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| Full name | Club Deportivo Tapatío | ||
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| Nicknames | El Rebaño Sagrado (The Sacred Herd) Los Rojiblancos (The Red-and-Whites) | ||
| Founded | 2 August 1973 (1973-08-02) June 2020 (2020-06) (refounded) | ||
| Ground | Estadio Akron Zapopan, Jalisco[1] | ||
| Capacity | 48,071 | ||
| Owner | Grupo Omnilife | ||
| Chairman | Amaury Vergara | ||
| Manager | José Luis Meléndez | ||
| League | Liga de Expansión MX | ||
| Apertura 2025 | Regular phase: 11th Final phase: Did not qualify | ||
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Club Deportivo Tapatío, simplified as CD Tapatío, is a professional Mexican football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at the Estadio Akron. Founded in 1973, the club serves as a reserve team of Guadalajara.
The club competed across various levels of the Mexican football pyramid until its dissolution in 2009. On July 29, 2020, it was refounded in the Liga de Expansión.[2]
History
It was founded as Club Deportivo Tapatío in 1973 when Guadalajara purchased a license for the Tercera División de México. In two seasons, Tapatío promoted to the Segunda División de México. The club mostly competed at the second level. After a relegation, Tapatío bought the second level license from the Gallos de Aguascalientes franchise in 2001 and relocated it to Guadalajara, Jalisco. In 2004, the team was moved to La Piedad, Michoacán and competed as Chivas La Piedad. In the 2005/06 season, the team was moved to Tepic, Nayarit and competed as Chivas Coras. The team returned to Guadalajara in 2006 and the Tapatío name was restored.
Before the Apertura 2009 tournament, Tapatío ceased to exist. The league system was restructured and following new rules of the FMF that teams in the Primera División de México would not be able to have a filial team in the Liga de Ascenso de México, the franchise was sold to Club Universidad de Guadalajara. Chivas Rayadas was then created and it served as the new reserve team for Club Deportivo Guadalajara.
In 2020, the team was revived due to the creation of the Liga de Expansión MX, a league that replaced the Liga de Ascenso de México with the aim of functioning as a development for football players.[3]
Honours
Domestic
Promotion divisions
- Liga de Expansión MX
- Champions (2): Clausura 2023, Apertura 2024
- Campeón de Campeones de la Liga de Expansión MX
- Primera División A
- Runners-up (1): Verano 2003
- Segunda División
- Runners-up (5): 1980–81, 1995–96, Invierno 1999, Invierno 2001, Verano 2002
- Tercera División
- Runners-up (1): 1973–74
- Copa México de la Tercera División
- Champions (1): 1972–73
- Campeón de Campeones de la Tercera División
- Runners-up (1): 1973
Friendly
- Verizon Wireless Copa Alianza: 2007
- Duelo de Campeones: 2023
Personnel
Management
| Position | Staff |
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| Chairman |  Amaury Vergara
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| Director of Institutional Football | Mariano Varela
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| Deputy Director | Javier Mier
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| Head of Professional Youth Soccer | Erich Hernández
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| Basic Forces Coordinator | Luis Manuel Díaz
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| Children's Football Coordinator | Carlos Nápoles
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Source: [1]
Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Manager | José Luis Meléndez
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| Assistant managers | Raúl Rico Francisco Macías
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| Fitness coaches | Juan Melo Carlos González
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| Goalkeeper coach | Sergio Arias
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| Physiotherapist | Mario Durán
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| Team doctors | Marco Vite Saraí Reséndiz
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Players
- As of August 3, 2025[4]
Team squad
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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References
- ^ "Tapatío: La filial de Chivas jugará como local en el Estadio Akron". Diario Récord (in Spanish). 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "El Tapatío, donde jugó Chicharito, Bravo y Salcido disputará la Liga de Expansión". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). 26 June 2020. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Tapatío: La filial de Chivas jugará como local en el Estadio Akron". Diario Récord (in Spanish). 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "Tapatío". Liga BBVA Expansión MX. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
