Azul y Blanco

Lore & Background

Cruz Azul was founded in the late 1920s in Jasso, Hidalgo, where cement company Cooperativa La Cruz Azul fostered a connection with football. Carlos Garcés López, a footballer and dentist employed by the cooperative, advocated for football to become the company's official sport. After a referendum on 22 March 1927, football was selected, and the team was formally established on 22 May 1927. The club won 15 consecutive league titles in a local amateur league between 1932 and 1943. Cruz Azul earned promotion to the Primera División in the 1963–64 season.

Reader's Guide

Cruz Azul plays its home matches at Estadio Azteca. The club has won ten league titles, four Copa MX, four Campeón de Campeones, one Supercopa de la Liga MX, and one Supercopa MX. In international competitions, with seven titles, the club holds the joint-record for the most successful club in the history of the CONCACAF Champions Cup/Champions League. Cruz Azul is one of only seven Mexican clubs to have never been relegated from the top flight.

Did You Know?

• Cruz Azul is the first CONCACAF club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores.
• The club achieved a continental treble in the 1968–69 season, becoming the first CONCACAF club and third worldwide to accomplish this feat.
• The club holds the record for the most league runner-up finishes (12).