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Mexican baseball team

The Jaguares de Nayarit (English: Nayarit Jaguars) are a professional baseball team based in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. They will compete in the Mexican Pacific League (LMP) starting from the 2025–26 season. The team will play at the Estadio Coloso del Pacífico with a capacity of 9,480 seated spectators.

In November 2023, the Government of the State of Nayarit announced that, in collaboration with the federal government of Mexico, it was building a baseball stadium in Tepic, the state capital, with the goal of joining the Mexican Pacific League, one of the two professional baseball leagues in Mexico, alongside the Mexican League. The proposed team name was Jaguares de Nayarit.^[1][2]

The stadium, Estadio Coloso del Pacífico, with a capacity of 9,480 spectators, was inaugurated during the 2024 WBSC Premier12, as one of the two Group A venues, hosted by Mexico, alongside the Estadio Panamericano de Béisbol in Zapopan, Jalisco.^[3]

In March 2025, Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero, Governor of Nayarit, announced that it was “100% certain” that the state would have a team in the Mexican Pacific League for the upcoming season.^[4] Later that month, rumors circulated that the Sultanes de Monterrey might leave the LMP, with the Nayarit team expected to take their place.^[5]

In April 2025, the Mexican Pacific League approved the sale of the Sultanes, clearing the way for the franchise’s relocation to Tepic under the ownership of Carlos Peralta, former owner of the Mexican League’s Tigres de Quintana Roo.^[6] On 20 May 2025, the league officially announced that the Jaguares de Nayarit would join the competition for the 2025–26 season.^[7] On 3 July 2025, the team presented Luis Carlos Rivera as their manager.^[8]