Overview

• Successive Chiapas administrations invested heavily in stadium expansions and annual subsidies from the club’s 2002 founding without acquiring formal ownership, creating a dependency on volatile government budgets.
• A 14 million peso suspension of public funds in 2016 to finance Pope Francis’s visit is seen as the catalyst for the club’s financial unraveling and collapse on the field.
• Jaguares peaked in the Clausura 2004 as superlíder with 42 points and reached the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals in 2011 despite chronic off-field uncertainty.
• Mounting debts and legal disputes with FIFA led to relegation in Clausura 2017 and subsequent disaffiliation by the FMF, dissolving the franchise.
• Former members of the 2017 squad have since followed divergent paths, from Jonathan Fabbro’s 17-year prison sentence to Moisés Muñoz’s appointment as director of sports in Tulum.