Escorpiones F.C.

Escorpiones Zacatepec Fútbol Club was a football club that played in the Liga Premier de México – Serie A. It was based in Zacatepec, Mexico.

Escorpiones Zacatepec

Full name	Escorpiones Zacatepec F.C.
Founded	7 May 2021; 3 years ago (2021-05-07)
Dissolved	21 July 2024; 2 months ago (2024-07-21)
Ground	Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz Zacatepec, Morelos, Mexico
Capacity	24,313
Owner	Jorge Enrique Núñez
Chairman	Jorge Enrique Núñez[1]
Manager	Miguel Gutiérrez
League	Liga Premier – Serie A
2023–24	9th – Group II
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The team was founded on May 7, 2021, with the aim of recovering professional football in Cuernavaca,^[2] a city that had been left without sports representation after the dissolution of Halcones de Morelos in 2018. In the presentation of the club, the team named Héctor Anguiano as their manager with the aim of creating a team in which local players had an important presence within the squad.^[3][4]

The team was officially entered into soccer competitions on July 30, 2021, when its entry into the Liga Premier – Serie A was announced, the club was placed in Group 2 of this category.^[5] After entering the league, the team met its first players: Sebastián Madrid, Francisco Córdova and Enzo Díez.^[6]

On May 25, 2023, the team announced its relocation from Cuernavaca to Zacatepec to play at the Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz, with the aim of returning professional football to that city that had been left without a team since 2020.^[7] After the relocation of the team, it had a change in its graphic identity, for which it added the white and green colors, characteristic of the Zacatepec teams, eliminating the orange color that they had used between 2021 and 2023.^[8]

In July 2024 Escorpiones F.C. and the Promotora Deportiva Zacatepec, an independent organization that owned the rights to the name and logo of Club Deportivo Zacatepec, reached an agreement to return the team of Zacatepec to professional football, the team was refounded as Zacatepec F.C. and will play in the Liga Premier – Serie A starting in the 2024–25 season. Consequently, Escorpiones F.C. ceased to exist as such to leave its place to the new team.^[9]

Stadium

Main article: Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz

Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz is a football stadium named in honour of a local player named Agustín "Coruco" Díaz.^[10] It has a capacity of 24,313 seats^[11] and it was home to the team Cañeros de Zacatepec (Sugar cane growers) until 2020, when it was dissolved.

Between 2021 and 2023 the team played its home games at the Estadio Centenario de Cuernavaca.

References

1. "ESCORPIONES CON PRESENTACIÓN OFICIAL". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
2. Saldaña, Salvador (8 May 2021). "Nace Escorpiones FC de la Segunda División". La Unión de Morelos (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
3. Mixcoac, Roger (8 May 2021). "Llegan los escorpiones al estadio centenario". El Sol de Cuautla (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
4. "ESCORPIONES NO SERÁ DEBUT Y DESPEDIDA: ANGUIANO". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
5. "¡YA ESTÁN LOS GRUPOS!". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 31 July 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
6. "PACO CÓRDOVA Y ENZO DIEZ, LLEGAN A ESCORPIONES". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 4 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
7. "ESCORPIONES FC ANUNCIA PLANES". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
8. "¡ESCORPIONES A LA SELVA CAÑERA!". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 26 May 2023. Archived from the original on 27 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
9. "¿Regresan los Cañeros? Zacatepec anunció un nuevo cambio de nombre". Récord (in Spanish). 22 July 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
10. "¿Quién fue Agustín 'Coruco' Díaz?". AS México (in Mexican Spanish). 7 May 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
11. www.fussballtempel.net