2020-21 Cruz Azul Away Shirtfrom $65
2019-20 Cruz Azul Third Shirtfrom $65
2018-19 Cruz Azul Third Shirtfrom $85
2014-15 Cruz Azul Home Shirtfrom $70
2006-08 Cruz Azul Home Shirtfrom $60
2004-06 Cruz Azul Home Shirtfrom $130
2004-05 Cruz Azul Home Shirtfrom $115
2003-04 Cruz Azul Home Shirtfrom $130
2002-03 Cruz Azul Away Shirtfrom $115On 24 May 2026, in the fifth minute of stoppage time, Carlos Rotondi controlled the ball in the Pumas penalty area, turned and hit it with his left foot. Cruz Azul won its tenth league title that way, in the ninety-fifth minute, which is a decent joke at the expense of a club whose collapses gave Mexican Spanish a verb.
The 2026/27 season is the club's hundredth. The home shirt marks it, and there is now a genuine reason to own one.
Where to buy the Cruz Azul jersey
The current Pirma shirts are sold through the club store and Mexican retailers. North American stock is limited, and Cruz Azul is essentially absent from the big US sports catalogues. For the shirts that matter historically, the grid above pulls live from Classic Football Shirts, which carries originals from the Azul Sport, Fila, Umbro and Joma eras in graded condition.
Prices for reference: the current US replica lists around $124.99, while in Mexico the player version runs 2,499 MXN. Pirma also sells an Edición La 10, a personalised line marking the tenth title. Vintage shirts are one-off items in a single size, each graded out of ten for condition, which is why the same season can sit anywhere between $50 and $130.
A football club owned by its workers
Cruz Azul is not named after a colour scheme. It is named after a cement cooperative, and the club still belongs to it.
The story starts in Jasso, Hidalgo, at the Cooperativa La Cruz Azul plant. In 1925 the company wanted to start a baseball team. Carlos Garcés López, a dentist and former América player employed there, campaigned for football instead. On 22 March 1927 the workers voted, football won, and the baseball field was dug up. The team was founded on 22 May 1927 with Garcés López as its first coach, and for years it was made up entirely of plant employees.
Four years later the Depression bankrupted the cement works, and it was sold to a rival for a million pesos. Then 192 workers unionised and sued to stop the sale. They won. On 2 November 1931 they took control of the plant, and in May 1932 the governor of Hidalgo declared them its collective owners, on condition they repay 1.3 million pesos over ten years. They cleared the debt on 2 November 1941 and marked it with a football match.
That is why the shirt sponsor has read Cemento Cruz Azul without interruption since 1994. The club does not carry an outside brand on its chest. It carries the name of the cooperative that owns it.
The blue and the cross come from further back still. The plant was founded in 1881 by two Englishmen, Henry Gibbon and Joseph Watson, and the club's blue, white and red are usually traced to the Union Jack.
La Máquina, and the word cruzazulear
The nickname comes from the rail line that carried cement from Jasso to Mexico City, and from the team that dominated the 1970s once it moved to the capital. The journalist Ángel Fernández is generally credited with popularising it.
Then came the drought. Cruz Azul won the league in 1997 and did not win it again until 2021, twenty-three years later. The failures were spectacular enough that cruzazulear entered Mexican sporting vocabulary, defined by the Mexican Academy of Language as losing a match you had effectively already won. The Royal Spanish Academy logged it in its Observatory of Words in October 2020, though it has said it does not intend to add it to the dictionary proper, a distinction most English-language articles get wrong.
Cruz Azul by the numbers
| Founded | 22 May 1927 |
|---|---|
| Liga MX titles | 10 (last: Clausura 2026) |
| CONCACAF Champions Cup | 7, a shared record |
| Copa MX | 4 |
| Copa Libertadores | Runners-up 2001, the first Mexican club to reach the final |
| Kit supplier | Pirma (since 2023) |
| Shirt sponsor | Cemento Cruz Azul (since 1994) |
| Record scorer | Carlos Hermosillo, 198 goals |
Six of the ten titles came in the 1970s. The club also won the 2026 Campeón de Campeones, beating Toluca 3-1 on 25 July 2026.
The tenth title, in detail
The final against Pumas finished goalless in the first leg on 21 May 2026. In the return on 24 May, Pumas led through Robert Morales just after the half hour. Cruz Azul equalised on 54 minutes when Rubén Duarte turned a Rotondi cross into his own net, after Carlos Rodríguez had built the move. Uriel Antuna was sent off for Pumas in stoppage time, and Rotondi scored two minutes later.
The coach was Joel Huiqui, a former defender who had taken over on an interim basis in April after Nicolás Larcamón was dismissed following nine games without a win. Huiqui was confirmed permanently on 8 July 2026.
