2018–19 Liga MX Femenil season

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Liga MX Femenil
Season	2018–19
Matches played	96
Goals scored	265 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura:; Diana Evangelista; (7 goals);
Biggest home win	Apertura:; Monterrey 8–0 Querétaro; (19 August 2018)
Biggest away win	Apertura:; Morelia 1–5 Guadalajara; (20 August 2018)
Highest scoring	Apertura:; Monterrey 8–0 Querétaro; (19 August 2018); Toluca 7–1 Veracruz; (10 September 2018); León 3–5 Guadalajara; (17 September 2018)
Longest winning run	Apertura: 4 matches; América; UANL;
Longest unbeaten run	Apertura: 11 matches; UANL;
Longest winless run	Apertura: 11 matches; Cruz Azul
Longest losing run	Apertura: 6 matches; Santos Laguna
Highest attendance	Apertura: 37,601; UANL vs Monterrey; (13 August 2018)
Lowest attendance	Apertura: 163; Atlas vs Morelia; (17 September 2018)
Total attendance	Apertura: 182,626
Average attendance	Apertura: 1,902
	← 2017–18 2019–20 → Source: Liga MX Femenil

The 2018–19 Liga MX Femenil season is the second season of the top-flight women's football league in Mexico. The season is contested by eighteen teams, being the counterpart women's teams of the men's league, Liga MX. The season is split into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. Unlike the inaugural season, all eighteen Liga MX clubs will field a women's team.^[1]

Teams, stadiums, and personnel

The following eighteen teams are competing this season. Puebla and Lobos BUAP are fielding a team for the first time.^[2]

Stadiums and locations

América	BUAP	Atlas	Cruz Azul	Guadalajara	León
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Universitario BUAP	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio 10 de Diciembre	Estadio Akron	Estadio León
Capacity: 81,070	Capacity: 19,283	Capacity: 55,110	Capacity: 14,500	Capacity: 46,232	Capacity: 31,297

Monterrey	Morelia	Necaxa	Pachuca	Puebla	Querétaro
Estadio BBVA Bancomer	Estadio Morelos	Estadio Victoria	Estadio Hidalgo	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Corregidora
Capacity: 51,348	Capacity: 34,795	Capacity: 23,851	Capacity: 27,512	Capacity: 51,726	Capacity: 33,162

Santos Laguna	Tijuana	Toluca	UANL	UNAM	Veracruz
Estadio Corona	Estadio Caliente	Estadio Nemesio Díez	Estadio Universitario	La Cantera	Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente
Capacity: 29,237	Capacity: 27,333	Capacity: 31,000	Capacity: 41,886	Capacity: 2,000	Capacity: 28,703

Puebla
BUAP

Location of the 2018–19 Liga MX Femenil teams

América

UNAM

Location of the 2018–19 Liga MX Femenil teams in Greater Mexico City

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
América	Santiago Baños	Leonardo Cuéllar	Nike	Huawei
Atlas	Gustavo Guzmán	Fernando Samayoa	Adidas	Linio
BUAP	Juan Carlos Bozikián	José Julio Cevada	Pirma	Zurich
Cruz Azul	Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas	Alberto Aguilar	Under Armour	Cemento Cruz Azul
Guadalajara	Jorge Vergara	Luis Camacho	Puma	Sello Rojo
León	Jesús Martínez Murguia	Everaldo Begines	Pirma	Cementos Fortaleza
Monterrey	Duilio Davino	Héctor Becerra	Puma	AT&T
Morelia	Álvaro Dávila	Filadelfo Rangel	Pirma	Kansas City Southern de México
Necaxa	Ernesto Tinajero Flores	Fabiola Vargas	Charly	Rolcar
Pachuca	Jesús Martínez Patiño	Eva Espejo	Charly	Cementos Fortaleza
Puebla	Manuel Jiménez García	Rogelio Martínez	Li-Ning	Caliente
Querétaro	Jaime Ordiales	Alberto Arellano	Puma	Banco Multiva
Santos Laguna	Alejandro Irarragorri	Jorge Macías	Charly	Soriana
Tijuana	Jorge Hank Inzunsa	Andrea Rodebaugh	Charly	Caliente
Toluca	Francisco Suinaga	Juan Carlos Mendoza	Under Armour	Banamex
UANL	Alejandro Rodríguez Michelsen	Ramón Villa Zevallos	Adidas	Cemex
UNAM	Rodrigo Ares de Parga	Ileana Dávila	Nike	DHL Express
Veracruz	Fidel Kuri Mustieles	Rodolfo Vega	Charly	Winpot

