Tapatío

Full name	Club Deportivo Tapatío
Nickname(s)	El Rebaño Sagrado (The Sacred Herd) Los Rojiblancos (The Red-and-Whites)
Founded	2 August 1973 (original) June 2020 (revival)
Ground	Estadio Akron[1]
Capacity	48,071
Owner	Grupo Omnilife
Chairman	Amaury Vergara
Manager	Arturo Ortega
League	Liga de Expansión MX
Apertura 2022	9th (Reclassification)
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Tapatío is the official reserve team of C.D. Guadalajara. It was dissolved in 2009 and has been replaced by Chivas Rayadas de Guadalajara before its own dissolution in 2019. In 2020 the team was reactivated for its participation in the Liga de Expansión MX.^[2]

History

It was founded as Club Deportivo Tapatío in 1973 when CD Guadalajara purchased a license for the Tercera División. In two seasons Tapatío promoted to the Segunda División. The club mostly competed at the second level. After a relegation Tapatío bought the second level license from Gallos de Aguascalientes in 2001. In 2004 the team moved to La Piedad and competed as Chivas La Piedad. In the 2005/06 season the team was moved to Tepic 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 Mexican Federation of Association Football that teams in the Primera División will not be able to have a filial team in the Ascenso MX, the franchise was sold to Club Universidad de Guadalajara. Chivas Rayadas was then created and it serves 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 Ascenso MX with the aim of functioning as a development for football players.^[3]

Honours

Personnel

Management

Position	Staff
Chairman	Amaury Vergara
Chief Financial Officer	Gustavo Jiménez
Director of football	Fernando Hierro
Director of Institutional Football	Mariano Varela
Director of Sports Science	Jaime Figueroa
Deputy Director	Javier Mier
Head of Professional Youth Soccer	Joaquín Moreno
Coordinator of Professional Youth Soccer	Erich Hernández
Basic Forces Coordinator	Luis Manuel Díaz
Director of Sports Science	Carlos Nápoles

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Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Arturo Ortega
Assistant managers	Félix Martínez
	Mario Ortiz
	Alberto Ascencio
Fitness coach	Juan Melo
Goalkeeper coach	Sergio Arias
Physiotherapist	Mario Durán
Team doctor	Marco Vite

Players

As of June 24, 2022^[4]

Team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 42 DF  MEX Juan Aguayo 43 DF  MEX Leonardo Sepúlveda 44 MF  MEX Saúl Zamora 46 FW  MEX Sebastián Martínez 47 FW  MEX Gael García 48 MF  MEX Leonardo Jiménez 49 MF  MEX Gilberto García 50 DF  MEX Mateo Chávez 51 GK  MEX Eduardo García 53 DF  MEX Uziel García 54 DF  MEX Miguel Gómez 55 FW  MEX Teun Wilke

No. Pos. Nation Player 56 FW  MEX Benjamín Sánchez 57 MF  MEX Dylan Guajardo 58 MF  MEX Alejandro Organista 60 MF  MEX Luis Ledesma 63 DF  MEX Matías Cendejas 65 DF  MEX Luis Rey 66 MF  MEX Arturo Palma (on loan from Necaxa) 69 FW  MEX Daniel Villaseca 71 GK  MEX Erick Montiel 75 MF  MEX Hugo Mata — MF  MEX Brandon Tellez

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