Chapulineros de Oaxaca

Chapulineros de Oaxaca is a Mexican football team nicknamed Los chapulineros (Grasshoppers). The club was founded in 1983 and is based in the state of Oaxaca where it plays its home matches at the Estadio Independiente MRCI. The club has played in the Tercera Division, Segunda Division, and the Liga de Ascenso. Starting in 2020, they will play in the Liga de Balompie Mexicano. They previously played in the Liga Premier Serie B.

History

The club's origins date back to 1982, when the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca football team began to participate in the Segunda Division "B". Two years later, the university acquires the Pumas ENEP club, a Pumas UNAM reserve team and is renamed as Chapulineros de Oaxaca, playing at Segunda Division "A". After this fact, the team wandered between Segunda Division "A" and Segunda "B", until 1993 when it won the Second B championship, being the only title of the club so far.

In 1994 the team remains in the Segunda Division after the creation of the Primera Division "A", later it became a team affiliated with Toros Neza, to later be managed by the Universidad Regional del Sureste.

For the 2001–02 season, the Grupo Pegaso returns to the Chapulineros to professional football after moving the Lobos UAP franchise to Oaxaca City. 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 Tlaxcala City, where it was renamed as Guerreros de Tlaxcala.

In August 2015, the MRCI corporate obtained the Teca UTN franchise, moved it to Oaxaca and began to participate in the Liga Premier de Ascenso as of that season. For the 2017–18 season the team is relocated to Serie B de Mexico due to the lack of infrastructure to be able to participate for the promotion to Ascenso MX.