Format

The Liga MX Femenil season is split into two championships: the Torneo Apertura (or opening tournament) and the Torneo Clausura (or closing tournament). Each in contested in an identical format and includes the same eighteen teams. ^[3]

The teams will be divided into two groups of nine, where the best four of each group will advance to the quarterfinals of the Liguilla.^[4]

Changes

Due to the addition of Lobos BUAP and Puebla, this season will consist of two groups of nine teams, instead of two groups of eight.^[4]
The Liguilla (playoffs) will now consist of a quarterfinals round, as a result, eight teams (four from each group) will now qualify to the Liguilla.^[4]
This season will consist of 18 rounds (up from 14).^[3]
Morelia moved from Group 1 to Group 2.^[3]
Two teams (one from each group) will rest each round.^[5]

Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2018 regular season started on 13 July and will end on 19 November.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	UANL (A)	12	8	4	0	32	13	+19	28	Advance to Liguilla^{[lower-alpha 1]}
2	Guadalajara	11	8	2	1	23	9	+14	26
3	Pachuca	12	8	2	2	21	10	+11	26
4	Toluca	11	7	3	1	29	9	+20	24
5	América	11	7	2	2	18	7	+11	23
6	Atlas	12	6	3	3	19	11	+8	21
7	Monterrey	10	5	5	0	26	6	+20	20
8	UNAM	11	6	2	3	13	6	+7	20
9	Puebla	12	3	6	3	16	11	+5	15
10	Querétaro	11	3	3	5	11	24	−13	12
11	BUAP	11	3	2	6	12	20	−8	11
12	León	11	2	4	5	12	17	−5	10
13	Veracruz	11	2	4	5	9	23	−14	10
14	Tijuana	11	2	3	6	7	15	−8	9
15	Morelia	11	2	3	6	8	23	−15	9
16	Santos Laguna (E)	12	1	2	9	11	26	−15	5
17	Necaxa	10	0	4	6	3	16	−13	4
18	Cruz Azul (E)	12	0	2	10	7	31	−24	2

Updated to match(es) played on 14 October 2018. Source: Liga MX Femenil
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of away goals scored; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Drawing of lots
(A) Advance to a further round; (E) Eliminated.
Notes:

↑ The top four teams of each group advance to the quarterfinals of the Liguilla.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pachuca	11	7	2	2	18	10	+8	23	Advance to Liguilla
2	América	10	7	1	2	17	6	+11	22
3	Toluca	10	6	3	1	26	9	+17	21
4	UNAM	10	6	2	2	13	3	+10	20
5	Puebla	11	3	5	3	15	10	+5	14
6	BUAP	11	3	2	6	12	20	−8	11
7	Veracruz	11	2	4	5	9	23	−14	10
8	Tijuana	11	2	3	6	7	15	−8	9
9	Cruz Azul (E)	11	0	2	9	7	28	−21	2

Updated to match(es) played on 7 October 2018. Source: Liga MX Femenil
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Drawing of lots
(E) Eliminated.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Guadalajara	11	8	2	1	23	9	+14	26	Advance to Liguilla
2	UANL	11	7	4	0	29	13	+16	25
3	Monterrey	10	5	5	0	26	6	+20	20
4	Atlas	11	5	3	3	18	11	+7	18
5	Querétaro	10	3	3	4	11	23	−12	12
6	León	11	2	4	5	12	17	−5	10
7	Morelia	11	2	3	6	8	23	−15	9
8	Santos Laguna	11	1	2	8	11	23	−12	5
9	Necaxa	10	0	4	6	3	16	−13	4

Updated to match(es) played on 1 October 2018. Source: Liga MX Femenil
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Drawing of lots

