Deportivo Tepic
| Deportivo Tepic | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Coras FC Deportivo Tepic | ||
| Seat | Tepic , Mexico | ||
| founding | July 19, 1959 | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Joel Sánchez Ramos | ||
| Venue | Arena Cora | ||
| Places | 12,945 | ||
| league | Ascenso MX | ||
| 2014/15 | New | ||
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Deportivo Tepic , also known by its nickname Coras (after an ethnic group living in the east of the state of Nayarit ), is a Mexican football club from Tepic , the capital of the state of Nayarit.
history
The club was founded in 1959 to get a starting place in the Segunda División , which at that time was still the second highest division in Mexican club football . Jesús "Chita" Aldrete, who originally emerged from the offspring of the CD Imperio and won the Mexican championship in 1951 with Atlas de Guadalajara , acted as coach in the first season 1959/60 .
Deportivo Tepic soon proved to be a fixture in the second Mexican soccer league, in which the team was represented in 13 consecutive seasons up to and including the 1971/72 season. Presumably due to financial problems, the team played from the 1972/73 season under the name of the Universidad de Nayarit in the second division.
After the then Colonel and later General Rogello Flores Curiel, who was elected governor of the state of Nayarit in 1975 , had floodlight masts erected for the Estadio Municipal at the beginning of his tenure and the semi-state company won Tabamex as a sponsor for the team, the team joined the team from the 1976/77 season Designation Coras de Deportivo Tepic in appearance, whereby Deportivo Tepic was practically reactivated. Five years later she knocked on the gate to the first division when she reached the finals for promotion, but failed against CF Oaxtepec . Until the introduction of the Primera División 'A' from the 1994/95 season, the Segunda División was also a second division in purely mathematical terms and Tepic remained in it until then, making the Coras one of the most consistent forces in the second division at that time.
Because the Coras were relegated to the Tercera División at the end of the 1993/94 season , but quickly recognized the opportunities that arose from the introduction of the Primera División 'A', the new second division soon turned out to be a supposed stroke of luck for the club. Because their patron Ernesto Jiménez Haro acquired the license to participate in this league and invested in new players. So began the third phase of the association. But the expenses for the 1994/95 season were much higher than the income, so that the club was soon forced to part with the expensive players. With a correspondingly streamlined team composed only of amateur players from the region, however, one could no longer keep up in the league and rose to the third-class Segunda División at the end of the 1995/96 season. The club's second division adventure ended forever.
A last attempt to get the association back on its feet and to lead it to higher regions was started in 1999 by the president of Grupo Empresarial Alica . The cash injections soon seemed to pay off, as the Coras won the Torneo Apertura in 2002 and finally made the alleged return to the Primera División 'A'. But a rule change decided at short notice by the Mexican Football Association forced them at the end of the 2002/03 season to an additional relegation round against Club Tapachula , who would have been relegated from the second division as the bottom of the table. After a 3-2 win in the first leg and an intermittent 1-0 lead in the second leg, the Coras lost 4-1 in Tapachula and remained third-rate. Then the Grupo Empresarial Alica transferred the property rights to the association back to the state.
At the end of the 2004/05 season, the club withdrew to the fourth-rate Tercera División due to financial problems and a lack of support from spectators and politics. For the second division season 2014/15 , a new attempt began to return the club to professional football .
Sources and web links
- Algo de historia "Cora" futbolera (Spanish; article from December 23, 2009)
- Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano. Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City 1961, p. 676.
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Rival: Coras FC (Spanish; article from August 11, 2014 on the official website of Deportivo Guadalajara )
- ^ Mexico - List of Final Tables Second Division (1950–1995) at RSSSF
- ^ The Mexican season 2002/03 on RSSSF