Liga MX Champions: Complete List, Most Titles, Last 10 and 20 Years

Cruz Azul Is the Latest Liga MX Champion

Cruz Azul won the most recently completed Liga MX tournament, Clausura 2026. La Máquina beat Pumas UNAM 2-1 on aggregate in a final that stayed level until the last meaningful attack. The title was Cruz Azul's tenth professional first-division championship, moving the club into the select Mexican group with a double-digit league total.

How La Máquina won its tenth title

The final arrived at Estadio Olímpico Universitario without a goal separating the teams after a 0-0 first leg. Pumas struck first in the return through Robert Morales around the half-hour mark. Cruz Azul drew level early in the second half when Rubén Duarte put the ball into his own net, but a 1-1 finish would still have left the championship unresolved.

Carlos Rotondi supplied the decisive moment in the fifth minute of stoppage time. His late finish made the second leg 2-1 and secured the same aggregate score. Cruz Azul's official review describes it as the latest regulation-time title-winning goal in the club's history. For supporters, the practical point is simple: the tenth star came from a final won at the death, not from a routine lead protected across two legs.

Why Liga MX usually crowns two champions each year

A Liga MX season is divided into two self-contained short tournaments. The Apertura begins in the second half of the calendar year; the Clausura follows in the first half of the next year. Each tournament has its own regular-phase table, postseason and champion. That is why América could win Apertura 2023, Clausura 2024 and Apertura 2024 consecutively, and why a list of “champions by year” often contains two winners.

This guide stops at Clausura 2026 because Apertura 2026 was still in progress on September 7. It also treats the abandoned Clausura 2020 correctly: the tournament ended without a champion, so there is no trophy to assign or invent. Fans looking for the current calendar can use the Liga MX schedule, while the championship figures below remain fixed until the next final is complete.

Complete Professional-Era Liga MX Title Ranking

Twenty-four clubs have won Mexico's professional first division since the national league began in 1943-44. Together, their totals account for 114 completed championships through Clausura 2026. The ranking below counts only the top-flight league trophy; it does not mix in domestic cups, super cups or continental honors.

América leads, with Guadalajara and Toluca tied behind

Club América's 16 titles make Las Águilas the clear leader. Their modern three-peat—Apertura 2023, Clausura 2024 and Apertura 2024—turned a one-title advantage over Guadalajara into a four-title cushion. Guadalajara still own 12, but they now share second with Toluca. Los Diablos won both Clausura and Apertura 2025 to climb from 10 to 12 in a matter of months.

Cruz Azul's tenth title puts La Máquina alone in fourth. León and Tigres follow on eight; Pumas UNAM and Pachuca sit on seven. Those ties are real ties. A more recent championship can explain momentum, but it does not make one club rank above another when both have lifted the same number of league trophies.

Every other professional champion from Cruz Azul to Tijuana

The lower half of the list is part of Liga MX history, not an appendix to discard. Asturias won the first professional championship in 1943-44. Real Club España followed a year later. Tampico, Marte and Oro each own one title from the long-tournament era, while Tecos, Morelia and Tijuana each broke through once in a short tournament.

Names can vary across archives. “Guadalajara” is Chivas; “UANL” is Tigres; “UNAM” is Pumas; and UAG is the club commonly remembered as Tecos. This table keeps those identities together rather than splitting the same club into two rows. It also preserves defunct or lower-division champions because winning the professional top flight remains part of the competition's record even when a club is no longer in today's Liga MX.

Who Won the Most Liga MX Titles in the Last 10 Years

América and Tigres share the lead across the last 10 completed Liga MX seasons. For a reproducible comparison, the window here begins with Apertura 2016 and ends with Clausura 2026. It contains 20 scheduled short tournaments, but only 19 champions because Clausura 2020 was abandoned without awarding the title.

América and Tigres share the 10-year lead

Both clubs won four league championships in this span. Tigres took Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017, Clausura 2019 and Clausura 2023. América won Apertura 2018, then built the short era's first three-title streak across Apertura 2023, Clausura 2024 and Apertura 2024. The totals match, but the shapes differ: Tigres spread four wins across seven years, while América compressed three of its four into 13 months.

Atlas, Cruz Azul and Toluca are next with two apiece. Guadalajara, León, Monterrey, Pachuca and Santos Laguna each won once. That distribution matters: 10 clubs shared 19 titles, yet the two leaders claimed eight of them. Liga MX's knockout format creates opportunity, but sustained contenders still separate themselves over a decade.

Bicampeones and the nine-title run since 2022

The most recent nine championships sharpen that story. Atlas completed a bicampeonato in Clausura 2022 after winning Apertura 2021. Pachuca and Tigres then took one each. América followed with its three-peat, Toluca answered with the Clausura–Apertura 2025 double, and Cruz Azul closed the sequence in Clausura 2026. Back-to-back success has become visible again, even though every club must survive a fresh regular phase and Liguilla each semester.

