Chivas Soccer Kit
Mexico's Top Team

Chivas Soccer Kit is one of the best known football jerseys in Mexico. Formed as Union in 1906 the clubs name was changed to Club Deportivo Guadalajara in 1908 .The club is now known by a few names such as Guadalajara but Chivas meaning goat in Spanish is the most common.

Chivas are the most successful team in the history of Mexican soccer having won the Primera Division de Mexico title 11 times surpassing Americas 10 titles.

The Chivas home football shirt is very distinctive in the red and white vertical stripes and blue sleeves. The Chivas away soccer jersey is all white with a blue trim round the neck. Both the home and away shirts also have the Chivas logo on the upper right chest.

Keep a lookout for the latest kit as this will have 11 stars on the logo to signify 11 championship wins There is also a striking red training shirt available. All the Chivas soccer jerseys have the club sponsor Bimbo on the front of the jersey.

A great place to pick up bargains on Chivas kit old and new is at World soccer shop.com

The Club colours themselves are a throw back to the founder, Belgium shopkeeper Edgar Everaerts, love of French side Paris Saint German.

Chivas are one of the biggest clubs in Mexico and are not unlike the mighty Barcelona in their set up. As with Barcelona Chivas is a sports clubs which includes teams from sports such as cycling, basketball and tennis but like the Spanish giants football is by far the most popular of the Chivas sports.

Chivas Club History
As with all Mexican clubs founded before the 1940’s Chivas soccer began life as a amateur team made up of mainly French and Mexican players who worked in the clothes store Fabricas de Francia. As an amateur team the club won 12 titles and were one of the most successful amateur clubs in the country.

In 1946 the club turned professional and it was in 1948 the nickname Chivas arrived. Bestowed on the club by the press after a particularly poor display against Tampico the article mentioned the goats had won the game. The Chivas name was meant as an insult but the fans took it to their hearts and the rest, as they say, is history.

The club carried on for a few trophyless years but in the mid fifties there was a revival of Chivas soccer fortunes. While all the league clubs were struggling financially the wealthy Guadalajarians took professional soccer in Mexico by storm. Chivas won an unbelievable total of 28 trophies in eight years with the faithfull dubbing the team the “Campeonisimo”.

As the club only signs Mexican player the club was responsible for forming the backbone of the Mexican national team which competed in the 1958 World Cup. Unfortunately their showing at that particular time gave the country the realisation that they had a long way to go to compete with the best in the world.

Through out the seventies and eighties the club had difficulty in competing winning only a handful of trophies, one of which was the ninth league title in 1987. The 90’s were not much better as the club was beset with financial problems and thing did not improve until Jorge Vergara bought the club for $100million.

Having won only one title in the nineties the fans were desperate for success and they had to wait until 2006 for the club to surpass the league record of 10 titles. This wa even more pleasing given it was the clubs centenary year.

The club also have an association with the MLS by forming a sister club Chivas USA. Jorge Vergaras love of football has also extended to possibilites of Chivas teams in Spain and South Korea.

Domestic Honours
Amateur Era
Amateur League Championships 12:
1908-1909, 1909-1910, 1911-1912, 1921-1922, 1922-1923,
1924-1925, 1927-1928, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, 1932-1933,
1934-1935, 1937-1938.

Profesional Era
League Championships: 11
1956-57, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1963-64,
1964-65, 1969-70, 1986-87, Verano 1997, Apertura 2006
Champion of Champions: 7
1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1970

Mexican Cup: 2
1963, 1970

Champion of the Challenger Cup: 1
Oro de Occidente Cups: 4
1954, 1955, 1956, 1960

International
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1962

Friendly Tournaments
Champion of the Copa Pachuca : 2000
Champion of the Copa Estrella del Milenio: 1999
Champion of the Copa Coliseo: 1998

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