Jaguares De Chiapas Will Move To Querétaro; Former Tuxtla Team To Join 2 Other Liga MX Clubs In Changing Cities

Liga MX club Jaguares de Chiapas will move from their current city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Querétaro after Grupo Delfines - led by majority shareholder Amado Yáñez - bought the club. The president of the Liga MX, Decio de María, confirmed the move today, according to Terra. The move to Querétaro comes after the city's Gallos Blancos was relegated to the Liga de Ascenso, the second professional level of Mexican soccer. San Luis and La Piedad have also asked the Liga MX for permission to move, though it is as yet unclear as to where they might go.

Jaguares de Chiapas was acquired in May 2010 by sports marketing firm Interticket, in conjunction with Grupo Salinas. In 2011, it saw some success in the Copa Libertadores as well as in the 2004 and 2006 Clausura tournaments. They cited lack of sponsorship in addition to low attendance as the reasons for the decision to sell the company to Grupo Delfines. With it ends the Jaguares' ten-year run in the Liga.

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"Unfortunately, external factors affecting the economy, such as the lack of local- and national-level sponsorship, as well as low fan attendance to the stadium - 210,000 in the last year (last in Liga MX) - obliged us to make this decision," Grupo Interticket said in a statement.

The news sparked a flurry of social media activity among Jaguares fans. The newspaper El Pendulo de Chiapas writes that a protest is expected to take place on the main avenues of Tuxtla Gutiérrez within the next few days - three have already been carried out earlier this month.

Similarly, San Luis owner Carlos Lopez Chargoy has stated that lack of support within the community was the reason for requesting the change of site. Irapuato Veracruz, Acapulco and Puebla are rumored to be possible destinations for San Luis, which has largely been unsuccessful in Mexico's top soccer league.

The decision of where San Luis and La Piedad will go is expected to come within the next week.