A 10-year statistic is only useful when its endpoints are shown. Starting at Clausura 2016 instead would change which title sits at the front edge; waiting until Apertura 2026 finishes will change the back edge. The four-four result therefore means “Apertura 2016 through Clausura 2026,” not an all-purpose claim that can float forever. For final scores and the stories behind the latest stretch, see the Liga MX champions from 2022 to 2026.

Who Won the Most Liga MX Titles in the Last 20 Years

América and Tigres also share first place in the 20-season comparison, with six league titles each from Apertura 2006 through Clausura 2026. Thirty-nine championships were awarded in that span: two per season except for the unfinished Clausura 2020. Thirteen different clubs appear, so this longer view captures both modern dynasties and champions that have since slipped from the title conversation.

América and Tigres lead a wider field

América's six were Clausura 2013, Apertura 2014, Apertura 2018, Apertura 2023, Clausura 2024 and Apertura 2024. Tigres' six were Apertura 2011, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017, Clausura 2019 and Clausura 2023. Both clubs built distinct peaks: Tigres won three consecutive Aperturas from 2015 through 2017, while América's three consecutive trophies supplied half of its 20-year haul.

Santos Laguna and Toluca won four each. León, Monterrey and Pachuca collected three apiece. Atlas, Cruz Azul, Guadalajara and Pumas won twice, with Atlante and Tijuana completing the field on one. Add those totals and the result is 39, which is the essential audit for any time-window table.

What changed between the first and second decades

The older half was more dispersed. Atlante and Tijuana recorded the latest titles in their histories; Pumas won twice; Monterrey won two of its three; and Santos kept returning to finals. Tigres then turned occasional success into an era, while América recovered the all-time lead and eventually stretched it with the three-peat.

The newer half still produced surprise and renewal. Atlas ended a 70-year wait and immediately repeated. Cruz Azul ended its own long drought in 2021, then added another five years later. Toluca went 15 years without a league title before winning two in 2025. That is why a 20-year table complements the all-time ranking: it shows which historic powers have actually converted Liguilla appearances into trophies within a supporter's recent memory.

What Counts as a Liga MX League Title

A clean championship list needs one consistent competition and one consistent historical boundary. Here, a title counts when a club won a completed Mexican professional first-division league tournament from 1943-44 onward. That includes long seasons, Apertura and Clausura tournaments, and recognized special league competitions such as México 70 and PRODE 1985.

Professional-era and amateur-era totals are separate

Organized championship football in Mexico predates Liga Mayor. The first national competition began in 1902, and clubs including América, Real Club España, Reforma and Necaxa won amateur-era championships before 1943. The professional national league then began with 10 clubs in 1943-44, with Asturias becoming its first champion.

Those earlier honors are historically meaningful, but combining them with professional Liga MX numbers produces a different question and makes modern comparisons harder to read. América's figure in this guide is therefore 16, beginning with 1965-66. It does not become 20 by adding the club's four pre-professional championships. Real Club España's professional count is one, even though the club dominated much of the amateur era. The cutoff applies equally to every badge.

Copa MX and Campeón de Campeones are different trophies

An “all trophies” graphic may show numbers larger than this league table because Mexican clubs compete for several distinct honors. Copa MX is a domestic knockout cup. Campeón de Campeones is a super-cup-style title connected to the Apertura and Clausura winners. Supercopa de la Liga MX, Campeones Cup, Leagues Cup and Concacaf competitions also have their own rules and histories. Winning any of them is an achievement; none adds another championship to a club's Liga MX league total.

The distinction is especially useful after a bicampeonato. If one club wins both Apertura and Clausura, it has earned two league titles. Any Campeón de Campeones recognition remains a separate honor; it does not create a third league championship. Conversely, winning Campeón de Campeones cannot turn a club that lost a league final into the Apertura or Clausura champion.

• Count: completed professional first-division league tournaments.
• Do not count: amateur-era championships in the professional total.
• Keep separate: cups, super cups and continental trophies.
• No title awarded: the abandoned Clausura 2020.

Tournament names can also mislead a quick search. Invierno and Verano were earlier short-tournament labels, while Guard1anes was used during the pandemic period; their winners still belong in the professional league ledger. A special name does not automatically mean a cup. The deciding question is whether the event awarded the first-division league championship. That principle admits Invierno 1998 and Guard1anes 2021, for example, while keeping Copa MX outside the count.

With those rules fixed, the comparisons stay honest: América lead all time with 16, América and Tigres share the lead in both defined recent windows, and Cruz Azul remain the latest completed champion. For the live race that will produce the next entry, follow the current Liga MX standings and the Liga MX Liguilla bracket.