America and Chivas to play Liga MX match in USA

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Regular-season Liga MX games could be coming to the United States very soon.

According to a report in W Deportes, Club América and Chivas are planning on staging the next edition of the Súper Clásico in the U.S. on September 14.

América, the back-to-back Liga MX champion, is set to hit the road for the 2024 Apertura, as its usual home of the Estadio Azteca closes for renovations ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Las Águilas will be based at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Mexico City next season, but club president Santiago Baños said last month he’d be interested in bringing his team around the country — and possibly to the U.S. — during the 2024 Apertura.

“We’re not opposed to the possibility of playing in the United States as the home team, now that the lawsuit has been finalized and it appears that there’s a possibility for other teams to play there,” Baños told reporters.

“It would be incredible to play in the U.S. and in other (Mexican) states because we have so many fans.”

The lawsuit Baños referred to involves promoter Relevent Sports, which sued FIFA and U.S. Soccer in 2019 to challenge FIFA’s ban on league matches being played outside a given home country.

Relevent and FIFA have since agreed to drop FIFA from the lawsuit, leaving U.S. Soccer as the lone defendant. FIFA has said that it will likely change the ban before the end of 2024.

That could open the door for Liga MX’s biggest game to take place in the USA — an event that would no doubt be a financial boon to all parties.

In October 2023, Chivas and América drew 86,134 fans at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, CA for a friendly, the largest crowd ever for a game between two Mexican clubs in the United States.

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