 |
| 14 | |
 Romario Caicedo |
Defender | 36 | 8 |
| 26 | |
 Ibraim Cuero |
Midfielder | 21 | 7 |
| 59 |  Reixon Saya |
Midfielder | 7 | ||
| 9 | |
 Ronie Edmundo Carrillo Morales |
Forward | 30 | 7 |
| 90 |  |
 Eduardo Bories |
Goalkeeper | 23 | 7 |
| 9 | |
 José Pablo Neris Figueredo |
Forward | 26 | 7 |
| 20 |  Jeremy Gonzaga |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 11 |  Teodoro Arce |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 23 | |
 Miller Bolaños |
Forward | 36 | 5 |
| 25 |  Rafael Narvaez |
Midfielder | 4 | ||
| 22 |  Ezequiel Castaneda |
Goalkeeper | 1 |
Fixtures of Emelec
-
20 Sep
Libertad Asunción
H
1:2
L
-
13 Sep
Macará
A
0:1
L
-
8 Sep
Manta
H
1:0
W
-
4 Sep
Libertad Asunción
A
1:1
D
-
31 Aug
Leones del Norte
H
2:1
W
-
24 Aug
LDU Quito
A
0:2
L
-
16 Aug
Tecnico Universitario
H
2:1
W
-
10 Aug
Guayaquil City
A
0:0
D
Honours of Emelec
- Ecuadorian Championship 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 14
- Campeonato Profesional de Fútbol del Guayas 1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1966 5
- Campeonato Amateur de Guayaquil 1946, 1948 2
- Serie B (ECU) 1981 1