Club Leon (simply known as Leon) is a Mexican professional football club based in the city of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Leon has won the Liga MX Mexico Primera Division (Mexico First Division) title seven times: in 1948, 1949, 1952, 1956, 1992, Apertura 2013 and most recently Clausura 2014. They became the first Mexican "Campeonisimo" (winner of the League and the Mexico Cup in the same year) in 1949. In 1993 Leon was the CONCACAF Champions' Cup runner-up, losing the final match against Costa Rican team Deportivo Saprissa, in one of the greatest upsets among the defeats in the club's history. They are also only the second Liga MX team to win back-to-back championships in short tournaments.
They also qualified for the Champion's Cup in 1998, but were eliminated in the semi-final. The team has been a consistent contender for the Primera Division A title since relegation from the Primera Division in 2002; they failed to obtain the promotion due to constant mediocre performances in the play-offs despite good appearances during the regular season until the Clausura 2012 Tournament when Leon defeated Correcaminos UAT 6-2 and after ten years were finally promoted to the Primera Division. In the Apertura 2013 season they became champions after defeating America 5-1, giving them their sixth championship star. The next season, Clausura 2014, they became champions for the second year in a row defeating Pachuca 4-3, giving them their seventh championship star and becoming "bicampeones." In recent years, Club Leon games have even attracted non-Spanish speaking football fans; in addition to new Spanish-language broadcast partnerships with Fox Sports Latinoamerica in Mexico and Telemundo \/ NBC Deportes in the U.S. Since 2016, Univision Deportes holds the U.S. broadcasting rights to Leon home games.
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DOMESTIC
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Liga MX:
<\/STRONG>1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1991–92, Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014
Runner-up: 1946-47, 1958–59, 1972–73, 1974–75, Invierno 1997
Ascenso MX:
<\/STRONG>Temporada 1989–90, Clausura 2003, Clausura 2004, Clausura 2008, Clausura 2012
Runner-up: Clausura 2005, Clausura 2007, Bicentenario 2010
Copa MX:
<\/STRONG>1948–49, 1957–58, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1971–72
Runner-up: 1952–53, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1965–66, Apertura 2015
Campeon de Campeones:
<\/STRONG>1947–48, 1948–49, 1955–56, 1970–71, 1971–72
Runner-up: 1958, 1967, 1971, 1972, 2013
FRIENDLY TOURNAMENTS<\/U><\/STRONG>
Copa Leon:<\/STRONG>
2004, 2012
Torneo Cuna del Futbol Mexicano:
<\/STRONG>2012
Copa Telcel:
<\/STRONG>2013
Runner up Trofeo Joan Gamper:
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