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C.D. Guadalajara

Association football club in Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V., also known as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Akron. Founded in 1906 as Unión Football Club, the club changed its name to Guadalajara Football Club in 1908, and later changed to its current name in 1923. Nicknamed Chivas, it was one of ten founding members of the professional era of the Liga Mayor. Guadalajara is one of the four most popular clubs in Mexico and one of seven Mexican clubs that have never been relegated.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “C.D. Guadalajara” as association football club in Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1908, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Guadalajara, Association and football can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as association football club in Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1908 and 1923.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “C.D. Guadalajara”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow C.D. Guadalajara primary sources, C.D. Guadalajara archive and Guadalajara research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “C.D. Guadalajara”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “C.D. Guadalajara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.