The Estadio Tecnológico de Oaxaca is a multi-use

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 ...

Oaxaca City Oaxaca de Juárez (), or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec languages, Zapotec: ''Ndua''), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Administrative divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding munici ...

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and is the home stadium for

Alebrijes de Oaxaca Alebrijes de Oaxaca Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, that plays in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. T ...

. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000 people and also includes 72 luxury boxes.

History

Construction on the new stadium began in March 2013 as part of the 45th anniversary ceremonies of the Oaxaca Institute of Technology (ITO). Delays were incurred during the project when teachers and students of the ITO protested, prompting construction to be halted for 11 months and nearly forcing the Alebrijes to move out of Oaxaca. The stadium was designed to imitate the ballgame court at

Monte Albán Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W). The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain i ...

. It has a nominal capacity of 14,950 seats installed in order to meet the requirements of the

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; in the event that Alebrijes are promoted to the

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, the stadium is capable of expansion to 25,000. The venue was formally inaugurated on March 27, 2016, for a friendly between Alebrijes and Pumas. Governor Gabino Cué Monteagudo performed the ceremonial opening kickoff. The venue replaced the Estadio Benito Juárez as the home ground of the Alebrijes. A stadium.com survey ranked the new Estadio Tecnológico among the top 20 new stadiums worldwide for 2016. In July 2016, shortly after the stadium opened, Governor Cué ceded operation of the stadium to the San Román family, which owns the Alebrijes through the Grupo Tecomachalco, free for 20 years; authorities of the technological institute also have demanded that the state government transfer ownership of the facility to them.

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