Cruz Azul

2012–13 season
President	Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas
Manager	Guillermo Vázquez
Stadium	Estadio Azul
Apertura MX 2012	Quarterfinals; "ongoing"
Clausura MX 2013	TBD
Copa Apertura MX	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Mariano Pavone (3) Copa MX: Javier Orozco (3) All: Javier Orozco (4)
Highest home attendance	31,118 vs. GDL (4/AUG/2012)
Lowest home attendance	8,000 vs. EAL (21/AUG/2012)
Average home league attendance	20,654
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2012–13 Cruz Azul season is the 66th professional season of Mexico's top-flight football league. The season is split into four tournaments—the Torneo Apertura, Torneo Clausura, Cup Apertura and the Cup Clausura.

Club

Current squad

As of June 2012: Listed on the official website of Cruz Azul.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   MEX José de Jesús Corona 2 DF   MEX Fausto Pinto 3 DF   MEX Néstor Araujo 4 DF   MEX Julio César Domínguez ( vice-captain) 5 DF   MEX Alejandro Castro 6 MF   MEX Gerardo Torrado ( captain) 7 MF   MEX Javier Aquino 8 MF   MEX Israel Castro 19 FW   MEX Omar Bravo 10 MF   ARG Christian Giménez ( 3rd vice-captain) 11 FW   MEX Alejandro Vela

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF   COL Luis Amaranto Perea 15 DF   MEX Gerardo Flores 16 DF   MEX Jair Pereira 17 MF   MEX Pablo Barrera 18 MF   BRA Francinilson Meirelles 20 FW   ARG Mariano Pavone 21 MF   MEX Héctor Gutiérrez 22 DF   MEX Adrián Cortés 25 GK   MEX Yosgart Gutiérrez ( 2nd vice-captain) 27 FW   MEX Javier Orozco 28 DF   MEX Rogelio Chávez

From youth system

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK   MEX Guillermo Allison 19 FW   MEX Marco Antonio Angúlo 24 MF   MEX Luis Alanís 61 GK   MEX Gibrán Lajud 72 MF   MEX Luis Fernando Carrasco 73 MF   MEX Iñaki Domínguez 74 MF   MEX Kevin Varela 75 FW   MEX Martín Galván

No. Pos. Nation Player 76 FW   MEX Héctor Acevedo 77 DF   MEX Francisco Flores 78 MF   MEX Raúl Antonio Vidal 79 DF   MEX Alan Vidal 84 DF   MEX Juan Carlos García 86 DF   MEX Iván Ricardo Pérez 91 MF   MEX Diego Israel Martínez 96 DF   MEX Jesús Alberto Lara

Transfers

Summer

In and loan

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
5	DF		Alejandro Castro	25	Non-EU	Estudiantes Tecos	Loan Return	Summer	Undisclosed	Youth system	diarioportal.com
28	DF		Rogelio Chávez	27	Non-EU	Atlas	Loan Return	Summer	Undisclosed	Youth system	diarioportal.com
20	FW		Mariano Pavone	30	EU	Lanús	Transfer	Summer	2015	Undisclosed	ElUniversal.com.mx
14	DF		Luis Amaranto Perea	33	EU	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	Summer	2014	Undisclosed	Goal.com
17	MF		Pablo Barrera	25	Non-EU	West Ham United	Transfer	Summer	2015	Undisclosed	Excelsior.com

Out and loan

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
	DF		Horacio Cervantes		Non-EU	Necaxa	Loan	Summer	Undisclosed
	MF		Jaime Lozano		Non-EU	UNAM	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
30	FW		Emanuel Villa		Non-EU	UNAM	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
3	DF		Waldo Ponce		Non-EU	Universidad de Chile	Loan	Summer	Undisclosed
9	FW		Edixon Perea		Non-EU	Changchun Yatai	Loan	Summer	Undisclosed

Winter

In and loan

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source

Out and loan

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source

Competitions

Cruz Azul play four different tournaments in the 2012–13 season are Apertura 2012, Clausura 2013, Apertura 2012 Copa Mexico and Clausura 2013 Copa Mexico.

Overall

Competition	Started round	Position	First match	Last match
Apertura 2012	—	6th	July 21	—
Copa Apertura	Group Stage	2nd	July 25	—
Copa Clausura	—	—	—	—
Clausura 2013	—	—	—	—

Results by opponent (league)

Team	Results		Points
	Home	Away
América
Atlante
Atlas
Guadalajara	0 – 0		1
Chiapas
León	1 – 1		1
Monterrey
Morelia	0 – 0		1
Pachuca
Puebla		0 – 1	3
Querétaro
San Luis		1 – 2	3
Santos Laguna
Tijuana
Toluca
UANL
UNAM		0 – 1	3
Total Points
Apertura	3	9	12
Clausura
Season	3	9	12

Source: Cruz Azul Matches at soccerway.com 2012–13 Liga MX season article

Competitions statistics

2012 Torneo Apertura

Kickoff times are in CTZ or CST= UTC−06:00 and DST= UTC−05:00.

Pre-Season Summer 2012

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General table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
4	América	17	8	7	2	28	15	+13	31	Advance to the Liguilla [a]
5	Morelia	17	6	9	2	25	16	+9	27
6	Cruz Azul	17	6	8	3	22	15	+7	26
7	Monterrey	17	5	8	4	23	23	0	23	Advance to the Liguilla and cannot qualify for South American competitions [a] [b]
8	Guadalajara	17	6	5	6	17	17	0	23

Copa MX

Kickoff times are in CTZ or CST= UTC−06:00 and DST= UTC−05:00.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Home Game

Group stage

Round 1

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Cruz Azul won the series 4 – 2.
Round 2

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Cruz Azul won the series 1 – 0.
Round 3

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Group table

Group 2

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	RW	GF	GA	GD	Pts		NEZ	CRA	ALT	ATL
Neza	6	3	1	2	1	7	8	−1	11			2–1	2–1	2–1
Cruz Azul	6	2	2	2	2	6	4	+2	10		3–0		0–0	1–1
Altamira	6	2	2	2	2	6	6	0	10		1–0	0–1		3–2
Atlas	6	1	3	2	1	7	8	−1	7		1–1	1–0	1–1

Torneo Clausura 2013

Kickoff times are in CTZ or CST= UTC−06:00 and DST= UTC−05:00.

Pre-Season Winter 2012

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Classification table

General table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
3	Atlas	17	9	5	3	20	13	+7	32	Advance to the Liguilla
4	Morelia	17	8	6	3	25	18	+7	30
5	Cruz Azul	17	8	5	4	35	19	+16	29
6	Santos Laguna	17	8	5	4	20	13	+7	29
7	UNAM	17	8	5	4	19	14	+5	29

Squad statistics

Start formations

Qnt	Formation	Match(es)

Starting XI

Apps, goals and discipline

Key:
  ‡ On loan from another club   * First appearance(s) for the club

Correct as of 28 August 2012. Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances in parentheses where applicable.

No.	Pos	Name	P	G	P	G	P	G	P	G			Notes
			League		Cup		Playoffs		Total		Discipline
1	GK	José de Jesús Corona	2	-1	0	0	0	0	2	-1	0	0	(−) means goals conceded
12	GK	Guillermo Allison	0	0	3	-2	0	0	3*	-2	0	0	(−) means goals conceded
25	GK	Yosgart Gutiérrez	4	-1	1	0	0	0	5	-1	0	0	(−) means goals conceded
61	GK	Gibrán Lajud	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	(−) means goals conceded
2	DF	Fausto Pinto	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	Néstor Araujo	0(1)	0	1	0	0	0	1(1)	0	1	0
4	DF	Julio César Domínguez	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
5	DF	Alejandro Castro	6	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	3	0
14	DF	Luis Amaranto Perea	6	0	0	0	0	0	6*	0	3	0
15	DF	Gerardo Flores	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
16	DF	Jair Pereira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	DF	Adrián Cortés	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	0	3	0
28	DF	Rogelio Chavez	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
77	DF	Francisco Flores	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
79	DF	Alan Emmanuel Vidal	0	0	3(1)	0	0	0	3(1)	0	1	0
84	DF	Juan Carlos García	0	0	2(1)	0	0	0	2(1)	0	1	0
86	DF	Iván Pérez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF	Gerardo Torrado	6	0	0(1)	0	0	0	6(1)	0	0	0
7	MF	Javier Aquino	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
8	MF	Israel Castro	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
10	MF	Christian Giménez	0(1)	0	1	1	0	0	1(1)	1	0	0
17	MF	Pablo Barrera	5(1)	1	0	0	0	0	5(1)	1	2	0
18	MF	Maranhão	0(5)	0	4	0	0	0	4(5)	0	2	0
21	MF	Héctor Gutiérrez	0(2)	0	4	0	0	0	4(2)	0	2	0
24	MF	Luis Alanis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
72	MF	Luis Fernando Carrasco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
73	MF	Iñaki Domínguez	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
74	MF	Kevin Varela	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
78	MF	Raúl Antonio Vidal	0	0	4	0	0	0	4*	0	0	0
91	MF	Diego Israel Martínez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Omar Bravo	5(1)	0	1	0	0	0	6(1)	0	0	0
11	FW	Alejandro Vela	6	0	0	0	0	0	6*	0	2	0
19	FW	Marco Antonio Angúlo	0	0	0(3)	0	0	0	0(3)	0	1	0
20	FW	Mariano Pavone	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
27	FW	Javier Orozco	0(6)	1	4	3	0	0	4(6)	4	1	0
75	FW	Martín Galván	0	0	1(2)	0	0	0	1(2)	0	1	0
76	FW	Héctor Acevedo	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)*	0	0	0
96	FW	Jesús Lara	0	0	2(2)	1	0	0	2(2)*	1	0	0

Overall statistics team

	Total	Home	Away
Games played	0	0	0
Games won	0	0	0
Games drawn	0	0	0
Games lost	0	0	0
Biggest win (Apertura)
Biggest win (Cup Apertura)
Biggest win (Clausura)
Biggest win (Cup Clausura)
Biggest lose (Apertura)
Biggest lose (Cup Apertura)
Biggest lose (Clausura)
Biggest lose (Cup Clausura)
Goals scored	0	0	0
Goals conceded	0	0	0
Goal difference	0	0	0
Average GF per game	0	0	0
Average GA per game	0	0	0
Most Game Started	0
Most appearances	0
Top scorer	0
Points	0/0 (0%)	0/0 (0%)	0/0 (0%)
Winning rate	0/0 (0%)	0/0 (0%)	0/0 (0%)

Goalscorers

Position	Nation	Name	Apertura 2012	Copa Mexico AP	Clausura 2013	Copa Mexico CL	Total
1	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
2	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
3	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	—	—	0	0	0	0	0

Goal minutes

Updated to games played on 2 June.

1'–15'	16'–30'	31'–HT	46'–60'	61'–75'	76'–FT	Extra time	"Total"
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Results

Apertura 2012

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	3	3	0	5	2	+3	12	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	1	+3

Results by round

Copa Apertura 2012

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
4	2	1	1	5	2	+3	7	1	1	0	3	0	+3	1	0	1	2	2	0

Results by round

Clausura 2013

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Results by round

IFFHS ranking

Cruz Azul position on the Club World Ranking during the 2012–13 season, according to IFFHS. ^[3]

Month	Position	Points
July	82	127.5
August	TBD	TBD
September	TBD	TBD
October	TBD	TBD
November	TBD	TBD
December	TBD	TBD
January	TBD	TBD
February	TBD	TBD
March	TBD	TBD
April	TBD	TBD
May	TBD	TBD
June	[ to be determined]	[ to be determined]

References

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