There is a postscript. Billy Álvarez, who ran the club and the cooperative from 1988 to 2020 and was later imprisoned for money laundering, died on 30 May 2026, six days after the title.
Five Cruz Azul shirts collectors actually want
Football Kit Archive ratings, taken on 3 August 2026.
1991/92 home, Azul Sport (4.21 from 28 votes)
The highest-rated Cruz Azul shirt in the archive. Blue, red and white, made by Azul Sport, the cooperative's own label, with no sponsor. The early nineties in-house era is the club's aesthetic peak according to supporters, and the 1993/94 and 1995/96 shirts sit just behind it.
2025/26 Liga MX final
Football Kit Archive created a separate entry for the shirt worn in the final itself: blue, V-neck with red and white trim. This is the tenth-title shirt, and the one that will be remembered.
2025/26 third, Pirma (4.02 from 48 votes)
Released on 24 October 2025. Black and silver with a subtle checkerboard across the body and every logo rendered in silver. This is the shirt people are searching for when they type cruz azul black jersey, and it is rated well above the current home and away.
Invierno 1997 home, Fila
The shirt that ended the wait before the wait began: blue with white collar and sleeves, red and blue trim, Carlos Hermosillo scoring the winner in the final against León. Genuine examples change hands for serious money in Mexico, and several retro specialists reissue it.
2022/23 home, Pirma (3.85 from 224 votes)
The most voted-on recent shirt, and the one that most people actually own.
The 2026/27 Pirma shirt
Released on 3 July 2026, royal blue and white, with a white sport collar trimmed in blue.
The design idea is the club's centenary: Pirma built the graphic from the succession of Cruz Azul crests between 1927 and 2027, knitted into the fabric, with the current crest and the Pirma logo heat-applied. The away shirt uses the same template with the colours reversed on a cream or off-white base, described differently by different sources.
Supporters have not warmed to either. On Football Kit Archive the home sits at 3.29 and the away at 2.80, both well below the black third shirt from the previous season. No third shirt has been released for 2026/27 as of early August.
One detail collectors care about: the crest carried a star for each title from 1972 until 2022, when the club changed its legal name and removed all of them.
Authentic, replica or retro
| Version | Who it suits | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Player version | Playing, close fit | Slimmer cut, 2,499 MXN in Mexico |
| Replica | Everyday wear | Around $124.99 in the US |
| Retro | Collectors | The 1997 Fila and early-nineties Azul Sport shirts are the ones to hunt |
Pirma is a Mexican manufacturer and its sizing runs closer to Mexican than US standards, which means smaller. Order a size up if you are unsure, particularly for the player version.
Names worth putting on the back
Carlos Rotondi scored the goal that won the tenth title and set up the equaliser in the same match. He is the obvious choice this season. Gabriel Fernández was the leading scorer in 2025/26 with 14 league goals, Érik Lira is captain, and Kevin Mier is the first-choice goalkeeper. Luka Romero, formerly of AC Milan, is the most recognisable name internationally.
Two names to avoid: Giorgos Giakoumakis was sold to Al Ain in July 2026 and is no longer at the club, and Uriel Antuna plays for Pumas, not Cruz Azul.
Historically, Carlos Hermosillo is the club's record scorer with 198 goals and also the leading scorer in the derby against América. Óscar Pérez spent fifteen years in goal.
The Clásico Joven
Cruz Azul against Club América is the fixture that has decided more Mexican titles than any other, seven finals in total. The contrast is social before it is sporting: América belongs to a media conglomerate and represents money and the establishment, while Cruz Azul came out of a workers' cooperative. Rival fans call Cruz Azul supporters albañiles, bricklayers, which started as an insult and was adopted as a badge.
The 2013 final is the wound. América equalised in stoppage time through Moisés Muñoz and won on penalties, and that match is the reference point every time the verb cruzazulear gets used.
Sizing and care
Wash cold and inside out, and keep the shirt out of the dryer. The 2026/27 shirt uses knitted graphics with heat-applied logos, so direct ironing will damage both.
Frequently asked questions
Who makes the Cruz Azul jersey?
Pirma, a Mexican brand, since 2023. Joma supplied the club from 2019 to 2023, Under Armour before that.
Did Cruz Azul win the league in 2026?
Yes. It won the Clausura 2026 against Pumas, its tenth league title, on a Carlos Rotondi goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
What is the black Cruz Azul jersey?
The 2025/26 third shirt, released in October 2025: black and silver with a checkerboard pattern. Supporters rate it higher than the current home shirt.
What does cruzazulear mean?
To lose a match you had already effectively won. It entered the Royal Spanish Academy's Observatory of Words in 2020, though it is not in the dictionary itself.
Who owns Cruz Azul?
The Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, a cement cooperative owned collectively by its members since 1932.