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| Full name | Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla |
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| Nickname(s) |
Los Lobos (The Wolves) La Manada (The Herd) Los Licántropos (The Lycans) |
| Founded | 28 May 1967 |
| Ground |
Estadio Universitario BUAP Puebla City, Puebla, Mexico |
| Capacity | 19,283 |
| Owner | BUAP |
| Chairman | Rafael Cañedo |
| Manager | Rafael Puente, Jr. |
| League | Ascenso MX |
| Apertura 2016 | 15th |
| Website | www |
Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla is a Mexican football club based in Puebla, Mexico. The club represents the Autonomous University of Puebla. The club's history goes back to the early 1930s when the club was known as Preparatoria, formed exclusively by players that attended the university. The club has played on and off since then. It was not until the 1990s when the club made a serious comeback. It has been playing in the lower level Mexican football divisions. In 2003 the club was awarded a spot in the Primera A, a league where the club been playing ever since. The club makes its home in the Estadio Olímpico de C.U.
The club's history dates back to 1930 when the club was known as Preparatoria formed exclusively by players that attended the university. It was until 1966 when the Mexican Football Federation allowed the club to join the third division the club played under the name CarolinosS U.A.P using the university as its badge.
In 1969 the owner was Rafael Moreno Valle who went on to leave the club and join the owners board of the other local Puebla club Puebla FC, leaving the club to the Department of Physical Studies of Puebla. The club failed to be sustained economically and folded.
It was till the mid-1990s when the club made a return and idea pitch by Paul Moreno and Eduardo Rivera Hernandez to the university to buy a franchise in the Segunda División de México. The brothers Adolfo and Pedro Ayala join the owners board later with Adolfo Ayala as the Club's executive President.
It was made clear that the club should only consist of Players attending the University. The club played its first game in the Estadio Ignacio Zaragoza managed by a former Puebla FC player Gustavo Moscoso. Lobos was the first Second Division club ever to transmit its games on T.V on Televisa Puebla. The Mexican federation congratulated the owners board for setting a good example on how a club should be run by doing so inspired other Second Division clubs to do the same.
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