Pentagonales Internacionales

Pentagonales Internacionales were football tournaments organized by the Mexican Football Association to give local teams the opportunity to compete with foreign teams under so-called competitive conditions. The tournaments have their origins in Mexico City and were held early on in the country's second largest city, Guadalajara . They were always played with five teams (hence the name Pentagonales, which translated means five-way tournaments ), three of which came from Mexico and two from abroad. Only at the second tournament in 1961 and the last tournament in Mexico City in 1970 and at the 1963 tournament in Guadalajara only two Mexican and three foreign teams took part.

The tournaments in Mexico City

The first tournament of this kind was held in Mexico City in 1957 and was still a Cuadrangular Internacional , i.e. an international four-way tournament . The Mexican teams from Atlante and Guadalajara took part, the Racing Club from Argentina and Peñarol Montevideo from Uruguay were invited as international guests . The winner of the competition was Peñarol.

In 1958 the first real Pentagonal Internacional took place. Chivas Guadalajara was the only participant in this tournament who had already taken part in the four-way tournament initiated last year. The advantage of having already gained experience in this competition finally paid off; because the team from Guadalajara, which matured into a top team, to a campeonisímo , won the tournament. The other participants were Toluca and Zacatepec from Mexico as well as Botafogo from Brazil and River Plate from Argentina.

After Santos from Brazil and Toluca from Mexico won the tournaments in 1959 and 1960, respectively, Guadalajara was successful again at the opening tournament in 1961. In total there were three of these competitions in 1961, two in Mexico City and one in Guadalajara, more than in any other year.

The other tournament in Mexico City was won by FC Santos and only clubs from Brazil were successful in the following two years: Botafogo won in 1962 and Vasco da Gama entered the list of winners in 1963.

Between 1964 and 1968 Hexagonales Internacionales , so - called six- tournament tournaments, were held. But now it was no longer a pure club tournament. For example, the GDR national team took part in 1966 and there were also various “selection teams” such as those from Moscow (1964) or Mexico (several times in later years). In 1970 they returned to the tried and tested five-a-side tournament, but the downfall of the tournament, which used to be so popular, could no longer be stopped.

Below are the traditional final tables of the tournaments of Mexico City:

Final table of the Cuadrangular Internacional in Mexico City 1957

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Peñarol	4th	3	1	0	007: 400	+3	07: 10
2.	Racing Club	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	03: 30
3.	Guadalajara	3	1	1	1	005: 500	± 0	03: 30
4th	Atlante	3	0	1	2	001: 500	−4	01: 50

The results of the 1957 tournament, which are not posted on the RSSSF website, were as follows:
Peñarol-Atlante 2-0
Guadalajara-Racing Club 1-0
Peñarol-Guadalajara
4-3 Guadalajara-Atlante 1: 1
Peñarol-Racing Club 1: 1
Racing Club Atlante 2-0

Final table of the I. Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1958

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Guadalajara	4th	3	0	1	005: 200	+3	06: 20
2.	Botafogo	4th	2	1	1	008: 700	+1	05: 30
3.	Toluca	4th	2	0	2	012: 900	+3	04: 40
4th	River Plate	4th	1	1	2	007: 700	± 0	03: 50
5.	Zacatepec	4th	1	0	3	007:140	−7	02: 60

Final table of the II Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1959

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Santos FC	4th	3	0	1	014: 600	+8	06: 20
2.	Dukla Prague	4th	2	1	1	009: 800	+1	05: 30
3.	Guadalajara	4th	2	1	1	006: 600	± 0	05: 30
4th	America	4th	2	0	2	008:110	−3	04: 40
5.	Leon	4th	0	0	4th	002: 800	−6	00: 80

Final table of the III. Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1960

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Toluca	4th	3	0	1	010: 400	+6	06: 20
2.	San Lorenzo	4th	3	0	1	011: 800	+3	06: 20
3.	America	4th	2	0	2	004: 700	−3	04: 40
4th	Fluminense	4th	1	0	3	006: 800	−2	02: 60
5.	Guadalajara	4th	1	0	3	008:120	−4	02: 60

