Football in Mexico

In Mexico, the sport of football developed mainly in the capital as well as the neighboring states of Hidalgo, Mexico, Morelos and Puebla. Further, in the east of the capital lying coastal state of Veracruz, and in the westerly states of Guanajuato, Michoacán and - especially - in Jalisco. To that extent the metropolitan area, the most successful Mexican football teams concentrated in a radius of about 600 kilometers to the capital. In the north of the country were - probably due to the geographical proximity to the U.S. - sports such as baseball and basketball is always more popular than football. In this region, the cities of Monterrey ( Nuevo León) and Torreón could only ( Coahuila ) with clubs Monterrey, UANL Tigres and Santos Laguna establish themselves as firm favorites and recorded a total of eleven championship titles. Totally neglected soccer fields have traditionally been the two peninsulas in the far west of Baja California and Yucatán in the far east of the country. The latter peninsula since the relocation of the former capital club Atlante in spring 2007 to Cancun (Quintana Roo ) houses but also a first division side, who even immediately won a championship title at his new place of work.

• 2.1 Distrito Federal
• 2.2 Jalisco
• 2.3 Estado de México
• 2.4 Nuevo León
• 2.5 Hidalgo
• 2.6 Guanajuato
• 2.7 Coahuila
• 2.8 Morelos
• 2.9 Veracruz
• 2:10 Puebla
• 2:11 Tamaulipas
• 2:12 Michoacán
• 2:13 Quintana Roo

• 3.1 San Luis Potosi
• 3.2 Querétaro
• 3.3 Chiapas
• 3.4 Aguascalientes
• 3.5 Chihuahua
• 3.6 Sinaloa
• 3.7 Baja California

• 4.1 Yucatán
• 4.2 Durango
• 4.3 Colima
• 4.4 Zacatecas
• 4.5 Guerrero
• 4.6 Oaxaca
• 4.7 Tabasco
• 4.8 Sonora
• 4.9 Nayarit
• 4:10 Tlaxcala

• 5.1 Baja California Sur
• 5.2 Campeche

• 6.1 Legend

• 7.1 The competitions of the CONCACAF
• 7.2 Copa Interamericana
• 7.3 The FIFA Club World Cup
• 7.4 Copa Libertadores
• 7.5 Copa Sudamericana
• 7.6 Copa Merconorte

Football in the regions

Politically, there is Mexico from 31 states and the Federal District, thus making a total of 32 geographic areas. For simplicity, the Federal District, the internal capital district, are discussed in the following text as a federal state. Because the focus of this article is the importance of football in the 32 geographical units Mexico or concrete, it is the most successful clubs of the respective federal state.

From 13 states (including the Federal District ) so far came at least a championship team, another 7 states were represented División already by at least one team in the Primera. 10 Of the remaining 12 states can nevertheless at least a second division team in the Primera founded in 1994/95 Liga A or its successor Liga de Ascenso show. Only the two states of Campeche and Baja California Sur have never been represented by a team in the top two leagues.

Based on this, the article is divided into four sections. In the first part of the 13 states are treated that have spawned one or more national champion. The second part deals with the other seven states that were at least previously been represented in the Primera División. The third part discusses the ten states that were not yet represented in the top division, but at least as early as the second-rate La Liga ' A' and today's Liga de Ascenso. Finally, the last part deals with the two states whose clubs are not yet progressed beyond the third division.

The order in which the states are called within the respective category which is determined by their success quotient which arises from the following table. To apply in the first part as a successful, who has produced more champion teams. Case of a tie, the state takes the higher rank, who has achieved more (current) first division (as of and including 2011/12 season ). In the second part will be deemed successful, whoever can show a longer Erstligazugehörigkeit (as including season 2011 /12). In section 3, the order also determined on the basis of years of league membership (as of and including 2011/12 season ). Given the same length league affiliation of the state gets the better position, which is currently represented in the Liga de Ascenso. If this is not - as in the comparison between Oaxaca and Tabasco - the balance of the clubs will be applied. Thus, Oaxaca gets a better classification: Cruz Azul Oaxaca was runner-up after all the Apertura 2005, while the associations of Tabasco have never been out on the quarter-finals. In addition, the associations from Oaxaca have (thanks to Cruz Azul ), total won more games than lost; in Tabasco, this was reversed. In Part 4, the ranking on the basis of belonging to the third-tier Segunda División determined.

Within the states, the clubs are ranked according to their importance for the respective state. Thus, the order determined in the first part on the number won championship titles. If tied decides - as in general in the second to fourth part - the duration of league affiliation. Given the same length league affiliation, the team is always listed first, which is currently still represented in the league. If this is not the case, the order determined by the chronology of appearance in the relevant league.

