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Club Deportivo Atlético Tecomán is a Mexican football club that plays in the
Tercera División de México Liga TDP is a professional association football league in Mexico and the fourth level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Tercera División de México (1967–2017). It has 223 participating clubs, divided into 17 regional gro ...
. The club is based in
Tecomán Tecomán is a city and seat of the municipality of Tecomán in the Mexican state of Colima, about 50 km south of the city of Colima. In the 2005 census the city had a population of 112,726 people. It is the third-largest community in the st ...
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Colima Colima, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, is among the 31 states that make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima. Colima is a small state of western Mexico on the cen ...
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 () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...
. During that period Tecomán was an affiliated team of
Tecos UAG Tecos Fútbol Club, simply known as Tecos, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco, and associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG). It competes in Liga Premier de México, Liga ...
, 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 The most popular sport in Mexico is association football, known as wikt:fútbol, fútbol in Mexico. The top professional leagues in Mexico are Liga MX for men and Liga MX Femenil for women. In Mexico, football became a professional men's spo ...
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Tercera División de México Liga TDP is a professional association football league in Mexico and the fourth level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Tercera División de México (1967–2017). It has 223 participating clubs, divided into 17 regional gro ...


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