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Jaguares F.C.

Full name	Jaguares Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Jaguares (The Jaguars)
Founded	27 June 2002; 22 years ago (2002-06-27)
Ground	Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna
Ground Capacity	29,001
Owner	Grupo Atlantis
Chairman	José Luis Orantes Costanzo
Manager	Alfredo Durán
League	Liga Premier – Serie A
Apertura 2024	Pre–season
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Jaguares Fútbol Club, previously known as Jaguares de Chiapas FC and Chiapas FC or commonly Jaguares de Chiapas, is a football club based in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, that played in the Mexican football league system Liga MX. The team played their home matches at the Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna. After seven years of absence, it was announced that the team would compete again in professional football in Mexico, the team plays in the Liga Premier – Serie A since the 2024-2025 Season.

History

Jaguares de Chiapas FC

The club in its Chiapas reincarnation was "founded" on 27 June 2002. They played their first game on 3 August against Tigres de la UANL, losing 3–1, with Lucio Filomeno scoring the club's first ever goal. The club's first win came on 25 August, a 1–0 win over San Luis. They finished the Apertura 2002, with a record of three wins, seven draws, and nine defeats. In the Clausura 2005 they finished with six wins, four draws, and seven defeats, and the head coach José Luis Trejo was sacked in the middle of the season. The club then named Antonio Mohamed as manager, but poor results meant another change with Fernando Quirarte taking over for the remainder of the season, bringing stability to the team and results improved. They won the Chiapas Cup in 2004 and on 16 July 2005, they won the Chiapas Cup for a second time, by defeating Necaxa at the Victor Manuel Reyna Stadium. In February 2008 Sergio Almaguer was named manager of Chiapas.

In the Clausura 2006, under new coach Eduardo de la Torre, the club finished with the second best record over the regular season, and with it a place in the Play-offs, where they lost in the Quarter-finals to Guadalajara.

On May 20, 2013, the club was sold to Grupo Delfines whose majority stake holder Amado Yañez is also owner of Querétaro FC Stating low attendance and lack of sponsorship, the new owner announced he would be moving the team to Querétaro to replace Querétaro FC recently relegated to the second division. The owner added the fans of Querétaro deserved a top division club in their city.

Club logo, 2002-2011

Chiapas F.C.

On May 20, 2013, it was announced Chiapas Liga MX team Jaguares de Chiapas was sold and relocated to Querétaro, Mexico. On May 28, 2013, it was announced the team San Luis was relocating to the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and was renamed Chiapas Fútbol Club, thus bringing back a first division team back to Chiapas. The new Chiapas franchise took over the San Luis television contract with Televisa. At the conclusion of the Clausura 2017 tournament, Chiapas were relegated to Ascenso MX after finishing last in the relegation table.

On June 8, 2017, the team dissolved after the owner of Chiapas Carlos Lopez Chargoy met with their coaching staff and players. But a week later, the president of Liga MX announced that the team is disaffiliated and made bail to pay what is due. The next day, a soccer team would return to Chiapas, but it would have to play in Liga Premier de Mexico. Jiquipilas Valle Verde F.C. announced on June 23 that it would change its franchise from Jiquipilas to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, naming the team 'Chiapas Jaguar' and playing their home games at VMR, but four days later this did not happen because the FMF prohibited it to use the name, which the family Lopez Chargoy owns.

2024: The Return

At the end of Clausura 2024, a rumor arose that the management of the Cimarrones de Sonora team was seeking to negotiate the transfer of the franchise to another location. Finally, on May 30, 2024, Juan Pablo Rojo –president of Cimarrones– announced through a statement that the institution was in the process of selling the membership certificate corresponding to the Liga of Expansión MX.

On July 12, 2024 the project was rejected by the Liga de Expansión owners assembly, so finally Jaguares F.C. will compete in the Liga Premier – Serie A using the place that Cafetaleros de Chiapas had in the league and that was originally going to be used for a reserve squad of Jaguares.

Honours

• Chiapas Cup: (3)

2003, 2005, 2007

• Copa Mesoamericana: (1)

2011

International record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2011	Copa Libertadores	First Stage	Alianza Lima	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Group 6	Jorge Wilstermann	2–0	1–2	2nd
			Internacional	1–0	0–4
			Emelec	2–1	0–1
		Round of 16	Junior	1–1	3–3	4–4 (a)
		Quarter-finals	Cerro Porteño	1–1	0–1	1–2

Players

First-team squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Jason Ávalos 2 DF Dylan Ramírez 3 DF Alan Zubiri 4 DF César Hernández 5 MF Alexis Coronado 6 MF Edgar Games 7 MF Edwin Orrantia 8 MF Armando Barajas 9 FW Klinsman Calderón 10 DF Pablo López 11 MF Giovanny León 12 MF Emmanuel Quezada 14 DF Omar Valerio 15 MF Ernesto Zamorano

No. Position Player 16 DF Eduardo Ruiz 17 FW Emiliano Ruvalcaba 18 DF Rogelio Alemán 19 FW Jorge Coutiño 20 FW Diego Abella 21 MF Alessandro Espinosa 22 DF Ricardo Cruz 23 MF Ricardo López 24 DF Melchor López 25 MF Ángel Torres 26 MF Oscar Pumarejo 27 DF Francisco López 31 GK Juan Álvarez 33 GK Alexis Andrade

Record players

Top 10 scorers
Pos	Player	Goals
1	Salvador Cabañas	59
2	Carlos Ochoa	40
3	Jackson Martínez	36
4	Luis Gabriel Rey	27
5	Adolfo Bautista	22
6	Silvio Romero	21
7	Itamar Batista	21
8	Avilés Hurtado	20
9	Danilinho	18
10	Franco Arizala	17

Top 10 appearances
Pos	Player	Appearances
1	Ismael Fuentes (retired)	184
2	José de Jesús Gutiérrez (retired)	163
3	Óscar Razo (retired)	154
4	Omar Ortiz (retired)	146
5	Felipe Ayala (retired)	146
6	Edgar Hernández	122
7	Gilberto Mora (retired)	120
8	Christian Valdez	119
9	Jorge Rodríguez	114
10	Edgar Andrade	114

Managers

Jaguares de Chiapas

Chiapas F.C.

• Sergio Bueno (July 1, 2013 – May 18, 2015)
• Ricardo Lavolpe (May 25, 2015 – 2016)
• José Cardozo (June 6, 2016 – September 18, 2016)
• Sergio Bueno (September 19, 2016 – June 8, 2017)

Jaguares F.C.

• Alfredo Durán (July 25, 2024 – present)

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See also

• Cultural significance of the jaguar in North America
• Football in Mexico
• Tuxtla F.C.