Final table of the IV Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1961

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Guadalajara	4th	2	1	1	007: 400	+3	05: 30
2.	Santos FC	4th	1	2	1	009: 700	+2	04: 40
3.	Oro	4th	1	2	1	007: 700	± 0	04: 40
4th	Necaxa	4th	1	2	1	007:100	−3	04: 40
5.	Independiente	4th	1	1	2	006: 800	−2	03: 50

Final table of the V. Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1961

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Santos FC	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00-00
2.	America (Rio de Janeiro)	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00-00
3.	Guadalajara	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00-00
4th	Oro	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00-00
5.	Independiente	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00-00

Note: Due to an incorrect table at RSSSF.com (see there), the incomprehensible information about points, goals, etc. are not taken into account in the table above.

Final table of VI. Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1962

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Botafogo	4th	3	0	1	009: 500	+4	06: 20
2.	CF Atlante	4th	2	1	1	006: 500	+1	05: 30
3.	Újpesti Dózsa	4th	2	0	2	007: 700	± 0	04: 40
4th	America	4th	1	1	2	006: 600	± 0	03: 50
5.	Toluca	4th	0	2	2	004: 900	−5	02: 60

Final table of the VII Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1963

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Vasco da Gama	4th	2	2	0	008: 200	+6	06: 20
2.	Dukla Prague	4th	2	1	1	005: 400	+1	05: 30
3.	Guadalajara	4th	1	2	1	005: 400	+1	04: 40
4th	America	4th	2	0	2	004: 500	−1	04: 40
5.	Oro	4th	0	1	3	003:100	−7	01: 70

Final table of the I. Hexagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1964

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Moscow city selection	5	4th	1	0	014: 300	+11	09: 10
2.	Necaxa	5	3	0	2	006: 400	+2	06: 40
3.	Partizan Belgrade	5	2	1	2	007: 900	−2	05: 50
4th	America	5	2	0	3	010:150	−5	04: 60
5.	Guadalajara	5	1	1	3	009:110	−2	03: 70
6th	São Paulo FC	5	1	1	3	006:100	−4	03: 70

Final table of the II. Hexagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1966

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlas	5	3	2	0	008: 400	+4	08: 20
2.	Sparta Prague	5	3	2	0	011: 700	+4	08: 20
3.	GDR	5	2	1	2	012: 900	+3	05: 50
4th	Guadalajara	5	1	3	1	010: 800	+2	05: 50
5.	Vasco da Gama	5	0	2	3	002: 800	−6	02: 80
6th	America	5	0	2	3	000: 700	−7	02: 80

Note: It is not clear whether - and, if so, why - Atlas was the tournament winner. The direct duel with Sparta ended 2-2 and the goal difference between Atlas and Sparta was plus 4 each, with Sparta scoring more goals. Presumably, the goals were divided by the goals conceded to determine the winner, which corresponded to a ratio of 2.00 for Atlas and 1.57 for Sparta. But the tournament victory of Atlas is acc. RSSSF.com questionable.

Ticket at III. Torneo Hexagonal in Mexico City

Final table of the III. Hexagonal Internacional in Mexico City in 1967

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Mexico selection team	5	4th	0	1	012: 200	+10	08: 20
2.	Espanyol Barcelona	5	3	1	1	010: 700	+3	07: 30
3.	America	5	1	3	1	006: 500	+1	05: 50
4th	Bologna FC	5	2	0	3	005: 900	−4	04: 60
5.	Sheffield Wednesday	5	1	1	3	005:100	−5	03: 70
6th	Toluca	5	1	1	3	005:100	−5	03: 70

Note: At RSSSF.com, Sheffield Wednesday is assigned fifth place and Deportivo Toluca sixth place, although both teams were absolutely equal on points and goals. Possibly the direct comparison was used for the evaluation, which Sheffield decided with 4: 1 in his favor.

