Estadio Chevron
| Estadio Chevron | |
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| Cerro Colorado | |
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| The stadium in 2015 | |
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Estadio de los Potros |
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| place | Río Éufrates s / n, Misión Santo Tomas 22223 Tijuana , Baja California , Mexico
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 28 '59.5 " N , 116 ° 55' 2.9" W |
| start of building | May 5th 1977 |
| opening | October 12, 1977 |
| First game | October 12, 1977 Potros de Tijuana - Águilas de Mexicali |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 17,000 seats |
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The Estadio Chevron is a baseball stadium in the Mexican city of Tijuana , state of Baja California , which was also used as a football stadium at times . Because of its proximity to the hill of the same name, it is also known as the Estadio del Cerro Colorado .
history
Construction work began on May 5, 1977, and the first phase of construction was completed just a few months later, so that the official stadium opening took place on October 12 of that year in front of around 12,000 spectators. This took place with the baseball game between the host team of the Potros de Tijuana and the guests of the Águilas de Mexicali . Because of the original use of the Potros, the Estadio Cerro Colorado was initially also known as the Estadio de los Potros . After the Potros had to withdraw their team in 1991, the stadium was increasingly used as a venue for football matches. However, the occasional use as a football stadium began in the late 1980s and on 11 June 1989, the stadium was even the first time the venue of a game the first Mexican soccer league as the club Santos Laguna his last home game of the 1988/89 season against the Puebla FC denied.
Over the entire 1990s until the end of 2003, the stadium served as the home ground for various teams from Tijuana that played in the second Mexican soccer league in those years : from 1989 to 1997, the footballers from Inter de Tijuana played their home games there and from 1997 until 2003 the team of Nacional Tijuana , which took up until 1999 under the name Chivas Tijuana and acted as the farm team of the first division club Chivas Guadalajara . Based on the club's name, the stadium was named Estadio Nacional at that time . As a football stadium, it was last used at the end of 2003 for a half-season as the home ground of the Trotamundos Tijuana . When a return as a ballpark appeared in 2004, the Trotamundos moved to Salamanca .
Since 2004 the stadium has been used again as a regular venue for baseball games. Soon afterwards, the company Calimax became the name sponsor and consequently the stadium then operated under the name Estadio Calimax until the company did not renew the contract in 2008 and the stadium reappeared as Estadio Cerro Colorado . In 2013, the petroleum company Gasmart took over the stadium, gave it its name and increased the capacity to 17,000 visitors.
In February 2019, the energy company Chevron Corporation acquired the naming rights to what is now Estadio Chevron .
Web links
- Tijuana en el Tiempo: Estadio del Cerro Colorado (Spanish; accessed April 14, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mexican season 1988/89 at RSSSF (English; accessed April 14, 2020)
- ↑ Mudanza en Tijuana, pero solo de nombre del corral de los Toros: Estadio Chevron (Spanish; article from February 22, 2019)