Tecos F.C.

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Tecos

Full name	Tecos Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Tecos (The Tecos) Los Tecolotes (The Owls) Los Estudiantes (The Students) La Autónoma (The Autonomous) Los Emplumados (The Feathered) El Tecolote (The Owl)
Founded	July 5, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-07-05)
Ground	Estadio Tres de Marzo Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Capacity	18,779[1]
Owner	Antonio Leaño Juan Carlos Leaño
Chairman	Juan Carlos Leaño
Manager	Jorge Hernández
League	Liga Premier - Serie A
2023–24	4th, Group I (Group Semi–finals)
Website	http://www.tecos.mx/
Home colours Away colours

Tecos Fútbol Club (often referred to by its nickname "Tecos"^[2]) is a Mexican professional football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC. It plays its home games in the Estadio 3 de Marzo (March 3 Stadium, named for the day the university was founded in 1935). The 30,015-seat facility is located in Zapopan, a municipality within the Guadalajara, Jalisco conurbation.

Previously named Club de Fútbol Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Estudiantes have won the national championship once and is the only team in Mexican football history to ascend from the two lower divisions and get the Championship (the other team that ascended from lower divisions was Oaxtepec, though it descended later). The club was runner-up in the Mexican League's Clausura 2005, after losing to Club América in the second game, 6–3.

On April 14, 2012 Estudiantes Tecos was relegated to Mexico's Liga de Ascenso after gaining the lowest percentage of points got in the last three years against Atlas and Querétaro. The last straw was a combination of a draw between Estudiantes and Puebla and a victory achieved by Atlas against Monterrey.

Estudiantes won the Clausura 2014 Ascenso MX championship, but lost the promotional final against Leones Negros. On May 22, 2014, Grupo Pachuca president, Jesús Martínez Patiño, announced Estudiantes Tecos would change its location and move to Zacatecas. On May 28, 2014, the move was confirmed and the club changed its name to Mineros de Zacatecas, and Estudiantes Tecos were dissolved.

After being dissolved, they still had a team in Mexico's Third Division, the Liga Premier de Ascenso, but were not allowed to be promoted into Ascenso MX because they were considered a subsidiary of Mineros de Zacatecas.

In August 2015, the Leaño family announced they had bought the image rights from Grupo Pachuca, thus, re-founding the club to play in the Tercera División, the fourth tier of Mexican football.

After the 2016–2017 season in the Tercera Division, Tecos F.C. managed a 4–2 victory against Tuzos Pachuca in a semi-finals match, which promoted them to the Segunda División despite losing to Sporting Canamy in a penalty shootout after a 2–2 final match.