Currently there are two top division football teams: Club Deportivo / Chivas de Guadalajara (with a home-grown players policy) and Los Zorros de Atlas. Chivas is one of the 10 founding members of the Mexican first Division and used to also own Chivas USA which played from 2005 to 2014 in Major League Soccer in Los Angeles.

As in most Mexican cities, football is played every day in the streets and parks. But the city of Guadalajara is helping push that even further, having established numerous projects to promote sports in schools in order to teach children healthy lifestyles, develop social values and generate teamwork habits.