Clásico Capitalino

The rivalry between Club América and Club Universidad Nacional, known as the "Clásico Capitalino", is one of the strongests rivalries between two of the most popular teams in México,[1] played between two of the three teams which represent Mexico City and the metropolitan area of the Mexican Primera División.

El Clásico Capitalino
LocaleMexico City:
Estadio Olímpico Universitario & Estadio Azteca
TeamsUNAM & América.
First meetingJuly 1, 1962
Latest meetingAmérica 0–0 UNAM
7 July 2020 (2020 Copa por México)
Next meetingTBA
Statistics
Most winsAmérica (51)
Most player appearancesSergio Bernal (UNAM)

The first match between these two clubs was on July 1, 1962, where América hosted UNAM who were promoted to the First Division the previous season.

Background

In México the match is often perceived as the representation of a struggle between two antagonistic powers and institutions: Club América has always been regarded as the club of the establishment and the wealthy. The fact that the club is owned by the multimedia mass media company Televisa has further intensified this image. UNAM, representing the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, identifies itself as the club of the intellectuals and middle-class.

Indeed, both are clubs with very contrasting identities and policy, Club Universidad Nacional was originally an amateur club of college students from the University's several schools and then developed into a professional team competing in the Mexican football league, the nickname Pumas "Cougars" was inspired by Roberto 'Tapatio' Mendez, who coached the team from 1946–64 and whose motivational speeches often compared his players to pumas. The nickname stayed with the public, and all the athletic teams representing the University have been called Pumas; Club América self-proclaimed Las Águilas "The Eagles" wanted to have a representation of an animal that would show pride and domination of its environment. However, they are also called Los millonetas, a derogatory reference or version of the word millionaire, started when businessman Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, owner of Telesistema Mexicano, bought América from Isaac Bessudo in 1959. Following the acquisition, Azcárraga told his players, "I do not know much about football, but I do know a lot about business, and this, gentlemen, will be a business". [2] Azcarraga hired the successful president of the Club Zacatepec, Guillermo Cañedo de la Bárcena, and started to hire other notable national and foreigner figures, focusing on money, to form a powerful team, Universidad Nacional instead have employed "La cantera universitaria", a youth development system with football academies and farm teams to success through its history.

The rivalry is particularly fierce from UNAM's side: according to surveys the majority of their supporters consider América as their main rival, however, most of América's fans see it as an important match but deem the match against Chivas as more important.[3]

History and rivalry

Estadio Olimpico Universitario, Home of Club Universidad Nacional

During the 1961–62 season in the Segunda División de México, UNAM were able to get promotion into top flight football, the Primera División de México. The first match for the team "benjamín" (newbie) of that season was América meeting on 1 July 1962 where América won 2–0 with goals by Francisco Moacyr and Antonio Jasso.[4]

For the 1966–67 season, América, Atlante and Necaxa moved to a new stadium, the Estadio Azteca, and the first meeting between América and UNAM on 19 August 1966, América won 5–1. This defeat really hurt the pride of the fans "Universitarios" and playing at home on 1 December 1966, UNAM defeated América 4–1 in the Estadio Olímpico.[5]

Years later, in the 1969–70 season, América were able to get international forward Enrique Borja, news which caused a lot of controversy and shocked the football world due to the strong rivalry between the teams. This transaction caused such an outrage that when the player found out of the transfer he opted not to play because he did not agree. However, the directors of the club were able to convince him and would play and later become an idol for América .[6]

The rivalry increased with the years and came at a high point during the 1980s when these clubs disputed three finals during that decade. The first final was during the season 1984–85 which after 2 games tied, they had to play a third match on 28 May 1985 which caused great controversy of the performance of the referee Joaquín Urrea, the final score was 3–1 in favor of las Águilas with two goals by Daniel Brailovsky and one by Carlos Hermosillo, with this victory América was able to obtain their 5th title. They again met each other in the final during the season 1987–88 where once again América was victorious witch a favorable score of 4–1 during the second leg on 3 July 1988 and an aggregate score of 4–2.[4] The last final disputed among the clubs was during the season 1990–91 in which UNAM was finally able to break its losing streak against América. The first game was won by América at home 3–2 on 19 July 1991 and the second leg on 22 July 1991 the game was decided by a free kick which was taken by Brazilian Ricardo "Tuca" Ferretti, this signified the third title in the history for the club "auriazul".

