Cruz Azul is reaping recognition for the Concachampions title and among them stands out the analysis of the sports statistics company Opta Sports, which places the Maquina Celeste in 65th place in the world, surpassing Toluca, champion of Liga MX, América and even River Plate and Ajax.

This analysis was based on the numbers that have been recorded by more than 13 thousand teams around the world in the current 2025, where the Celestes are the best ranked in Liga MX, leaving behind the champion Toluca and the three-time champion América, which appear among the best 90 teams in the world, while on the negative side, Santos Laguna does not appear even among the thousand teams in the globe.

The analysis of this company is based on the fact that each season considers a scale of 0 to 100 and where 0 is the team with the lowest productivity and 100 the most effective, where wins, draws, losses, titles, goals, as well as the weight of each league in which they participate are considered.

Cruz Azul’s numbers

Within the analysis of Cruz Azul, the last title of the Concacaf Champions Cup 2025 and the semifinal where they lost to America were included, resulting in 65th place in the world with a total of 86.3 percentage out of 100, which is Liverpool's rating as the highest in the entire world.

The surprising thing about the case is that the numbers of the Máquina Celeste surpass those of Real Sociedad of Spain, Ajax of the Netherlands, Palmeiras and Flamengo of Brazil or River Plate of Argentina, where the sky blue gained a lot of ground due to the victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps that allowed them to climb six places in the last week.

Cruz Azul's success allowed them to position themselves as the best team in Mexico, leaving behind the Liga MX champion, Toluca, who is in 82nd place, but most surprisingly, America, who due to their defeats in the final of Mexican soccer and against LAFC,where they failed in their quest for the last spot in the Club World Cup, finishing in 91st place.

The rest of the Mexican teams

On the other hand, the other Mexican teams are outside the top 100 teams, the best placed being Rayados de Monterrey and Tigres who were placed in positions 128 and 136 with a total of 82.7 and 82.4, but another bad news is that after the Monterrey teams there was a big drop to 227th place with the Tuzos del Pachuca who will participate in the Club World Cup.

After the Hidalgo teams were Chivas and Pumas who last season had a negative performance and were sent to 274 and 338th place in the classification, but surpassing squads like Barcelona de Guayaquil, Ecuador.

After that they are ranked as the worst teams in Liga MX, Mazatlán, Puebla and Santos Laguna, the latter not even appearing among the best thousand teams in the world, ranking 1061 with a percentage of 70.4.

In the case of Mazatlán, it appears in 561st place with 74.9 and Puebla in 957th with a percentage of 71.1, showing that their poor performance in Liga MX did not go unnoticed in a negative way in the Opta Sports analysis.

The classification of Mexicans in the world

In this way, the classification of Mexican teams in the world was as follows: 1.-Cruz Azul | 65, 2.-Toluca | 82, 3.-América | 91, 4.-Rayados | 128, 5.-Tigres | 136, 6.-Pachuca | 228, 7. Chivas | 274, 8. Necaxa | 302, 9. León | 303, 10. Pumas | 338, 11. Tijuana | 409, 12. Atlético San Luis | 421, 13. Atlas | 517, 14. Juárez | 518, 15. Querétaro | 541, 16. Mazatlán | 550, 17. Puebla | 571, 18. Santos | 619.

Liverpool the world standard

Finally in the world ranking, the standard is Liverpool, recently champion of the Premier League, stripping Manchester City of its reign with a total of 100.9 percentage, escorted by Arsenal with 99.5, PSG, recent champion of the Champions League with a total of 99.3, Manchester City with 98.6, Barcelona with 98.0, Bayer Munich with 97.2, Inter Milan with 96.5, Real Madrid with 96.3, Chelsea 96.0 and Aston Villa with 95.4, within the best ten in the world.