Cruz Azul has 9 league titles. A few years ago Cruz Azul was supposed to have sponsorship with FC Barcelona to supply cement for the renovations of Camp Nou.

I’d never think the day would come for my team Cruz azul to appear on your channel 😅. Sangre Azul 🚂💙

Glad to see Vauxhall Motors get a mention here. Only 20 minutes from my house and they have a lot of youth teams and fantastic local talented children play for them across Cheshire and Merseyside. Shame that they had to drop out of the National League North into the 11th tier (West Cheshire League) in 2014, but they’re on their way back now it seems.

Alfie is the funniest bloke on KZfaq. His dry and sarcastic introductions are brilliant 😁

Absolutely love it when HITC mentions/talks about anything mexico

In fact, most soccer clubs in Japan, China, and Korea are founded by corporations. Although the naming of teams with corporate names has been banned in Japan and China, the relationship between corporations and club teams remains strong.

I’ve been a life long cruz azul, never thought it’d be featured on the channel haha cheers alfie 💙

13:55 Really surprised Alfie didn't do a "Train to Busan" joke there.

CEMEX rivals to Cemento Cruz Azul, also owns a Football club in Mexico.... They were not the founders though. Tigres, originally founded by the University of Nuevo León, now managed bye CEMEX. Mexican Cement companies have been very participative at the Mexican Football landscape, either as owners or sponsors. Xolos de Tijuana is another mexican club founded and currently owned by the same company.

Would love to see a similar video but for clubs with any strange Origins. Not just companies but any unusual beginnings. Love the videos Alfie keep up the good work.

Day 69 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

As much as I enjoy all the information on soccer teams, for me the best part of your videos hands down has to be the insight into the financial, political, and social aspects that contribute to the clubs and their communities. Keep up the great work.

Day 1: 7 less known/competitive top-flight leagues that saw world class players played in there. (For example the Hong Kong Premier League) (Preferably those who attracted these players throughout a longer time, rather than the oil money leagues that only do so in recent years)

I would love to get into the NFT market but it's expensive with the gas price alone, something could cost $18 but the gas could be over $400

Damn! For a second there I thought Club Sport Emelec (the club I support) was going to be featured. We're no longer owned by an electric company though (it doesn't even exist anymore, LOL). Greeting from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Vauxhall Motors once knocked QPR out of the FA cup on penalties after a replay

Shanghai SIPG, where Oscar is playing now, owned by Shanghai International Port Group who operates all the public terminals in the Port of Shanghai , definitely deserves to be mentioned

I thought we would get mentioned in the vid cuz of the title but since we didnt make it imma put this here: In the Hong Kong Top division we literally have 50% of the teams that has corporate mentions in the football club names, which I dont know if its is but its prob one of the highest out of any country's top flight

There was a Vauxhall Motors team based in Luton too until they folded in the 90s

I was very surprised to see Alfie use Cruz Azul for his thumbnail

Cruz azul ❤💙❤️💙

Long time subscriber, amazed to see my club on the thumbnail. Top class content like always, great to see an informed AND informational take on Cruz Azul.

Cruz Azul gang stand up 💪😎

Seeing Cruz azul, or any liga mx team in this channel feels weird, but I love it.

Great video as always, thanks for the knowledge and the talk sport (& Rory) slander

Hey Alfie, thanks for your detailed videos. You are hands down the best football related channel on YT. I have a small request: would you include chapters in your videos so I can skip ahead to the parts that are particularly interested in? Thanks

I knew that Cruz Azul would be introduced in this list and of course,I like these and the other respective footballing clubs daily and ever in this world and other planets,good friends!!!LONG LIVES TO ALL THESE RESPECTIVE FOOTBALLING CLUBS DAILY AND EVER IN THIS WORLD AND OTHER PLANETS,GOOD FRIENDS!!!🙏

That whole Korea football bit was ridiculous. I bet alfie loved that whole thing

Burger King was actually invented by the Dutch Midfielder Wouter Burger in 1962 🇳🇱

Love these random topics, genuinely love them . Great video as always

There is a club in the northern zone of Thai League 3 in Phayao province owned by a rice milling company named "โรงสีแม่ใจธนะโชติวัฒน์ พะเยา" which literally means "Maechaithanachotiwat Phayao". Maechai refers to the name of the district where the mill is located although officially, it is spelled Mae Chai (two words, our romanisation is still a mess when it comes to names of individual entities). The whole Maechaithanachotiwat is the name of the milling company.

All the company clubs i know are in germany. RB Leipzig, bayer leverkusen. Vfl wolfsburg off the top of my head

There's quite a few teams formed and owned by Companies in Indonesia. Most of them are the remnants of Galatama, Indonesian semi-professional league from 1979 to 1994. Semen Padang FC (yeah it's their real name) is one of the clubs that still exists in the country's football pyramid. It's named and still owned by a state-owned cement company Semen Indonesia, through their subsidiary in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. Another example is Semen Tonasa FC, a South Sulawesi based club which also owned by another subsidiary of Semen Indonesia there. There's also Bank Sulselbar FC in South Sulawesi, owned by a bank with the same name.

Another great video, Alfie! You should do a video on clubs founded by religious groups, ie. Glasgow Celtic, founded by father Waldorf to help the Irish community in the east end of Glasgow! I personally can't think of any more, but I'm sure you could find seven! Keep up the good work, mate!!

hey, could you please make a video about bohemians prague, a club that bought the name and logo of bohemians 05. this resulted in there being 2 clubs with the same name and crest in the czech first division in 09/10. and from what i've seen some other weird stuff was going on with them that season. might be something interesting to look at.

the DFB rule regarding companies in club names is so confusing: how is Bayer Leverkusen allowed when Red Bull Leipzig isnt? With Bayer being one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in germany

American Football teams were also founded by companies. The Chicago bears I think was started by a food manufacturing company. Great video as always Alfie. Hope all is well.

