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Mexican Football Federation

Coordinates: 19°25′04″N 99°10′12″W / 19.41779°N 99.169887°W / 19.41779; -99.169887
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Mexican Football Federation
CONCACAF
Founded23 August 1922; 102 years ago (1922-08-23)
LocationMexico
FIFA affiliation1929
CONCACAF affiliation1961[1]
PresidentJuan Carlos Rodríguez Bas
Websitefmf.mx

The Mexican Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación, A.C.), abbreviated as FMF is the official governing body of association football in Mexico. It administers the men's and women's national teams with all its youth teams, the Liga MX with all its professional divisions, all affiliated amateur sectors, and controls promoting, organizing, directing, expanding, and supervising competitive football in Mexico. The FMF was established on August 23, 1922, it is an affiliate member of FIFA since 1929 and one of the founding members of CONCACAF since 1961. Subject to policies, statutes, objectives and ideals of those international governing bodies. Its headquarters are located in Toluca, State of Mexico.

History

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In 1919, the Mexican amateur league was divided into two leagues (Liga Mexicana and Liga Nacional). Due to the expulsion of Tigres México shortly before the start of the season, Real Club España and España Veracruz withdrew in solidarity and founded their own league. The separation of the leagues took place in the 1920-21 season. After only two seasons, finally on August 23, 1922 under the president Ulises Garza Ramos, the two leagues were unified to found the Federación Mexicana de Foot-ball and creating the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza FMF which was the highest division of Mexican football from that moment on and the direct predecessor of the current Liga MX. The following year it was renamed "Federación Central de Fútbol" due to its greater national influence, and it was its members who promoted the creation of Mexico's first national team.

On July 26, 1927 it was reorganized to be named Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación. The federation was renewed by the clubs: México F.C., Real Club España, Club Necaxa, Club América, Asturias F.C., C.F. Aurrerá and Germania F.V., with president Humberto Garza Ramos, the secretary Juan B. Orraca and the treasurer Manuel Alonso who registered and affiliated the FMF with FIFA in 1929.

Currently the Federation has three operational centres: the Central Office, the High Performance Centre (Centro de Alto Rendimiento, CAR) and the Training Centre (Centro de Capacitación, CECAP).

Structure

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Former headquarters in Mexico City

The governing body of the Federación is the General Assembly that conforms with the participation of the Liga MX with 55% of the votes; Liga de Expansión MX with 5%; Liga Premier, with 18%; Liga TDP, with 13%, and the Amateur sector, with 9%. The executive and administrative body is the National Council, which comprises five members, one from each of the divisions mentioned, and are elected every four years.[2]

Association staff

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Name Position Source
Mexico Juan Carlos Rodríguez Bas President Commissioner [3][4]
Mexico Ivar Sisniega Executive President
Mexico Iñigo Riestra General Secretary
Mexico Luis Palma Treasurer [5]
Mexico Lucía Mijares Technical Director [6]
Mexico José Romano Sales Manager
Mexico Duilio Davino Sports Director of National Teams (men's)
Mexico Andrea Rodebaugh Sports Director of National Team (women's)
Mexico Luis Maldonado Operational Director of National Teams
Argentina Andrés Lillini Coordinator of Youth National Teams
Mexico Jorge Christian Tello Scouting Coordinator
Spain Martí Matabosch Sports Science Coordinator
Mexico Javier Aguirre Head coach (men's) [7]
Spain Pedro López Head coach (women's) [8]
Mexico Edgar Martínez Media/communications Manager [9]
Chile Enrique Osses Head/Director of the Referees Department [10]
Mexico Benito Armando Archundia Chairperson of the Referees Committee and Referee coordinator [11]

National teams

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Mexico national team

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Main article: Mexico national football team

The first Mexican national team was established in 1923, its first match was that same year with a victory against Guatemala and its first international participation was in the 1928 Olympic Football Tournament in Amsterdam. The first FIFA World Cup participation was in the first edition in Uruguay 1930 playing the opening match against France.

The first senior titles achieved by the national team were in the football tournament in the multi-sport event of the Central American and Caribbean Games, winning two gold medals (1935 and 1938).

The first official senior titles achieved by the national team were in the NAFC Championship, winning both editions in 1947 and 1949.

