Liga MX

The Liga MX (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈliɣa ˈeme ˈekis]) (Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons with BBVA through its Mexican subsidiary BBVA México),[1] is the top professional football division of the Mexican football league system. Administered by the Mexican Football Federation, the league comprises 18 clubs, with one being relegated every year based upon its league performances over the previous three years. The season has two tournaments: Apertura, which starts in the summer, and Clausura, which starts in the winter. The first 8 teams in the table at the end of the regular phase of the tournament qualify to the liguilla ("mini-league", or "playoff").

Liga MX
Organising bodyMexican Football Federation
Founded17 October 1943 (1943-10-17)
CountryMexico
ConfederationCONCACAF
Number of teams18
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toLiga de Expansión MX
Domestic cup(s)Copa MX
Supercopa MX
Campeón de Campeones
International cup(s)CONCACAF Champions League
Leagues Cup
Campeones Cup
Current championsMonterrey (5th title)
(Apertura 2019)
Most championshipsAmérica
(13 titles)
Most appearancesÓscar Pérez
(740)
Top goalscorerEvanivaldo Castro
(312)
WebsiteLigaMX.net
2020–21 Liga MX season

The league is considered the strongest in North America, and among the strongest in all of Latin America. According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, the league currently ranks 20th worldwide[2] and was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010).[3] According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during the 2014–15 season – draws the largest crowds on average of any football league in the Americas and the third largest crowds of any professional sports league in North America, behind only the National Football League and Major League Baseball, and ahead of the Canadian Football League.[4] It is also the fourth most attended football league in the world behind Germany's Bundesliga, England's Premier League and Spain's La Liga.[5]

Of the 56 teams to have competed in the league, América has won the title 13 times, followed by Guadalajara (12), Toluca (10), Cruz Azul (8), León, UANL and UNAM (7), and Pachuca and Santos Laguna (6). The current league champions are Monterrey, who won the Apertura 2019 tournament.

History

Amateur era

Prior to the Liga Mayor, there was no national football league in Mexico, and football competitions were held within relatively small geographical regions. The winners of the Primera Fuerza, a local league consisting of teams near and around Mexico City, was regarded as the then national competition although there were other regional leagues, such as in Veracruz, the Jalisco and the Bajio that had talented clubs. Many club owners were keen to remain amateur although they paid players under the table. The increasing interest in football would not thwart a unified professional football system in Mexico. The professional national league was established in 1943.[6]

Professional era

The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación (F.M.F.) announcement of the nation's first professional league brought interest from many clubs to join. The F.M.F. announced that 10 clubs would form the Liga Mayor (Major League). The league was founded by six clubs from the Primera Fuerza of Mexico City, two clubs from the Liga Occidental, and two from the Liga Veracruzana.

Founding members
Club Asturias in 1927.
Primera Fuerza: América, Asturias, Atlante, Necaxa, and Marte.
Liga Occidental De Jalisco: Atlas and Guadalajara.
Liga Amateur de Veracruz: ADO, Veracruz and Moctezuma.

Reformation

Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, many small clubs faced economic difficulties which were attributed to the lack of international competition by Mexico's clubs and an unrewarding league format. Consequently, teams from Mexico that placed high in the league standings could not afford to participate in the overarching continental competitions, such as the Copa Libertadores.

The Mexican league boom

The 1970 World Cup held in Mexico was the first World Cup televised on a grand scale. The season following the FIFA World Cup, the F.M.F. changed the league format and established a playoff phase to determine the national champion. This was done to regenerate interest and reward teams that placed fairly high in the standings.

The play-off, called the Liguilla, was played using various formats to determine the champion. The most common format was a straight knock-out between the top eight teams in the table. At other times the league was divided into groups with the top two in each group, often as well as the best 3rd placed teams, qualifying for the play-offs and in some seasons the play-offs themselves involved teams playing in groups with the group winners playing off for the title.. The format was changed from season to season to accommodate international club commitments and the schedule of the Mexico national team.

The change in the rules affected teams that traditionally dominated the table, as talented teams that had not performed well in the regular season were able to perform successfully in the play-offs (Cruz Azul in the 1970s, América in the 1980s, and Toluca in the 2000s).

Liga MX

Prior to the start of the 2012–13 season, the organization Liga MX / Ascenso MX was created to replace the Mexican Football Federation as the organizing body of the competition. The league also announced a rebranding, with the introduction of a new logo.[7]

On 20 August 2018, it was announced that Liga MX would begin testing the use of video assistant referee technology.[8] The initial test run will be conducted during under-20 matches played inside senior league stadiums, with live testing across senior Liga MX matches to take place during weeks 13 and 14 of the Apertura tournament. The league will, however, still need final approval from FIFA to fully implement the technology.[9]

Competition format

Regular season tournaments
Liga MX Trophy

Liga MX uses a single table of 18 teams that play two annual tournaments resulting in two champions per season. The season opens with the apertura tournament (opening tournament- running from July to December) followed by the clausura (closing – running from January to May). This format matches other Latin American schedules and correspond with FIFA's world footballing calendar, which "opens" in July/August and "closes" in April/May of the next year. The top eight teams progress to the liguilla for each tournament. If one of those teams is in last place in the league's relegation table (see below), that team is replaced by the team that finished ninth in the tournament.

