Back نادي أونيفرسيداد ناسيونال Arabic نادى اونيفرسيداد ناسيونال ARZ Club Universidad Nacional AST اونیفرسیداد ناسیونال AZB Club Universidad Nacional Catalan Club Universidad Nacional Czech Club Universidad Nacional Danish UNAM Pumas German Κλουμπ Ουνιβερσιδάδ Νασιονάλ Greek Club Universidad Nacional Spanish
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| Full name | Club Universidad Nacional, A.C.[1] | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Pumas Universitarios (Collegiates) Universidad (University) Auriazules (Gold-and-Blues)[2] El equipo del Pedregal (The Pedregal Team)[3] | |||
| Short name | UNAM, PUM | |||
| Founded | August 2, 1954, as Club Deportivo Universidad[4][5] | |||
| Ground | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | |||
| Capacity | 58,445[6] | |||
| Owner | UNAM | |||
| Chairman | Luis Raúl González Pérez | |||
| Manager | Gustavo Lema | |||
| League | Liga MX | |||
| Apertura 2024 | Regular phase: 4th Final phase: Quarter-finals | |||
| Website | pumas.mx | |||
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Club Universidad Nacional, A.C., nicknamed "Pumas", simply known as Pumas UNAM, is a professional football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1954 as Club Deportivo Universidad, and they play their home games at Estadio Olímpico Universitario, which seats over 72,000 spectators.
The club was founded as an amateur club of UNAM college students and later developed into a professional team. The Pumas are one of the most popular clubs in Mexico and considered to be one of the Cuatro Grandes of Mexican football, alongside Cruz Azul, Guadalajara, and Club América.[7][8]
Domestically, Pumas UNAM has won 11 trophies: 7 Liga MX, 1 Copa MX, the Campeón de Campeones twice, as well as 1 Segunda División de México. In international club football, the club has won 3 CONCACAF Champions Cups[9] and 1 Copa Interamericana.[10] The club has a long-standing rivalry with Club América in the derbi capitalino.[11]
The team is also known for its youth development system, which has produced international players such as Hugo Sánchez, Manuel Negrete, Luis Flores, Miguel España, Claudio Suárez, Luis García, Alberto García Aspe, David Patiño, Jorge Campos, Braulio Luna, Gerardo Torrado, Francisco Fonseca, Efraín Juárez, Héctor Moreno, Pablo Barrera, Israel Castro, Eduardo Herrera and Jesús Gallardo.
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- ^ "Club Universidad, 61 años de historia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Pumas MX". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
- ^ "LIGA MX - Página Oficial de la Liga Mexicana del Fútbol Profesional". ligamx.net.
- ^ "How to watch Liga MX: A beginner's guide". ESPN.com. July 18, 2018.
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- ^ "About". Concacaf. 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ "Palmarés". Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "Pumas vs. America: What you need to know". 16 March 2017.