Tlaxcala Fútbol Club, commonly known as Coyotes de Tlaxcala, is a Mexican

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club based in

Tlaxcala Tlaxcala (; , ; from nah, Tlaxcallān ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipaliti ...

. The club was founded in 2014, and currently plays in the second tier,

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 prima ...

. Tlaxcala won automatic promotion to

Ascenso MX Ascenso MX was the second tier of professional football in Mexico of the Mexican football league system. The champion of the competition was promoted to Liga MX (top-flight tier). The bottom team was relegated to Liga Premier (the third tier). ...

in the 2016–17 season, but their promotion was put on hold until the 2018–19 season as their stadium failed to meet league requirements. However, in 2020 the club was invited to the Liga de Expansión, the new second level league and thus promoted category.

History

The team was founded on September 5, 2014 after the merger of the Club Águilas Reales de Zacatecas and 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 ...

team of

C.F. Pachuca Club de Fútbol Pachuca is a Mexican professional football team based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, that competes in Liga MX. Founded by Cornish miners from Camborne and Redruth in 1901, it is one of the oldest football clubs in the Americas, and was on ...

, the Zacatecan team gave up their rights to participate in the

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while Pachuca contributed the sports part of the organization. Previously in Summer 2014, Tlaxcala City had been left without football due to the move of Linces de Tlaxcala to Acapulco, where the team was renamed as Internacional de Acapulco, while Águilas Reales de Zacatecas became a secondary team due to the arrival of

Mineros de Zacatecas Club Deportivo Mineros de Zacatecas is a Mexican football club from Zacatecas that compete in the Mexican Liga de Expansión MX. They are currently managed by Omar Alexis Moreno. History In December 2012, Grupo Pachuca purchased the Estudiant ...

, a team that shared ownership with Tlaxcala F.C. until 2020. Tlaxcala won automatic promotion to

after winning the two season tournaments against Irapuato during the 2016–17 season, but their promotion was put on hold until before the 2018–19 season as their stadium failed to meet league requirements. They played in Serie B for 2017–18 season so they can met requirements to play in Ascenso MX but their spot was revoked after the stadium was not completed at the deadline to meet the requirements, so they moved to Serie A for 2018–19 season. In 2018–19 season, the team played as local at Unidad Deportiva Próspero Cahuantzi at

Chiautempan Santa Ana Chiautempan is a city in Chiautempan Municipality in the south-central part of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality, which covers an area of 66.21 km² (25.56 sq mi). At the 2005 ...

, for 2019–20, they moved to the Unidad Deportiva José Brindis in

Nanacamilpa Nanacamilpa de Mariano Arista is a municipality in Tlaxcala in south-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North Am ...

awaiting the end of the construction works of the

Estadio Tlahuicole The Estadio Tlahuicole is a multi-use stadium in Tlaxcala City, Tlaxcala, Mexico. It is currently used mostly for association football, football matches and is the home stadium for Tlaxcala F.C. The stadium has a capacity of 11,135 people. In D ...

. In July 2020, Tlaxcala F.C. was invited to the new

, which became the second category of Mexican football instead of the Ascenso MX, with this the team occupied its place in the division after three years of having achieved sports promotion. On August 19, 2020, the club debuted in the Liga de Expansión, defeating

1–2. On September 2, Tlaxcala received

Celaya F.C. Club Celaya is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Celaya, Guanajuato. Celaya currently plays in the Liga de Expansión MX. Initially formed on Sunday 7 February 1954, the team was reorganized in Winter 2003 after t ...

in its first home game, which had to be played in Nanacamilpa because the Tlahuicole Stadium was not yet ready to host professional football matches, finally, on September 15, Tlaxcala was able to return to its stadium in the match against

Leones Negros UdeG Club Leones Negros de la Universidad de Guadalajara, also known as Leones Negros, Leones Negros UdeG, Universidad de Guadalajara, or UdeG, is a football club that currently plays in the Liga de Expansión MX. History The Universidad de Guadal ...

, which was won by the Guadalajara team.

Personnel

Coaching staff

Players

Current squad

Managers

* Pablo Sabater (2014–2015) * Silvio Rudman (2016–2018) * Miguel Gómez (2018) * Isidro Sánchez (2018–2019) * Lorenzo Sáez (2019–2020) *

Irving Rubirosa Irving Rubirosa Serrano (born 3 May 1979) is a Mexican former professional football player and coach. Career Born in Chimalhuacán, Rubirosa made his Mexican Primera División debut with Atlante F.C. in 1999. He was involved in a player exch ...

(2020–2021) * Silvio Rudman (2021) *

Juan Antonio Torres Juan Antonio Torres Servín (born 15 July 1968) is a Mexican football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of ...

(2021–2022) *

Jorge Villalpando Jorge Villalpando Romo (, born 13 March 1985) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Puebla Although he has been in the first team since 2005, he made his professional debut in the Primera Divisió ...

(2022-present)

Badge

Image:Coyotes de Tlaxcala.png,

Honours

* Segunda División de México/

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 ...

: 2 ::Apertura 2016, Clausura 2017

References

External links

{{Liga de Expansión MX teamlist Tlaxcala F.C., Sport in Tlaxcala Association football clubs established in 2014 2014 establishments in Mexico Liga Premier de México