Imagine an Away Days series with Busan. The team never park the bus. Full-steam ahead, nobody will derail their plans for success.

Prior to this video I knew nothing about Busan, Korea. I now feel educated, thank you Alfie!

7 worst cases of second season syndrome

Me, my dad and my brother are big Cruz Azul fans and I never knew that part of Cruz Azul history. That's for making this video

Hell yeah! Mi maquina celeste on the thumbnail! 🚂💙💙💙💙💙

Cruz azul 💙 they will always have my love.

El makwaloon is just one of many company's clubs like Enippi FC , petrojet and Farco fc and they're very very successful with a lot of impact on the Egyptian football

Would rather listen to Alfie ramble about cement companies and Korean transit systems for 5 hours than listen to Rory Jennings for 5 minutes

I love rock solid concrete examples. 👍👏

Speaking of Cemex, they're the main sponsor for Tigres, and they used to run a cement plant where I live, here in the US.

I wish Alfie looked into ISL too. There is Jamshedpur FC, which is owned and operated by Tata Steel of Tata Group (the biggest conglomerate in India). Their association with football is actually way older with their academy being the most famous football academy for a very long time. I wish they buy a stake in West Ham considering both are related to Iron. All hail Tatas ❤️🔥

I don't even like football but love the videos you produce. Some of those jokes were truly dad joke territory. A second channel perhaps?

My club in the thumbnail!!!!

A fact I like a lot is how many football clubs are a product of railroad companies, or their workers. On one extreme, how in Argentina there are at least 4 teams named after a single railroad line (CC Rosario, CC Santiago del estero, CC Tucuman, and Instituto Atlético CC)

Minor correction on Vauxhall Motors - them and Opel were just sister marques under GM before, not Opel being higher on thd totem pole

There is enough for a second one of these videos surely...

Could you make a video about Hungarian side Kecskemét, who currently second only to Ferencvarosi in the top flight league table but weren't even in the first division last season.

What on earth is going on at Bayer Leverkusen??

Petrokimia Putra owned by PT. Petrokimia once won the Indonesian league in 2002 but were relegated the next season Semen Padang FC also did won the Indonesian league back in 2011/2012 but at that time there were 2 top leagues because of the divided football federation PKT Bontang owned by Pupuk Kaltim also had several stints in the Indonesian league

Little dig at Rory there 😂 love it

Alfie had so much fun with Busan Transportation Coperation Football Club

14:30 Incredible

Red Bull Leipzig not only had to change it´s name but also its badge. They had up to the 3rd tier the red bull logo with the sun as a badge but when they got promoted to the secon tier they changed it into a ball

The Rory Jennings dig was 🔥🤣

One team that always stands out for me is Airbus UK Broughton in the Welsh league

It's odd to think most European clubs started as community owned teams in 19th and early 20th, but are now nearly wholly owned by corporations and oligarchy all but in name only

Actually, Philips is headquartered in Amsterdam these days.

The Rory Jennings shade got me lol 💀

What is the jazz music you use in your videos

Think we need 7 you've just imagined, in the style of 7 real company teams. Research and all :) It's Dynamo B&Q that did it for me.

Was surprised not to see airbus fc here I thought of them straight away haha

The People’s Channel ⭐️

Alfie is a legend 🙌

Just here to say i road the Busan subway before. So thank you Busan Transportation corporation.

A mini team is Gremio Pague Menos Pague Menos is a pharmacy company i think

Do a video on Birmingham City's huge problems right now

lol I remember Sheriff making that Cinderella CL run and cheering them on and now I deeply regret that.

Alfie what about Airbus UK FC in the welsh premier league?

Missed the chance to put the amazingly named Semen Padang (Padang Cement) in there but then again you saying “semen” a number of times would warrant an instant warning from KZfaq 😅😅😅😅

Waiting for HITC Dynamo athletic sporting FC

Ah yes, the DFB rule preventing clubs from having corporate names which allows Bayer 04 Leverkusen as a name, a club founded by Bayer employees and currently owned by Bayer, and even has the company logo as the centrepiece of the club's badge.

It’s not located in Mexico City. It’s in Hidalgos state

“They did need the full thing” 😂😂

Big johns should sponsor Burnley

Surprised Leverkusen didn’t make the video as they were founded by Bayer and are still owned by Bayer

Dynamo b n q sounds catchy

You forgot Urawa Red Diamonds in the Honda FC segment, they are owned by Mitsubishi Motors.

Not gonna lie, you got me at "Burger King Athletic".

I laughed so hard when you said afc sudocrem hahaha

Many County fans probably have our defeat at Vauxhall Motors as the lowest point of the clubs fall. I don't agree but it does get more mentions than other bad results on discussion boards.

Ah, seeing Seb in this video made me regret his decision to retire from F1 even more. Gonna miss that one-fingered salute.

Please put a Cruz Azul video history and now Please 🙏

nobody expected a wild Fredy adu

Do sections in videos

Love the indirects towards lesser footballing voices.

FC Sheriff. The ALCOA/Bethlehem Steel FC of Transnistria. Love it. (Or we can establish their CEO as the Andrew Mellon of Transnistria, at least.)

VAMOSSS MI CRUZ AZUL 💙🤍💙🤍

Dynamo B&Q? Did it yourself, Alfie?

now i know 10 times more about cement then i did 5 minutes ago

What about slaven belupo? In Croatia??

Arriba la maquina, viva el cruz azul!!

Obolon Kyiv (beer company)

Day 335: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.