Gallos de Aguascalientes

Club Gallos de Aguascalientes
Full name Club Gallos de Aguascalientes
Nickname(s) Gallos
Founded 1994
Dissolved 2001

Gallos de Aguascalientes (Spanish, Roosters of Aguascalientes; nicknamed Gallos), was a football club from Aguascalientes, Mexico.

History

The club was founded in 1994, when Salvador López Monroy, a restaurant business owner from Los Angeles,[1] bought a second division franchise which he relocated to Aguascalientes where there was no professional football club.[2]

The club played its last tournament in 2000-2001 when the Governor of Aguascalientes bought first division club Necaxa. The new club came from a higher division and was known around the Mexico. Gallos de Aguascalientes was then sold to Chivas and changed its name to F.C. Tapatio de Guadalajara and now affiliated to Chivas.[2]

Honors

Primera Division "A": 1

2000

Segunda División de México: 1

1998

References

  1. ↑ "Desfalco a los Gallos" [Embezzlement in the Roosters] (in Spanish). Imagen. 19 June 1999.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 García Esparza, Karla Lizbeth (31 July 2012). "Desmienten Regreso de los Gallos de Aguascalientes al Futbol Profesional" [Roosters of Aguascalientes denied a return to professional football] (in Spanish). Pagina 24.

See also