Dorados

The trophy that sits highest in the cabinet came from a season spent in Mexico's top flight: the Copa MX , won in the Apertura 2012 tournament.

Everything else has been about climbing. The pattern repeated: second-division championships in Clausura 2007, Clausura 2015 and Apertura 2016, and promotion play-offs won in 2004 and 2015. A club that keeps winning the division below is also a club that keeps returning to it.

The best-known chapter had no trophy in it. Diego Maradona took charge in 2018 and led the team to two finals across 2018 and 2019. Both were lost. The spell drew attention to Culiacán that the results never justified, and it ended with the club still in the second tier.

In September 2024 Dorados left Sinaloa altogether, moving to Tijuana in Baja California over security concerns in the state.

Since the Liga de Expansión MX replaced Ascenso MX in 2020, the competition has come with a suspension of automatic promotion, and Dorados have won nothing in it. The reserve side took the Torneo de Filiales de la Liga TDP in 2020–21.