Las Águilas

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). 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.

In Their Own Story

The match was in the seventieth minute. The score was level. The Azteca had been breathing as one organism for two hours, a single lung of eighty thousand people, and now it held its breath.

A cross swung from the left. The ball hung in the amber floodlight, spinning, and for a half-second the entire bowl went silent — not the silence of absence but the silence of eight thousand throats clamped shut at once. Then the header. The net rippled. And the sound that followed was not a cheer. It was a detonation. A physical shockwave that you felt in the soles of your boots, in the fillings of your teeth. The blue scarves rose like a tide. A stranger next to you grabbed your shoulder and screamed a name you had never heard before, and you screamed it back because the air demanded it.

You did not remember the goal. You remembered the silence before it, the way the light caught the sweat on your upper lip, the way the person beside you wept and did not care. You remembered that for ninety minutes you were not a person with a job and a mortgage. You were a feather on the wing of something vast and blue and endless. You were an Águila.

Reader's Guide

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, not 1906.
• The club's nickname Las Águilas means 'The Eagles'.
• América was the first football club to be floated on the Mexican Stock Exchange in 2024.
• The club has won a record sixteen league titles in Mexican football.