Escorpiones Zacatepec Fútbol Club was a football club that played in the

Liga Premier de México Liga Premier is a professional association football league in Mexico and the third level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Segunda División de México (1950–2017). It has 52 participating clubs, divided into two division ...

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. It was based in

Zacatepec Zacatepec Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club based in Zacatepec, Morelos, that competes in Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football. Founded in 1948 as Club Social y Deportivo Zacatepec by workers of the Me ...

, Mexico.

History

The team was founded on May 7, 2021, with the aim of recovering professional football in Cuernavaca, a city that had been left without sports representation after the dissolution of

Halcones de Morelos The Halcones de Morelos Fútbol Club, commonly known as Halcones, was a Mexican football club based in Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; , "near the woods" , Otomi language, Otomi: ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state, state of M ...

in 2018. In the presentation of the club, the team named Héctor Anguiano as their manager with the aim of creating a team in which local players had an important presence within the squad. The team was officially entered into soccer competitions on July 30, 2021, when its entry into the Liga Premier –

was announced, the club was placed in Group 2 of this category. After entering the league, the team met its first players: Sebastián Madrid, Francisco Córdova and Enzo Díez. On May 25, 2023, the team announced its relocation from Cuernavaca to Zacatepec to play at the

Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz is a football stadium in Zacatepec de Hidalgo, Mexico, named in honour of the local player Agustín "Coruco" Díaz. It has a capacity of 16,000 seats and it was home to the team Cañeros de Zacatepec (Sugar cane ...

, with the aim of returning professional football to that city that had been left without a team since 2020. After the relocation of the team, it had a change in its graphic identity, for which it added the white and green colors, characteristic of the Zacatepec teams, eliminating the orange color that they had used between 2021 and 2023. In July 2024 Escorpiones F.C. and the Promotora Deportiva Zacatepec, an independent organization that owned the rights to the name and logo of Club Deportivo Zacatepec, reached an agreement to return the team of Zacatepec to professional football, the team was refounded as

Zacatepec F.C. Zacatepec Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Zacatepec de Hidalgo, Zacatepec, Morelos, that competes in Liga Premier de México, Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football league s ...

and plays in the Liga Premier – Serie A since the 2024–25 season. Consequently, Escorpiones F.C. ceased to exist as such to leave its place to the new team.

Stadium

Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz is a

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/ref> and it was home to the team Cañeros de Zacatepec (Sugar cane growers) until 2020, when it was dissolved. Between 2021 and 2023 the team played its home games at the Estadio Centenario de Cuernavaca.

References

Football clubs in Morelos Association football clubs established in 2021 2021 establishments in Mexico Liga Premier de México Cuernavaca {{Mexico-footyclub-stub