Final table of the IV. Hexagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1968

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Botafogo	5	4th	1	0	012: 400	+8	09: 10
2.	Olympic selection Mexico	5	4th	0	1	010: 300	+7	08: 20
3.	Red Star Belgrade	5	2	1	2	008:100	−2	05: 50
4th	Ferencváros	5	2	0	3	009:100	−1	04: 60
5.	Jalisco selection team	5	2	0	3	007: 800	−1	04: 60
6th	Toluca	5	0	0	5	006:170	−11	00:10

Final table of the VIII Pentagonal Internacional in Mexico City 1970

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Partizan Belgrade	4th	2	2	0	005: 300	+2	06: 20
2.	Mexico selection team	4th	1	3	0	007: 500	+2	05: 30
3.	Guadalajara	4th	1	1	2	006: 700	−1	03: 50
4th	Spartak Trnava	4th	1	1	2	006: 700	−1	03: 50
5.	Botafogo	4th	1	1	2	004: 600	−2	03: 50

Note: At RSSSF.com, Guadalajara and Spartak Trnava are jointly assigned third place because of equality of points and goals. The direct comparison ended 1-0 in favor of Chivas Guadalajara.

The tournaments in Guadalajara

Ticket to the inauguration of the Estadio Jalisco

In 1959, the international tournaments previously held exclusively in the Estadio Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City were copied and also played in Guadalajara. The first tournament, like in Mexico City in 1957, was a Cuadrangular Internacional , an international four-way tournament that was won by Palmeiras São Paulo .

With the opening of the Estadio Jalisco in January 1960 it became a five-way tournament, which in Guadalajara was officially called Torneo Pentagonal de Occidente (five-way tournament of the west). At the first tournament of this kind in Guadalajara, the three clubs involved in the construction of the stadium, Chivas Guadalajara , Atlas and Oro as hosts, and San Lorenzo from Argentina and São Paulo FC from Brazil as guests, took part. The winner was the team of São Paulo FC.

The tournament in Guadalajara continued regularly from 1961 to 1963, but then obviously came to a standstill. The 1962 tournament was won by Chivas Guadalajara . In 1961, FC Santos had been successful and in 1963 SE Palmeiras from São Paulo .

Final table of the I. Cuadrangular in Guadalajara 1959

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Palmeiras	3	2	1	0	007: 300	+4	05: 10
2.	Irapuato	3	1	1	1	006: 600	± 0	03: 30
3.	Oro	3	1	0	2	?:?	00?	02: 40
4th	Atlas	3	1	0	2	?:?	00?	02: 40

Final table of the I. Pentagonal Internacional in Guadalajara 1960

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	São Paulo FC	4th	2	2	0	012: 200	+10	06: 20
2.	San Lorenzo	4th	2	2	0	006: 300	+3	06: 20
3.	Atlas	4th	2	1	1	006: 300	+3	05: 30
4th	Guadalajara	4th	1	1	2	003:110	−8	03: 50
5.	Oro	4th	0	0	4th	001: 900	−8	00: 80

Final table of the II Pentagonal Internacional in Guadalajara 1961

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Santos FC	4th	3	1	0	017: 700	+10	07: 10
2.	America RJ	4th	2	1	1	009: 700	+2	05: 30
3.	America	4th	2	1	1	010:110	−1	05: 30
4th	Atlas	4th	0	2	2	002: 600	−4	02: 60
5.	Guadalajara	4th	0	1	3	005:120	−7	01: 70

Final table of the III. Pentagonal Internacional in Guadalajara 1962

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Guadalajara	4th	2	2	0	004: 200	+2	06: 20
2.	Flamengo	4th	2	0	2	006: 300	+3	04: 40
3.	Atlas	4th	1	2	1	?:?	00?	04: 40
4th	Universidad de Chile	4th	1	2	1	006: 700	−1	04: 40
5.	Oro	4th	0	2	2	?:?	00?	02: 60

