Estadio Francisco I. Madero is a

stadium A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...

Saltillo Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and high ...

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. It is primarily used for

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and is the home field of the

Saraperos de Saltillo The Saraperos de Saltillo (English: Saltillo Serapes) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League. Their home ballpark is the Estadio de Béisbol Francisco I. Madero in Saltillo, Coahuila. They have won three championships (1980, 2009 ...

. It holds 11,000 people, and features a video screen measuring 14 meters high by 22 meters wide (46 feet high by 72 feet wide). The stadium is named after Coahuila native

Francisco I. Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'état in Februa ...

who served as

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from 1911 to 1913. The stadium was renovated in 1999, and again in 2011. The reopening ceremony on 28 March 2011 followed the most recent renovations and was attended by Saraperos President Alvaro Law, former Saltillo Mayor

Jericó Abramo Masso Jericó Abramo Masso (first name also spelled Yericó; born 17 October 1975) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the 2024 general election he was elected to his fourth term in the Chamber of D ...

, and President of the

Liga Mexicana de Béisbol The Mexican Baseball League (, or LMB, ) is a professional baseball league in Mexico. It is the oldest running professional sports league in the country. The league has 20 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games ...

Plinio Escalante Bolio. In 2022,

Dinos de Saltillo Dinos de Saltillo (English: ''Saltillo Dinos'') are an American football team based in Saltillo, Mexico. The Dinos compete in the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional, the top American football league in Mexico. The team plays its home games at t ...

of the

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, moved to the stadium due to an agreement between the club and the Saraperos. In 2023, Saltillo F.C. of the

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moved to stadium temporarily due to reconstruction works on the

Estadio Olímpico de Saltillo The Estadio Olímpico de Saltillo is a multi-use stadium in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium for Saltillo F.C. The stadium has a capacity of 7,000 people for football matches an ...

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