Final Clausura 2015 vs América

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, athlete and dentist employed by the cooperative, advocated for football over baseball, and after a referendum on 22 March 1927, football was selected. The team was formally established on 22 May 1927, with Garcés López as its first manager. The club's working-class roots were reinforced when workers took over the cooperative in 1931 after financial difficulties. Between 1932 and 1943, Cruz Azul won 15 consecutive league titles in a local amateur league in Hidalgo. The club gained professional status in the early 1960s and earned promotion to the Primera División in the 1963–64 season.

Reader's Guide

Cruz Azul has won ten league titles, four Copa MX, four Campeón de Campeones, and holds the joint-record with 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. The club achieved a continental treble in the 1968–69 season, becoming the first CONCACAF club and third worldwide to accomplish this feat, and later the first club worldwide to have won the continental treble twice. Cruz Azul maintains a long-standing rivalry with América, known as the Clásico Joven.

Did You Know?

• Cruz Azul was the first CONCACAF club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores.
• The club has the most league runner-up finishes (12) in Mexican football.