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C.F. Pachuca

Mexican men's football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ736937 ↗
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Club de Fútbol Pachuca, is a professional football club based in Pachuca, Hidalgo. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Hidalgo. Founded in 1892 as Pachuca Football Club by workers from the mining company Real del Monte y Pachuca, which had mostly British immigrants (Cornish diaspora). The club changed its name to Pachuca Athletic Club in 1895, and was later refounded in 1960 as the current franchise. Nicknamed Tuzos, it pays tribute to the history and mining heritage of the club and the city.

Domestically, CF Pachuca has won seven Liga MX titles. Internationally, the club has won six CONCACAF Champions Cup titles, one CONMEBOL Sudamericana, one FIFA Challenger Cup, one FIFA Derby of the Americas, and one North American SuperLiga. CF Pachuca reached the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup final, and also finished in third place in the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup.

It was a founding member of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, the first amateur football league in Mexico.

History

Pachuca FC (1892–1895)

British miners from Cornwall in the south-west of Britain, working for the Compañía Real del Monte y Pachuca (English: Real del Monte and Pachuca Company), practiced football only as an unorganized hobby during their free time while working at the mines.

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“C.F. Pachuca” enters the record as mexican men's football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pachuca, Mexican and men's can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1895, 1960, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-11-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pachuca, Mexican and men's.
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