Mexico

Pioneros

MexicoFounded: 1984Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancún (17,289 seats)

History

Deportivo Pioneros de Cancún Fútbol Club, commonly known as Pioneros de Cancún, is a professional football club based in Cancún, Quintana Roo. The club competes in Liga Premier (Primera Premier), the third level of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Cancún 86.

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The club was founded on 3 May 1984, and participated in the Tercera División. The following year, the club finished in third place and played in a promotional playoff with Lobos and Aguilas B. As a result, the club was promoted to the Segunda División. The owner decided to purchase a franchise in the Segunda División, which allowed the club the chance to be promoted to the Primera División.

Pioneros failed its attempts to be promoted, in the early 1990s, the city reduced resources, and the club once again fell into the lower divisions, and was later moved to Durango. In the mid-1990s, the club changed its name to Tucanes de Cancún but failed to gain popularity and was forced to change the name back to its original name Pioneros. It was not until 2006 when José del Carmen Vázquez Ávila bought the club and proposed a plan to have the franchise in the Primera División within a couple of years that the club regained local support.

Vázquez's project was made into action in 2007, when Atlante was moved from Mexico City to Cancún, which led to Pioneros becoming the second club in the city. In 2009, the franchise was moved to Acapulco and sold to a new club known as Guerreros de Acapulco. Pioneros maintained its Tercera División team, and in the 2010-11 season, an alliance was formed with Atlante to form a development team known as Pioneros Potros.

In August 2012, Pioneros were revived as a participating franchise in the Liga de Nuevos Talentos. During the 2013-14 season, Pioneros won the Apertura 2013 tournament. On 24 May 2014, Pioneros also won the Campeón de Campeones de la Liga de Nuevos Talentos, after defeating Selva Cañera, and achieved its promotion to the Liga Premier de Ascenso.

In January 2015, Pioneros moved to a new stadium and began playing at Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo, with the Estadio Cancún 86 becoming its alternative ground.

The Pioneros under-13 team participated in the 2019 CONCACAF Under-13 Champions League held in Costa Rica.

In July 2022, Pioneros de Cancún became the reserve and affiliate team of Cancún F.C., due to the Cancún City Council decided to hand over the administration of the club to the company that owns Cancún F.C. Since 2024, Pioneros became an independent club again, after the agreement between the Cancún City Council and Cancún F.C. ended.

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Squad

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#MidfieldersAgeAppsGoals
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Upcoming fixtures

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Reboceros de La Piedad
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Latest results

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Tritones Vallarta
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3
2
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Zacatepec
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0
FT23:00
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Chiapas
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0
FT01:00
Deportiva Venados
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1
4
FT23:30
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Montaneses
2
1
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Chapulineros
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1
3
FT00:30
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Tapachula
5
1
FT04:05
Inter Playa Del Carmen
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4