C.D. Tapatío

Tapatío
Full nameClub Deportivo Tapatío
NicknamesEl Rebaño Sagrado (The Sacred Herd)
Los Rojiblancos (The Red-and-Whites)
Founded2 August 1973; 53 years ago (1973-08-02)
29 June 2020; 6 years ago (2020-06-29) (refounded)
GroundEstadio Akron
Capacity48,071
OwnerGrupo Omnilife
ChairmanAmaury Vergara
ManagerJosé Luis Meléndez
LeagueLiga de Expansión MX
Clausura 2026Regular phase: 7th
Final phase: Quarterfinals

Club Deportivo Tapatío, is a professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The club competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Akron. Founded in 1973, the club serves as a reserve team of Guadalajara.

The club competed at various levels of the Mexican football league system until its dissolution in 2009. On 29 July 2020, Tapatío was reestablished in the Liga de Expansión.

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.

Honours

Domestic
Type Competition Titles Winning years Runners-up
Promotion divisions Liga de Expansión MX 2 Cla–2023, Ape–2024 —
Campeón de Campeones (Liga de Expansión MX) 2 2023, 2025 —
Primera División A 0 — Ver–2003
Segunda División 0 — 1980–81, 1995–96, Inv–1999, Inv–2001, Ver–2002
Tercera División 0 — 1973–74
Copa México (Tercera División) 1 1972–73 —
Campeón de Campeones (Tercera División) 0 — 1973

Personnel

Management

Position Staff
Chairman Mexico Amaury Vergara
Director of Institutional Football Mexico Mariano Varela
Deputy Director Mexico Javier Mier
Head of Professional Youth Soccer Mexico Erich Hernández
Basic Forces Coordinator Mexico Luis Manuel Díaz
Children's Football Coordinator Mexico Carlos Nápoles

Source:

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Manager Mexico José Luis Meléndez
Assistant managersMexico Raúl Rico
Mexico Francisco Macías
Fitness coachesMexico Juan Melo
Mexico Carlos González
Goalkeeper coachMexico Sergio Arias
PhysiotherapistMexico Mario Durán
Team doctorsMexico Marco Vite
Mexico Saraí Reséndiz

Players

As of July 25, 2026

First-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.

No. Pos. Nation Player
42 DF  MEX Diego Delgadillo
43 DF  MEX Rodrigo Parra
44 MF  MEX Saúl Zamora
45 GK  MEX Eduardo García
46 DF  MEX Carlos Hernández
47 FW  MEX Gael García
48 MF  MEX Leonardo Jiménez
49 FW  MEX Vladimir Moragrega
50 MF  USA Cruz Medina (on loan from San Jose Earthquakes)
53 DF  MEX Carlo Soldati
54 DF  MEX Raúl Nuño
55 DF  MEX Sebastián Esparza
No. Pos. Nation Player
56 DF  MEX Ángel Chávez
57 FW  MEX Jesús Hernández
58 MF  MEX Juan Pablo Uribe
59 MF  MEX Samir Inda
60 MF  MEX Luis Ledesma
61 GK  MEX Axel Leyva
62 MF  MEX Brandon Téllez
63 DF  MEX Matías Cendejas
64 FW  MEX Diego Latorre
65 MF  MEX Carlos Corona
69 FW  CZE Daniel Villaseca
70 FW  USA Leo Torres

Youth 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.

No. Pos. Nation Player
182 MF  MEX Leonel Calderón
195 MF  USA Diego Rosales
196 MF  MEX Diego Covarrubias
199 MF  USA Anwar Ben Rhouma
No. Pos. Nation Player
207 MF  MEX Raúl Martínez
234 MF  MEX Diego Ponce
254 MF  MEX Jorge Lewis
255 MF  MEX Gerson Gutiérrez

Players listed in bold have made at least one senior first-team appearance.

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  MEX Érick Montiel (at Cancún)
— MF  MEX Christian Torres (at Loudoun United)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  USA Sergio Aguayo (at Deportes Tolima)

References

  1. ↑ "2026 FIFA World Cup Bid Book" (PDF). p. 178. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "Tapatío". Liga BBVA Expansión MX. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.