Chapulineros de Oaxaca

Club de Fútbol Chapulineros de Oaxaca is a Mexican professional football club based in Oaxaca, that plays in the Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football.^[2] The club previously participated in the Liga de Balompié Mexicano (2020–2025), which was a semi-professional league not recognized by FMF and FIFA.

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' de México. Two years later, the university bought team Pumas ENEP, a Pumas UNAM reserve team and was renamed as Chapulineros de Oaxaca, playing at the Segunda División 'A' de México.^[3][4] After this fact, the team wandered between the Segunda División 'A' and Segunda División '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 División after the creation of the Primera División 'A' de México, 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 purchasing the Lobos UAP franchise and relocating it to the city of Oaxaca. 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 the city of Tlaxcala, where it was renamed as Guerreros de Tlaxcala.

In August 2015 the MRCI corporate obtained the Teca UTN franchise from Huixquilucan, State of Mexico, they renamed the team as Chapulineros, relocated it to the city of Oaxaca and began to participate in the Liga Premier de Ascenso as of that season.^[7][8] For the 2017–18 season the team was relocated to the Serie B due to the lack of infrastructure to be able to participate for the promotion to the Liga de Ascenso de México. 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 Segunda División de México after five years away from competitions organized by the Mexican Football Federation.^[12]

First kit evolution

As of January 14, 2026^[13]

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Chapulineros de Oaxaca (Liga TDP)

Reserve team that plays in the Liga TDP, the fourth level of the Mexican league system.

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