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Club Deportivo Atlético Tecomán is a Mexican football club that plays in the
Tercera División de México The Liga TDP is Mexico's fourth tier in the Mexican League System. The Liga TDP is divided into 17 groups. For the 2009/2010 season, the format of the tournament has been reorganized to a home and away format, which all teams will play in their ...
. The club is based in
Tecomán Tecomán is a city and seat of the municipality of Tecomán in the Mexican state of Colima Colima (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is one of the 31 states that make up the 32 Fe ...
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Colima Colima (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is one of the 31 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and ...
and was founded in 1978 under the name Estudiantes de Tecomán and was owned by IAETAC, a private university in the city. With this name the team got its first title in 1983 when it won the
Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...
. During that period Tecomán was an affiliated team of
Tecos UAG Tecos Fútbol Club (often referred to by its nickname "Tecos") is a Mexican professional Association football, football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC. It plays its home games in the ''Estadio 3 de Marzo'' (March ...
, since the Autonomous University of Guadalajara is the owner of IAETAC. During the 1980s and 1990s it was the most important team in the state of Colima due to its continued presence in the Mexican Second Division. In 1994 the team was not considered to enter the Primera División 'A', so it lost relevance and began to play mostly in the Third Division. In 2004 the team won its second championship in this division, however the team gave its place to Soccer Manzanillo. In 2015 the team registered in the Liga de Nuevos Talentos, participating only that season. For 2019–20 Liga TDP season, the team license was rented to Rojos de Colima, also, the sale of the franchise and club facilities was announced. In 2020 the team returned.


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Football in Mexico Mexico's most popular sport is football (called fútbol in Mexico). , the top tier leagues in Mexico are Liga MX for the men and the Liga MX Femenil for women. In Mexico, football became a professional men's sport in 1943. Since then, Mexico ...
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Tercera División de México The Liga TDP is Mexico's fourth tier in the Mexican League System. The Liga TDP is divided into 17 groups. For the 2009/2010 season, the format of the tournament has been reorganized to a home and away format, which all teams will play in their ...


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