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The most popular and valuable club in Mexico, with a tradition of Mexican-only players.
Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V., simplified as CD Guadalajara, and also known as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The club competes in Liga MX and plays its home matches at Estadio Akron.
Quick Facts
- Chivas founded
- May 8, 1906
Lore & Background
Founded in 1906 as Unión Football Club, the club changed its name to Guadalajara Football Club in 1908, and then to its current name in 1923. Nicknamed Chivas, it was one of ten founding members of the first professional and national league in Mexico, named Liga Mayor. Guadalajara is one of seven Mexican clubs that have never been relegated. Chivas is the only football club in Mexico that does not sign foreign or naturalized players unless they are of Mexican descent. The team has historically relied on home-grown players and has launched many internationally successful players, including Javier Hernández, Carlos Vela and Carlos Salcido.
Reader's Guide
Domestically, CD Guadalajara has won twelve Liga MX titles, four Copa MX titles, seven Campeón de Campeones and one Supercopa MX, and holds the league record for the longest winning streak at the beginning of a season, with eight consecutive wins in the Bicentenario 2010. Internationally, it has won two CONCACAF Champions Cup/Champions League titles, and finished as runners-up in the 2010 Copa Libertadores. According to a 2016 study, Guadalajara was the most popular Mexican club, with 44.2% of supporters. In 2020, Forbes estimated the club was the most valuable of the league, worth approximately $311.5 million.
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