A club, only the title and the years of League membership allocated in the respective category, which he has won during the time when he was at home in the appropriate state. Accordingly, the first two of the eight are Hidalgo league titles, won the Cruz Azul, slammed and the other six the Distrito Federal. The same applies for Atlante: their titles from the years 1947 and 1993 are considered for the Federal District, the recent success of December 2007, however, for Quintana Roo.

Ranking of Mexican states by their success quotient in football

States with best Premiership teams

States with at best second-division teams

States with best third- league teams

States with champion teams

Distrito Federal

No State was represented División with so many teams in the Primera as the Distrito Federal. And no state can boast such work joyful associations. It began in the spring of 1953 with Marte, who left Mexico City toward Cuernavaca. Exactly 50 years later Necaxa left the capital towards Aguascalientes. DC several times Atlante left the capital: for the season 1989/90 in the direction of Querétaro, for the seasons 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04 we went to Nezahualcóyotl and since 2007 /08, the club is located in Cancun. The only club who came to Mexico City, Cruz Azul was in the spring of 1971.

Jalisco

With the Club Deportivo " Chivas " of Guadalajara Jalisco houses the giants of La Liga. In addition, Chivas is the only club next to Club América, his arch-rival, who belongs to the Primera División continuously since its founding. In addition, Chivas is the most popular team in the country. However, the enormous popularity of the club is not only based on his successes (and in the last four decades, he was not about four championships addition ), but to take in the first place due to the consistent adherence to its guidelines, born in Mexico only players under contract.

Estado de México

The company headquartered in the Federal Capital Club Deportivo Toluca with ten league titles, the undisputed sporting showpiece of his state. All other clubs were located in the east of Mexico City located satellite town Nezahualcóyotl, but could not compete on time and not win a single title. The CF Atlante graduated here most of its home games in the seasons 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04, but returned due to discrepancies with the City to Mexico City back. The Toros Neza had gone 1993/94 the opposite way. Due to problems with the stadium they wore the last 14 of their total 19 home games in Pachuca and played there under the name Toros Hidalgo.

Nuevo León

Hidalgo

The flagship of the state is the resident of the Federal Capital CF Pachuca with a total of five league titles, all of which were won in the last ten years. The first representative of the state, however, was in La Liga of Club Deportivo Cruz Azul, which had been founded by workers of the cement factory of the same in the small town of Jasso and transferred in 1971 to Mexico City. A short-term stint graduated here occurring at this time under the name Toros Hidalgo team Toros Neza of Nezahualcóyotl in the State of México.

Guanajuato

By far the most successful club of Guanajuato - and the only one so far came to championship honors - is Club León. In the city of León is a traditional rivalry with neighbors Unión de Curtidores. The greatest rivalry of the city limits is maintained with the Club Deportivo Irapuato.

Coahuila

Morelos

The most successful and longest established association of Morelos is the Club Deportivo Zacatepec, who now assumes the role of a branch teams of Club América from the capital. Another former big club was in 1953 from the capital of received, former Army Sports Club Marte. In the first year after his move to the capital Cuernavaca, he won the championship title. Another year later he dismounted, however, and could never return to the first division again.

Veracruz

Due to its exposed location than it was then the most important seaport of the country of football came early on in the city of Veracruz. Equally, however, also to Orizaba, where industrialization in Mexico has early foot and 1901 within the already established three years earlier sports club Orizaba Athletic Club one of the oldest football teams in the country had been launched. With the gradual decline of the industry, it went well with the football clubs of this city rapidly downhill.

Puebla

Tamaulipas

The Tampico - Madero Fútbol Club completed the second half of the 1994/95 season in Querétaro where he performed under the name TM Gallos Blancos.

Michoacán

Quintana Roo

Before Atlante twisted in spring 2007 from the capital here, the only after the turn of the millennium footballing emerging state by Inter Riviera Maya ( 2003/ 04) from Cancún and Águilas Riviera Maya ( Apertura 2005) from Playa del Carmen was only briefly in the Primera División ' A ' represented.

Other states with first division

San Luis Potosí

Actually, founded only as a substructure for his early first division club San Luis, Atlético Potosino ran his local neighbors soon outstrip and played 15 years in a row in football House of Lords, during the Club San Luis can only look back on nearly ten years of Erstligapraxis ( 2008/ 09).

