Tlaxcala Fútbol Club, also known as Coyotes de Tlaxcala, is a professional football club based in Tlaxcala. The club competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Tlahuicole. Founded in 2014, after the merger of the Club Águilas Reales de Zacatecas and a reserve team of CF Pachuca.
Tlaxcala won automatic promotion to the Ascenso MX in the 2016–17 season, but their promotion was put on hold until the 2018–19 season as their stadium failed to meet league requirements. However, in 2020 the club was invited to the Liga de Expansión, the new second-level league and thus promoted category.
History The club was founded on September 5, 2014, after the merger of the Club Águilas Reales de Zacatecas and the reserve team of Pachuca in the Tercera División de México, the Zacatecan team gave up their rights to participate in the Segunda División de México while Pachuca contributed the sports part of the organization. Previously in the Summer 2014 tournament, the city of Tlaxcala had been left without a football team due to the relocation of Linces de Tlaxcala to Acapulco, Guerrero, where the team was renamed as Internacional de Acapulco, while Águilas Reales de Zacatecas was moved to Pachuca, Hidalgo and merged with the reserve team of Pachuca, which was later moved to the city of Tlaxcala giving birth to Tlaxcala F.C., and became a secondary team due to the arrival of Mineros de Zacatecas, a team that shared the same ownership with Tlaxcala F.C. until 2020.
Tlaxcala won automatic promotion to the Ascenso MX after winning the two season tournaments against Irapuato during the 2016–17 season, but their promotion was put on hold until before the 2018–19 season as their stadium failed to meet league requirements. They played in the Serie B for the 2017–18 season so they can met requirements to play in the Ascenso MX, but their spot was revoked after the stadium was not completed at the deadline to meet the requirements, so they moved to Serie A for the 2018–19 season. In 2018–19 season, the team played as local at Unidad Deportiva Próspero Cahuantzi at Chiautempan, for the 2019–20 season, they moved to the Unidad Deportiva José Brindis in Nanacamilpa awaiting the end of the construction works of the Estadio Tlahuicole.
In July 2020, Tlaxcala F.C. was invited to the new Liga de Expansión MX, which became the second category of Mexican football instead of the Ascenso MX, with this the team occupied its place in the division after three years of having achieved sports promotion. On August 19, 2020, the club debuted in the Liga de Expansión, defeating Mineros de Zacatecas 1–2. On September 2, Tlaxcala received Celaya F.C. in its first home game, which had to be played in Nanacamilpa because the Estadio Tlahuicole was not yet ready to host professional football matches, and finally, on September 15, Tlaxcala was able to return to its stadium in the match against Leones Negros UdeG, which was won by the Guadalajara team.
Personnel Coaching staff Position StaffManager Arturo OrtegaAssistant managers Guillermo Gómez Mario López Rodrigo RoqueFitness coach Arturo GarcíaPhysiotherapist José RodríguezTeam doctor Nery Luna
Players Current squad
Reserve teams Progreso de Cocula (Liga TDP) Reserve team that plays in the Liga TDP, the fourth level of the Mexican league system
Managers Pablo Sabater (2014–2015) Silvio Rudman (2016–2018) Miguel Gómez (2018) Isidro Sánchez (2018–2019) Lorenzo Sáez (2019–2020) Irving Rubirosa (2020–2021) Silvio Rudman (2021) Juan Antonio Torres (2021–2022) Jorge Villalpando (2022–2023) Javier Contreras (2023) Paco Ramírez (2024) Luis Orozco (2025) Marco Fabián Vázquez (2025–2026) Gustavo Leal (2026) Arturo Ortega (2026–)
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Honours Domestic TypeCompetitionTitles Winning yearsPromotion divisionSegunda División2, Cla–2017Ape–2015Campeón de Campeones de la Segunda División12017—Liga Premier Serie B0—Ape–2017
References
External links Official site