Cruz Azul Fútbol Club, A.C, kent simply as Cruz Azul (pronoonced: [kɾus aˈsul], ""Blue Cross""), is a Mexican profeesional fitbaa club based in Mexico Ceety, Mexico; efter which initially wis based in Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul in the Mexican state o Hidalgo. Cruz Azul plays in Liga MX an its hame venue is the Estadio Azul, locatit in the soothwastren pairt o Mexico Ceety in the Colonia Ciudad de los Deportes, next tae the Nápoles neebourheid. The team muivit thare in 1996, efter playing for mony seasons at the Estadio Azteca. Its heidquairters are in La Noria, a suburb locatit in the soothren pairt o Mexico Ceety in Xochimilco.