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Nicknames

The football club has often had many nicknames throughout its history, some used by the club and others given for different reasons. These are some of them:

•	The Students: This was a nickname that wasn’t well known and only used in the early years of the club. When the team was first founded, this nickname was used by their rivals because the team was developed from the combination of two colleges: Mascarones and La Perpetua. Because many of their players were college students, when Club America joined La Liga Mexicana (the Mexican Soccer League), it was comprised mostly of young players.

•	The Blue-Creams or Creams: This nickname was one of the more distinctive and oldest nicknames. Used since 1920, it is the reason the club used the colorways it did. Back then, the jerseys were a cream color while the shorts and socks were blue.

•	Canaries: This was one of the nicknames they have been known as since the 1940s. This was given to them because of the yellow found in the uniform.

•	Millionaires: This is a derogatory reference or version of the word millionaire. It started when businessman Emilio Azcarraga Milmo bought the team in 1959. Azcarraga hired the successful president of the Club Zacatepec, Guillermo Cañedo de la Bárcena, and started to hire other notable foreigner figures, focusing on money, to form a powerful team.

•	Eagles: Although this emblem of the eagle had appeared briefly in one version of the club shield in the 1940s, it wasn’t a popular nickname until the arrival of new Club America President Emilio Díez Barroso in the early 1980s. With the club looking for a new image, they wanted to have a representation of an animal that would show pride and domination of its environment. Supported by a strong campaign, they chose the eagles. This nickname remains popular to this day.