Lobos de la BUAP

The Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Benemerita, better known under the short name Lobos de la BPRD, is a Mexican football club based in Puebla, the state capital of the same name.

History

Origins

The history of the club begins indirectly in the year 1939, when a football team named Preparatoria ( German: Gymnasium) was launched, which was composed solely of students.

Than in 1966 in the state of Puebla, a third league was held for the first time, the university team was reactivated and was allowed to play from the start in the league. But in 1969 changed the most familiar with the business of football board member for Puebla FC, ​​making the organizational structure of the football department within the University was greatly weakened, so that the team eventually fell apart.

Presence

It should be 27 years to pass before re a football team was placed on the legs within the university. It was equipped with reference to an old family coat of arms with a wolf as a symbol and given the name Lobos de la UAP (then carried the University not preceded by the name of " Benemerita "). The revitalized team was taken División with the start of the 1996/97 season in the Segunda third-rate. Three years later, the club acquired through the financial support of the entrepreneur Alberto Ventosa Coghlan the second division license of CF Cuautitlán and participated in the two following seasons (1999 to 2001) in La Liga ' A'. The financial blessing, however, was associated with the disadvantage that the group of companies Pegaso now held the reins in his hand and the club just two years later transplanted to Oaxaca. Thus, the organized football was gone again from the university.

This time, however, only for a year. Already for the 2002/ 03 season eligible to play for the Segunda División and was re- acquired won only one and a half years later, the championship in the Apertura 2003. Thus, the Lobos had an early rise for the final end of the season 2003/ 04 against the winner of the Clausura, the Pachuca Juniors, qualified. Here, the An incoming now under the expanded name Lobos de la BPRD team was able to prevail and qualified again - this time with purely sporting agents - for participation in the Primera División 'A' (now Liga de Ascenso ), to which it belongs since then without interruption.

After five years as part of the second league in which the Lobos never could reach the final round of the championship, they succeeded in the Apertura 2007 for the first time qualifying for the quarter-finals, in which they only with 1:2 and 2:2 against the later Master and Movers CF Indios failed. Last succeeded the Lobos three times in a row ( Clausura 2009, Apertura 2009, Bicentenario 2010) the qualification for the play-offs, where they also failed in two cases in the quarterfinals. Their most successful season was the Apertura 2009, in which they advanced to the semifinals, where, however, the previous year's relegated Necaxa prevailed ( 2-0 and 0-0) itself.

Alebrijes | Altamira | Atlético San Luis | Celaya FC | Correcaminos | Cruz Azul Hidalgo | Delfines | Dorados | Estudiantes Tecos | Galeana | Lobos BPRD | Merida | Necaxa | UdeG | Zacatepec

Sources and links

• History of Lobos BPRD on the official website of the association ( Spanish)

• Mexican Football Club
• Puebla (city)