C.S. Emelec

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Emelec

Full name	Club Sport Emelec
Nickname(s)	El Bombillo (The Lightbulb) El Ballet Azul (The Blue Ballet) El Equipo Millonario (The Millionaire Team)
Founded	28 April 1929; 95 years ago (1929-04-28)
Ground	Estadio George Capwell
Capacity	40,020
Honorary President	Enrique Ponce Luque, Elias Wated
Chairman	José Dante Pileggi Véliz
Manager	Leonel Álvarez
League	Ecuadorian Serie A
2023	Serie A, 11th of 16
Website	http://www.emelec.com.ec/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Sport Emelec is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in the country.

Emelec has won fourteen Serie A titles and one of the division B, holding the record of doing so in all decades in which the Serie A has been played. They also have won seven regional titles (record in their region), a record-tying 5 of them in the professional era.

Emelec was founded on 28 April 1929 by George Capwell, the American head of the Electric Company of Ecuador (Spanish: Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador), from which the club is named after. The name of their home stadium pays homage to the club's founder. The club's most intense rivalry is with crosstown-team Barcelona. Matches between the clubs are known as El Clásico del Astillero.