Mazatlán FC will play its last home match this Wednesday against Toluca in Jornada 16 of the Clausura 2026, closing the curtain on a club that was born in 2020 and is now headed toward sale. Four days later, it will finish its final chapter with an away match against Tigres at the Estadio Universitario.
The club reaches that point with just 12 points in the Clausura 2026 and a future that is already being written off the field. Ricardo Salinas Pliego has put Mazatlán up for sale, and Liga MX authorized the start of the process at the end of 2025. League president Mikel Arriola said, “Se espera que la operación esté totalmente concluida antes del verano del 2026.”
For the people inside the dressing room, the end feels less like a planned transition than a collapse in slow motion. Jair Díaz put it plainly: “Nuestro futuro es incierto.” Sergio Bueno, who took charge in January as an emergency coach starting in Jornada 4, said the future of between 60 and 70 players is hanging by a thread and added, “No sé a dónde van a parar.”
Mazatlán’s disappearance would close a brief, controversial run in Primera División. The franchise was founded in 2020, spent six years in the top flight and arrived after the creation of Mazatlán FC in June 2020 led to the disappearance of Monarcas Morelia, a club that had won the Invierno 2000 title. The move also left behind a stadium built by the Sinaloa state government for first-division soccer, a 25,000-seat venue that cost 625 million pesos.
That backdrop matters because Mazatlán was sold as a football project in a city better known as La Perla del Pacífico and, traditionally, for baseball and the Venados of the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico. Instead, the club became one of the clearest examples of the league’s effort to end multipropiedad, a business model that has shaped Mexican soccer for years.
What happens this week, then, is more than a pair of fixtures. Mazatlán - Toluca is the first goodbye, and Tigres is the last stop. By the time the sale is completed before summer 2026, the youngest franchise in the league will have become another case study in how quickly a club can be created, contested and erased.