Coras F.C.

Coras

Full name	Coras Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Coras de Tepic (The Coras of Tepic) El Equipo del Pueblo (The People's Team) El Tornado del País (The Tornado of the Country)
Founded	19 July 1959
Ground	Estadio Arena Cora Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Capacity	12,271
Owner	José Luis Higuera
Manager	Hernán Cristante
League	Ascenso MX
Clausura 2015	8th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Coras Fútbol Club commonly known as Coras de Tepic is a football club that plays in the Mexican football league system Mexican Ascenso MX (second-tier). The club was founded in the late 1950s as Deportivo Tepic and currently is based in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico.

History

The club was founded on July 19, 1959^[1] by Francisco Mengibar Bueno and quickly joined the Segunda División de México. The club played mostly in the Mexican inferior division from 1960 to the 1980s. In 1986 the club was invited to play the Copa de Oro de Occidente with first and second division clubs based in the mid-western region of the country.

In 1994 the club was invited to play the first tournament in the newly created Primera A. The club struggled during its first year and was relegated back to the Segunda División de México after the 1995–96 tournament. In 2002 the club won the Apertura 2002 tournament in Segunda División de México.The club has been playing on and off ever since and recently built a new stadium^[2] in order to rejoin the Ascenso MX for the Apertura 2012 tournament. They also played the Austin Posse in 2004.

Players

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Luis Manuel García (on loan from Querétaro) 3 DF Fernando Fonseca 4 DF Sergio Quiróz (on loan from Sinaloa) (vice-captain) 5 DF Mario Orozco (on loan from Guadalajara) 7 FW César Romero 8 MF Jorge Kalú Gastélum (on loan from Querétaro) (captain) 9 FW Pablo Bastianini 10 FW Juan Neira 11 MF Jorge Echavarría (on loan from Querétaro) 12 MF Juan Carlos López (on loan from Querétaro) 13 DF Patricio Arana 14 DF Luis Solorio (on loan from Guadalajara)

No. Position Player 15 DF Abraham Coronado (on loan from Guadalajara) 16 DF Sergio Amaury Ponce (on loan from Atlas) 18 FW Daniel Ríos (on loan from Guadalajara) 21 MF Gabriel Velasco (on loan from Toluca) 22 FW Mateus Gonçalves 23 GK Víctor Hugo Hernández (on loan from Guadalajara) 24 MF Sergio Flores (on loan from Guadalajara) 25 FW Roberto Ramírez (on loan from UNAM) 26 DF Carlos Esparza (on loan from Guadalajara) 28 MF Alan Jaramillo (on loan from Guadalajara) 30 MF Víctor Guajardo (on loan from Morelia) 31 GK Alejandro Arana (on loan from Querétaro)

Reserve teams

Coras B

Reserve team that plays in the Segunda División in the third level of the Mexican league system.

Season to season

Season Division Notes 1959–60 2nd Division 1960–61 2nd Division 1961–62 2nd Division 1964–65 2nd Division 1965–66 2nd Division 1966–67 2nd Division 1967–68 2nd Division 1968–69 2nd Division 1969–70 2nd Division 1970–71 2nd Division 1971–72 2nd Division 1971–72 2nd Division 1973–74 2nd Division 1974–75 2nd Division 1975–76 2nd Division 1976–77 2nd Division 1977–78 2nd Division 1978–79 2nd Division 1979–80 2nd Division

Season Division Place 1980–81 2nd Division 1981–82 2nd Division 1982–83 2nd Division 1983–84 2nd Division 1984–85 2nd Division 1985–86 2nd Division 1986–87 2nd Division 1987–88 2nd Division 1988–89 2nd Division 1989–90 2nd Division 1991–92 2nd Division 1992–93 2nd Division 1993–94 2nd Division 1994–95 Primera A 1995–96 Primera A Invierno 96 2nd Division Verano97 2nd Division Invierno 97 2nd Division Verano 98 2nd Division

Season Division Place Invierno 98 2nd Division Verano 99 2nd Division Invierno 99 2nd Division Verano 00 2nd Division Invierno 00 2nd Division Verano 01 2nd Division Invierno 01 2nd Division Verano 02 2nd Division Invierno 02 2nd Division Verano 03 2nd Division Clausura 03 2nd Division Apertura 04 2nd Division Clausura 04 2nd Division Apertura 05 2nd Division Clausura 2005 2nd Division Apertura 2006 3d Division Clausura 2006 3d Division Apertura 2007 3d Division Clausura 2007 3d Division

Season Division Place Apertura 2008 3d Division Clausura 2008 3d Division Apertura 2009 3d Division Clausura 2009 3d Division Apertura 2011 2nd Division Clausura 2012 2nd Division Apertura 2012 2nd Division Clausura 2013 2nd Division Apertura 2013 2nd Division 5th (Quarterfinal) Clausura 2014 2nd Division 2nd (Quarterfinal) Apertura 2014 Ascenso MX 1st ("Runner-Up") Clausura 2015 Ascenso MX

• Has Played 58 2nd Division Tournaments last in April 2014.
• Has Played 8 3rd Division Tournaments last in 2009.
• Has Played 4 Ascenso MX Tournaments last in Clausura 2015 (January to May).
• Has Played 0 Mexican Primera División Tournaments last in 2002.
• After the 1971–72 tournament the club played under the name Club Universidad de Nayarit till the 1975–76 .
• After the Clausura 2006 the club was sold to Chivas and was renamed Chivas Coras but a Deportivo Tepic club played in the Third Division.
• The club left the third division in 2009 and made a return in the Apertura 2011 in the second division.

Honours

• Segunda División de México (1) Apertura 2002
• Runner up(1)(1982–83)
• Tercera División de México(1)Apertura 2003
• Copa Mexico de Segunda División
• Runner up(1)1961–62

See also

• Segunda División de México
• Primera A
• Nayarit
• Football in Mexico

Footnotes

1. "Clubs History" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-08-03.
2. Clubs New Home Stadium

External links

• Official site of Deportivo Tepic