Leones de León

The Leones de León are a professional baseball team competing in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League. Their home games are played at Estadio Rigoberto López Pérez in León, Nicaragua. Their biggest rival is Indios del Bóer, which are based in the capital of Managua.
Leones also fields a team in Nicaragua's summer league, the Germán Pomares Ordóñez First Division, representing the department of the same name, albeit with different colors and management from the professional team. The team is historically the most successful in the first division.

History

In, the first full season of professional baseball in Nicaragua, the "Melenudos de León" were skippered by manager Tony Castaño, whose pitching staff included Conrado Marrero, formerly of the Washington Senators. In the following 1957–58 season, Cuban pitcher Manuel Montejo of León threw the country's first professional no-hitter, in a 5–0 win over Cinco Estrellas on November 5, 1957.
Leones won the 1958 Pan American Series, a one-off international club tournament against Venados de Mazatlán of the Mexican Pacific League and Vanytor de Barranquilla of the Colombian league. They also won the 2019 Latin American Series, the other counterpart of Caribbean Series, in a final game against the Chileros de Xalapa of the Mexican Liga Invernal Veracruzana.
The team has also won the most titles in Nicaragua's amateur league, the Germán Pomares Ordóñez First Division, with 20.
Leones previously played their home games at the Estadio Héroes y Mártires de Septiembre, which held a capacity of 3,328 spectators. Since 2024, they have played at the new Estadio Rigoberto López Pérez.