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  • It is the second Mexican club with more titles at international level (5 titles in the Copa de Campeones de CONCACAF, plus a runner-Inter's Cup in 1972 and another in the Copa Libertadores de America in 2001).
  • Mexican Club (Tied with Club América) with most titles in the Copa de Campeones de CONCACAF, with 5.
  • Is the only team that lost 9 leagues finals (7).
  • Holds the record for most consecutive wins in the history of the First Division of Mexico: 10 wins in the 1971-72 season.
  • The Mexican team with the highest number of plays playoffs (43), counting rounds of reclassification.
  • It is the first Mexican team in a final crown with a "golden goal" (1997).
  • Champion of the first edition of the 2007 Pan American Cup, defeating Boca Juniors by 3 goals to 1.
  • It is the team that has played league final (14) and lost (8), besides being the second most paradoxically end wins (6) (along with Deportivo Toluca and Pumas de la UNAM).
  • It is the only team that thrashed in the final's Club América to win the league title (4 goals to 1) in the 1971–1972 season.
  • It is one of the three teams in the history of the First Division of Mexico have been three-time league (succeeding in 1971-1972,1972–1973 and 1973–1974), the other two teams are Club América who did a decade later and the Club Deportivo Guadalajara.
  • It is the youngest team to be champions and cup, reached only five years after his rise in the 1968–1969 season.
  • It is the youngest team in making seven league titles. (Only in 15 years in Mexico's Primera División.)

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