Coras FC

Coras F.C.
Full nameCoras Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)Los Coras (The Coras)
El Tornado del País (The Tornado of the Country)
Founded19 July 1959; 65 years ago (1959-07-19)
GroundEstadio Sección 123
Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico[1]
Capacity6,000
OwnerNoé Quintanilla
ChairmanNoé Quintanilla[1]
ManagerElias Mdahuar
LeagueLiga Premier - Serie A
2023–2417th, Group I

Coras Fútbol Club commonly known as Coras de Tepic is a football club that plays in the Mexican football league system Mexican Liga Premier (third-tier). The club was founded in the late 1950s as Deportivo Tepic and is based in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico.

History

The club was founded on July 19, 1959[2] by Francisco Mengibar Bueno and quickly joined the Segunda División de México. The club played mostly in the Mexican inferior division from 1960 to the 1980s. In 1986 the club was invited to play the Copa de Oro de Occidente with first and second division clubs based in the mid-western region of the country.

In 1994 the club was invited to play the first tournament in the newly created Primera A. The club struggled during its first year and was relegated back to the Segunda División de México after the 1995–96 tournament. In 2002 the club won the Apertura 2002 tournament in Segunda División de México. The club has been playing on and off ever since and recently built a new stadium[3] in order to rejoin the Ascenso MX for the Apertura 2012 tournament. They also played the Austin Posse in 2004.

In June 2017, owner Jose Luis Higuera confirmed the club would no longer exist after he bought a new club, Club Atlético Zacatepec. Coras disappeared for a month.

In July 2017, the Cuervos de Ensenada club management announced its move to Tepic, where it was renamed as Deportivo Tepic JAP.[4] However, this new team was highlighted by poor economic and administrative management that led to its disappearance in May 2018.[5]

Before the start of the 2018-19 season, it was announced the founding of a new team called Coras de Nayarit F.C., the new club arose from the purchase of the Acatlán F.C. license, team that was champion of the Third Division in 2017-18 season,[6] which could not promote by not meeting the requirements of Serie A. Coras de Nayarit was a team made up of local businessmen and the state government.[7] In June 2020 this team was put on hiatus due to financial problems derived from COVID-19, so it did not participate in the 2020-21 season.[8]

In July 2021 the team was resumed to continue participating in Serie A, however, due to changes in the administration the club was renamed as Coras F.C.[9] In addition, the club created a reserve team to play in the Liga TDP.

On June 28, 2023 the Liga Premier team was relocated to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, however they provisionally kept the original name.[10] While the Liga TDP team remained in Tepic. The directive argued the lack of conditions to play in Tepic due to the poor condition of the Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega and the problems to use the Estadio Olímpico Santa Teresita.[11]

Stadium

Main articles: Estadio Olímpico Santa Teresita and Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega

Since 2023 Coras F.C. plays its home games at Estadio Sección 123, located in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The venue has a capacity to accommodate 6,000 people.[12]

Between 2021 and 2023 Coras Fútbol Club played their home matches at the Estadio Olímpico Santa Teresita in Tepic, Nayarit. The stadium capacity is 4,000 people. It is owned by the state of Nayarit, and its surface is covered by natural grass. The stadium was opened in 2014.

Alternatively, the team also played some matches in the Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega in Tepic, Nayarit. The stadium capacity is 12,271 people. It is also owned by Nayarit, and its surface is covered by natural grass. The stadium was opened in 2011. It was the club's main stadium until 2020, however, in 2021 it was decided to stop using this field because it is far from the urban area of Tepic.

Players

Current squad

As of 13 January 2024[13]

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 Mexico MEX César Córdova
2 DF Mexico MEX Omar Lomelí
3 DF Mexico MEX Brayan González
4 DF Mexico MEX Juan Zárate
5 DF Mexico MEX Darío Silva
6 MF Mexico MEX Jesús Ávila
7 FW Mexico MEX Edgar Ruiz
8 MF Mexico MEX Juan Ramírez
9 MF Mexico MEX Jesús Anaya
10 MF Mexico MEX Jorge Peña
11 FW Argentina ARG Ayrton Sisa
12 FW Colombia COL Brayan Daza
13 MF Mexico MEX Bryan Acosta
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF Mexico MEX Jaime Carrillo
17 FW Mexico MEX José Julián García
18 MF Mexico MEX Leonídas López
19 FW Mexico MEX Jair Pérez
20 FW Mexico MEX Elioth Mata
21 GK Mexico MEX Diego Casas
22 DF Mexico MEX Cristopher Ramos
23 GK Mexico MEX Jalil Rentería
24 MF Mexico MEX Diego Vázquez
25 DF Mexico MEX Elko Betancourt
26 MF Mexico MEX Rogelio Alemán (on loan from UdeG)
27 MF Mexico MEX Ignacio Muñoz (on loan from UdeG)

Reserve teams

Coras F.C. (Liga TDP)
Reserve team that plays in the Liga TDP, the fourth level of the Mexican league system.

Managers

Season to season

  • Has Played 60 2nd Division Tournaments last in April 2018.
  • Has Played 8 3rd Division Tournaments last in 2009.
  • Has Played 8 Ascenso MX Tournaments last in Clausura 2017.
  • Has Played 0 Mexican Primera División Tournaments in history.
  • After the 1971–72 tournament the club played under the name Club Universidad de Nayarit till the 1975–76 .
  • After the Clausura 2006 the club was sold to Chivas and was renamed Chivas Coras but a Deportivo Tepic club played in the Third Division.
  • The club left the third division in 2009 and made a return in the Apertura 2011 in the second division.

Honours

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Presentan a Coras F.C. en Piedras Negras". Radio Zócalo (in Spanish). 28 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Clubs History" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-28.
  3. ^ Clubs New Home Stadium Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ García, Gabriel (7 July 2017). "Se van Cuervos a Nayarit" (in Spanish). El Vigía. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Por esta razón Deportivo Tepic podría ser desafiliado de la Segunda División". Bolavip (in Spanish). 22 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  6. ^ Rodríguez Castro, Javier (14 August 2018). "Por enésima vez, unos nuevos Coras" (in Spanish). Sentido Común. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  7. ^ Polanco, Eduardo (25 August 2018). "Se viene el debut de los Coras" (in Spanish). VAVEL. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  8. ^ "CORAS NO JUGARÍAN EL PRÓXIMO TORNEO". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 19 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  9. ^ Alegre, Carlos (15 July 2021). "Presentan oficialmente a los Coras F.C." Meridiano.mx (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  10. ^ "El equipo Coras F.C. ha sido presentado en la ciudad de Piedras Negras con gran entusiasmo y expectativa". K911 Noticias (in Spanish). 28 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  11. ^ "COMUNICADO OFICIAL". Coras F.C. (in Spanish). 28 June 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  12. ^ "Conoce el pequeño estadio de Piedras Negras, Coahuila". Estadios de México (in Spanish). 8 March 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Coras F.C." ligapremier-fmf.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2021.