Awaited Return

In 2001 the same oil company that had owned the club in the 1980s started up several professional clubs, the first a basketball club in 2001 which played under the name of Petroleros de Salamanca. In 2004 the football club finally made its return, quickly joining the Primera A. In 2006 the club reached its first final in the Primera A only to lose it to Puebla FC in a Penalty shoot out. The club would go on to play six more tournaments before the club was sold and relocated in La Piedad, Michoacán, where it became C.F. La Piedad.

Failed Return to Liga Premier

In 2013 the team returned as Salamanca F.C., after spending several years in the Third Division of Mexico without winning promotion, on July 3, 2019 the team attempted to participate in the Liga Premier de México (Second Division) – Serie B, this after reaching an agreement with the Real Potosino's management, after the agreement, the team from San Luis Potosí had to move to Salamanca and be rebranded as Salamanca F.C.^[4] Finally on July 18, 2019 the Mexican Football Federation did not grant the guarantee for this change and Salamanca remained at Liga TDP, while Real Potosino stopped participating in Mexican football.

In 2020 due to financial problems, the club's board of directors rented its franchise to the Promotora Barajas Soccer, a soccer development center based in Tamazula de Gordiano, Jalisco. In 2021 the rental agreement was not renewed and the team officially ceased to participate.

In 2022 the team returned to participate in the professional leagues, being renamed C.F. Salamanca and based on the franchise Jaral del Progreso F.C.^[5] This team was dissolved at the end of the 2022–23 season due to the impossibility of competing with the new project that has arrived in the city.

Return to Liga Premier

On January 27, 2023 Catedráticos Elite F.C. was relocated from Ameca, Jalisco to Salamanca, Guanajuato.^[6] The relocation of the club occurred after a merger with Petroleros de Salamanca, because the local oil sector was interested in having a professional team in the city, for this reason the team was unofficially called Catedráticos Petroleros.^[7] Finally, on June 30, 2023, the team officially recovered the name Petroleros de Salamanca, however, due to administrative issues the team was officially renamed as Petroleros de Salamanca Catedráticos F.C.^[8]

First-team squad

As of 11 August 2023^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MEX Carlos Pineda 2 DF  MEX Alejandro Garibay 3 DF  MEX Diego Gutiérrez 5 DF  MEX Jared Salas 6 MF  MEX Carlos Vázquez 7 FW  MEX Diego Núñez 8 MF  MEX Andrés Garza 9 FW  MEX Daniel López 10 DF  MEX Iván Alvarado 11 FW  MEX Juan Antonio Rodríguez 12 GK  MEX Azael Mata 13 DF  MEX Alexi Topete 14 FW  MEX Salvador Hernández 15 MF  MEX Zinedine Saavedra 16 MF  MEX Sergio Medel 17 MF  USA Kevin González 18 DF  MEX Brayan Navarro 19 MF  MEX Jaime Castro

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  MEX Pablo González 21 FW  MEX Jaime Morales 22 DF  COL Keiner Córdoba 23 GK  MEX Axel Quiroz 24 MF  MEX Felipe García 25 FW  MEX Herminio Arellano 26 MF  MEX Efrén Mendoza 27 MF  MEX José de Jesús Magaña 28 DF  MEX Charbel García 29 FW  MEX Dallan Guevara 30 MF  MEX Alejandro Granados 31 DF  MEX Christian Soria 32 DF  MEX Diego Ornelas 37 MF  MEX Ángel Gómez 40 FW  MEX David García 43 DF  URU Franco González 44 DF  MEX Antonio Solorio 50 MF  MEX Kevin Rodríguez

Reserve teams

Catedráticos Elite

Reserve team that plays in the Liga TDP, the fourth level of the Mexican league system.

Professional

• Primera División A: (0)

Runner-up (1): Apertura 2006

• Segunda División: (1)

Champion : 1951-1952

• Segunda División "B": (2)

Champion : 1984-1985, 1993-1994