With the exception of a 3-1 victory in the Clásico del Astillero, on the penultimate date of the first phase of the Pro League – a very short correct moment of 90 minutes – it is impossible to praise the 2023 season of Club Sport Emelec. Even that victory, achieved on the road, could not erase the history of shame because the electric team entered the match with an unfavorable result: nine games in a row without a win.

Emelec, without international competitions for 2024

The victory at the Monumental Banco Pichincha, last June, did not prevent the current campaign from being considered the worst in the history of the millionaire until then – in terms of negative numbers in various areas.

José Pileggi disavows the person who announced that Miller Bolaños and Bryan Angulo are out of Emelec

Emelec was never “downwind”, as José Pileggi, the millionaire president from November 2022, said last April. The leader was immediately corrected by Esteban Dreer, a former four-time goalkeeper with the blues, making a more serious diagnosis: “Emelec is without a compass and on an artificial respirator. “

Nassib Neme, very harsh on José Pileggi: ‘He is an opportunist and a vain man disguised as President Emelec, someone who is not capable of doing things well. You have to ask for forgiveness’

An infamous record

The newly minted leadership of Emelecista hired the Argentinian Miguel Ángel Rondelli as a coach, who did not highlight anything special in his resume because his previous experience in the first league was from the campaign at the Universidad Católica, in Quito. He came from a club with few fans and where there is no pressure. Rondelli managed eleven games, before being replaced.

“José Pileggi is an egomaniac, he doesn’t allow himself to be helped,” said the CEO of Emelec after his resignation

The terrible campaign of Emelec, who have been playing in the Pro League tournament for several weeks now, has a new and regrettable addition to their list of infamous records. Without taking the field, due to a combination of results, on Saturday he was officially excluded from any international competition in 2024. The streak of 15 consecutive millionaire classifications in Conmebol competitions ended, with the economic damages of the case.

Between 2009 and 2023, Emelec did not miss the Copa Libertadores or the Sudamericana. The first tournament was held in the editions of 2010

2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 and set a mark at the level of Ecuador, with ten consecutive participations.

“Smooth sailing”?

Emelecista’s presence at the Copa Sudamericana covered the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2023 editions. In this regional competition, electricians competed on eight consecutive occasions. In addition, Emelec played seven times, in the same season, in two club tournaments organized by Conmebol.

Until Friday, Emelec had the ability to remotely enter Sudamericana, but the ventilator Dreer was talking about was turned off. It is unlikely that a team that is in the middle of the table or lower in 86.20% of the competition so far (25 out of 29 games) would be placed in an international competition. On Sunday, they defeated visiting Gualaceo 2-0, but that result does not change the disaster.

In the previous part of the national championship, Emelec was on seven occasions one of the four worst teams in the competition, on two occasions among the five worst in the table, and on three occasions it was second to last. That is, 41.37% of the time it was sunk to the bottom. “Smooth sailing”?

The worst campaign

It was a scary year for Emelec. The sixth day saw the worst start to the competition so far in the 21st century. In the ninth, with a winless habit, she sealed the weakest start to a national championship in her history, extending her winless streak to six straight games.

But then the winless streak extended to nine games and so the Blues in 2023 equaled the sad mark of 1983.

It was also the scariest field in the first part of the current championship. And in the first eight dates, the electric numbers were worse than those recorded in 1980, when it fell to the B series. (D)