Querétaro

Many of the previous five first division of the federal capital were only three at a transit station. The Cobras have already been shipped to one year from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state. The CF Atlante, who came here a few years later to find a new home, was adopted and never really got to work, too as of yet, so he returned to Mexico City after just one season again. The come from Tamaulipas and here renamed Gallos Blancos team of former Tampico - Madero FC Atlante did the same and got off as soon as she had arrived here. Also, they disappeared as quickly as they had come.

Chiapas

Aguascalientes

Before Necaxa had come in spring 2003 from Mexico City here, the state was represented by the Gallos de Aguascalientes was founded in 1994 just for a few seasons in La Liga 'A'. The adventure ended abruptly in the spring of 2002, after the Chivas owner Jorge Vergara - had acquired the license from the CD Tapatío, a farm team for his club from Guadalajara formed.

Chihuahua

The Cobras had been founded in 1985 by the América - owner Televisa, to house former players and young talents of Club América. Initially located in Querétaro, the club was transplanted in 1987 at the direction of Televisa to Ciudad Juarez. The Indians are not a home-grown town. They were created before the season 2005/ 06, as Pachuca Junior, a farm team of the CF Pachuca, was delegated here and changed his name.

Sinaloa

Baja California

With the rise of the club Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente in the Primera División in the summer of 2011 is the 20th state of Baja California, which sent a team in the Primera División.

States that were previously represented, at best, in the second division

Yucatán

In a regular ten-year rhythm Atlético Yucatán reached in the years 1989 and 1999, and most recently the Mérida FC Liga Primera ascent Finals for the summer of 2009, but failed in all cases.

The CD Atlético Yucatán has already played in the old Segunda División, when it was still the second- highest division in the Mexican football club. At the end of the 1988/89 season the Venados failed in the final against the rise Potros Neza, who had however sold its Erstligalizenz before the start of the new season on the CD Veracruz. 1994 Atlético was a founding member of the new La Liga 'A' and reached the end of the 1998/99 season once again climb the Finals, where they lost to time the Club Unión de Curtidores, who also did not perceive his premiership player eligibility. As Atlético had withdrawn permanently from the league after the 2002/ 03 season and announced his resolution, and Mauricio Arturo Millet Reyes team brothers, and license of Nacional Tijuana brought to Mérida and formed from the Venados del Mérida Fútbol Club as the legitimate successor of the disappeared Atlético Venados de Yucatán. The new club reached the 2009 Finals against the rise of Querétaro FC and succumbed after a long battle (1:2 and 1:0) with 4:5 on penalties.

Durango

The Club Alacranes de Durango founded in 1958, is one of the oldest clubs in the Primera División 'A'. It is also one of the few clubs that have achieved the qualification to participate in the second Mexican soccer league on sporting merit. In the season 1998/99 the Alacranes ( Scorpions ) won both the Apertura and Clausura División of the third-rate Segunda, which they could no longer take the rise. Between 1999 /00 and 2010/11 they were an integral part of the Primera ' A' and their successors Liga de Ascenso.

Colima

Unlike many other clubs, which were only produced during the existence of the introduced in 1994 Primera 'A' to life, the position taken in the league between 1997 /98 and 1999/ 00 Club de Fútbol Jaguares de Colima was already 1976.

The only in season 2004/ 05, published in the League Huracanes de Colima Fútbol Club was owned by the media giant Televisa. Therefore, the club was powerless, as his second league license was transferred after only one year in Águilas Riviera Maya in the state of Quintana Roo. Since the season 2006/ 07 the State by Real de Colima in the Primera 'A' was represented. When this league in the season 2009/ 10 is replaced by the Liga de Ascenso, Colima is again without second-division team.

Zacatecas

Real Sociedad Deportiva de Zacatecas benefited in 1996 by a league expansion and was recorded with Atlético Hidalgo for the 1996/97 season in the Primera División 'A'. After seven years as part of the second division the team was disbanded due to financial constraints at end of season 2002/ 03 and transfer their license to the Estudiantes FC Altamira, Tamaulipas state.

Guerrero

The Club de Guerrero Acapulco was created by completion of the 1986 relocation of the third division Surianos de Iguala, which was also based in Guerrero. At the end of the 1989/90 season winning the third league championship and the rise was related to the time of his second-class Segunda División yet. In 1994 /95, the Primera División, A ' was introduced, the Club de Guerrero Acapulco was one of the founding members. At the end of the 1996/97 season, the club sold his license and disappeared.