Final table of the IV Pentagonal Internacional in Guadalajara 1963

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Palmeiras	4th	3	1	0	006: 300	+3	07: 10
2.	Vasas Budapest	4th	3	0	1	006: 300	+3	06: 20
3.	Nacional Montevideo	3	1	1	1	003: 400	−1	03: 30
4th	Monterrey	3	0	1	2	001: 300	−2	01: 50
5.	Atlas	4th	0	1	3	002: 500	−3	01: 70

Note: Nacional and Monterrey have only played three games because their face-to-face encounter was no longer played.

Anecdotes

Due to the incomplete data on these events (the winner of 1966 cannot be determined with certainty and there may have been other tournaments of this type that are unknown to posterity), the following information is based solely on the data available and therefore cannot claim Raise completeness.

The foreign participants

Foreign top teams were always welcome guests and their participation was the real motivation for organizing these tournaments. The main attraction was certainly the FC Santos with Pelé , who has demonstrably participated four times (1959 and in all three tournaments in 1961) and entered the list of winners three times. Only in the first tournament in 1961 was Santos surprisingly defeated 3: 4 in a high-class game against the Mexican representative Necaxa and because the next game against Chivas Guadalajara they couldn't go beyond 0-0, Chivas secured one point in the final score Lead over the second Santos the tournament victory.

Basically, Brazilian teams were particularly welcome and with the exception of the tournaments in 1957 and 1967 in Mexico City, at least one Brazilian team was always represented. In addition to Santos, the team from Botafogo took part four times, winning two tournaments (1962 and 1968).

In the early years, with the exception of Dukla Prague in 1959, all of the guest teams came exclusively from South America . From 1962, European teams also took part regularly, although their participation was generally limited to Eastern Europe.

Only in 1967 was the otherwise usual field of participants turned upside down. In this competition, neither a Brazilian (as usual) or other South American or Eastern European (as has been common since 1962) teams took part, but only the teams from Western Europe , which were always missing in the other tournaments, as guests: Espanyol Barcelona , FC Bologna and Sheffield Wednesday .

The local crowd pullers

The big crowd puller among the Mexican teams was undisputedly the Chivas Guadalajara team , which also dominated the domestic Primera División in those years , which played in almost every tournament up to and including 1966 - and which won Mexican club football with three tournaments (1958, 1961 and 1962 ) also represented worthily. While Chivas only took part in three (of a total of five known) tournaments in his hometown of Guadalajara (where local rival Atlas was the only club to take part in all events), Chivas was the most frequently represented team in Mexico City and was the number one participant in ten even the mighty capital city club America with only seven participations in the shadows. Oro was there at least six times (three times each in Guadalajara and Mexico City) and five times Toluca (each in Mexico City and winner in 1960). Atlas probably only participated in one tournament in Mexico City (1966), but it appears to have won it. There was also a Mexican selection team that won the tournament in 1967. No other Mexican winners of these events are known.

