Club León
Sign in to saveAlso known as Club Leon, Club Leon FC, Club Leon F.C.
Mexican men's professional football club
Key facts
- Full name
- Club León
- Nicknames
- Los Panzas Verdes (The Green Bellies), La Fiera (The Wild Beast), Los Esmeraldas (The Emeralds), Los Verdiblancos (The Green and Whites)
- Short name
- LEO
- Founded
- 20 August 1944 ; 81 years ago ( 1944-08-20 ) , ( as Unión-León )
- Ground
- Estadio León , León , Guanajuato
- Capacity
- 31,297
- Owner
- Grupo Pachuca
- Chairman
- Jesús Martínez Murguia
- Head coach
- Javier Gandolfi
- League
- Liga MX
- Clausura 2026
- Regular phase: 10th, Final phase: Did not qualify
- Website
- clubleon.mx
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football club
- Country
- Mexico
- Headquarters
- León de Los Aldama
- Sport
- association football
- League
- Liga MX
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- native label
- Club León
- home venue
- León Stadium
- head coach
- Eduardo Berizzo
- topic's main category
- Category:Club León
- inception
- 1944-08-20
- category for members of a team
- Category:Club León footballers
- owner of
- León Stadium
- social media followers
- 73500
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Encyclopedic overview
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Club León is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio León. Founded in 1944 as Unión-León, after the merger of Unión de Curtidores and the Selección de Guanajuato.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Club León” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.