Murciélagos F.C.

Founded in 2008 and with headquarters in Sinaloa's "Region of the Évora", Murciélagos is property of Grupo Faharo. Murciélagos FC broadcast their live games every Friday Nights at 10:00pm central time in Mexico on the most interactive page of Internet of Mexican football 2 of Sinaloa are transmitted also by television opened by the channel.

On January 23, 2010 Murciélagos made history for being the first team in the world to allow its fans to vote through the Web for their starting line up, supported by FIFA. The game was won by Murciélagos 1–0 to Vaqueros de Tepic of the premier league of the second division supervised by Juan Manuel Romo being the first coach that made history with this novel system and, at the same time, having the largest number of auxiliary technical personnel in the world. In the electronic football called Juan Manuel Navarro was the first player that entered to the field under this novel method replacing Sergio Mejia in the change.

The club was originally based in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, but relocated to Los Mochis when it was announced on June 7, 2015, that they would participate in the second division, the Ascenso MX, after they bought the Irapuato franchise. After its relocation, the team remained in Ascenso MX until Torneo Clausura 2018, when it was relegated to Liga Premier de México due to poor sports results.

After two seasons, in 2020 the team decided to pause its participation in the Liga Premier as a result of the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus epidemic, in addition to the uncertainty of the board to continue participating in the competitions organized by the Mexican Football Federation due to the reform carried out in the Ascenso MX which was transformed into Liga de Expansión MX focused on the development of footballers over the promotion of teams to Liga MX.[1] Unlike other clubs, Murcielagos did not clarify it’s future as of the 2021–22 season.

Murciélagos FC play their home matches at the Estadio Centenario in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. The stadium capacity is 11,134 people. Its owned by Ayuntamiento de Ahome, and its surface is covered by natural grass. The stadium was opened in early 2003.

As of January 19, 2020[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  MEX Rogelio Soto 4 MF  MEX José Peraza 5 DF  MEX Johan Mendívil 6 DF  MEX Gustavo Corona 11 MF  MEX Luis Castillo 16 DF  MEX Fabián Figueroa 17 MF  MEX Samuel Barreras 18 DF  MEX Brayan Rubio 19 MF  MEX Marco Veliz

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  MEX Juan Mendoza 23 MF  MEX José Contreras 24 MF  MEX Abdiel Peraza 30 GK  MEX Pedro Olguín 33 FW  MEX Christian Montero 40 MF  MEX Jorge Rubio 43 MF  MEX Jonathan Mendoza 44 DF  MEX Osvan Castillo

• Manuel Romo (April 2009–March 10)
• Manuel Flores (March 2010–July 11)
• Lorenzo López (July 2011–July 12)
• Rubén "Ratón" Ayala (July 2012–Nov 12)
• Roberto Sandoval (Nov 2012–Feb 13)
• Lorenzo López (2nd Term; Feb 2013–Sept 13)
• Cesilio de los Santos (2013–14)
• Roberto Castro (2014–15)
• Lorenzo López (3rd Term; June 2015–16)
• Jorge Manrique (2016)
• Adolfo Garcia (2016)
• Aldo Da Pozzo (2016–2017)
• Marco Antonio Figueroa (2017)
• Luis Mendoza (2017)
• Óscar Gil (2017–)

• Football in Mexico

• Official website (in Spanish)