Monterrey

Liga MX Women

Club de Fútbol Monterrey Femenil, commonly known as Rayadas, is a Mexican professional women’s football club based in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, that competes in Liga MX Femenil and plays its home matches at Estadio BBVA. The team was founded with the creation of Liga MX Femenil in 2017 and has become one of the league’s most successful clubs.

Signature Fun Facts

What makes Monterrey what it is.

In August 2026, after scoring for Rayadas U19 against Tijuana, Monique and a teammate made the outline of the Disney logo with their hands, a cheeky response after first-team coach Amandine Miquel had compared the club's youth situation to "Disneyland."

She scored her first professional goal at 14 which made her the youngest Mexican footballer to score at professional level.

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Quirky facts from the Monterrey squad.

She created her own football camps in Monterrey as a way of giving back to football, and said one of the things that inspires her most is hearing girls tell her, “I want to be like you.”

She is the only Rayadas player still active with the club from the 2017 Copa LIGA MX Femenil, the tournament that marked the beginning of professional women’s football in Mexico.

The three Fernández sisters played each other in Liga MX match Monterrey vs Toluca.

Daiane comes from a family with 18 siblings. When she turned professional, she prioritised sending money home to help her parents buy a house.

A PE teacher encouraged her to try out for Oviedo Moderno after seeing how often she played at school, and when she arrived in Oviedo, she was still so new to organized football that she did not even know what offside was.

She is a Karol G fan, and in 2022 the singer gave her a public shoutout during a concert in Monterrey after hearing that Bernal had wanted to share her championship shirt with her.

She once had a scholarship lined up in the United States to study dentistry, but the creation of Liga MX Femenil changed her plans and she chose football instead.

She was part of a historic Rayadas Sub-19 Apertura 2025 campaign that reached the club’s first-ever academy final, and she saved the decisive penalty in the semifinal shootout.

She is the youngest of three football-playing sisters and graduated high school a year early so she could spend an extra year playing at Tulsa alongside them.

She was registered by Pachuca at an exceptionally young age and became the youngest professional female footballer to be registered with the Mexican Football Federation at 12 years and two months old.

As a child, she spent hours kicking a ball against the wall of her house, often from 6 p.m. until midnight, and she admits she broke more than a few windows and flowerpots along the way.