Overview of the participants in the tournaments

Country 1	society	Participation in Mexico City 2	Participation in Guadalajara 2
	America	1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967	1961
	Atlante	1957, 1962	-
	Atlas	1966	1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
	Guadalajara	1957, 1958 , 1959, 1960, 1961 (I) , 1961 (II), 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970	1960, 1961, 1962
	Irapuato	-	1959
	Leon	1959	-
	Monterrey	-	1963
	Necaxa	1961 (I), 1964	-
	Oro	1961 (I), 1961 (II), 1963	1959, 1960, 1962
	Toluca	1958, 1960 , 1962, 1967, 1968	-
	Zacatepec	1958	-
	Selection of Jalisco	1968	-
	Selection Mexico	1967 , 1970	-
	Olympic team Mexico	1968	-
	Independiente	1961 (I), 1961 (II)	-
	Racing Club	1957	-
	River Plate	1958	-
	San Lorenzo	1960	1960
	America RJ	1961 (II)	1961
	Botafogo	1958, 1962 , 1968 , 1970	-
	Flamengo	-	1962
	Fluminense	1960	-
	Palmeiras	-	1959 , 1963
	Santos FC	1959 , 1961 (I), 1961 (II)	1961
	São Paulo FC	1964	1960
	Vasco da Gama	1963 , 1966	-
	Universidad de Chile	-	1962
	Nacional Montevideo	-	1963
	Peñarol Montevideo	1957	-
	National team of the GDR	1966	-
	Sheffield Wednesday	1967	-
	Bologna FC	1967	-
	Partizan Belgrade	1964, 1970	-
	Red Star Belgrade	1968	-
	Moscow city selection	1964	-
	Espanyol Barcelona	1967	-
	Dukla Prague	1959, 1963	-
	Sparta Prague	1966	-
	Spartak Trnava	1970	-
	Ferencváros	1968	-
	Újpesti Dózsa	1962	-
	Vasas Budapest	-	1963

¹ The countries are listed in the following order: first Mexico as host, then the South American and then the European countries (each in alphabetical order)

² Bold means that the respective team has won the relevant tournament.

Tours of foreign football clubs

In addition to the tournaments described above, there have been a number of private trips to Mexico by foreign clubs. It all started with today's Chilean record champions CSD Colo-Colo in February 1927. The first of a total of six games was played against Club Necaxa on February 12, 1927 and Colo-Colo won 3-0. With the exception of the two encounters against the "Spanish clubs" España (0: 1) and Asturias (1: 1), the Chileans won the remaining games. In the same year, the Uruguayan top club Nacional Montevideo (five games in June and July) and the first European club Real Madrid (six games in September) toured the country of the Aztecs and won all the games.

In the years that followed, various associations made trips to Mexico. In addition to a large number of South American teams, there were also European clubs, such as the Hungarian teams of Haladás Szombathely (seven games in January and February 1929) and MTK Budapest (six games in June and July 1930) as well as the Spanish teams of Racing Club Madrid (seven games in September and October 1931), Athletic Bilbao (five games in July and August 1935) and FC Barcelona (nine games from June to August 1937).

While all games by foreign guests up until then were played exclusively against teams from the capital, a first comparison between the Selección Jalisco and Estudiantes de La Plata (2-4) took place on February 6, 1941 . On an extensive trip by CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in January and February 1942, there were three comparisons with the Selección Jalisco, all of which were won by the guest from Argentina (1: 0, 9: 1 and 3: 1). On the same tour, on February 18, 1942, the CD Irapuato was the first club team outside of Mexico City to compete in an international competition, but with 0:12 it also suffered the clearest defeat in such a comparison. The next guest, the Costa Rican representative CS La Libertad , completed a comparison against a "provincial club" on March 15, 1942, when he won 3-2 against the UD Moctezuma , an association of the Moctezuma brewery in Orizaba .

Then it was not until 1947 before a foreign club, the Racing Club de Avellaneda , toured Mexico again and - after professional football had also been introduced in Mexico - dealt with four teams that were not based in the capital. The first encounter took place on January 5, 1947 against the CD Veracruz and was won 2-1 by the Mexicans. The Racing Club then defeated the Guadalajara- based clubs CF Atlas (3: 1) and CD Guadalajara (3: 2) and drew from Puebla FC (2: 2).

In the 1950s, teams from German-speaking countries came to Mexico for the first time. VfB Stuttgart made the start in the summer of 1951. Austria Wien , Hannover 96 and Eintracht Frankfurt followed later .

The following overview lists all known foreign tours by German-speaking teams in Mexico, whereby the results are always listed from the perspective of the visiting club.

