1955–56 Liga MX Championship

Lore & Background

Cruz Azul was founded in 1927 in Jasso, Hidalgo, as Club Deportivo, Social y Cultural Cruz Azul, A.C., after a referendum on 22 March 1927 selected football over baseball. The club relocated to Mexico City in 1971. It was renamed Cruz Azul Fútbol Club, A.C. in 2012, before adopting its current name in 2022. The club has never been relegated from the top flight.

Domestically, it has won ten league titles, four Copa MX, four Campeón de Campeones, one Supercopa de la Liga MX, and one Supercopa MX. Internationally, it holds the joint-record for the most CONCACAF Champions Cup/Champions League titles (seven). Cruz Azul is the first CONCACAF club to reach the Copa Libertadores final and achieved a continental treble in 1968–69, becoming the first CONCACAF club and third worldwide to do so, and later the first club worldwide to win the continental treble twice.

The club maintains a long-standing rivalry with América, known as the Clásico Joven. According to polls, Cruz Azul is the third-most popular team in Mexico, behind América and Guadalajara.

Reader's Guide

Cruz Azul's early years were in amateur leagues in Hidalgo, winning 15 consecutive local titles between 1932 and 1943. The club gained professional registration in 1961 after competing in the 1960–61 Copa de la Segunda División. It earned promotion to the Primera División by finishing first in the 1963–64 Segunda División season under coach Jorge Marik.