Mazorqueros F.C. was a Mexican football club that played 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 club was based in

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History

In 1985 a club named ''Mazorqueros'' was founded in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, the team participated in the third division until disappearing in the mid-1990s. In 1990, this team played a promotion playoff to Second Division B. On May 19, 2016 the team was refounded. The squad was created to seek promotion to a higher category in addition to developing football among the local population. On July 17, 2020 Mazorqueros was promoted to

due to an expansion of participating teams in the league. However, the club maintained the Liga TDP team as a second squad. The team won its first official title on May 8, 2022, when it won the Torneo Clausura 2022 after defeating

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. After the tournament ended, most of the squad and technical staff of this team was used to form the Atlético La Paz from

Liga de Expansión MX The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo (Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons), is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the prim ...

, a team that shares ownership with Mazorqueros F.C. During that season the club reserves team was champion of the

Liga TDP 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 ...

, so Mazorqueros it got a second franchise to participate in the Liga Premier de México. After the founding of the new team at

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, Mazorqueros became the reserve team of Atlético La Paz and was relocated to the

Serie B de México The Serie B is a Mexican association football league. Eleven teams compete in one group. Since the 2021–22 season, it is two short tournaments. The top two teams directly to the semifinals & the next four teams in the standings at end of each ...

because it became a development team, due to this fact, Mazorqueros eliminated its own reserve team, leaving only one squad with the champion players of the Liga TDP and using only one Liga Premier license. On July 20, 2023, the club announced its dissolution in a statement published on its social networks. The team argued that it was difficult to continue with the project due to the fact that the city council refused to cede the stadium to the club, making it impossible to carry out improvement works in the venue, which were required by the league, for which reason the board of directors decided to dissolve the team due to the lack of guarantees for its continuity in the city. Later it was learned that the Mazorqueros franchise was bought by Santiago F.C., a team from

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, so the team changed its name and town, eliminating any possibility of the return of the Mazorqueros franchise in the future.

Honors

Serie A de México The Serie A has 33 teams (1 Liga MX Reserve Team, 3 Liga de Expansión MX Reserve Teams and 29 Serie A Teams) divided into two groups. For the 2022–23 season, it will be a return of two short tournaments consisting of 10 total matches played hom ...

** Champions (1): Clausura 2022 *

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 ...

** Champions (1): 2021–2022

References

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