Players on both sides

Fans of Pumas during the Clásico Capitalino in the Estadio Olímpico of CU in 2005

For as many years that the rivalry between the two has existed, players have come and gone between the two. Here a listing of players that defended both causes; many of whom had started their footballing career with Pumas UNAM, later transferring directly to Club América (some had transferred through other clubs after their UNAM spell) and while on the other hand few "Americanista" born players have gone to the opposite. Others may have been Mexican born or foreigners who might have started elsewhere before joining either side. To date, only Moctezuma Serrato has won championships with both squads. With América in the Verano 2002 season and with Pumas in both the Clausura and Apertura 2004 seasons.

These are:

Jorge Iniestra

Carlos Calderón

Luis Juarcy

Gilberto Vega

René Trujillo

Enrique Borja

Enrique Vázquez

Oswaldo Castro "Pata Bendita"

Antonio de la Torre

Francisco Castrejón

Rafael Calderón

Jorge Miranda

Adrián Chávez

Hugo Sánchez

Francisco Uribe

Joaquín del Olmo

Luis García

José Luis Salgado

Braulio Luna

Alberto García Aspe

Adolfo Ríos

David Patiño

Raúl Salinas

Antonio de Nigris "Tano"

Moctezuma Serrato *

Christian Ramírez

Rafael Márquez Lugo

Rubens Sambueza

Efraín Juárez

Manuel Pérez

Carlos Orrantía

Nicolás Castillo

Top goal scorers in the Clásico Capitalino

[7]

Player Goals
Luis Roberto Alves "Zague"(América)14
Jesús Olalde (UNAM)8
Manuel Negrete (UNAM)6
Alberto García Aspe (UNAM & América)5
Evanivaldo Castro "Cabinho" (UNAM)5
Ricardo"Tuca" Ferreti (UNAM)5
Carlos Hermosillo (América)5
Luís García (UNAM & América)5
Darío Verón (UNAM)5

Statistics

The following chart takes into account all the matches in tournaments that have been endorsed by the Mexican Football Federation.

UNAM at home

Date Venue Score Competition
30 September 1962 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
6 October 1963 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
14 November 1964 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–1
Primera División de México
14 November 1965 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
2 December 1966 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
4–1
Primera División de México
16 November 1967 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
30 June 1968 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–2
Primera División de México
23 December 1969 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
8 July 1971 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–2
Primera División de México
3 December 1971 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–1
Primera División de México
25 January 1973 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
22 February 1974 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
2 March 1975 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–2
Primera División de México
22 February 1976 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
14 November 1976 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–0
Primera División de México
19 February 1978 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–1
Primera División de México
29 October 1978 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–0
Primera División de México
10 April 1980 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–4
Primera División de México
14 December 1980 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–2
Primera División de México
19 February 1982 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
12 September 1982 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
12 February 1984 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–1
Primera División de México
9 December 1984 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–0
Primera División de México
8 February 1987 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–2
Primera División de México
20 March 1988 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–4
Primera División de México
3 February 1989 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
8 April 1990 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
13 January 1991 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
5–2
Primera División de México
8 January 1992 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
24 September 1992 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–3
Primera División de México
19 September 1993 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–3
Primera División de México
9 April 1995 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
28 August 1995 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
27 April 1997 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–1
Primera División de México
20 August 1997 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
11 October 1998 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
3–1
Primera División de México
16 April 2000 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
4–1
Primera División de México
1 April 2001 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
9 September 2001 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
14 September 2002 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–3
Primera División de México
13 August 2003 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
4-3
Primera División de México
20 March 2005 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–3
Primera División de México
30 October 2005 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–2
Primera División de México
8 April 2007 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
19 August 2007 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
5 October 2008 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
4 November 2009 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
3–2
Primera División de México
1 May 2011 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–2
Primera División de México
2 October 2011 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1-0
Primera División de México
28 October 2012 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–1
Liga MX
2 September 2013 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–4
Liga MX
22 February 2015 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0-1
Liga MX
8 May 2016 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Liga MX
19 March 2017 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
2–3
Liga MX
21 January 2018 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Liga MX
17 February 2019 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–0
Liga MX
6 March 2020 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
3–3
Liga MX
UNAM wins America wins Draws
14 21 22

