Lobos de la BUAP
| Lobos de la BUAP | ||||
| Basic data | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla |
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| Seat | Puebla | |||
| founding | 1939/1967/1996 | |||
| president | Rafael Moreno Valle | |||
| Website | clublobosbuap.com | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Sergio Orduña | |||
| Venue | Estadio Universitario BUAP , Puebla | |||
| Places | 20,411 | |||
| league | Ascenso MX | |||
| Clausura 2017 | master | |||
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The Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla , better known under the short name Lobos de la BUAP , is a Mexican football club in Puebla , the capital of the state of the same name .
history
Origins
The history of the club begins indirectly in 1939, when a football team called Preparatoria (German: Gymnasium ) was founded, which consisted exclusively of students.
When a third division was played for the first time in the state of Puebla in 1967, the university team was reactivated and was allowed to play in the league from the start. But as early as 1969, the board member most familiar with the football business moved to Puebla FC , which significantly weakened the organizational structure of the football department within the university, so that the team finally fell apart.
present
It would be 27 years before a soccer team was set up again within the university. It was equipped with a wolf symbol based on an old family coat of arms and was given the name Lobos de la UAP (at that time the university did not have the prefix “Benemerita”). The revived team was included in the third-class Segunda División at the beginning of the 1996/97 season . Three years later, with the financial support of the entrepreneur Alberto Ventosa Coghlan, the club acquired the second division license of CF Cuautitlán and played in the Primera División 'A' in the following two seasons (1999 to 2001) . The financial blessing, however, was associated with the disadvantage that the Pegaso group of companies now held the reins and only two years later relocated the club to Oaxaca . With that, organized football disappeared from the university again.
This time, however, only for one year. Already for the 2002/03 season the license to play for the Segunda División was acquired again and only a year and a half later the championship in the Apertura 2003 was won. Thus, the Lobos had qualified early for the promotion final at the end of the 2003/04 season against the winner of the Clausura , the Pachuca Juniors. The team, now under the extended name Lobos de la BUAP, was able to prevail and qualified again - this time with purely sporting means - for participation in the Primera División 'A' (today Liga de Ascenso ), to which it has belonged continuously since then.
After a total of five years in the second division, in which the Lobos were never able to reach the final round of the championship, they qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time in the Apertura 2007, in which they only narrowly beat the latter with 1: 2 and 2: 2 Master and promoted CF Indios failed. In the Clausura 2017 , the Lobos won the championship of the second-class Ascenso MX for the first time and were able to prevail in the season finale against the Dorados de Sinaloa , which made them move up to the first-class MX league .