In the 2001 /02 season of second division football came back to Acapulco. He was brought back by the old traditional club Marte from Cuernavaca in Morelos, who now acted as a farm team of the CF Atlante and after moving under its new designation Club Potros Pegaso de Acapulco was unrecognizable. After three years in Acapulco, the club was transplanted before the start of the 2004/05 season after Nezahualcóyotl and stepped now on under the name Atlante Neza.

Oaxaca

The most successful football team this state was a farm team of the CD Cruz Azul. This occurred here between 2003/ 04 and 2005/ 06 under the name of Cruz Azul Oaxaca after Cruz Azul Hidalgo had changed its location. Yet in 2006 the team moved into the original home of the club after Jasso back and since then occurs again under its previous name. But her predecessor in the league, the Club de Fútbol Oaxaca, was not a real home-grown town. To play in the Primera División may 'A' was, in 2001 the license of the Lobos BPRD from Puebla acquired and transferred to Tlaxcala only two years later.

Tabasco

The club Caimanes de Tabasco was a founding member of the newly installed in the season 1994/95 La Liga 'A' and at the end of the inaugural season of the first sporting relegated from this league. A longer league affiliation managed to launched in the winter of 2002 /03 Club Lagartos de Tabasco, the team's license and took over from Orizaba. End of the season 2005/ 06 the Lagartos sold their license, while a newly formed club designated Guerreros de Tabasco the state in the second division took before he only half a year later transferred his license to the later first division club Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles.

Sonora

Because of his term Erstligist and later relegated Tampico - Madero FC during the 1994/95 season was moved to Querétaro, where he remained even after his descent into La Liga 'A', drew the playing in the same league team of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, UAQ short, during the 1995/96 season to Hermosillo to play there from now on under the name Gallos Blancos de Hermosillo. Although the team finished the season as runners-up and therefore the rise in football Upper House narrowly missed, the club withdrew from the league and disappeared. The previous last second division team of the State of Sonora was the Guerreros FC, ​​is one of 17 founding members of the 2009/10 introduced Liga de Ascenso, who withdrew from the league in the winter of 2010.

Nayarit

After the descent of the Coras de Tepic Deportivo at the end of the season 1995/96 brought in the 2005/06 season once again a team called Chivas Coras second division football to Tepic. However, emerged from the farm team of the CD Tapatío CD Guadalajara team withdrew after only one season to Guadalajara, where she appeared again under its original name.

Tlaxcala

Before the Guerreros de Tlaxcala 2003/ 04 Liga 'A' played in the Primera, the Club Deportivo Lobos de Tlaxcala took second division soccer in the smallest Mexican state. The Lobos won the 1978/79 the championship of the Tercera División and played in the following three seasons in the Segunda División. Thus, they had succeeded in competition and what the Guerreros had to be later ( by acquiring the license of the CF Oaxaca ) pay dearly.

States that were previously represented, at best, in the third division

Baja California Sur

Of all the 32 states of Mexico (including the Federal District ), professional football came here at last. For the first time ever competed with the domiciled at the southern tip of the peninsula Delfines de Los Cabos Fútbol Club is an association of BCS to participate in the Segunda División for the 2007 /08 season. Its home games played, the club initially in only 500 seater sports facility Unidad Deportiva San José 78 in San José del Cabo. As it has not only played here, but also trained the natural turf soon resembled a plowed field. In order to cope with the double burden of training and playing, the club soon moved into a new home in the neighboring Cabo San Lucas. The local sports facility Unidad Deportiva de Los Cangrejos has well over a load more capable artificial turf and can also accommodate about 2,500 visitors. Although the club had to commit at the beginning of his professional career some players from other regions of the country to compete in the league can. But he pursued the ambitious goal soon to form a team that consists mainly of young talents, born in Baja California Sur and emerge from their own offspring. After four years as part of third-rate Segunda División ended the adventure but (initially? ) With the withdrawal of Delfines from the game operation of the league.

Campeche

The club Delfines de la Universidad Autónoma del Carmen, just Delfines de la UNACAR, was founded in 2001. The team initially formed from staff and students of the university started in the 2001/ 02 season in the fourth division Tercera División, intensified but soon with external players. What the team did not reach on sporting merit, she managed through the tireless efforts of the rector of the university, José Nicolás Novelo Noble, the División the license to participate in the Segunda in the season 2004/ 05 acquired on commercially available routes. For the season 2005/ 06 fitted again without the appropriate license, the team slipped back into fourth-rate Tercera División, where it plays also present.

