Estadio Centenario (Cuernavaca)
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 58 '13.7 " N , 99 ° 14' 47.6" W |
| opening | 17th April 1969 |
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Estadio Centenario is an athletics and soccer stadium in Cuernavaca , Mexico . It serves as the home ground of the Pumas Morelos football club and can accommodate 15,237 visitors.
location
The stadium is located on the premises of the Unidad Deportiva Centenario , which also houses playing fields for various other sports. The facility is located on Avenida Universidad in the colonia Lienzo Charro in the north of the capital of the state of Morelos .
Surname
The new stadium, inaugurated on April 17, 1969, was named Centenario ( Spanish for century ) because it was opened on April 17, 1969 for the centenary of the state of Morelos, which was founded in 1869.
history
In the early 1950s there was an open space on the site of today's Estadio Centenario, which was converted into a small stadium in 1953 after the move of the traditional CD Marte club from Mexico City to Cuernavaca for the 1953/54 season had been agreed. This venue initially operated under the name Estadio de Buena Vista and had a capacity for around 8,000 spectators. The opening took place with a meeting between the local CD Marte and the CD Tampico .
The Estadio de Buena Vista experienced all the ups and downs of football right from the start. At the end of its first season in 1953/54, the CD Marte celebrated winning the Mexican soccer championship and relegated to the second division a year later. Since then, neither the old Estadio de Buena Vista nor the stadium, which was converted into today's Estadio Centenario at the end of the 1960s, has ever been the venue for a match in the top Mexican division .
societies
While the stadium only served as the home ground of a first division club for two years, it has been used by various second division clubs over the decades . First, the Club Marte completed two seasons (1955/56 and 1956/57) in the old Segunda División after his relegation , before retiring from professional football. 35 years later, the club dared a comeback and played again between 1992 and 1994 as Marte FC in the Segunda División and between 1994 and 1998 under the name Marte Morelos and 2000/01 as Potros Marte in the now second-rate Primera División 'A' , before he moved to Acapulco and was soon disbanded.
Other clubs that used the stadium while they belonged to the second division were CF Cuernavaca (1971–1973), Club Morelos (1976–1979) and Atlético Cuernavaca (1991–1994). In the Clausura 2004 it served the CD Zacatepec as home ground. Since the 2006/07 season, the stadium has been used by the Pumas Morelos , a branch team of the capital city club Pumas UNAM .
Web links
- The Estadio Centenario on the official website of the UNAM Pumas (Spanish; accessed May 24, 2013)
- The Unidad Deportiva Centenario on the official website of the State of Morelos (Spanish; accessed May 24, 2013)
- The Estadio Centenario at Morelos Travel (Spanish; accessed on May 24, 2013)