Club Deportivo Veracruz, commonly known as Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, was a Mexican professional football club based in the city of Veracruz. Founded in 1943, and played in the Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football.
Club de Fútbol Pachuca is a Mexican professional football club based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, that plays in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1892 as Pachuca Football Club, then changed its name to Pachuca Athletic Club in 1895, and was refounded in 1960 under its current name. The club was founded by workers of the Mexican mining company called "Compañia Real del Monte y Pachuca", which had mostly British miners immigrants from Camborne and Redruth, who were the first to introduce football to Mexico. Nicknamed "Tuzos", it pays tribute and refers to the history and mining heritage of the club and the city of Pachuca. It was the first football club founded in Mexico, and was one of the founding members of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, which was the first amateur football league created in Mexico.
Real Club España, A.C., simply known as Real España or Club España, is a Mexican sports club based in Mexico City. The club hosted a large variety of sports and other activities such as aerobics, basque pelota, billiards, canoeing, climbing wall, football, gymnastics, jai alai, mountaineering, paddle tennis, paleta frontón, rowing, Spanish dances, squash, swimming, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting. The football club was founded in 1912 under the name España Foot-Ball Club and changed its name to Real Club España in 1920.
Club Deportivo Albinegros de Orizaba was a football club of the city of Orizaba, in the state of Veracruz. Founded in 1898 as "Orizaba Athletic Club", it was founded by Scottish migrant Duncan Mac Comish Mac Donald who owned a local steel company. In the beginning, the club hosted cricket among other sports.
Copa MX, officially known as Copa Corona MX for sponsorship reasons, was the domestic cup tournament of Mexican football. Formerly known as Copa México and also as Copa Presidente (1963–1970), the first season of the professional era was held in 1942–43. The cup tournament was not held in several years and currently the competition has been paused since the 2019–20 edition. It was the first tournament that included teams from different parts of Mexico and was considered a prestigious competition, especially during its earlier years of existence. The purpose of the competition was to determine a national cup champion, thus distinguishing it from the national league championship. Its format was different from the local leagues as well, as it employed direct elimination and culminated in a final match.
British Football Club was a Mexican football club based in Mexico City, that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association from 1902 to 1913. Founded in 1901 under the name British Club, in the 1909–10 changed its name to British FC, then in the 1910–11 it merged with Popo Park FC and changed its name to British-Popo. Finally in the 1911–12, it changed its name again to British FC.
México Cricket Club was a Mexican cricket and football club that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association from 1902 to 1908. The cricket team was founded in 1827 and later the football team was founded in 1901 in Mexico City. It played the 1905–06 season under the name San Pedro Golf Club and then changed its name to Mexico Country Club (1906–08).
Rovers Football Club was a Mexican football club based in Mexico City, that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association from 1912 to 1914.
Club de Football México, A.C., simply known as Club México and also as México FC, was a football club based in Mexico City, that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association and later participated in the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza/Liga Mayor.
Asturias Football Club was a sports club based in Mexico City. Founded in 1918 as Club Asturias, the club played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association (1919–1922), and also played in the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza/Liga Mayor (1922–1943). Asturias was one of the founding members of the Liga Mayor, the first professional league in Mexico, which it participated from 1943 to 1950.
Germania Fußball-Verein was a football club based in Mexico City, that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association and later participated in the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza/Liga Mayor from 1922 to 1933.
The 1902-03 season was the inaugural edition of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, the first amateur football league in Mexico. Formed on July 19, 1902 and the first match was held on October 19. It was organized by the Asociación de Aficionados de México en la Liga de Football, with 5 participating teams that played each other once in a round-robin format.
The 1905-06 season was the edition IV of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association. San Pedro Golf Club changed its name to Mexico Country Club.
The 1911-12 season was the edition X of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association. Only 3 teams participated, after the team "British-Popo" was divided and then British Club withdrew and Popo Park was dissolved. It was the first season with a playoff match between Reforma and Pachuca, in which the winner was Reforma.
Puebla Athletic Club was a Mexican sports club based in the city of Puebla. The club was mostly known for its football team, that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association from 1904 to 1907. Founded in 1892 as Puebla Football Club and then changed its name to Puebla Athletic Club in 1894.
Campeonato de Primera Fuerza, later known as Liga Mayor, was an amateur football league founded by the first football governing body formed in Mexico after the merger of the Liga Mexicana and Liga Nacional, it was called Federación Mexicana de Football Asociación . Asturias FC won the inaugural season and CD Marte were the last champions. It had the total participation of 18 teams, of which only 2 teams played their matches outside of Mexico City. The league was held from 1922 to 1943, when the first true national and professional league was started.
Liga Amateur de Veracruz was a former football league in Mexico founded by local businessmen in the state of Veracruz, where clubs from the State of Veracruz played from 1908 to 1943.The league folded in 1943 when the Primera División de México the first professional league in Mexico was founded. Important clubs came out of this club such as Orizaba, Veracruz Sporting Club, Iberia de Córdoba, Iberia de Veracruz, and Moctezuma.
Popo Park Football Club, simply known as Popo FC, was a Mexican football club based in Mexico City, that participated in the 1909–10 season of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association. The following season, it joined British Club to make a single team called British-Popo with all the players switching over for the 1911–12 season.
The Club de Futbol Espana De Puebla was a Mexican club that was one of the pioneers of association football in the state and city of Puebla. The club was founded in 1915 as Puebla FC, by mostly Mexican natives and the Spaniard community. The club was one of the most successful of the amateur era in Puebla. The club would dissolve in the early 1940s when it merged with Asturias de Puebla, a few years before professional football was established in Mexico. History would have it that the club would return and form part of Puebla F.C., the same name the club was founded with in 1915.
The Apertura 2017 Copa MX Final was the final of the Apertura 2017 Copa MX, the eleventh edition of the Copa MX under its current format and 78th overall organized by the Mexican Football Federation, the governing body of association football in Mexico.
