page_title: Football in Mexico
section_title: National teams
hierarchical_section_title: Football in Mexico / Professional clubs / National teams
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Матч между сборными Мексики и Швеции в рамках чемпионата мира 2018 (Екатеринбург, 27 июня 2018) English: Mexico-Sweden in Yekaterinburg (2018 FIFA World Cup)
context_page_description: Mexico's most popular sport is football. As of 2018, the top tier leagues are Liga MX for the men and Liga MX Femenil for women.
  Football became a professional men's sport in 1943. Since then, Mexico's most successful men's clubs have been América with 13 Clausura titles, Guadalajara with 12, Toluca with 10 and Cruz Azul with 8. The first women's professional football league began play during the 2017–18 Liga MX Femenil season. It set new world records for attendance at a women's professional football matches.
  Antonio Carbajal was the first player to appear in five World Cups, and Hugo Sánchez was named best CONCACAF player of the 20th century by IFFHS. Mexico's largest capacity stadiums are Estadio Azteca, Estadio Olímpico Universitario and Estadio Jalisco. As of 2006, it was estimated that there were in the nation over 324,000 registered players and 8,155,000 unregistered players.
context_section_description: The Mexico men's national team twice finished as runners-up at the Copa América. In 1999, Mexico beat Brazil 4–3 to win the FIFA Confederations Cup. Mexico won the title at the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru, and won the title at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico. Mexico has reached the World Cup quarter-finals twice. The team were gold medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Players from Mexico have joined teams in Europe, including Jared Borgetti, Rafael Márquez, Gerardo Torrado, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Nery Castillo, Carlos Salcido, Ricardo Osorio, Pável Pardo, Andrés Guardado, Guillermo Franco, Carlos Vela, Giovani dos Santos, Omar Bravo, Aaron Galindo, Héctor Moreno, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Francisco Fonseca,  Javier Hernández (commonly referred to as "Chicharito"), Pablo Barrera,  Efraín Juárez, Jesús Corona, Héctor Herrera, Miguel Layún, Raúl Jiménez, Marco Fabian and Diego Reyes the most recents.
  Mexico's men's national team have achieved other significant feats such as the most CONCACAF Gold Cups with 11 trophies. Mexico has hosted two FIFA World Cups, in 1970 and 1986. Estadio Azteca is the biggest stadium in the world to have hosted two World Cup finals and is one of the largest stadiums in the world. Mexico will co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup along with Canada and United States several matches will take place in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara.
  The Mexico women's national football team was officially formed ahead of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup played in the United States. However, in 1970 an unofficial team Mexico finished third in an unofficial Women's World Cup held in Italy. In 1971, the team hosted an unofficial women's World Cup and reached the final, only to lose to Denmark 3–0. An estimated 110,000 people attended the final at Estadio Azteca.
caption: National football team fans at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
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