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Chapulineros de Oaxaca
Mexican football club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chapulineros de Oaxaca is a Mexican football team nicknamed Los chapulineros (Grasshoppers). The club was founded in 1983 and is based in the state of Oaxaca 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.[2] They previously played in the Liga Premier Serie B.
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The club's origins date back to 1982, when the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca football team began to participate in the Segunda División "B". Two years later, the university bought team Pumas ENEP, a Pumas UNAM reserve team and was renamed as Chapulineros de Oaxaca, playing at Segunda División "A".[3][4] 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.[5]
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, to later be managed by the Universidad Regional del Sureste.[6]
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, 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 as of that season.[7][8] For the 2017–18 season the team is relocated to Serie B de México 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.[9]
In 2019 the team returned to compete in the FMF, leaving this federation the following year to join the LBM.[10]
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 in the penalty shoot-out 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, 2022 and 2023 seasons, making it the most winning team in this league. In January 2025, this league was dissolved due to a lack of participating teams, making the competition's continuation unviable, so Chapulineros had to look for a new league to compete in.[11]
In June 2025, the team rejoined the Liga Premier de México after five years away from competitions organized by the Mexican Football Federation.[12]
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     2001
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   2020–21
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- As of April 1, 2022[13]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Recent outstanding players
Alan Cruz- Jorge Bernal
Cristian Mazzón- Marco Antonio Sánchez
- Miguel Ángel Vargas
- Ángel Lemus
- Hugo Omar Sánchez
- José Luis Mendoza
- Ricardo Munguía
- Silvio Rudman
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