Club Deportivo Jaguares de Jalisco is a Mexican professional football team based in Tala,

Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...

, Mexico currently playing in

Liga de Balompié Mexicano Liga de Balompié Mexicano is one of the professional football leagues in Mexico. It is the first division of the league system of the National Association of Mexican Football (ANBM in Spanish). The league is an alternate to Liga MX, which is o ...

History

In February of 2020, the first assembly of teams interested in forming a new professional football competition in Mexico, called Liga de Balompié Mexicano, was held. In this event, the interest of a team called Jaguares de Jalisco was made known. On March 27, the club's participation was confirmed, being the third franchise to be registered in the new league. On April 30, the team appointed

Juan Pablo García Juan Pablo García Contreras (born 24 November 1981) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. After his retirement, he became depressed and alcoholic but has since recovered. Club career Garcia was tr ...

as manager. On June 13, 2020, the Tres de Marzo stadium was announced as the venue for the team's matches, which will be shared with

Tecos F.C. Tecos Fútbol Club (often referred to by its nickname "Tecos") is a Mexican professional football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC. It plays its home games in the '' Estadio 3 de Marzo'' (March 3 Stadium, named fo ...

and

Halcones de Zapopan Club Halcones de Zapopan, formerly ''Club Deportivo Zap'', is a Mexican professional football team based in Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, Mexico which originally played in the Liga de Balompié Mexicano, and in July 2021 was affiliated into Liga Premier ...

. On July 4, 2020 the team played its first game against Ameca FC. The game ended with a 3-1 victory in favor of Jaguares.

Stadium

The first stadium was the Estadio 3 de Marzo, situated in

Zapopan Zapopan () is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the population of Zapopan city proper makes it the second largest city in the state, very close behind the population of ...

district that forms part of the

Guadalajara Metropolitan Area The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in es, Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City and Monterrey. It incl ...

, and is the ground of

Tecos Tecos Fútbol Club (often referred to by its nickname "Tecos") is a Mexican professional football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC. It plays its home games in the '' Estadio 3 de Marzo'' (March 3 Stadium, named fo ...

, which plays in the

Liga Premier de México The Liga Premier is the third tier of Association football, football in Mexico within the Mexican football league system that governs Serie A de México, Serie A and Serie B de México, Serie B leagues/group competitions. They compete from the fa ...

. The stadium has a capacity of 18,779 and was constructed on the campus of the

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara The Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (, ''Autonomous University of Guadalajara''), commonly abbreviated to UAG or Autónoma, is a coeducational, independent, private university based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Established in 1935, ...

. In November 2020 the team moved to Centro Deportivo y Cultural 24 de Marzo located in Tala, Jalisco, this with the aim of demonstrating its interest in representing the entire State of Jalisco and not only the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. This venue has a capacity to host 2,000 spectators and was opened in 2015.

Players

First-team squad

References

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