Estadio Carlos Iturralde Rivero
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 Mérida (Mexico) , Yucatán
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| Coordinates | 20 ° 56 '45 " N , 89 ° 35' 37.3" W |
| opening | 1987 |
| capacity | 20,000 |
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The Estadio Carlos Iturralde Rivero is an athletics and football stadium in Mérida , the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán .
history
The stadium opened in 1987 and can accommodate around 20,000 visitors.
It is named after the soccer player Carlos Iturralde Rivero , who was the only native of the Yucateco who made it to the Mexican national soccer team .
The stadium serves as the home ground of the football club Mérida FC, founded in 2003, and was also used by its indirect predecessor club Atlético Yucatán , which existed between 1988 and 2003. Because both clubs played in the second division for long stretches , the stadium can look back on more than twenty years of second division tradition.
Three times - at ten-year intervals - the stadium hosted a qualifying match for the first division :
- At the end of the 1988/89 season Atlético Yucatán defeated Potros Neza 1-0 in the second division final second leg . Because the first game was lost with the same result, a third game had to be played, which took place at the Estadio Jalisco and was lost 3-0 by the Yucatecos.
- At the end of the 1998/99 season, the second division champions of winter 1988 (Atlético Yucatán) and summer 1999 ( Unión de Curtidores ) faced each other. Yucatán lost the first leg in their own place 0-2 and the second leg 1-5.
- Mérida FC as the second division champions of the Clausura 2009 (1-0 in the final first leg in front of their own audience against Tijuana and 0-0 in the second leg) failed in the promotion finals of the 2008/09 season against the champions of the Apertura 2008. After a 1: 2 at Estadio La Corregidora Mérida won the second leg against the Gallos Blancos Querétaro in front of their own audience 1-0, but had to admit defeat 4-5 in the subsequent penalty shootout.
References and comments
- ↑ Murió Don Carlos Iturralde, único yucateco que ha jugado en el Tri (Spanish; article from August 2, 2004)
- ↑ Atlético Yucatán played a total of 14 years in the second division (1988–2001 and 2002/03) and Mérida FC initially between 2003 and 2005 and again since 2008.