América beat Cruz Azul by a score of 1-0 in the grand final of the Clausura 2024 tournament of the MX League. In this way, the Águilas obtained their 15th title and solidified their status as the top winners in Mexican soccer. In this list we review who the last 10 Aztec football champions have been.
10. America (Closing 2024)
This Sunday, May 26, Club América was crowned champion of the Clausura 2024 tournament of Liga MX. The Águilas won 1-0 against Cruz Azul and won their 15th league title. Henry Martín and Luis Ángel Malagón were the great figures of America in this championship.
9. America (Opening 2023)
In a match of gritted teeth, Club América won against Tigres by a score of 3-0. Julián Quiñones, Richard Sánchez and Jonathan ‘Cabecita’ Rodríguez were the authors of the goals. The UANL team was left with nine players after the expulsions of Nahuel Guzmán and Raymundo Fulgencio.
8. Tigres (Clausura 2023)
The group led by Robert Dante Siboldi was able to come back and beat Chivas de Guadalajara at the Akron Stadium. The felines defeated the Sacred Flock by score of 3-2 with goals from Guido Pizarro, André Pierre Gignac and Sebastián Córdova.
In this way, the UANL team won its eighth Liga MX title, thus surpassing Pumas and tying León.
7. Pachuca (Opening 2022)
The Pachuca Tuzos They were crowned by beating the Red Devils of Toluca by a landslide on aggregate 8-2. With this victory, those from La Bella Airosa reached 7 cups, equaling teams like Tigres and Pumas in championships.
6. Atlas (Closing 2022)
The previous tournament was for the Atlas foxes. The red and black team had a good tournament and reached the final to measure their strength against Pachuca. In the first game, the Guadalajara team defeated those led by Almada with goals from Luis Reyes and Julián Quiñones.
Back in Hidalgo, Romario Ibarra and Nicolás Ibáñez scored for Pachuca, although Julio Furch scored for Atlas, thus leaving the aggregate 3-2 and winning the two-time championship.
5. Atlas (Opening 2021)
One of the most dramatic finals was the one played in the Apertura 2021. Atlas and León faced each other in the grand final of Mexican soccer and the scoreboard favored the Guadalajara team.
After having lost the first leg 3-2, Aldo Rocha scored the goal in the second leg that sent everything to overtime and, later, to the penalty shootout.
Goalkeeper Camilo Vargas put on the gloves of magnetism and saved Luis Mntes’ penalty, thus giving Atlas its second star after so many years of fasting.
4. Cruz Azul (Guard1anes 2021)
Guard1anes 2021 witnessed how Blue Cross He removed the curse that plagued him for more than 20 years and won the championship by beating Santos Laguna in the grand final, with an aggregate score of 2-1.
The Machine’s goals were the work of Luis Romo and Jonathan Rodríguez, while the extra goal for Torreón was scored by Diego Valdés.
3. León (Guard1anes 2020)
The Green Bellies of the Lion They won the title of the 2020 Guard1anes Tournament by beating the Pumas overall. In the first leg the score was a 1-1 draw, with goals from Carlos González and Emmanuel Gigliotti, respectively.
Everything would be defined for the return match, and on December 13 the Nou Camp hosted the match that ended 2-0 for the Esmeraldas, with goals from Gigliotti and Yairo Moreno, leaving the aggregate 3-1.
2. Monterrey (Opening 2019)
In the 2019 Apertura Tournament, the two best teams in the competition, América and Montereythey measured forces in the grand final.
The first match took place at the BBVA, a venue that witnessed the victory of Rayados by a score of 2-1.
For the return match, the colossal Azteca Stadium was packed and América won 2-1, so everything would be decided in overtime. After not getting hurt in extra time, Guido Rodríguez and Nicolás Castillo failed on penalties, so Leonel Vangioni scored the title goal for Monterrey.
1. Tigres UANL (Clausura 2019)
The Clausura 2019 witnessed a confrontation between ‘beasts’. On the one hand, the Green Bellies of the Lion, and on the other the Tigers of the U’.
In the first match played at the ‘Volcán’, the university students took the lead by the minimum with a goal from Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac.
Back at the Nou Camp, the match was strange, bittersweet, with little intensity and ended with a score of zero goals, thus winning the team led by Ricardo Ferretti.
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