Chapulineros de Oaxaca is a Mexican
football
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team nicknamed ''Los chapulineros'' (
Grasshopper
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s). The club was founded in 1983 and is based in the state of
Oaxaca
Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...
where it plays its home matches at the Estadio Independiente MRCI. The club has played in the Tercera División, Segunda División, and the Liga de Ascenso. Starting in 2020, they will play in the
Liga de Balompié Mexicano
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The league is an alternate to Liga MX, which is o ...
. They previously played in the
Liga Premier
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Serie B
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.
History
The club's origins date back to 1982, when the
Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca
The Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca ( es, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, UABJO) is a public university located in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez in state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The university was founded on January 8, 1 ...
football team began to participate in the Segunda División "B". Two years later, the university bought team Pumas ENEP, a
Pumas UNAM
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reserve team and was renamed as ''Chapulineros de Oaxaca'', playing at
Segunda División "A". After this fact, the team wandered between Segunda División "A" and Segunda "B", until 1993 when it won the Second B championship, being the only title of the club so far.
In 1994 the team remains in the Segunda Divisíon after the creation of the
Primera División "A", later it became a team affiliated with
Toros Neza
Neza Fútbol Club, also known as ''Toros Neza'' is a Mexican football team based in the city of Nezahualcóyotl. They play in the Liga de Balompié Mexicano.
The club returned for the Clausura 2011 Liga de Ascenso tournament, taking the place o ...
, to later be managed by the Universidad Regional del Sureste.
For the
2001–02 season, the Grupo Pegaso returns to the Chapulineros to professional football after moving the
Lobos UAP franchise to Oaxaca City. The team had bad results and had to play a relegation play-out to remain in the league, which they managed to win and could continue to play in the same division. For the
2003–04 season the team was dissolved again when it was relocated to
Tlaxcala City
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, where it was renamed as Guerreros de Tlaxcala.
In August 2015, the MRCI corporate obtained the
Teca UTN franchise, they renamed the team as Chapulineros, moved it to Oaxaca and began to participate in the
Liga Premier de Ascenso
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as of
that season. For the
2017–18 season the team is relocated to
Serie B de México
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due to the lack of infrastructure to be able to participate for the promotion to Ascenso MX. In 2018, the team paused its sporting activity because it did not get the endorsement to participate in the league from the
FMF.
In 2019 the team returned to compete in the FMF, leaving this federation the following year to join the LBM.
In its first season, the team finished in third place in the regular season with 22 points from seven wins, two draws and one loss. In the championship playoff, Chapulineros eliminated
Morelos F.C. and
Furia Roja F.C. to reach the final, where they defeated
Atlético Veracruz
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History
The club was founded on 2013 as an affiliate of C.D. Veracruz. In 2016 the team disappeared. In 2 ...
in the
penalty shoot-out
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after tying three goals on the aggregate score, in this way the team of Oaxaca won its first championship in the new competition, as well as being the first champion in LBM history.
Chapulineros de Oaxaca won the LBM championships again in the
2021
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and
2022
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seasons, making it the most winning team in this league.
Year by year
Past kits
;First kit evolution
Players
Current squad
Recent outstanding players
*
Alan Cruz
*
Jorge Bernal
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Club career
He made his professional debut for Veracruz on 27 August 2003 against C.F. Monterrey, immediately savin ...
*
Cristian Mazzón
*
Marco Antonio Sánchez
*
Miguel Ángel Vargas
*
Ángel Lemus
*
Hugo Omar Sánchez
*
José Luis Mendoza
*
Ricardo Munguía
*
Silvio Rudman
Footnotes
External links
home page
{{Liga de Balompié Mexicano
Football clubs in Oaxaca
Association football clubs established in 1983
1983 establishments in Mexico
Liga Premier de México
Liga de Balompié Mexicano Teams