After the merger of the NAFC and CCCF, Mexico was one of the founding members of CONCACAF in 1961, winning its first title in the new North American confederation in the 1965 CONCACAF Championship.

Mexico is also the only non-UEFA or CONMEBOL member national team to win a world-class FIFA senior title, winning the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup at home, after defeating Brazil 4-3 in the final.

The honours of the senior national team consists of 16 official titles: 1 FIFA Confederations Cup, 12 CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup, 1 CONCACAF Cup and 2 NAFC Championship.

Mexico women's national team

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Main article: Mexico women's national football team

The first women's national team was originally established in 1963, but its first FIFA-recognized match was in 1991. Its first match was in 1970 with a victory against Austria, although its first FIFA-recognized match was in the 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship against USA. The first FIFA Women's World Cup participation was in USA 1999.

The first senior titles achieved by the women's national team were in the football tournament in the Central American and Caribbean Games, winning three gold medals (2014, 2018 and 2023). They also won the gold medal in the 2023 Pan American Games.

Men's youth teams

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Mexico's youth teams have had important achievements in worldwide FIFA competitions, with the under-17 and under-23 teams standing out mainly.

The under-23 team won the gold medal in the 2012 Olympic Football Tournament in London and bronze medal in the 2020 Olympic Football Tournament in Tokyo.

The under-20 team were world runners-up in Tunisia 1977 and third place in Colombia 2011.

The under-17 team were two-time world champions (Peru 2005 and Mexico 2011) and two-time world runners-up (UAE 2013 and Brazil 2019).

Women's youth teams

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The women's under-17 team were world runners-up in the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Professional divisions

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The Mexican football is composed of four men's professional divisions:

  • Liga MX – Professional era founded in 1943 as Primera División de México
  • Liga de Expansión MX – Founded in 2020
  • Liga Premier – Founded in 1950 as Segunda División de México
  • Liga TDP – Founded in 1967 as Tercera División de México

The only professional women's league in the country is the Liga MX Femenil the top-tier of women's football in Mexico, also another non-professional women's league that receives the support of the Federation, the Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil is also played in parallel.

Competitions

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Men's competitions

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(Top Division)

  • Liga MX – (110 editions in the professional era)
  • Copa MX – (57 editions in the professional era)
  • Campeón de Campeones – (51 editions)
  • Supercopa de Liga MX – (2 editions)

(Promotion Divisions)

Women's competitions

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Defunct competitions

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  • Supercopa MX – (2014-2019)
  • InterLiga – (2004-2010 qualifying tournament)
  • Pre Pre Libertadores – (1998-2002 qualifying tournament)
  • Ascenso MX – (1994-2020)
  • Campeón de Ascenso – (1997-2019)
  • Copa de Segunda División de México – (1950-1972, 1996, 2013-2015)
  • Copa de Campeones de Liga Premier – (2013-2015)
  • Copa MX Femenil – (2017)

Criticism

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Multi-team ownership issue

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The issue of multi-team ownership has been a highly debated one within the owners of the professional football clubs and the Femexfut. Of 33 clubs in the top two tiers, about a quarter of the teams are owned by three groups: Grupo Pachuca (Pachuca, León), Grupo Caliente (Tijuana, Querétaro, Dorados de Sinaloa) and Grupo Orlegi (Santos Laguna, Atlas). Of those groups that own more than one team, that ownership is usually split between the top two tiers of the league and act as a form of player development.[12]

In May 2013, the Liga MX club owners approved banning a person or company from owning more than one team. The issue came to fore when rumor was that Carlos Slim, whose telecommunications company América Móvil owns a 30% stake in Grupo Pachuca,[13] sought to acquire Guadalajara; he would refute the speculation. The ban applied to future acquisitions, not the then current team ownership, and did not require the sale of teams in excess of the one team limitation.[14]

The issue reemerged in November 2013 when TV Azteca, owner of Monarcas Morelia, paid out 124 shareholders of Club Atlas US$50 million to acquire the club, which for years had been struggling financially.[15]

2026 World Cup Bid

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Main article: United 2026 FIFA World Cup bid

In September 2012, former Federación President Justino Compeán confirmed plans to bid.[16] On 4 March 2016, Federación President Decio De Maria announced continued interest after the new FIFA president Gianni Infantino was elected in the wake of the Garcia Report corruption scandal.[17] In April 2017, the Federación, with Canada and the United States, announced a joint bid to host the World Cup. It was awarded on 13 June 2018; 134 votes versus the Morocco bid by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation with 65 votes. Mexico will host 10 matches, Canada 3 matches, and the United States 60 matches in 10 cities including the final. The shortlist of match cities was selected in June 2022: Guadalajara, Mexico City, & Monterrey.

