Club León is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. León has won the Primera División de MéxicoLiga MX title eight times. It is ranked No. 29 in the IFFHS Central and North America’s best clubs of the 20th century.
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Club León is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. León has won the Primera División de MéxicoLiga MX title eight times. It is ranked No. 29 in the IFFHS Central and North America’s best clubs of the 20th century. The team debuted at Patria Stadium on August 20, 1944, against Atlante and lost by a score of 5–3. In the 1945–46 season another team appeared in the city: the San Sebastián de León. The club qualified for the Champion’s Cup in 1998 until it was eliminated in the semi-final. Since 2016, Univision Deportes holds the U.S. broadcasting rights to León home games. Club Leon has attracted a non-Spanish speaking football fanbase and managed to secure new Spanish-language broadcast partnerships with Fox Sports Latinoamérica in Mexico and Telemundo Deporte in the United States. Three of the team’s coaches have been coached by Filippo Casullo, Antonio López Herranz, and Sergio Saturnino. Club León won the League and the MéxICO Cup in 1949, and became the first Mexican campeonísimo. It became the second-only Mexican club to win back-to-back championships in the current short-tournament format in the Apertura 2013.
In Clausura 2014, it became champion for the second year in a row by defeating Pachuca with 4–3, giving it its seventh championship star and the title of \”bicampeones\”. The team had a great campaign being runner-up with 41 points and maintained a fourteen-game winning streak. Their top scorer, with 24 goals, Alberto Mendoza, was the top scorer in the 1946–47 season with 33 goals. A match againstAtlante was scheduled place in Mexico City on June 1, 1947, in the Stadium Insurgentes, but had to switch venues due to an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease afflicting the Bajío region. They placed fourth out of 16 teams with 30 games, 17 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses for 38 points. They lost seven of them against Atlas Gold at first place with the score of 2–0 with the team tied at 36 points with the first place. In August 1949, the team switched coaches to Antonio Herzranz and Antonio Carbajal. After defeating Atlante 3–0 on August 14, 1949, they won the cup after defeating Asturias 2-0 with goals from Adalberto Lopez and Sergio Martino.
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