Chiapas

Full name	Chiapas Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Jaguares
Founded	June 27, 2002
Ground	Estadio Victor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas (Capacity: 25,208)
Chairman	Ramón Morató Pereda
Manager	Luis Fernando Tena
League	La Primera División
Clausura 2009	Quarter-Finalists 12th (league)
Home colours Away colours

Chiapas Fútbol Club, whose nickname is the Jaguares, is a Mexican professional football club based in the town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez in the state of Chiapas. They currently play in the La Primera División . They were founded in 2002 and play their home matches in the Estadio Victor Manuel Reyna, which was originally built in 1982 for local club teams with a capacity of 6,000, but which was enlarged in 2002 to a capacity of 23,208.^[1]

[edit] History

The club was founded on 27 June 2002. They played their first game on 3 August against Tigres, losing 3–1, with Lucio Filomeno scoring the club's first ever goal. The clubs first win came on 25 August, a 1–0 win over San Luis.^[2] They finished the Apertura 2002, with a record of three wins, seven draws, and nine defeats. In the Clausura 2005 they finished with six wins, four draws, and seven defeats, and the head coach José Luis Trejo was sacked in the middle of the season. The club then named Antonio Mohamed as manager, but poor results meant another change with Fernando Quirarte taking over for the remainder of the season, bringing stability to the team and results improved.^[1] They won the Chiapas Cup in 2004 and on 16 July 2005, they won the Chiapas Cup for a second time, by defeating Club Necaxa at the Victor Manuel Reyna Stadium. In February 2008 Sergio Almaguer was named manager of Chiapas.

In the Clausara 2006, under new coach Eduardo de la Torre, the club finished with the second best record over the regular season, and with it a place in the Play-Offs, where they lost in the Quarter-final to Club Deportivo Guadalajara.^[1]

[edit] Current Squad

No. Position Player 1 FW Adolfo Bautista 2 DF Christian Armas 3 DF Jesús Chávez 4 DF Javier Gandolfi (Captain) 5 DF Omar Flores 6 MF Francisco Mendoza 7 DF Óscar Razo 8 MF Alan Zamora 9 FW Josiel 10 MF Danilinho 11 GK Óscar Pérez 13 DF Jorge Amador 14 MF Carlos Balcázar 15 DF Gerardo Flores 16 GK Aarón Soto

No. Position Player 17 DF Yasser Corona 19 MF Neri Cardozo 20 MF Alejandro Argüello 21 FW Jaime Cuesta 22 DF Hugo Sánchez Guerrero 23 GK Edgar Hernández 25 GK Humberto Martínez 26 MF Christian Valdez 27 FW Ezequiel Orozco 28 DF Eduardo Chávez 32 FW Fernando Julien 33 GK Jesús Soto 52 FW Marcelo Aguas 58 DF Jorge Coste 67 DF Miguel Sánchez

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Honours

• Chiapas Cup (3): 2004, 2005, 2007

[edit] Top Goalscorers

Players in bold are now current members of the team.

Pos	Player	Goals
1	Salvador Cabañas	59
2	Itamar Batista	21
3	Carlos Ochoa	21
4	Adolfo Bautista	21
5	Javier Cámpora	13
	Lucio Filomeno	13
7	Oscar Emilio Rojas	13
8	Alejandro Vela	11
	Felipe de Jesús Ayala	10
10	Didi	9

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación website (Spanish)
• Official Site (Spanish)
• Unofficial site (Spanish)
• Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna at conexionjaguar.com (Spanish)