At the end of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, one team made history. Cruz Azul, a team founded in 1927 in the state of Hidalgo and based in Mexico City since 1971, began to create its own history by winning seven titles in 12 years. Since the team has belonged to the cement company of the same name since its beginnings, when in the advertising spots of that company a hare appeared running while the slogan talking about the drying of cement commented: “fast as a target”, its followers immediately adopted the rabbit as the official mascot, without being so, of the team born in Jasso, Hidalgo. A fan dressed in the costume of a white rabbit began to appear at the games, then blue, and like wildfire he became associated with the team's mascot, to such a degree that cartoonists in the newspapers represented him as such for a long time. Also in the Azteca stadium, in the stands, a horn with the characteristic sound of the railroad could be heard and the commentator Ángel Fernández, a...

 The light blue ones The club has its official cheerleaders club, which were included as part of the institution since 2004, since then, they act as cheerleaders in the club's performances at home games, before and at halftime. “Las Celestes” are part of the club. And they are the only Mexican team that has official cheerleaders as part of their squad. Nicknames La Liebre is the animal used to represent the team.Based on the multi-champion team of the 1970s, it was baptized as La Máquina, comparing it to a locomotive.Cruz Azul has a rich variety of nicknames throughout its history, listed chronologically: Cementeros: as a result of its affiliation to Cementera Cruz Azul, the first nickname refers directly to the company's workers, since the team was originally formed with them. Over the years, the concept was extended not only to those who worked in the cooperative, but to construction workers in general. Liebres: when the team was promoted to the first division in the mid-1960...

 10 de Diciembre (1964-1971) Main article: 10 de Diciembre Stadium Located in Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul, Hidalgo State, it is a multipurpose stadium built in 1964,35 which currently hosts Cruz Azul's subsidiary teams. The stadium has a capacity of 17,000 fans. This building was the first stadium the team used in the First Division, from 1964 to 1971. It was here that they won their first two league titles (1968-69 and Mexico 1970) and one Mexican Cup title in 1996-97. Despite abandoning the stadium, the team kept it as an alternate venue, playing multiple official matches there, especially in the Copa México, the Concacaf Champions Cup and some league matches in extraordinary situations, such as vetoes, schedule changes or matches that were scheduled to coincide with other events, and even played several home matches here in the 1985 Prode and 1986 Mexico 1986 tournaments, alternating with the Estadio Corregidora. Azteca (1971-1996 and 2018-2023) Main article: Azteca Stadium The...

 After a forgettable end to 2020, Cruz Azul had to reorganize immediately, with a view to the Guard1anes Clausura 2021. First, Juan Reynoso was appointed as the new technical director. Reynoso, as a player, was part of the Cementero squad that had won the league title in Invierno 97'. Álvaro Dávila, who served as the club's executive president, also arrived at the club. Dávila was the one who chose to take Reynoso as technical director. Cruz Azul made its debut in that tournament, losing 1-0 to Santos Laguna. On matchday two, they lost again, this time at home, 1-0 to Puebla. It was on the third matchday when the light blue team would get their first points of the tournament, beating Pachuca Tuzos, 0-1 at home. From that point on, everything took a positive turn for Cruz Azul. That win was the first in a streak of twelve consecutive victories for the team. This is a Liga MX record (which it shares with León in the Clausura 2019). The streak ended until matchday 15, when Cruz Az...

 The highlight of this period was the runner-up finish in the 2001 Copa Libertadores, where they lost the final against two-time champions Boca Juniors in a penalty shootout. This was Cruz Azul's first participation in the competition. The team was the sensation of that edition, beating teams such as Defensor Sporting, Sao Caetano, Centro Deportivo Olmedo, Cerro Porteño, River Plate and Rosario Central. In 2003 it also qualified for the Cup, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Santos of Brazil. This result was influenced in a decisive way by the internal conflict that led to the termination of the contracts of a large part of the staff. From 2001 to 2004, Cruz Azul had seasons that were barely in the mid-table due to internal problems. However, they managed to qualify for the playoffs, being the only team that managed to qualify for the post-season while in eleventh place overall for three consecutive seasons and even reached the semifinals (Clausura 2004). However, in the 2...

