Loros de la Universidad de Colima
| Full name | Club de Fútbol Loros de la Universidad de Colima |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Los Loros (The Parrots) |
| Founded | 10 October 1981 |
| Ground | Estadio Olímpico Universitario de Colima, Colima, Colima, Mexico |
| Capacity | 11,812 |
| Owner | Jimmy Goldsmith |
| Chairman | Carlos Salas |
| Manager | Víctor Hugo Mora |
| League | Liga Premier de Ascenso |
| Clausura 2017 | 18th (Relegated) |
Club de Fútbol Loros de la Universidad de Colima is Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda Division de Mexico Liga Premier de Ascenso, the third tier division of Mexican football. The club is based in Colima, Mexico. The team was participating in the Ascenso MX during the 2016–17 season after earning promotion by winning the Torneo Clausura 2015 Championship over Cruz Azul Hidalgo and the Final de Ascenso against U.A. Estado de Mexico (winners of Apertura 2014). They were initially going to get promoted during the 2015–2016 season, but they did not meet the stadium requirements.
The team was born in the Third Division of Mexico, debuting on September 10, 1981, playing their matches in Manzanillo until that year when the University of Colima acquired at a price of 400 million pesos in San Jorge Stadium, which would become the team headquarters. It would be in the same tournament that would be positioned between the first places from his first foray.
In the 1981-1982 league championship from August to May, he finished first in its group, which won the right to play the playoffs for promotion to the Second Division of Mexico and was runner-up in their group; therefore, this team was invited to join the category of the Second Division of Mexico in Group B, but declined the invitation for economic reasons.
This team participated in a quadrangular made in Cihuatlán, Jalisco, in the league championship of 1982-1983, one of their players was called to participate as a starter in the forward position of the Mexican college football who represented Mexico in University World Championship. In the campaign of 1985, Héctor Hernández took an undefeated campaign that ended when missing three games. The Chale died on June 18, 1984, when as coach of Loros de Colima, suffered a car accident traveling to the city of Colima, Colima, Hernández would be the only one who died in the accident.
In professional sports, the University of Colima participated in the championship of the Mexican Football Federation, 1986-1987, remaining in second place in their group, which won the right to go to the tournament "Liguilla de Ascenso".
In 1991 the University of Colima for two years gave the franchise its Loros team Club Deportivo Colimense by a sum of 150 million pesos. The club was nicknamed Colimense Palmeros, winning the tournament from 1992 to 1993, and the contract was extended for several years, changing its name to simply Palmeros de Colima in the nineties.
After a cooperation agreement with the State Government, that the University of Colima and the state administration shared the franchise Palmeros de Colima with fifty percent for each of the instances, it was announced that the Palmeros would be called Palmeros- Loros, militating in Second Division of Mexico and being his coach, François Omam-Biyik.
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