Estadio Centenario (Cuernavaca)
Estadio Centenario is an athletics and football stadium in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It serves the football club Pumas Morelos as a home ground and can accommodate 15,237 visitors.
Location
The stadium is located on the grounds of the Unidad Deportiva Centenario, which also hosts a variety of playing fields for other sports. The facility is located on Avenida Universidad in the colonia Lienzo Charro north of the capital of the state of Morelos.
Name
Inaugurated on April 17, 1969 new stadium was named Centenario (Spanish for centuries), because its opening was made on 17 April 1969 centenary of the State of Morelos, which was founded in 1869.
History
In the early 1950s, was located on the site of today's Estadio Centenario an open space, which was prepared in 1953 to a small stadium after the parade of the traditional club CD Marte from Mexico City to Cuernavaca was agreed for the 1953/54 season. This venue was renamed initially under the name Estadio de Buena Vista and had a capacity for 8,000 spectators. The opening took place at a meeting between the domestic CD Marte and the CD Tampico.
The Estadio de Buenavista experienced at the beginning of its existence, the highs and lows of football. At the end of his first season, 1953/54, the CD Marte celebrated winning the Mexican soccer championship to descend a year later in the second division. Since venue was neither the old Estadio de Buenavista yet the end of the 1960s to today's Estadio Centenario stadium ever converted back to a meeting in the highest Mexican league.
Clubs
While the stadium only for two years served as the home stadium of a division club, it has been used over the decades by various second division. First, the club Marte graduated after his relegation two seasons ( 1955/56 and 1956 /57) in the Segunda División old, before retiring from professional football. 35 years later, the club ventured a comeback and played between 1992 and 1994 as Marte FC again in the Segunda División, as well as between 1994 and 1998 under the name Marte Morelos and 2000/ 01 as Potros Marte in the now second-class La Liga 'A', before he clipped to Acapulco and was soon dissolved it.
Other clubs who used the stadium during their membership of the second division, were the CF Cuernavaca (1971-1973), the club Morelos (1976-1979) and Atlético Cuernavaca ( 1991-1994). In the Clausura 2004, it served the CD Zacatepec as a home ground. Since the 2006/07 season, the stadium is used by the Pumas Morelos, a branch team of capital club Pumas UNAM.