VfB Stuttgart

date	opponent	Venue	spectator	Result
June 17, 1951	CF Atlas	Mexico city	60,000	5: 1
June 24, 1951	CF Atlante	Mexico city	???	0: 4
June 27, 1951	CD Guadalajara	Mexico city	30,000	0: 1
July 1, 1951	Club Necaxa	Mexico city	35,000	1: 5
July 7, 1951	CD Oro	Parque Oblatos	???	4-0

• Further reading tip: Adriano Gómez Bantel (ed.): The VfB in Mexico: A journey in the summer of 1951. Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, Göttingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-7307-0210-9

Austria Vienna (first visit)

date	opponent	Venue	spectator	Result
4th January 1953	Puebla FC	Mexico city	50,000	5: 2
January 11, 1953	CD Zacatepec	Mexico city	50,000	2: 2
January 15, 1953	Club Necaxa	Mexico city	30,000	1-0
January 18, 1953	CD Tampico	Mexico city	50,000	6: 3
January 22, 1953	CF Atlas	Mexico city	30,000	0: 2
January 26, 1953	CF Atlante	Mexico city	40,000	1: 4
January 29, 1953	CD Guadalajara	Mexico city	30,000	0-0
February 1, 1953	León FC	Mexico city	???	0-0
5th February 1953	Oro	Parque Oblatos	20,000	2: 1

Austria Vienna (second visit)

date	opponent	Venue	spectator	Result
January 29, 1956	CD Oro	Mexico city	40,000	2: 1
2nd February 1956	CF Atlante	Mexico city	30,000	0: 1
5th February 1956	León FC	Mexico city	35,000	0: 4
February 9, 1956	Mexico	Mexico city	75,000	0: 4

Hannover 96

date	opponent	Venue	Result
June 2, 1957	CF Atlante	Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes	1: 1
June 9, 1957	León FC	Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes	1: 2
June 12, 1957	Deportivo Toluca	Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes	1: 3
June 16, 1957	CD Guadalajara	Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes	0: 5
June 23, 1957	Mexico	Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes	0: 3

• There was a detailed - and now distant - report on this trip on the official website of Hannover 96

Eintracht Frankfurt

date	opponent	Venue	spectator	Result
December 12, 1968	Deportivo Toluca	Estadio Luis Gutiérrez Dosal	20,000	1: 3
15th December 1968	León FC	Estadio León	10,000	1: 2
18th December 1968	CD Cruz Azul	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	12,000	2: 1
22nd December 1968	CD Veracruz	Veracruz	???	1: 4
December 25, 1968	CF Laguna	Estadio San Isidro	???	1-0

• Further links: Match overview Eintracht Frankfurt season 1968/69

Web links

• The results of the tournaments in Mexico City at RSSSF.com
• The results of the tournaments in Guadalajara at RSSSF.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), p. 695
2. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), p. 535ff
3. ↑ Puebla FC - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
4. ↑ CD Zacatepec - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
5. ^ Club Necaxa - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
6. ↑ CD Tampico - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
7. ↑ CF Atlas - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
8. ↑ CF Atlante - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
9. ↑ CD Guadalajara - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
10. ↑ León FC - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
11. ↑ CD Oro - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
12. ↑ CD Oro - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
13. ↑ CF Atlante - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
14. ↑ León FC - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
15. ^ Mexico - FK Austria at Austria-Archiv.at
16. ↑ CD Toluca - Eintracht Frankfurt at eintracht-archiv.de
17. ^ AC León - Eintracht Frankfurt at eintracht-archiv.de
18. ↑ Cruz Azul - Eintracht Frankfurt at eintracht-archiv.de
19. ↑ The representation of the opponent follows the statistics of the Mexican RSSSF archivist Erik Francisco Lugo, while at eintracht-archiv.de (see: Match overview season 1968/69) an opponent named AC San Luis Potosí is mentioned. This would have to have been about the later San Luis FC, which at that time was not represented in the first division, which makes an encounter and a 4-1 victory seem unlikely.