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Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V., simplified as CD Guadalajara, and also known as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Akron. Founded in 1906 as Unión Football Club, the club changed its name to Guadalajara Football Club in 1908, and then changed to its current name in 1923. Nicknamed Chivas, it was one of ten founding members of the first professional and national league in Mexico, named Liga Mayor. Guadalajara is one of seven Mexican clubs that have never been relegated. The Chivas de Guadalajara operation covers Sports. Its headquarters and primary operations are based in Guadalajara. El Rebano Sagrado and Club America's fiercest rival. Mexican-players-only policy and Guadalajara roots give Chivas a nationalist identity unmatched in Mexican football. Profile compiled from public sources including Wikipedia's article on C.D. Guadalajara (accessed July 2026).
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