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The Estadio Tecnológico was a
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located in
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, Nuevo León, Mexico, located on the campus of the
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...
(ITESM). It hosted
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and
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games during its 67-year existence, from 1950 to 2017. Starting 2017, the stadium was demolished. The venue was replaced by the
Estadio Borregos Estadio Borregos, also referred to as Estadio Banorte for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Monterrey, Mexico. It is the home stadium for the college football team Borregos Salvajes Monterrey of the ONEFA and the professional Amer ...
, completed in April 2019. The new stadium can seat 10,000 people and was designed for American Football and football games.


History

Construction of a new stadium to house the
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American football team began in August 1949. A society raised half a million
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in 17 days in order to break ground, with Constructora Maiz Mier as the general contractor. The stadium was formally opened on July 17, 1950 by
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. Originally, it seated 20,000 spectators. In 1965, a new upper deck was added on the west side to bring the stadium's capacity to 33,600; this expansion was celebrated with a match between
C.F. Monterrey Club de Fútbol Monterrey Rayados, A.C., simply known as Monterrey or by its nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional association football, football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, that plays in Liga MX, the top d ...
and
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, champions of Yugoslavia, which the locals won 2–1. The north end zone's "horseshoe" was added in 1986 to bring the stadium's capacity to 38,000 seats for its use in the 1986 Mexico FIFA World Cup. In the early 1990s,
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es were added which reduced the capacity to its current figure. In 1991, the first
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athletics track in Mexico was installed in the Estadio Tecnológico. The original blue track was replaced with a more traditional red color in 2002. By the mid-2000s, with the Estadio Tecnológico being the second-oldest venue in
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at the time behind
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in
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and manager
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declaring it "obsolete", C.F. Monterrey began exploring plans for a new stadium. Administration at
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, which owned the club, said that although they had presented plans to
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(ITESM) administration to add 8,000 seats by lowering the field and eliminating the athletics track, these had not been approved, and so they began planning for a new stadium at a site known as La Pastora. Additionally, the proposed expansion would have aggravated the already troublesome parking situation in the neighborhood and could have affected the view from the stadium's suites. In February 2014, it was announced that the stadium would be demolished after its largest tenant, C.F. Monterrey, moved to
Estadio BBVA Bancomer Estadio BBVA, formerly known as the Estadio BBVA Bancomer, is an association football stadium in Guadalupe, Greater Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Nicknamed "El Gigante de Acero" in Spanish (), the stadium replaced the Estadio Tecnológico as th ...
in 2015. The stadium is to make way for an urban redevelopment project known as Distrito Tec, which will include new academic buildings for the ITESM, a new sporting complex known as the Centro Deportivo Borrego, and a new American football stadium for the Borregos Salvajes. Demolition, however, was postponed to 2017. In an event in March, the Borregos flag that had flown over the stadium was lowered to be raised again at the dedication of the new Estadio Tecnológico, planned for September 6, 2018 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the ITESM. As part of the project, an artificial turf field will be laid down for a temporary venue in which the Borregos Salvajes will play the 2017 college football season. On April 29, 2017, the Estadio Tecnológico opened to the public once more for a farewell ceremony attended by more than 12,000. Two women's soccer matches on June 10, one between the national teams of Mexico and Venezuela and a friendly between the women's teams of Tigres and Monterrey, were the final events held in the stadium before demolition began on the 29th.


Tenants


C.F. Monterrey

From 1952 to 1973 and again from 1980 to 2015, the Estadio Tecnológico was home to one of Monterrey's most important soccer clubs, Club de Fútbol Monterrey (known as the Rayados). The club began playing its home matches at the Estadio Tecnólogico upon its revival as a Second Division squad in 1952—the first Rayados match saw them lose 3–1 to
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—and remained there until 2015, except for a period between January 1973 and September 1980 when they played at the Estadio Universitario, home to rival club
Tigres UANL Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, abbreviated as Tigres UANL and simply known as Tigres or internationally as Tigres de México, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in the Monterrey metropo ...
. In 1977–78, with preparations for the
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underway at the Estadio Universitario, both Tigres and Rayados played at the Estadio Tecnológico, including the first '' Clásico Regio'' derby held in the stadium; it would be the first of 42 meetings between the two clubs venue, with the final fixture being a 2–2 draw in October 2014. Monterrey won league titles in
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(Mexico 1986) and Apertura 2010 in the venue, as well as the
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in 1991 and the
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in 2012–13. The final Monterrey soccer fixture in the Estadio Tecnológico was played on May 9, 2015, a 2–2 tie against Pumas. The club began playing at the Estadio BBVA Bancomer in time for the
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tournament.


International soccer

International soccer came to the Estadio Tecnológico on several occasions. The
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marked the first FIFA event at the Estadio Tecnológico. The venue hosted five games, including three group stage fixtures, a quarterfinal and a semifinal. Three matches of the
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were played at the Estadio Tecnológico, pitting the
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against
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,
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and
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.


Borregos Salvajes

The Estadio Tecnológico was initially built to house the university's American football team, which played in the Estadio Tecnológico through the 2016 season. During that time, the Borregos Salvajes won 22 national titles. On several occasions, they won the title in the Estadio Tecnológico, with the first such championship coming in 1993. The final Borregos Salvajes game in the stadium took place on November 4, 2016, when the Borregos beat the team representing the ITESM Campus México 28–0.


1986 FIFA World Cup


Other events

Estadio Tecnológico hosted the
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. The stadium also hosted the
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professional
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team of the
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in its 2017 season. The club's final game of the regular season, played on April 9, 2017, was the final American football match at the venue. Additionally,
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events were held in the stadium, such as the Galatlética 2005, which featured Ana Gabriela Guevara and
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. Several concerts also stopped by the Estadio Tecnológico, beginning with a visit by
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in February 1990 for two shows on the
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. On February 12, 2006, the Irish
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U2 opened the 4th leg of its
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at the Estadio Tecnológico, to a crowd of 42,000. In 2010, the
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played the Estadio Tecnológico in what turned out to be the final concert in the stadium.


See also

*
List of football stadiums in Mexico The following is a list of association football stadiums in Mexico. Currently stadiums with a capacity of 10,000 or more are included. Existing stadiums ;Notes *Tamaulipas: The halfway line of the pitch at Estadio Tamaulipas lies along the b ...


References

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