C.F. Pachuca

Pachuca
Full nameClub de Fútbol Pachuca
NicknameTuzos (Gophers)
Short namePAC, CFP
Founded1 November 1892 (1892-11-01)
(as Pachuca Football Club)
1960 (1960)
(refounded as Club de Fútbol Pachuca)
StadiumEstadio Hidalgo
Pachuca, Hidalgo
Capacity25,922
OwnerGrupo Pachuca
ChairmanArmando Martínez Patiño
Head coachEsteban Solari
LeagueLiga MX
Apertura 2025Regular phase: 9th
Final phase: Play-in round
Websitetuzos.com.mx

Club de Fútbol Pachuca, simplified as CF Pachuca, is a Mexican professional football club based in Pachuca, Hidalgo. It competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at the Estadio Hidalgo. Founded in 1892 as Pachuca Football Club, it was one of the first football clubs founded in Mexico, the club changed its name to Pachuca Athletic Club in 1895, and the current franchise was refounded in 1960 with its current name and colors. The club was founded by workers of the Mexican mining company named Compañia Real del Monte y Pachuca, which had mostly British miners immigrants from Camborne and Redruth (Cornish diaspora). Nicknamed Tuzos, it pays tribute and refers to the history and mining heritage of the club and the city. Pachuca was a founding member in 1902 of the first amateur football league in Mexico, named Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association.

Domestically, CF Pachuca has won 7 Liga MX titles. Internationally, it has won 6 CONCACAF Champions Cup/Champions League titles, one CONMEBOL Sudamericana, one FIFA Derby of the Americas and one FIFA Challenger Cup. The club finished as runners-up in the 2007 Recopa Sudamericana, reached the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup final, losing to Real Madrid CF, and also finished in third place in the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup. Regionally, it has won one North American SuperLiga.