Raya2

Club Raya2 Expansion is a football team that will play in the Liga de Expansion MX as of the 2021–22 season, it is the official reserve team of the C.F. Monterrey.

History

Previous teams

In 1994 the C.F. Monterrey initiated a policy of development of youth soccer players through the presence in the Primera Division 'A', that year Saltillo Soccer F.C. was founded with that objective, in 2001 that team ceased to exist after an exchange between Monterrey and Tigres UANL, for which Monterrey was left with another franchise that gave rise to the resurgence of the Club de Futbol Cobras in Ciudad Juarez, that team was dissolved in 2005.

Later in 2005, the Monterrey board founded a new team to compete in Primera A, which was called Rayados A. This squad was dissolved in 2009 due to the restructuring of the division where it competed that led to the elimination of the reserve teams of Liga MX clubs. From that year on, the club's policy was based on the loan of its young footballers to Ascenso MX and Liga Premier clubs.

Between 2015 and 2018 the club had a team competing in Serie A of the Liga Premier de Mexico, which was known as C.F. Monterrey Premier. This team was founded because the Liga MX clubs were forced by the Mexican Football Federation to have a development team in the third category of the Mexican soccer system.

Raya2

In 2020, the Ascenso MX was converted into Liga de Expansion MX this with the aim of turning it into a league for the development of footballers in exchange for financial support to member clubs that were in financial problems, due to this the possibility was opened for Liga MX clubs could establish their own teams in this league. However, in the first season of the new league only two clubs established secondary squads in the new league: C.D. Guadalajara with C.D. Tapatio and Club Universidad Nacional with Pumas Tabasco. While clubs like Monterrey preferred to lend their players to teams