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C.D. Tapatío

association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ920604
Source-derived summary

Club Deportivo Tapatío, simplified as CD Tapatío, is a professional Mexican football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at the Estadio Akron. The club serves as a reserve team of Guadalajara.

Founded in 1973, the club competed at various levels of the Mexican football pyramid until its dissolution in 2009. On July 29, 2020, it was reestablished in the Liga de Expansión.

History

It was founded as Club Deportivo Tapatío in 1973 when Guadalajara purchased a license for the Tercera División de México. In two seasons, Tapatío promoted to the Segunda División de México. The club mostly competed at the second level. After a relegation, Tapatío bought the second level license from the Gallos de Aguascalientes franchise in 2001 and relocated it to Guadalajara, Jalisco. In 2004, the team was moved to La Piedad, Michoacán and competed as Chivas La Piedad.

Editorial summary

“C.D. Tapatío” enters the record as association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tapatío, association and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2009, 2020, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tapatío, association and football.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“C.D. Tapatío” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tapatío, association and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q920604. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 2009, 2020 and 2001.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “C.D. Tapatío”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow C.D. Tapatío primary sources, C.D. Tapatío archive and Tapatío 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. Tapatío”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from C.D. Tapatío” 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.