León Stadium

• Club León

• Summer Olympic Games 1968 ( Football)
• Football World Cup 1970
• Football World Cup 1986

The Estadio Nou Camp, according to some sources the official name Estadio León -supporting, is a football stadium in the city of León in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The stadium was a venue of the football tournament of the Olympic Summer Games in 1968, and both be registered in Mexico Football World Cup, where it was renamed in 1970 as Estadio Guanajuato and 1986 as Estadio Nou Camp. It is the home ground of Club León, one of the most traditional Mexican football clubs.

Construction and opening

With the construction of the stadium began on 18 August 1965. It was officially opened on March 1, 1967 with the play of two South American top teams Santos from Brazil and CA River Plate of Argentina.

1970 World Cup

Leon was a were played only five venues in the Football World Cup 1970 in which seven of 32 games. The Estadio Guanajuato was a venue for the preliminary round Group D, which won the German national team and also the quarter final match between Germany and England on June 14 that Germany still won with 3-2 after 0-2 residue after extra time.

In the preliminary round group here found the following matches take place:

• 2:06. Bulgaria - Peru 2:3
• 3:06. Germany - Morocco 2:1
• 6:06. Morocco - Peru 0:3
• 7:06. Bulgaria - Germany 2:5
• 10:06. Peru - Germany 1:3
• 11:06. Morocco - Bulgaria 1:1

With a total of 24 goals, the group was the highest-scoring first round Group D; before the Group C with 16 goals, in group A with 15 goals and group B with only 6 hits, which succeeded in Italy to be with the score of 1-0 goals and 4-2 points group winners.

The 5-2 victory of Germany against Bulgaria was the highest-scoring group match and the highest-scoring game ever of the World Cup, which was decided within 90 minutes.

Gerd Müller, scorer of the World Cup 70, scored eight of his ten matches at the Estadio Guanajuato: first, the important 2-1 victory against Morocco in the 80th minute, after three goals against Bulgaria and Peru ( in this game, he managed between the 19 and 39 minutes a hat-trick ) and finally paved the goal came in the 108th minute to 3-2 against England his team the way to the semifinals for the so-called game of the Century against Italy.

Except Müller also managed the Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas in all three games he graduated in Leon, each a hit.

1986 World Cup

Even with the Football World Cup 1986 Leon was venue. Despite the expansion of the participating teams to 24 teams and thus a total of 52 games, only four games found at the Estadio Nou Camp held this time because this World Cup was played in a total of 12 stages.

Leon the home ground of the selection of France in the preliminary round group C was (the other three group matches at the Estadio found Irapuato place ) and saw the following matches:

• 01.06. Canada - France 0:1
• 05.06. France - USSR 1:1
• 9:06. Hungary - France 0:3

How about 16 years before had trembled in their first game against Morocco with a late Müller- goal in the 80th minute in a 2-1 victory, the Germans, this time the highly favored team of France struggled in his first group match against minnows Canada to victory. The ultimate goal for 1-0 was Jean -Pierre Papin succeeded only in the 79th minute.

And as in 1970 took place the most exciting game of the first knock-out round here. In the second round match between the winner of Group C, the Soviet Union (which had thus banished the French from the Estadio Nou Camp ), and Belgium on June 15, succeeded the Belgians twice to compensate for the leadership of the Soviets, so that after 90 minutes 2-2 up and went into overtime. This decided the Belgians 4-3 in their favor.

Goalscorer at the Estadio Nou Camp was at this World Cup, despite the unexpected withdrawal of Soviet selection Igor Belanow, who scored all three goals in the 3:4 against Belgium. No other player was here more than one hit succeeded because the five goals of the French and the four gates of the Belgian distributed to as many players.

Mexican Championship

Twice the freestyle champion was held at the Estadio León, the decisive second final match for the Mexican soccer championship.

At the end of the 1991/92 season, the Club León secured the title to the delight of the local audience with a 2-0 win against Puebla FC, ​​having the first game in the Estadio Cuauhtémoc scoreless ended.

No reason for joy for the local fans there were, however, in winter 1997. According 1-1 at Estadio Azul Club León was defeated by Cruz Azul in front of their home crowd with a golden goal 0-1.

Sources and links

• Unofficial fan page with photos from the stadium
• Forums site with photos from the stadium