HOME





1996–97 Copa México
The 1996–97 Copa México was the 67th staging of the Copa México and the 40th staging in the professional era. The competition did not return until 2012. The competition started on June 28, 1996, and concluded on August 3, 1996, with the final, in which Cruz Azul lifted the trophy for second time, with a 2-0 victory over Toros Neza. For this edition was played by 33 teams, between Primera División and Primera División A, where the group winners advance to the semi-finals. In the qualifying round, a penalty shutout follows if tie after regulation. the group stage was a 1-game serie. Group stage Group 1 Teams from Primera División: Atlante F.C., Celaya, Morelia, Toros Neza, Pachuca and Toluca Teams from Primera División A: Cruz Azul Hidalgo, Irapuato and San Luis Group 2 Teams from Primera División: Atlas, Guadalajara, Club León, León and Tecos UAG Teams from Primera División A: Guerreros Fútbol Club, Hermosillo, CF La Piedad, La Piedad, Atlético San Francisco, ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Tigres UANL
Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, abbreviated as Tigres UANL and simply known as Tigres or internationally as Tigres de México, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico. Founded in 1960 as Club Deportivo Universitario de Nuevo León and then changed to its current name in 1967. The club has spent 60 years in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. They had their first major success in the 1975–76 season, becoming the first team from Nuevo León to win a trophy by conquering the Copa MX against Club América. Tigres have been league champions eight times, and have won the Copa MX three times. In international competitions, Tigres won a CONCACAF Champions League title in 2020 CONCACAF Champions League, 2020 (finishing as runners-up three times), and was the 2015 Copa Libertadores Finals runner-up to Club Atlético River Plate, River Pl ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Chivas De Guadalajara
Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V. (;), nicknamed ''"Chivas"'' () and simply known as Guadalajara or internationally as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. It competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. The club was founded in 1906 as Unión Football Club, then changed its name to Guadalajara Football Club in 1908, and then changed to its current name in 1923. Guadalajara was one of the founding members of the Liga Mayor in 1943 (currently Liga MX), which was the first professional football league created in Mexico, and is one of seven teams that have never been relegated. Guadalajara have played their home matches at Estadio Akron in Zapopan since 2010, having previously played at Estadio Jalisco. Guadalajara is the only football club in Mexico that does not sign foreign players unless they are of Mexican descent. The team has historically relied on home-grown (''cantera'') pla ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Necaxa
Impulsora del Deportivo Necaxa S.A. de C.V. (); often simply known as Club Necaxa, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Aguascalientes (city), Aguascalientes. It competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. It was founded on August 21, 1923 in Mexico City by the Scottish-born engineer William H. Frasser. In 2003, it changed its headquarters to the city of Aguascalientes, in the Aguascalientes, state of the same name. The team plays its home games at Estadio Victoria. The club has 12 titles in its record (three in the League, four in the Copa MX, Mexico Cup, two in the Campeón de Campeones, Champion of Champions, one in the Supercopa MX, Mexican Super Cup, one in the CONCACAF Champions Cup and one in the CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup), as well as well as four Ascenso MX, Promotion League titles and two as winners of the promotion series. It was the first team to win the double in Mexico, winning the Leagu ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Tigres B
Tigres UANL Premier was the Liga Premier affiliate team of Tigres UANL. They played in the lower division to provide a training ground for prospective players aspiring to play in the Primera División de México. They played in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León. With the changes made to the Primera División "A", Tigres B disappeared from the Liga de Ascenso before starting the Apertura 2009. But, Cachorros UANL appeared in the Segunda Division de Mexico in 2010–11 Season and disappeared after 2014–15 season, but moved to Liga Premier as Tigres Liga Premier beginning 2015–16 season. History They were born in 1991 as a Third Division team, and they were then called Tigrillos UANL (Tigrillos means "little tigers"). They played in Monterrey in those times. In 1994, they won the Third Division championship and gained a right to participate in the Second Division. A few years later, in 1996, under the tutorship of Osvaldo Batocletti, they were again promoted, this time to ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Correcaminos UAT
Club de Fútbol Correcaminos de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, simply known as Correcaminos UAT, is a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football. Correcaminos played in the Primera Division De Mexico from the 1987–88 season to the 1994–95 season. They play in the Estadio Marte R. Gómez, which has a capacity of 10,520, the team is named after the Greater Roadrunner native to the region, which is also the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas' official mascot. History The club was founded in 1980 and represents the UAT as well as the city of Ciudad Victoria. It replaced the city's former team, Los Cuerudos, following the team's folding in 1978. The club joined the Segunda División de México in 1982 and played in the 1982–83 tournament. In the 1986–87 tournament the club reached the championship final against the Universidad Autónoma de Queré ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Tampico Madero
Club Jaiba Brava, formerly known as Tampico Madero, is a Mexican professional association football, football club based in Tampico and Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, that plays in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. The club was founded in 1982 as Deportivo Social Tampico Madero. The club changed its name to TM Fútbol Club in 2016, then again to Club Deportivo y Social Tampico Madero in 2022, and finally changed to its current name in 2024. History The club was founded on September 5, 1982 when the city of Tampicomdecided to buy out a struggling club made up from players from the Atletas Campesinos and some from the precursor club, C.D. Tampico A.C, that had been relegated and dissolved. That year the club struggled once again, finishing 14th in the league. The following year, the club would earn 9th place. The 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico was split into two short tournaments, the Prode 85 and Mexico 86. In th ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Saltillo Soccer