America at home

Date Venue Score Competition
1 July 1962 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–0
Primera División de México
3 January 1964 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
1–1
Primera División de México
31 July 1964 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
15 August 1965 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
0–0
Primera División de México
18 August 1966 Estadio Azteca
5–1
Primera División de México
2 August 1967 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Primera División de México
13 June 1969 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Primera División de México
16 November 1969 Estadio Azteca
1–3
Primera División de México
13 March 1971 Estadio Azteca
0–0
Primera División de México
2 April 1972 Estadio Azteca
0–1
Primera División de México
28 September 1972 Estadio Azteca
0–0
Primera División de México
6 September 1973 Estadio Azteca
2–1
Primera División de México
28 August 1974 Estadio Azteca
3–2
Primera División de México
1 July 1976 Estadio Azteca
2–1
Primera División de México
27 March 1977 Estadio Azteca
2–1
Primera División de México
19 September 1977 Estadio Azteca
4–2
Primera División de México
9 March 1979 Estadio Azteca
0–3
Primera División de México
2 December 1979 Estadio Azteca
0–2
Primera División de México
26 April 1981 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Primera División de México
21 October 1981 Estadio Azteca
2–0
Primera División de México
16 January 1983 Estadio Azteca
2–0
Primera División de México
2 October 1983 Estadio Azteca
1–2
Primera División de México
21 April 1985 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
28 September 1986 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
18 October 1987 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
4 June 1989 Estadio Azteca
0–1
Primera División de México
8 December 1989 Estadio Azteca
3–3
Primera División de México
19 May 1991 Estadio Azteca
1–0
Primera División de México
3 February 1992 Estadio Azteca
0–1
Primera División de México
31 January 1993 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
11 September 1993 Estadio Azteca
1–2
Primera División de México
4 December 1994 Estadio Azteca
3–1
Primera División de México
24 December 1995 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
14 November 1996 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Primera División de México
31 January 1998 Estadio Azteca
1–3
Primera División de México
28 March 1999 Estadio Azteca
3–1
Primera División de México
3 November 1999 Estadio Corregidora
1–2
Primera División de México
29 October 2000 Estadio Azteca
2–1
Primera División de México
24 February 2002 Estadio Azteca
0–0
Primera División de México
2 March 2003 Estadio Azteca
1–2
Primera División de México
18 January 2004 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Primera División de México
17 October 2004 Estadio Azteca
0–3
Primera División de México
9 April 2006 Estadio Azteca
1–3
Primera División de México
22 October 2006 Estadio Azteca
2–0
Primera División de México
3 February 2008 Estadio Azteca
2–0
Primera División de México
22 March 2009 Estadio Azteca
0–0
Primera División de México
14 April 2010 Estadio Azteca
0–0
Primera División de México
14 November 2010 Estadio Azteca
0–1
Primera División de México
18 March 2012 Estadio Azteca
2–1
Primera División de México
21 April 2013 Estadio Azteca
1–0
Liga MX
23 February 2014 Estadio Azteca
1–3
Liga MX
31 August 2014 Estadio Azteca
0–1
Liga MX
22 November 2015 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Liga MX
24 September 2016 Estadio Azteca
2-1
Liga MX
6 August 2017 Estadio Azteca
2-1
Liga MX
26 August 2018 Estadio Azteca
2–2
Liga MX
15 September 2019 Estadio Azteca
1–1
Liga MX
America wins UNAM wins Draws
20 13 22

Liguilla matches

#DateVenueResultCompetition
1 26 June 1980 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 0-1
1979/80 Liguilla
2 6 July 1980 Estadio Azteca
UNAM América 0–0
3 23 May 1985 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 1-1
1984/85 Final
4 26 May 1985 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 0–0
5 28 May 1985 Estadio Corregidora
América UNAM 3–1
6 30 June 1988 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1-0
1988/89 Final
7 3 July 1988 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 4-1
8 27 June 1991 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 3–2
1990/91 Final
9 30 June 1991 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–0
10 11 April 1996 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 2-0
1995/96 Qualification Liguilla
11 14 April 1996 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 0–0
18 14 May 2002 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 0-0
Verano 2002 Semi-final
13 19 May 2002 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–2
14 8 May 2013 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 0–1
Clausura 2013 Quarterfinal
15 11 May 2013 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 2–1
16 26 November 2014 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–0
Apertura 2014 Quarterfinal
17 29 November 2014 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 1–0
18 3 December 2015 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 0-3
Apertura 2015 Semi-final
19 6 December 2015 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–3
20 2 May 2018 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–4
Clausura 2018 Quarterfinal
21 5 May 2018 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 2–1
22 6 December 2018 Estadio Olímpico Universitario
UNAM América 1–1
Apertura 2018 Semi-final
23 9 December 2018 Estadio Azteca
América UNAM 6–1
UNAM wins América wins Draws
4 14 5
Season GP WA D WU GolA GolU
Mexican 1st Dvsn. League93343724134121
Playoffs13652168
Copa México9153810
Champion of Champions211021
TOTALS118424829160141
GP: Games Played
WA: Winner (América)
WU: Winner (UNAM)
D: Draws
GolA: Goals for América
GolU: Goals for UNAM

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