Estadio Olímpico de Tapachula
| Estadio Olímpico de Tapachula | |
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| The Estadio Olímpico in Tapachula | |
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 Tapachula , Chiapas , Mexico
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 52 '8.1 " N , 92 ° 17' 32.4" W |
| owner | State of Chiapas |
| opening | 1989 |
| First game | February 5, 1989 Club America - Aurora FC 2: 0 |
| Renovations | 2015 |
| Extensions | 2017 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 22,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The Estadio Olímpico de Tapachula is a football stadium in Tapachula , the economically most important city in the Mexican state of Chiapas .
history
The stadium opened on February 5, 1989 when Club América from the Mexican capital played against Aurora FC from the Guatemalan capital (Tapachula is just 18 km from the Guatemalan border).
For the first time the stadium hosted the second Mexican football league after the Potros Zitácuaro were transferred to Tapachula in the winter of 2002/03 and renamed Club Tapachula . The team was relegated from the second division after six months, but with the Jaguares de Tapachula , who played in the Primera División 'A' in the 2003/04 season , the city and the stadium had an immediate successor in the second League. The Jaguares were relegated immediately, but returned to the second division for a year in the 2007/08 season. At the end of the season, however, they left the Estadio Olímpico de Tapachula and moved to Tuxtla Gutiérrez .
When a new franchise, the Cafetaleros de Tapachula , was launched in 2015 , which acquired the license from Altamira FC and started in the second-class Ascenso MX in the 2015/16 season , the government of the state of Chiapas, as the owner of the stadium, commissioned appropriate modernization measures .
However, the owners of the cafetaleros soon had higher goals and aimed for promotion to the top division . In an effort to achieve this, the stadium was rebuilt again in 2017 and the capacity increased to 22,000. In the same 2017/18 season , the young club actually managed to get promoted to the top division.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of main stadiums for soccer in Mexico at RSSSF (English)
- ↑ Inicia remodelación del estadio olímpico de Tapachula (Spanish; article from May 28, 2015)
- ↑ Cafetaleros estrena tribunas (Spanish; article from November 9, 2017)