FIFA conducted the first international sanction on multiprophity with the Azteca team, leaving it out of the Club World Cup to the León Club, part of the same business group
He Club León from Mexico was excluded from next Club World Cup In the United States for having violated the regulation on the multipropriety of the participating teams, FIFA announced on March 21. The club, despite having gone to appeal to Sports Arbitration Court (TAS) He failed to reverse the sanction.
“Both CF Pachuca and the Leon Club breach the criteria on the property of several clubs (…) of the Club World Cup regulations,” FIFA said at the time of issuing its sentence, the first to be ratified internationally on this topic.
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Article 10.1 of the regulation of this tournament stipulates that no participant may “possess values ​​or actions of any other club participating in the competition, or trade with them.” The lion was in Group D next to Chelsea, Flamengo and the Esperance of Tunisia. In January, the lion signed the star James RodrÃguez as reinforcement with a view to the Club World Cup. That position will be covered by the Club America Los Angeles FC, that will play on Saturday for said quota.
He Alajuelense From Costa Rica he had denounced the participation of the two Mexican clubs in the World Cup, whose first edition will be played from June 15 to July 13 in the United States with the participation of 32 teams from all confederations. Although Costa Ricans asked to participate in the World Cup as a result of the expulsion of León, the TAS did not give their claim opportunity.
The Pachuca group is, since its foundation in 1995, owner of the Pachuca Club. In 2011, the Consortium acquired from the Lion. The Mexican Jesús MartÃnez Patiño He is president of the Pachuca group, his brother Armando MartÃnez Patiño He is president of Pachuca and his son Jesús MartÃnez MurguÃa He is president of the Lion.
León had qualified for the Club World Cup by winning the 2023 Concacaf Champions Cup; Pachuca did it in 2024. At the end of 2024, Jesús MartÃnez Patiño publicly announced his intention to sell 51% of the lion's shares before 2027.
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