Club Deportivo Chivas USA is an American professional soccer club based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, that participates in Major League Soccer. The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center, sharing it with arch-rivals the Los Angeles Galaxy. The official colors of C.D. Chivas USA are red, white, and blue, the same as C.D. Guadalajara, one of the most widely-supported and successful teams in Mexico. I...
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Club Deportivo Chivas USA is an American professional soccer club based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, that participates in Major League Soccer. The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center, sharing it with arch-rivals the Los Angeles Galaxy. The official colors of C.D. Chivas USA are red, white, and blue, the same as C.D. Guadalajara, one of the most widely-supported and successful teams in Mexico. In Spanish, chivas means goats.
Founded on August 2, 2004, as Major League Soccer's then-eleventh team, Los Angeles-based Club Deportivo Chivas USA has achieved some success in just five seasons in MLS. In 2007, the Mexican-owned club finished first in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the second year in a row.
Chivas USA kicked off its inaugural season in Major League Soccer at The Home Depot Center with a 2-0 loss to then MLS Cup Champions D.C. United on April 2, 2005, under the guidance of Chivas USA’s first head coach...
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