Saltillo Soccer Fútbol Club is a Mexican football club from Saltillo, Coahuila that plays in the Liga TDP. History Since 1991, businessman Jorge Lankenau Rocha, owner of Grupo Financiero Abaco, had bought C.F. Monterrey with immediate results, obtaining the title of the 1991–92 Copa México, the runner-up in 1992–92 Primera División and the championship of the 1993 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup. During 1995, C.F. Monterrey continued to achieve success in all divisions of Mexican Soccer, and having a very complete squad of players and basic forces, the Club decided to buy the recently created Halcones de Aguascalientes franchise that played in Primera División "A", league prelude to the First Division of Mexican Soccer and moves the franchise to the neighboring city of Saltillo, Coahuila taking as a base of players some young people who had recently won the Third Division championship and incorporated some experienced players. This is how the players, instead of being promo ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Santos Laguna
Club Santos Laguna S.A. de C.V., simply known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club based in Torreón, Coahuila. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1983 as Club Santos IMSS Laguna by the Mexican Social Security Institute of the state of Durango, and the following year it changed to its current name. Santos Laguna reached Mexico's top division after buying Ángeles de Puebla. The club debuted in first division in the 1988–89 season. Domestically, Santos Laguna has won 6 Liga MX championships, as well as 1 Copa MX and 1 Campeón de Campeones cup. It has also reached the finals of the CONCACAF Champions League twice, finishing runners-up on both occasions. Santos is the third football club formed in the Comarca Laguerna region, after the unsuccessful Laguna and Torreón. In 2018, the club celebrated its 35th anniversary with a change in their logo. In a February 17, 2013 poll, by Consulta Mitofsky, ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Club América
Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Club América, is a professional association football, football club based in Mexico City. Nicknamed ''Las Águilas'' (The Eagles), it competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. The club was founded in 1916, and since 1959 has been owned by mass media company Televisa. The team plays its home games at Estadio Azteca, Estadio Banorte, the largest stadium in Latin America and List of association football stadiums by capacity, one of the largest in the world. América is one of the Liga MX#Founding members, founding members of the Primera División. The club has a long-standing rivalry with C.D. Guadalajara, Guadalajara, as both are the most successful and most supported teams in the country and are among the seven List of unrelegated association football clubs, clubs to have never been relegated. Matches between them are known as ''El Súper Clásico (Mexico), El Súper Clásico'', ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Club Tijuana
Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, simply known as Tijuana or Xolos, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Tijuana, Baja California, that competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. The club was founded in 2007, it plays its home games at Estadio Caliente. Its badge is the founder's (Jorge Hank) hairless Xoloitzcuintle, Hermoso. After winning the 2010 Apertura Tournament of the Mexican Promotion League, the club obtained the right to play in 2010–11 Liga de Ascenso season, the promotion final against C.D. Irapuato, which it defeated to obtain promotion to play the 2011–12 Mexican Primera División season, 2011 Apertura Tournament. The team won the first title in its history in the 2012–13 Liga MX season, 2012 Apertura Tournament of Liga MX. History The club is the 2nd latest in a long line of league teams in the city of Tijuana. Gallos Caliente was instituted in the summer of 2006 but it disappeared that same year. The ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Atlético San Francisco
Atlético San Francisco, (simply known as Brujos) is a Mexican professional football club. The club plays in the Serie B de México and is based in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato, Mexico. It was established in 1966 and it has never played in the Primera División Profesional. History Atlético San Francisco was founded in 1966 and in that same year the club join the Segunda División. The club has never being able to play in the Primera División. In 1994, the club played in the inaugural season of the new second-tier Primera División A. In 1999, the club was relegated back to the Segunda División. Between 1999 and 2005 San Francisco played in Segunda División. The club ever since has been again relegated to the Tercera División de México and has played there between 2005 and 2019. On June 8, 2019, Atlético San Francisco defeated Aguacateros C.D.U. Uruapan in the semifinal of the 2018-19 season with this result the team won one of the two promotion place for the Li ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


CF La Piedad
Club de Fútbol La Piedad is a Mexican football club based in La Piedad, Michoacán. The club currently plays in the Liga Premier de Ascenso de Mexico in the Liga Premier. Reboceros was founded in 1951 by football players from "Perros Bravos" neighborhood, most of them were craftsman working with leather and textile. History First years of the club The club was founded in 1951. In 1952, the team won the Second Division and was promoted to Primera División, however, the squad was relegated in 1953. After 1953 relegation, the team would spend several years playing in the Second Division and Primera División 'A'. In 2001 the club won the Verano 2001 championship defeating Toros Neza. Later, La Piedad won the promotion to the First Division by winning Gallos de Aguascalientes in the promotion playoff. Return to Primera División and first disappearance of the club La Piedad returned to Primera División in the Invierno 2001 tournament, the team finished in 18th place with 19 p ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]