For over a decade, Tigres and América have dominated Mexican football, yet their overall haul across 49 Liga MX tournaments places them among the competition’s most successful clubs.
Since the league adopted the Apertura and Clausura format in recent seasons, the tally of champions expanded dramatically. Several clubs began labeling themselves among the sport’s elite due to the abundance of domestic silverware collected in the modern, split-season era.
Over the last ten years, América and Tigres have demonstrated consistent superiority in Mexican football. However, when looking back to the era starting in 1996, when two championships per year were introduced, the balance of power shifts toward a broader field of teams.
Altogether there have been 50 tournaments in that period, though one competition was canceled and another interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving 49 champions recorded and one match unplayed in late 2020.
Atlas captured the Apertura 2021 title and later secured a second star in the short tournaments by winning Guardianes 2022 (the Clausura 2022 season). In GOAL, the record of champions and the clubs with the most titles in the Liga MX split-season format is laid out for clarity and context.
ATLAS: 1
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- Opening year 2007
NECAXA: 1
- winter 1998
MORELIA: 1
- winter 2000
XOLOS: 1
- opened in 2012
ATLAS: 2
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- Opened 2021
- Closure 2022
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BLUE CROSS: 2
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- winter 1997
- Guardians 2021
GOATS: 3
- summer 1997
- Opening year 2006
- Closing 2017
LION: 3
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- opened in 2013
- Closing 2014
- Guardians 2020
COUGARS: 4
- End of 2004
- opened in 2004
- Closing 2009
- Closing 2011
MONTERREY: 4
- End of 2003
- Opening year 2009
- opened in 2010
- Opened 2019
TIGER: 6
- opened in 2011
- opened in 2015
- opened in 2016
- opened in 2017
- Closing 2019
- Closure 2023
AMERICA: 5
- summer 2002
- End of 2005
- Closing 2013
- opened in 2014
- opened in 2018
SAINTS: 6
- winter 1996
- summer 2001
- Closing 2008
- Closing 2012
- Closing 2015
- Closing 2018
PACHUCA: 7
- winter 1999
- winter 2001
- opened in 2003
- End of 2006
- End of 2007
- Closing 2016
- Opened 2022
TOLUCA: 7
- summer 1998
- summer 1999
- summer 2000
- opened in 2002
- opened in 2005
- opened in 2008
- Bicentenary 2010
Source: GOAL