2010 Apertura Final: Chivas vs Club América

Lore & Background

América is one of the founding members of the Primera División. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Guadalajara, as both are the most successful and most supported teams in the country and are among the seven clubs to have never been relegated. Matches between them are known as El Súper Clásico, considered to be the biggest rivalry in Mexico, and one of the biggest in the world. América also plays derbies against Cruz Azul and Pumas UNAM. Together the clubs make up the 'Big Four' of Mexican football. In 2024, it became the first football club to be floated on the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores).

In Their Own Story

The night air over Zapopan tasted of diesel and cheap beer. Somewhere past the last row of the south stand, a father pressed his son's small hand against the concrete barrier and said, "Listen." The son listened. The sound was not a chant, not a song—it was a single, sustained exhalation from fifty thousand lungs, the kind of noise that makes your chest vibrate before the ball even touches the grass. The floodlights turned the pitch into a white rectangle floating in a sea of red. A goalkeeper in white gloves raised his arms, and for three seconds the entire stadium went silent. Then the ball sailed over the crossbar, and the silence shattered into something that felt less like a roar and more like the earth cracking open. The son looked up at his father. The father was crying, though he would deny it for the rest of his life.

Reader's Guide

According to Sportico, Club América is valued at US$770 million as of May 2025, making it one of the most valuable clubs in North America. Club América has won more titles than any other team in Mexican football. Domestically, the club has won a record sixteen league titles, a record six Copa México titles, and a joint-record seven Campeón de Campeones cups. In international competitions, América has won ten FIFA recognized club trophies, the most for a club from CONCACAF, with a joint-record seven CONCACAF Champions Cup/Champions League titles, one CONCACAF Giants Cup, and two Copa Interamericanas. The club also holds numerous distinctions, including topping the all-time league table in victories, points, and goals scored, most appearances in the liguilla (playoffs) stage, the most playoff final appearances (22) and second-most runner-up finishes, after Cruz Azul. It is one of five clubs to win back-to-back league titles since the introduction of the short tournament format, the only team to achieve a three-peat under the format, and the only one to reach four finals in a row. In 2021, América was named by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the best North American club of the first decade (2001–2011) of the 21st century.

Did You Know?

• Club América was founded on 12 October 1916 by college students from Colegio Mascarones and Colegio Marista de la Perpetua.
• The club's nickname is Las Águilas (The Eagles).
• América has never been relegated from the top division of Mexican football.
• The club's home stadium is Estadio Azteca, the largest stadium in Latin America.