Campeón de Campeones


Campeón de Campeones is an association football competition in Mexico and the domestic Super cup between the Liga MX champions of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, the two champions of each season. It was initially a Super cup between the league and cup champions. It was not held in several years. Since 2018, the winners of the Campeón de Campeones have competed in the Campeones Cup, facing the MLS champions.
América and Guadalajara are the most successful clubs with 7 titles each, followed by León, Toluca and Atlas with 5 titles each. In all, eighteen clubs have won the competition at least once.

History

The beginning of the professional era of the Campeón de Campeones was established for the 1942–43 season, the first professional edition was held in 1943. Previously, an edition was played corresponding to the 1941–42 season, still in the considered amateur era of Mexican football.
The trophy was presented by the president of Mexico at the time, Manuel Ávila Camacho. From 1942 to 1995 the tournament was contested between the Liga MX champions and the Copa MX champions. Traditionally the single match to determine the "super cup" winner was held at the end of the season at a stadium in Mexico City.
If a team won the league and cup titles of the same year, they were awarded the title Campeonísimo with an automatic awarding of the Campeón de Campeones trophy. To date this has only occurred on five occasions.
After 1995 the league championship was split into two shorter seasons Apertura and Clausura. Then in 1997, the FMF canceled the cup tournament. Due to these changes, the Campeón de Campeones was postponed. The competition resumed in the 2002–03 season; however, this time it was contested between the champions of Apertura and Clausura. The competition was held four times and was placed on hiatus again from 2007 to 2014.
In 2012, an unofficial match was played between the Liga MX champions and the Ascenso MX champions, Leon beat Santos Laguna 2–0. In the 2013–14 season, the Liga MX stipulated that a Campeón de Campeones match should be contested between the champions of the Apertura 2013 and Copa MX Apertura 2013, but it was not officially disputed.
The format was changed to a single match at a neutral site, which is in the United States and shared with the Supercopa MX match, and the team with the higher aggregate table points across both Apertura and Clausura tournaments is declared the designated “home” team.
In 2015, the Liga MX restarted the Campeón de Campeones with the match between Santos Laguna and América, the match was played at a neutral venue, that was the first edition of the competition that was played in the United States.
Similarly to the traditional tournament, if a team wins both the Apertura and Clausura seasons, the team is automatically awarded the Campeón de Campeones trophy. This has occurred twice, Atlas in 2022 for winning the 2021 Apertura and the 2022 Clausura. Club América in 2024 for winning the 2023 Apertura and the 2024 Clausura.

Supercopa de la Liga MX

Supercopa de la Liga MX is the domestic Super cup between two winners of the Campeón de Campeones, if the club won both Apertura and Clausura tournaments in the same Liga MX season, the Campeón de Campeones will be awarded automatically. However, due to the league commercial commitments, the club will be featured against previous winners of the trophy. In all, two clubs have won the competition at least once.
Ed.YearChampionsResultsRunners-up
12022Cruz Azul2–2
Atlas
22024América2–1UANL

RankClubTitlesRunners-upWinning years
1Cruz Azul102022
1América102024
2Atlas01—
2UANL01—

Results

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Performances

;Notes
  1. Automatic winners of the trophy for winning both league tournaments of the season.
  2. Automatic winners of the trophy for winning the season's league and cup tournament.
  3. Defunct clubs.