Overview of all previous champions of Mexico

Legend

• Tot = total number of championship title ( Primera Fuerza, and La Liga )
• PF = number of title wins in the Primera Fuerza (1902 /03 to 1942/43 )
• PD = number of title wins in La Liga ( 1943 /44)

(* ) One title for the CF Pachuca and the FV Germania are questionable, as they have only unofficial character according to some sources, as they are considered by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ( RSSSF ).

Status: including Clausura 2012 ( won by Santos Laguna )

The clubs in international comparison

This section discusses the performance of Mexican club teams in international tournaments. For the Mexican national team, a separate article exists.

The contests of the CONCACAF

For the first time in 1962 CONCACAF Champions ' Cup was held. The since 2008 /09 discharged under the name CONCACAF Champions League competition was previously held 48 times (premature terminations without determination of a winner not be considered here ) and has been won 29 times by the Mexican team. This corresponds to a success rate of more than 60 % (as of season 2012/ 13). Record winner with five titles are based in the Mexican capital clubs Cruz Azul and América.

Overview of the Mexican champion in the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup:

(*) In 1978, no overall winner played out, so that there were three zone winner. The team of the Universidad de Guadalajara ( UdeG ) was the winner of the North zone.

A subordinate role played only temporarily discharged CONCACAF Cup Winners' Cup, which took place only four times between 1991 and 1995 and was won three times by the Mexican team: 1993 from Monterrey, Necaxa in 1994 and 1995 of the UAG Tecos.

In addition, in 2001 only once the CONCACAF Giants Cup held and won by the Club América.

Copa Interamericana

The Copa Interamericana was a competition in which the winner of the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup ( North and Central America) and the Copa Libertadores ( from South America ) should be compared. Because the 1968-1998 total of 18 times discharged competition was not taken seriously by the South American teams necessarily, however, were not always adhere to the actual winner of the Copa Libertadores and in some years, the host fell completely into the water. Typical of this competition was further delayed discharge, which took place usually until the following year. Eight times to Mexican teams qualified for participation and three times they were able to win the trophy: América for the years 1977 and 1990, the UNAM Pumas Mexico for 1980 This is the most successful country behind Argentina, whose teams were a total of seven times..

Here are all the Final Results with Mexican participation:

The FIFA Club World Cup

For the first time in 2000, the FIFA Club World Championship was held, which takes place at yearly intervals since 2005. A Mexican team can qualify to participate by winning the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup; but not by winning the Copa Libertadores, because in this competition qualifies the highest placed team from South America. So far the following teams from Mexico took part in the FIFA Club World Cup:

Copa Libertadores

Since 1998, Mexican teams on traditional and until then been played exclusively under the South American Copa Libertadores teams are allowed to participate. So far, the qualification achieved 16 clubs from Mexico. The most frequent participants was the Club América, which was seven times here. Most successful teams were Cruz Azul and Guadalajara with their final appearances in 2001 and 2010 respectively. Competing of 2009, the teams of the CF Pachuca took part ( in the qualifiers against Universidad de Chile failed ) and Deportivo Guadalajara and Club San Luis, with their preliminary round group each had finished in second place and thus qualified for the knockout stages. There Guadalajara would have played against São Paulo FC and San Luis against Nacional Montevideo. Because the CONMEBOL had the Mexican team, however, denied the venue because of the so-called swine flu and it would have been to only one game in South America, the Mexicans withdrew their teams back from the tournament and also announced that in the future no longer in the tournaments CONMEBOL want to compete. However, take in the Copa Libertadores in 2010 Mexican representative part. Guadalajara and San Luis were invited separately from the events of the previous year and were automatically qualified for the knockout stages, while Monterrey and Morelia qualified over the conventional mode.

Overview of the Mexican club teams and each of them has reached round in the Copa Libertadores (1998-2013):

Copa Sudamericana

To equip the second half of the year with an international tournament ( Copa Libertadores will be held from January to July ), the Copa Sudamericana is annually held since 2002. Since 2005, Mexican teams to take part. In this competition, they were far more successful than in the Copa Libertadores: Pachuca won the trophy in 2006 Furthermore, the UNAM Pumas (2005) and Club América reached (2007) once each the finals. . Since 2009, the Mexicans do not take more of this tournament (see note above under Copa Libertadores ).

Overview of the Mexican club teams and each of them has reached round in the Copa Sudamericana (2002-2008):

Copa Merconorte

Before the introduction of the Copa Sudamericana, there was already an attempt to establish two co-existing tournaments under the names of Copa and Copa Mercosur Merconorte, but these were reinstated after a few years. The Copa Merconorte was discharged four times between 1998 and 2001 as a whole and on the last two tournaments also took part in three Mexican club teams. This achieved the following results: