Since then, Mexico's most successful men's club has been América, with sixteen titles in the top professional division.

The first women's professional football league Liga MX Femenil was announced in December 2016[7] and the inaugural season (2017–2018) started the following year.

Mexico's most successful men's clubs have been América with 16 Liga MX titles, Guadalajara with 12, Toluca with 10, Cruz Azul with 9, León and Tigres UANL with 8.

The Mexico national football team has 17 participations in the FIFA World Cup, reaching the quarter-finals twice (both times as hosts) and finishing in the round of 16 at seven consecutive tournaments.

Players from Mexico have joined teams in Europe, including Jared Borgetti, Rafael Márquez, Gerardo Torrado, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Nery Castillo, Carlos Salcido, Ricardo Osorio, Pável Pardo, Andrés Guardado, Guillermo Franco, Carlos Vela, Giovani dos Santos, Omar Bravo, Aaron Galindo, Héctor Moreno, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Francisco Fonseca, Javier Hernández (commonly referred to as "Chicharito"), Pablo Barrera, Efraín Juárez, Guillermo Ochoa, Jesús Corona, Héctor Herrera, Miguel Layún, Raúl Jiménez, Marco Fabián, Diego Reyes, Hirving Lozano, Edson Álvarez, Alexis Vega and Diego Lainez the most recents.

Mexico's men's national team has achieved other significant feats such as the most CONCACAF Championship/CONCACAF Gold Cup titles with 12.

[9][18] In 1971, the team hosted an unofficial women's World Cup and reached the final, only to lose to Denmark 3–0.

[19] Football was introduced to Mexico by emigrant miners from Cornwall, England at the end of the 19th century.

[20] In the early 1900s, football was used as a method to "indoctrinate modern labor practices" such as teamwork and competition within a set of rules upon the Mexican workers.

The current Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF) was established in 1927 and later affiliated with FIFA in 1929.