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| Full name | Club de Fútbol Estudiantes | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Tecos (Owls), Tecolotes | ||
| Founded | 1935 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Tres de Marzo Zapopan, Jalisco | ||
| Capacity | 30,000[1] | ||
| Chairman |  José Antonio Leaño | ||
| Manager |  Héctor Hugo Eugui | ||
| League | Primera División | ||
| 2011 Clausura | Missed Playoffs 15th (league) | ||
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Club de Futbol Estudiantes (often referred to by its nickname "Tecos"[2]) is a Mexican professional football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC. It currently plays in the Primera División, with home games in the Estadio 3 de Marzo (March 3 Stadium, for the University's 1935 date of founding). The 30,015-seat facility is located in Zapopan, a municipality within the Guadalajara, Jalisco conurbation.
Previously named Club de Fútbol U.A.G., Estudiantes is one of three top-flight teams in Guadalajara. They have won the national championship once. 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 13, 2012 Estudiantes played a home game drawing 1-1 against Puebla for the survival in order to remain in first division. However, Atlas defeated Monterrey and Estudiantes departed to relegation. On April 14, 2012 Estudiantes Tecos was relegated to Mexico's Liga de Ascenso.
History
The University was founded in 1935 and soon had a team to play amateur football until 1971 when they joined Federacion Mexicana de Futbol. They gained promotion to Liga de Ascenso, and two years later in the 1974-75 season, they were promoted to Primera División Mexicana. In First Division they didn't have much of a chance, so they had difficulties, until the 1986-87 season where they could enter the Liguilla (playoffs) because of a good season where they led most of the tournament with players "Oso" Zalazar, Julio Cesar Uribe and Javier "Chìcharo" Hernandez, but they lost in the quarterfinals against Cruz Azul in the penalties shoot-out.[3]
First Years in the First Division
The club played its first Primera División Mexicana match on September 3, 1975 against Puebla FC, a match which the club went on to lose 2-3. The club's first win was played against Atleticos Campesinos, with the match being played in the Jalisco Stadium. That year the club finished in second place and qualifying to its first liguilla playoff stage. In quarterfinals the club went up against Club America who eliminated the newly promoted club. The following year, the club finished 4th overall and once again qualified to the liguilla, but is once again, knocked out in quarterfinals, this time by Tigres de la UANL.
In the 1979-80 tournament the clubs invited to play a friendly tournament in Spain the Torneo Sol de Valencia which the club manages to win. The story being the complete opposite in their domestic league, where the club failed to qualify to the liguilla.
1993-94 Championship
After some seasons where they faced bad seasons and others where they could not pass the quarterfinals in the Liguilla, the club hired manager Victor Manuel Vucetich, known at the time for promoting clubs Potros Neza and Leon. Vucetich had also managed the last team to win the league title years before. The squad was formed by players like Carlos Briones, Jorge Gabrich, Porfirio Jiménez, Osmar Donizette, Marcelo Goncalvez and others. During the first part of the season they fought the top of the table with CD Guadalajara and at the end of the season, Guadalajara got the first place, but a consistent second part of the season, combined with a record input by Alan Cruz of having more undefeated goals, made the Tecos reach the top of the table, beating CD Guadalajara in the last game and making them play the Repechaje against Atletico Morelia.
In the Quarterfinals, Tecos beat a weak Atletico Morelia, scoring 3-0 in both games. In the semifinals, they met América. Tecos got the first win of 3-2 in the Azteca Stadium; in a dramatic game, América beat Tecos in the Tres de Marzo stadium 2-1, but the goal from Edson Zwarich put the tie in the global score and Tecos was able to pass the finals in the top position.
The final was against Santos Laguna. The first game was a very rough that ended 1-0 for Santos in the Corona Stadium in Torreon. The final, in the Tres de Marzo stadium, also noted for its aggressiveness, but Tecos was able to beat Santos 1-0 in the normal time, making taking the match to overtime, during which Osmar Donizette scored a goal to break the draw and give Tecos UAG the title.
Clausura 2005
Some years later, after some bad seasons where they were unable to get to the Liguilla, Tecos formed another good squad with Daniel Guzman as the trainer, and reinforced the squad with players like Eliomar Marcon and Daniel Ludueña.
This season was one of the best for Tecos in terms of goal effectiveness, as long as both players were able to reach the top 10 goalers table. Tecos was able to reach the fourth position in the table and, even though they were third in their group, they qualified for the Liguilla.
In the quarterfinals they beat Necaxa in two games 4-1. In the semifinals they confronted the top team of the tournament, Monarcas Morelia, in the first game in Zapopan. Tecos won the game 1-0 and then were able to retain their advantage by getting a tie 1-1 in the Morelos Stadium, eliminating the leader.
In the finals against América, Tecos were close to get a big advantage in Zapopan, but in the last minutes a nonexistent penalty marked by the referee allowed América to get the tie 1-1. Finally, Tecos lost in the Azteca Stadium, 6-3.
2009 renovation project
In 2009 a renovation plan was released, where a name and logo change for the club were proposed. This plan was supported by Mexican chairman José Antonio Leaño and family (the club owners), and Juan José Frangie, chairman, who previously worked with C.D. Guadalajara. On May 25, 2009 the project was officially released. The first change was the name; C.F. U.A.G. (Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara) turned into C.F. Estudiantes, The reason as to the name change was as to update the club's image, resulting in an aesthetic make-over to reference South American team monikers.[citation needed] The new colors are now wine and yellow, formerly a white and red theme. The new uniform and project have been in use since Clausura 2009.
After the rename and also a relocation of their time schedule allowing them to play on Friday nights (in order to attract more people from Guadalajara to see their games), Estudiantes had a good season in the Apertura 2009 enough to pull them in the 2010 Copa Libertadores, but they were unable to pass the qualification round.
Relegation
The 2010-2011 seasons shown very poor results for Estudiantes and began in the third worst place of the relegation percentage table just behind Atlas and recently ascended Tijuana. The Apertura 2011 was hard for the three teams and Estudiantes retained its position at the end of that tournament, but a renovation in Tijuana squad and Atlas solid defense during the Clausura 2012 pulled Estudiantes to the last position. Estudiantes lost its position in Mexico's Primera División when Atlas defeated Monterrey 1-0 in Jalisco Stadium, while Tecos draw 1-1 to Puebla in Tres de Marzo stadium, pulling an disadvantage of 7 points with only 2 games (6 points) to play.
The Tecos name
Originally Estudiantes Tecos was commonly called Tecos U.A.G., since the name Tecos has a double meaning for U.A.G. students, as it's a short way for saying "Tecolote" (some types of owl in Mexico), as well as an acronym for "Tarea Educativa y Cultural hacia el Orden y la Sintesis" (Educative and Cultural Work for the Order and the Synthesis), a group formed by students and academics of the university.
Low position in Guadalajara soccer history
When Tecos UAG ascended to the First Division, Guadalajara was unexpectedly satured with soccer teams, giving the unique case that in one season, Guadalajara has five teams playing in the First Division (Guadalajara, Atlas, Tecos, Universidad de Guadalajara and Jalisco), to be later reduced to three due to the relegation of Jalisco (to never be promoted again) and Atlas (for one season).
Initially the team that has a rivalry with Tecos was Universidad de Guadalajara. This rivalty was founded due to being both from universities of the same city and being U.A.G. a private university and U. de G. a public university. However, U. de G. team was fairly most popular than Tecos and also sometimes more effective by reaching the finals more times than Tecos and even winning a Mexico Cup. Unfortunately, the U. de G. never won a season while Tecos do, and most badly, U. de G. lost the franchise due to economical issues that lead to sell it to the FEMEXFUT in 1994.
After this, Tecos tried to keep the popularity got by its championship but bad campaigns, combining with the success of Chivas in 1997 and the popularity boost that Atlas got at the end of the nineties, made Tecos to keep a low profile in the popularity of the team in the city. Even worse, the team allowed Juan Carlos Leaño, the current owner´s son, to play as a defense since 1998 to the present days, being this also a hidden rule in the management of the team.
In the last years, the team try to create a rivalry with both Atlas and Guadalajara team, but it never was taken seriously due to the low number of fans that the team have. Unofficially the rivalry with Atlas, was called by the press "El clasico de la avenida Patria" (Patria avenue derby) and "El clasico de Zapopan" (The Zapopan Derby) due to both teams have their clubs located in the same avenue in Zapopan.
Former Crest
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Badge 1970 -
Badge 1980-08
Kit evolution and rare kits
- Home kit: Burgundy shirt with a yellow transparent slash going from thr right shoulder to the left waist, with burgundy shorts and socks.
- Away kit: White shirt with a golden slash going from the right shoulder to the left waist,with white shorts and socks.
- First kit evolution
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 1977
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 1980
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 1987
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 1990
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 1994
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 1995
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 2006
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Checker patterns
- First kit evolution
 1994
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   1997
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 1998
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 2001
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 2004
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 2006
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 2007
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 2008
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University colors 2010-present
- First kit evolution
   2010
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   2011
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Stadium
They play their home games at the Estadio Tres de Marzo which is located in Zapopan, Jalisco. It has a capacity of 30,015 and was constructed in 1971. Its most recent renovation was in 1999.[4]
Goal Scoring Records
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All time Goal Leaders
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Goal Scoring Champions
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Current roster
Current squad as of January 7, 2011 [5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable players
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Honours
- 1993-94
- 1974-75
- 1972-73
International
- 1995
- Torneo Sol De La Valencia: 1
- 1979
See also
- Estudiantes reserves, composed of U-20 and U-17 players.
References
- ^ Estadio
- ^ Estudiantes Tecos recent results and squad list at soccerway
- ^ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Deportivo_Estudiantes_Tecos
- ^ "CD Estudiantes Tecos: Estadio Tres de Marzo". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ Estudiantes Tecos Squad and stats