As of the end of the 2024–25 season, Cruz Azul has competed in 98 seasons overall, including 60 seasons in the top tier of the Mexican football league system and three in the second division. The table below details the club's achievements in domestic and international competitions from their early participation in regional leagues, through their professional era starting in the 1960s, up to the most recent completed season.
Cruz Azul was founded in 1927 as a company football team in Jasso, Hidalgo, by workers of Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, S.C.L.[2] The club competed in amateur leagues during its early decades, earning recognition in the Liga Amateur del Estado de Hidalgo, where it reportedly won numerous regional titles. In 1960, the club turned professional and joined the Segunda División de México, achieving promotion to the Primera División by winning the 1963–64 season.[3] Cruz Azul won its first Primera División championship in the 1968–69 season and quickly became one of Mexico's dominant teams in the 1970s, claiming six league titles between 1969 and 1980.[4] During this golden era, they also won multiple domestic cups and became widely known as La Máquina Celeste due to their dominant style of play. In the 1968–69 season, the club won a historic continental treble, consisting of the Primera División, Copa México, and CONCACAF Champions' Cup—a feat never before achieved in Mexican football.[5] After a 23-year league title drought, Cruz Azul lifted their ninth league trophy—and their first in the Liga MX era—in the Guardianes 2021 tournament under Juan Reynoso.[6]
The club first entered international competition in the 1969 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, where they won their first continental title.[4] Cruz Azul went on to win a total of seven CONCACAF titles, adding further victories in the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, 2010s, and 2020s. In the 1996–97 season, the club secured another continental treble, winning the Invierno 1997 league title, the 1996–97 Copa México, and the 1997 CONCACAF Champions' Cup. With these accomplishments, Cruz Azul became the first club in the world to win the continental treble twice, and remains the only team in Mexico and CONCACAF—and one of just five globally—to have achieved this feat more than once.[7] In 2001, the club made history by becoming the first Mexican team to reach the Copa Libertadores final, narrowly losing to Boca Juniors in a penalty shootout.[8] Cruz Azul also finished as runners-up in the Copa Interamericana in 1971.[9]
↑ The Segunda División de México was the second tier of Mexican football until 1994.
↑ Automatically awarded as league and cup champion.
↑ The Clausura 2020 season was ended early due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, Cruz Azul concluded the league season in first place, but were not awarded the title.
References
↑ "Palmarés". Club de Futbol Cruz Azul. Archived from the original on 20 September 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
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