Murcielagos

Murcielagos Futbol Club is a Mexican football club that plays in the Liga Premier. The club is based in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. From its beginnings the club had the aim to turn into a model for Mexican football.

History

Founded in 2008 and with headquarters in Sinaloa's "Region of the Evora", Murcielagos is property of Grupo Faharo. Murcielagos 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 Murcielagos 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 Murcielagos 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 Guamuchil, 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 Mexico 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 Expansion MX focused on the development of footballer