Deportivo La Laguna

Estadio Deportivo La Laguna

The ground sits in the town of Lagunas, a place shaped by the cement plant that arrived in 1941 and the cooperative that followed two years later. The stadium sits at the heart of that history, serving the local club, Cruz Azul Lagunas, which calls itself La Maquinita. It is a small place, holding 2,000 spectators, but it provides comfortable seating with shade — a practical arrangement for the sun.

The pitch itself is where the work happens. The club began playing in the third tier in the 2014/2015 season, and the venue has been their home ever since. For one season, the 2016–17 campaign, the venue was recorded under the name Estadio Cruz Azul, but the current title is the one that sticks now. The exact date the stands were built is not found in the records, so that piece of the puzzle remains missing.

What is visible from the outside is the connection to the town. The stadium is not a grand arena; it is a community building for football.

The club competes in the Liga Premier B, a lower division that does not draw large crowds from afar, but the ground is never empty. The relationship between the town and the club is older than the football team itself, and the stadium is the physical proof of that.