Controversy

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Mexican Football fans are known for shouting out "Puto!", when the opposing team's goalkeeper is about to perform a goal kick, a custom that has repeatedly led to FIFA fining the Mexican Federation.[18] Despite in 2014, FIFA dropped an investigation, concluding that the chant "was not considered insulting in the specific context". In September 2019, the FMF launched a campaign to end the chant during matches,[19] with Federation President Yon De Luisa and Liga MX President Enrique Bonilla announcing new league-wide protocols. The measures will allow officials to stop a match if the slur is chanted and play an announcement over the stadium loudspeakers as a warning to fans. In case of a second incident during a match, officials will have the option to order the teams back to their changing rooms for a period of 5 to 10 minutes. If the chant continues a third time, the local club will be sanctioned.[20]

The protocols were employed for the first time in the Liga MX on 26 October 2019 during the Apertura match between Atlas and visiting side Necaxa, in which the slur was heard up to six times. Referee Fernando Guerrero eventually ended the match before the completion of the six minutes of stoppage time.[21] The protocols were used for the first time in the playoffs on 27 November, during the first-leg of the series between Club León and Monarcas Morelia.[22]

During the 2021 CONCACAF Nations League Finals, fans chanted out the homophobic chant during both the semifinal against Costa Rica and the final match against the United States. This has led CONCACAF to initiate their anti-discrimination protocol by stopping the match in order to warn fans of getting ejected for saying the chant.[23]

FIFA later announced on 18 June 2021, that the Mexican Football Federation would be fined of up to $65,000 for the behaviour of fans at the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship and that two of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches with Jamaica on 2 September and Canada on 7 October would be held behind closed doors.[24] The FIFA Appeals Committee later cut the punishment in half, allowing fans to attend the Canada match.[25]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Ramón Coll, electo Presidente de la Confederación de Futbol de América del Norte, América Central y el Caribe". 23 September 1961.
  2. ^ "Introduccion, femexfut" [femexfut introducción] (in Spanish). Femexfut. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  3. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  4. ^ "MEXICO". Concacaf. 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  5. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  6. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  7. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  8. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  9. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  10. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  11. ^ FIFA.com. "Member Association - Mexico". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  12. ^ Marshal, Tom. "Multi-club ownership causing headaches". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  13. ^ Harrison, Crayton. "Billionaire Slim Buys 30% Stakes In Mexico Soccer Teams". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  14. ^ "Mexican club owners move against multi-team ownership". Goal.com. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  15. ^ "Multi-Ownership Is Back; TV Azteca Buys Atlas". soccerly. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  16. ^ "Mexico to bid for 2026 World Cup". ESPN, Press Association. 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  17. ^ "Mexico wants to host 2026 World Cup as first nation to stage three editions". ESPN, Press Association. 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  18. ^ "FIFA investiga a hinchas mexicanos por conducta inapropiada en el Mundial".
  19. ^ "Mexico cracks down on erroneously considered 'homophobic' slurs in football". Business Times. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  20. ^ "protocolo para erradicar el grito homofóbico en Liga MX". Diario AS. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Se suspende primer partido de Liga MX por grito homofóbico". ESPN Deportes. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  22. ^ "¡Histórico! Grito homofóbico detiene el primer partido de Liguilla". Fox Sports (Mexico). Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  23. ^ "With Mexico in Concacaf Nations League, soccer again confronts homophobic slur at matches". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  24. ^ "FIFA punishes Mexico for fans' repeated use of homophobic slur". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  25. ^ Goff, Steven. "FIFA cuts punishment to Mexico in half for fans' homophobic slurs". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
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