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 8, but then postponed and played between days 11 and 12, it will be added to the standings for day 12.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Team ╲ Round
Guadalajara	7	2	1	2	1	1	2†	3	4	3	2	1
UANL	3	1	2	1	3	2	1	1	1†	1	1	2
Pachuca	4	3	5	4	4	5†	5	4	5	4	4	3
América	9†	10	4	3	2	4	3	5	3	5†	5	4
Toluca	1	8	11†	7	5	3	4	2	2	2	3	5†
Monterrey	10†	7	7	9	9	6	6	7	6	8†	6	6
UNAM	15	13†	12	13	11	7	8	6	8	7	8†	7
Atlas	12	17	14	10	6	8†	7	8	7	6	7	8
Puebla	2	9	8	11	13	13	13†	10	10	10	11	9
Querétaro	16	15†	13	14	12	12	11	9	9	9	10†	10
BUAP	17	11	10	6	8	10	10	11†	14	13	9	11
León	14	16	16	17†	17	16	15	14	11	12	13	12
Veracruz	18	12	15	16†	15	14	14	15	13	11	12	13
Tijuana	6	6	3	5	7	9	9	12	12†	14	14	14
Morelia	8	5	6	8	10†	11	12	13	15	15	15	15
Santos Laguna	5	4	9	12	14	15	16	16†	16	16	16	16
Necaxa	13	18	18†	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17†
Cruz Azul	11	14	17	18	18†	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Updated to match(es) played on 1 October 2018. Source: Liga MX
Notes: † indicates team rested that round.

Results

Group 1

Home \ Away^[1]	AMÉ	BUP	CAZ	PAC	PUE	TIJ	TOL	UNM	VER
América			3–0	0–2	2–0		2–1	0–1
BUAP	1–2		4–3		0–2	2–1	2–2		0–2
Cruz Azul	0–3	2–3		1–2	0–0			0–2
Pachuca		1–0	3–0		2–1	1–0	1–2	1–0
Puebla		0–0		3–3		3–0	1–2		4–0
Tijuana	0–1		1–1	1–0			1–2	1–0	0–0
Toluca	1–1	4–0	5–0						7–1
UNAM		1–0			0–0	4–1	0–0		2–0
Veracruz	0–3		2–0	2–2	1–1	1–1		0–3

Updated to games played on 7 October 2018.
Source: Liga MX Femenil
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group 2

Home \ Away^[1]	ATL	GUA	LEÓ	MON	MOR	NEC	QUE	SLA	UNL
Atlas		0–2			2–0	4–1	5–0	1–0	1–1
Guadalajara	2–0		1–0			1–0		3–1	1–3
León	1–2	3–5		1–1	1–0		1–1		1–3
Monterrey	1–1	0–0			5–0	4–0	8–0
Morelia	1–0	1–5		1–1			1–2	3–2
Necaxa			0–0	0–2	0–0			0–1	1–3
Querétaro		0–0	2–1			0–0		3–1	1–2
Santos Laguna		1–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1			1–4
UANL	2–2		1–1	2–2	4–0		4–2

Updated to games played on 7 October 2018.
Source: Liga MX Femenil
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Diana Evangelista	Monterrey	7
2	Betzy Cuevas	América	6
	Yahaira Flores	Santos Laguna
	Alison González	UANL
	Mariel Roman	Toluca
	Daniela Solís	Monterrey
7	Katty Martínez	UANL	5
	Natalia Mauleón	Toluca
	Sanjuana De Jesús Muñoz	León
	Norma Palafox	Guadalajara

Source: Liga MX Femenil

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura 2018 is the second championship of the season.

References

External links

Official website of Liga MX Femenil

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[table_note_res_LIG0.29707450433498-6] The top four teams of each group advance to the quarterfinals of the Liguilla.

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[2] ttp://www.milenio.com/deportes/futbol/lobos-buap-puebla-frente-reto-liga-mx-femenil

[LigaMXFemenil-3] 1 2 3 http://administrador.ligamx.net/docs/Reglamentos/Competencia/8_LIGA_MX_FEMENIL/06_LIGA_MX_FEMENIL_1_20180723175320.pdf

[Claro-4] 1 2 3 http://www.marca.com/claro-mx/futbol/futbol-femenil/2018/05/23/5b05d95fe2704eae3e8b4632.html

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Liga MX Femenil
2018–19 teams	América Atlas BUAP Cruz Azul Guadalajara León Monterrey Morelia Necaxa Pachuca Puebla Querétaro Santos Laguna Tijuana Toluca UANL UNAM Veracruz
Seasons	2017 Copa MX 2017–18 2018–19