Deportivo Tepic F.C.

Coras de Nayarit
Full name Club Coras de Nayarit Fútbol Club
Nickname(s) Los Coras (The Coras)
El Tornado del País (The Tornado of the Country)
Founded 19 July 1959 (1959-07-19)
Ground Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega
Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Capacity 12,271
Owner State of Nayarit
Chairman Jorge Aníbal Montenegro Ibarra
Manager Manuel Naya Barba
League Liga Premier - Serie A
2018–19 Current

Club Coras de Nayarit Fútbol Club commonly known as Coras 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 was based in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico.

History

The club was founded on July 19, 1959[1] 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[2] 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, Zacatepec. Coras will cease to exist unless someone buys the rights to revive the club.

Stadium

Coras Fútbol Club play their home matches at the Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega in Tepic, Nayarit. The stadium capacity is 12,271 people. Its owned by State de Tepic, and its surface is covered by natural grass. The stadium was opened in 2011.

Players

Current squad

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

No. Position Player
1 Mexico GK Bernardo Gradilla
2 United States DF Juan Monticelli (on loan from Tijuana)
3 Mexico DF Luis Trujillo (on loan from Tijuana)
4 Mexico DF Luis Adalberto García
5 Mexico DF Manuel Marroquín (on loan from Atlante)
6 Colombia MF Venji Castrillón
7 United States FW Ricardo Zacarías (on loan from América)
9 Mexico FW Juan Carlos Martínez
10 Argentina FW Lucas Pugh
11 Mexico MF Jorge Meléndez
12 Mexico GK Edwin Estrada
13 Mexico FW Orlando García (on loan from UAT)
No. Position Player
14 Mexico DF Carlos Martínez
15 Mexico MF Luis Martínez
16 Mexico MF Christopher Salazar (on loan from Celaya)
17 Mexico MF Marco Beltrán
18 Mexico MF Daniel Franco
19 Mexico FW Héctor García
20 Mexico DF Juan Carlos Bernal
21 Mexico GK Alfonso Gallegos
22 Mexico MF Jordi Morán
23 Mexico FW David Martínez (on loan from UNAM)
25 Mexico FW Jorge Aguirre

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. ↑ "Clubs History" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-08-03.
  2. ↑ Clubs New Home Stadium Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine.
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