Mazorqueros F.C.
| Full name | Mazorqueros Fútbol Club Zapotlán | ||
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| Nickname | Mazorqueros (The Corncobers) | ||
| Founded | 1985 19 May 2016 (refounded) | ||
| Dissolved | 20 July 2023 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Municipal Santa Rosa Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco | ||
| Capacity | 4,000 | ||
| Owner | GLS Promotoría del Deporte | ||
| Chairman | Arturo Lomelí | ||
| League | Liga Premier (Serie B) | ||
| Clausura 2023 | Regular phase: 7th Final phase: Repechage | ||
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Mazorqueros Fútbol Club Zapotlán, simplified as Mazorqueros FC, was a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco. It competed in Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football, and played its home matches at the Estadio Municipal Santa Rosa. The club was dissolved in 2023.
History
In 1985 a club named Mazorqueros was founded in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, the team participated in the Tercera División de México until disappearing in the mid-1990s. In 1990, this team played a promotion playoff to the Segunda División 'B' de México.[1]
On May 19, 2016 the team was refounded. The squad was created to seek promotion to a higher category in addition to developing football among the local population.[2]
On July 17, 2020 Mazorqueros was promoted to Segunda División de México due to an expansion of participating teams in the league.[3] However, the club maintained the Liga TDP team as a second squad.
The team won its first official title on May 8, 2022, when it won the Torneo Clausura 2022 after defeating Cafetaleros de Chiapas.[4] After the tournament ended, most of the squad and technical staff of this team was used to form the Atlético La Paz from Liga de Expansión MX, a team that shares ownership with Mazorqueros F.C.[5] During that season the club reserves team was champion of the Tercera División de México, so Mazorqueros it got a second franchise to participate in the Segunda División de México.[6]
After the founding of the new team at La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mazorqueros became the reserve team of Atlético La Paz after Tampico Madero was transferred to the city, and was relocated to the Serie B because it became a development team, due to this fact, Mazorqueros eliminated its own reserve team, leaving only one squad with the champion players of the Liga TDP and using only one Liga Premier license.
On July 20, 2023, the club announced its dissolution in a statement published on its social networks. The team argued that it was very difficult to continue with the project due to the fact that the city council refused to cede the stadium to the club, making it impossible to carry out improvement works in the venue, which were required by the league, for which reason the board of directors decided to dissolve the team due to the lack of guarantees for its continuity in the city.[7]
Later it was learned that the Mazorqueros franchise was bought by Santiago F.C., a team from Santiago, Nuevo León, so the team changed its name and was moved to Santiago, Nuevo León, eliminating any possibility of the return of the Mazorqueros franchise in the future.[8]
Honours
National
Promotion divisions
- Liga Premier
- Champions (1): Clausura 2022
- Campeón de Campeones de la Liga Premier
- Runners-up (1): 2022
Reserves
Mazorqueros "B"
The team participated in the Liga TDP, finishing as champions in the 2021–2022 season.
See also
References
- ^ "Regresa el fútbol profesional a Zapotlán el Grande de tercera división". Gobierno Municipal de Zapotlán El Grande (in Spanish). 19 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Regresa el Club Mazorqueros de la Tercera División Profesional". Periódico El Sur (in Spanish). 19 May 2016. Archived from the original on May 21, 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "BIENVENIDOS COLIMA Y MAZORQUEROS". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ "¡MAZORQUEROS FC, CAMPEÓN!". Liga Premier Magazine (in Spanish). 9 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Castellanos, Sergio (21 April 2022). "Club Atlético La Paz confirma su llegada a la Liga de Expansión MX". Soy Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "¡Mazorqueros FC, Campeón de Campeones 2021-2022!". Liga TDP (in Spanish). 3 June 2022. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Club Mazorqueros Desaparece Ante la Negativa de Concesión del Estadio Santa Rosa". La Voz del Sur de Jalisco (in Spanish). 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ "Club de Fútbol Santiago – Liga Premier". Liga Premier FMF (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.