In its institutional life, the bulb has been featured Ecuadorian soccer championship and international tournaments.

Blue institution born George Lewis Capwell US, who was an official of the Electric Company of Ecuador.

"In 1929 he proposed to his colleagues Lauro Guerrero and Víctor Hugo Peñaherrera create a club among the staff of the company. The constituent meeting was on April 28 that year, the day when the Club Sport Emelec was founded. Also in 1929, as a player and coach Capwell, Emelec won the first title in its history champion basketball tournament at the Sports Federation of Guayas "says historian Ricardo Vasconcellos Rosado in an article published this year.

"From then until 1946, the task was daunting Capwell. Endowed with exceptional dynamics and organizational capacity to Emelec became the first sport strength of Guayaquil and the most organized country club, "the historian