In the 1980-81 season, Cruz Azul was on track to win its second three-time championship, but this intention was put to an end by Pumas UNAM, who had lost the first leg 1-0 at the Azteca Stadium, but won 4-1 at Ciudad Universitaria, in what was also the farewell of Hugo Sánchez, who was leaving for Atlético de Madrid in Spain. From that moment on, Cruz Azul entered a period of title drought, although it reached three more league finals (against Guadalajara in 1987, América in 1989 and Necaxa in 1995) and one cup final (against Puebla in 1988). During that period, Cruz Azul did not qualify for four league finals, and in the 1989-90 season they were second to last in the table, only above Atlante and Tampico Madero, although they were not in danger of relegation. It distinguished itself by being an animator of the league round, but without winning the longed-for championship until the introduction of the short tournaments. After failing to qualify for the playoffs in the first two short t...

 From the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Cruz Azul became the most winning and spectacular club in the country. In that period it won seven league titles (including a tri-championship and a bicampeonato), two Campeón de Campeones titles and three Concacaf Champions Cups. Cruz Azul's great boom came with the decision of the Cementera board of directors to move the team from Ciudad Cooperativa to the then Federal District, in response to the needs required by the team's growing popularity. The Celeste squad became a legendary team with players such as Miguel Marín, Javier “Kalimán” Guzmán, Alberto Quintano, Javier Sánchez Galindo, Ignacio Flores, Cesáreo Victorino Ramírez, Octavio Muciño, Fernando Bustos, Eladio Vera and Horacio López Salgado, among others. At the end of the decade, another group of excellent players would join the team, such as Carlos Jara Saguier, Rodolfo Montoya, Miguel Ángel Cornero, Guillermo Mendizábal, Gerardo Lugo Gómez, José Luis Ceballos and Adriá...

 A month later, the Cementeros made their debut in the first division in the 1963-64 Cup tournament, visiting Necaxa, with whom they lost 1-0 on February 23. In the League tournament they played their first match on June 6, 1964 in Monterrey, being defeated 4-1 by Monterrey. The first triumph of the Cementeros took place on the third date of the championship and took place in Guadalajara with a 3-2 victory over Oro. Cruz Azul finished its first season in the maximum circuit in eighth place. With their promotion to the First Division, Cruz Azul knew that this meant the beginning of a road to be traveled in the face of the unknown future and after four seasons fighting for top honors, they won their first league title. Thus, Cementera's history began to be written, becoming one of the most important clubs in the Mexican league with its nine titles. Just five years after being promoted to the First Division, Cruz Azul transferred its first league player named Gerardo Pacheco, the tran...

Foundation, foray into professionalism and promotion  The history of the club dates back to 1881. When it was a foreign mercantile society under the auspices of the English businessman Henry Gibbon. Fifty years later, on November 2, 1931, it became a Mexican cooperative society, with 192 founding members. On May 21, 1932, the then governor of the state of Hidalgo, Bartolomé Vargas Lugo, decreed the expropriation of Sociedad Cooperativa Manufacturera de Cemento Portland La Cruz Azul S.C.L. (La Cruz Azul). On December 10, 1953, Guillermo Álvarez Macías assumed the position of president of the board of directors, and marked a fundamental step towards modernity, productivity, in order to provide the members, the workers, with social, sports, cultural, recreational and health welfare. The Blue Blood (bar). The club was founded in 1927 when the workers of Cooperativa La Cruz Azul S.C.L. wanted to participate in baseball and soccer. In the end they opted for soccer. Among the main promote...

Club de Fútbol Cruz Azul, better known as Cruz Azul, is a professional club in the First Division of Mexican soccer, based in Mexico City.It was founded by the cement company Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, in the town of Jasso, later renamed Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul, in the state of Hidalgo.It is in fourth place in the history of the First Division, with nine championships won, four editions of the Copa México, three trophies as Champion of Champions, one Supercopa MX and one Supercopa de la Liga MX. Internationally, it is the club with the second most CONCACAF Champions League titles with 6. Its accumulated track record makes it the third most successful team in Mexican soccer, with a total of 24 official titles. It was also runner-up in the 2001 Libertadores Cup and the 1972 Inter-American Cup.