Aguacateros C.D. Uruapan

Aguacateros CDU
Full nameAguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan
NicknamesAguacateros (Avocado producers)
El Oro Verde (Green gold)[1]
Founded17 July 2018 (2018-07-17)
GroundUnidad Deportiva Hermanos López Rayón
Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
Capacity6,000
OwnerGuillermo Verduzco Duarte
ChairmanGuillermo Verduzco Duarte
ManagerEdgar Tolentino
LeagueLiga Premier - Serie A
Clausura 2025Regular season: 10th, Group II

Aguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan is a Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División de México, the third tier of Mexican football. The club is based in Uruapan, Michoacán and was founded in 2018, after the merger between C.D. Uruapan and the Club Originales Aguacateros de Uruapan.

History

Origins

In 2015, C.D. Uruapan won the championship of the Tercera División de México after defeating Sporting Canamy.[2] The team competed for a season in Liga de Nuevos Talentos after failing to meet the requirements to promote to the Liga Premier de Ascenso. With the federative seat of CDU Uruapan, another team called Titanes de Saltillo was created, finally, the CDU Uruapan returned to the Tercera División.[3]

Aguacateros C.D. Uruapan

In July 2018, the team was founded with the name Aguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan after the merger of Club Deportivo Uruapan and the team Originales Aguacateros de Uruapan with the aim of creating a unified team that represents the city as well as looking for an economic saving, since instead of financing two clubs, it would be one. The new team occupied the federative position belonging to Originals Aguacateros, formed with players from both clubs and acquired the technical body of the CDU.[4]

Meanwhile, the CDU franchise was rented to a group of entrepreneurs who created another team called Futcenter, which was based in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico. This club used the CDU Uruapan name as a registration in the FMF, but it was completely separate from the Michoacán-based team. In 2019, this team was dissolved.

On June 28, 2019, the team was accepted as a new member of the Liga PremierSerie B. In the 2020–21 season, the team temporarily played in Liga PremierSerie A due to the league holding a one-off tournament as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the 2021–22 season, the team returned to the Serie B, in that cycle the club won the two tournaments of the season for which it got its promotion in a sporting way to the Serie A.[5] However, the team only stayed in the Serie A for one year, since for the 2023-2024 season the club's board of directors decided to relocate the team to the Serie B, due to the interest of the owners to increase the relationship of Aguacateros CDU with Atlético Morelia.[6]

In the 2023–24 season the team won the Serie B again, achieving its third championship in this category, and returning to the Serie A after a one-year absence.[7] In the summer of 2024, Aguacateros CDU became an affiliate team of Atlético Morelia, so an exchange of players between both teams began to take place, in addition to the Uruapan team started to being managed by the Morelia's board.[8]

Players

Current squad

As of August 30, 2025[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
81 MF  MEX Daniel Martínez
82 MF  MEX Francisco Flores
84 MF  MEX Emanuel Rojas
85 GK  MEX Joel Muñoz
86 MF  USA Adán Mora
88 DF  MEX Diego Ávalos
90 MF  MEX Jairo Ortiz
91 GK  MEX Eduardo Hernández
92 DF  MEX Samuel Rivera
93 MF  MEX Armando Villanueva
94 DF  MEX Diego García
95 MF  MEX Dilan Galván
97 MF  MEX Ángel Plancarte
98 FW  MEX Jesús Silva
99 MF  MEX Jorge Rivera
No. Pos. Nation Player
100 FW  MEX Ailton Rangel
101 DF  MEX Diego Rincón
102 DF  MEX César Yáñez
104 DF  MEX Santiago Flores
105 DF  MEX Ángel García
106 DF  MEX Hugo Flores
110 MF  MEX Kevin Chávez
111 DF  USA Eric Meza
113 GK  MEX Bryan González
114 FW  MEX Diego Chávez
116 FW  MEX Ricardo Contreras
117 GK  MEX Samuel Alejos
118 DF  MEX Rolando Peñaloza
119 FW  MEX Hugo Ávila

Managers

Honours

Winners: Apertura 2021, Clausura 2022, 2023–24

See also

References

  1. ^ "EL ORO VERDE, ARRIBA". Liga Premier Magazine. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  2. ^ Romero García, Gonzalo (6 June 2015). "Club Deportivo Uruapan asciende a segunda división profesional". Diario ABC de Michoacán (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  3. ^ Romero García, Gonzalo (24 June 2016). "Club Deportivo Uruapan se va a préstamo con Titanes de Saltillo". Diario ABC de Michoacán (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Surge Aguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan". Agencia Infomanía (in Spanish). 17 July 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. ^ Guerra, Frida (2 July 2022). "Se corona Aguacateros de Uruapan por segunda vez". El Sol de Morelia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Mandan a Aguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan a Serie B". Ecos del Quinceo (in Spanish). 18 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  7. ^ "¡AGUACATEROS CDU, CAMPEÓN!". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 12 May 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Aguacateros CDU, filial de Atlético Morelia, participará en una nueva liga de formación". Ecos del Quinceo (in Spanish). 3 June 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Aguacateros Club Deportivo Uruapan". Liga BBVA MX. Retrieved 18 September 2020.