From 1996 to 2002, the league followed a two-tournament schedule with invierno (winter) and verano (summer) tournaments but from 2002 to 2011 the 18 teams were divided into three groups of six with the top two teams from each group and the two best third place teams qualified for the liguilla. The teams played in the same group for each tournament. The qualification phase of the tournament lasted 17 weeks, with all teams playing each other once per tournament in a home and away series over both tournaments.

Playoffs (liguilla)

The liguilla (Spanish for "little league") is the play-off phase of the tournament. This phase starts with eight qualifying teams playing two-legged ties with the winner on aggregate-score progressing. The Champion team is awarded the First division trophy, and the runner up is awarded a smaller version of the trophy. The birth of La liguilla in 1970 modernized the league despite the disagreements between the traditionalists and the modernists. Clubs that were near bankruptcy were now better able to compete and generate profits.

Relegation

At the end of a season, after the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, one team is relegated to the next lower division, Ascenso MX, and one team from that division is promoted and takes the place left open by the relegated team. Currently, the relegated team is determined by computing the points-per-game-played ratio for each team, considering all the games played by the team during the last three seasons (six tournaments). The team with the lowest ratio is relegated; if the team that is in last place in relegation table is among the eight teams qualifying for the Liguilla at the end of the Clausura tournament, the ninth-place team qualifies for the Liguilla instead. For teams recently promoted, only the games played since their promotion are considered (two or four tournaments). The team promoted from Ascenso MX is the winner of a two-leg match between the champions of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments of that division. If a team becomes the champion in both tournaments, it is automatically promoted.

Prior to the start of the 2017–18 season, the rules for relegation and promotion changed: if a team wins promotion but does not meet certain Liga MX requirements (e.g. stadium infrastructure and a youth team) the relegated Liga MX team of that season will be obligated to pay the prize money to the Ascenso MX team (MXN$120 million) for winning the promotion playoff, which should be utilized to fulfill necessary requirements for promotion within the next season, and remain in Ascenso MX,[10] and the relegated Liga MX team will remain in the first division. However, if the relegated Liga MX team cannot distribute the prize money to the promoted Ascenso MX team, both teams will lose their right to play in Liga MX and must play in Ascenso MX the following season.[11]

As of the 2018–19 season, only six teams meet full requirements to be promoted to Liga MX, those teams being Atlético San Luis, Atlante, Celaya, Juárez, Sinaloa, and UdeG.[12]

CONCACAF Champions League Qualification

Each year, four teams from Liga MX qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League, the premier North American club competition. Generally, the Apertura and Clausura champions and the Apertura and Clausura runners-up qualify, and are placed in Pot 3. Should one or more teams reach the finals of both tournaments, Liga MX has implemented a formula for ensuring that two teams that qualify via the Apertura and two teams qualify via the Clausura:[13]

  • If the same two teams qualify for the finals of both tournaments, those two teams will qualify along with the non-finalists with the best record in both the Apertura and Clausura.
  • If the same team wins both the Apertura and the Clausura (facing two different teams in the finals of each tournament), then the berth reserved for the Clausura champions is passed to the Clausura runners-up and the berth reserved for the Clausura runners-up is passed to the non-finalists with best record in the Clausura. This occurred most recently in the 2013–14 season (2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League) when León (2013 Apertura and 2014 Clausura champions) and Pachuca (2014 Clausura runners-up) were placed in Pot A, while América (2013 Apertura runners-up) and Cruz Azul (non-finalists with the best record in the 2014 Clausura) were placed in Pot B (at the time, the champions and runners-up were placed in different pots).
  • If the Apertura runners-up win the Clausura (facing two different teams in the finals of each tournament), then the berth reserved for the Apertura runners-up is passed to the non-finalists with best record in the Apertura. This occurred most recently in the 2011–12 season (2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League) when UANL (2011 Apertura champions) and Santos Laguna (2011 Apertura runners-up and 2012 Clausura champions) were placed in Pot A, while Guadalajara (non-finalists with the best record in the 2011 Apertura) and Monterrey (2012 Clausura runners-up) were placed in Pot B (again, at the time, the champions and runners-up were placed in different pots).
  • If the Apertura champions are runners-up of the Clausura (facing two different teams in the finals of each tournament), then the berth reserved for the Clausura runners-up is passed to the non-finalists with best record in the Clausura. This has not happened since Liga MX began using this qualification procedure.

Previous Qualification Tournaments

Campeonato Centroamericano (1959), Copa Interamericana (1968–91), CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup (1991–98), CONCACAF Giants Cup 2001, Interliga (2004–10), Copa Sudamericana (2005-08), SuperLiga (2007–10) and Copa Libertadores (1998-2015)

Current Teams and Champions
Main article: List of football clubs in Mexico

2019–20 season

The following 18 clubs will compete in the Liga MX during the 2019–20 season, after the disaffiliation of Veracruz following the Apertura 2019 tournament.

Team Position in
2018–19		 First season in
top division		 Seasons
in top
division		 First season of
current spell in
top division		 Consecutive
Seasons
in Liga MX		 Top
division
titles		 Last top
division title
América 31943–441011943–4410113Apertura 2018
Atlas 171943–44981979–806411950/51
Atlético San Luis Ascenso MX2019–2002019–2000-
Cruz Azul 21964–65801964–65808Invierno 1997
Guadalajara 141943–441011943–4410112Clausura 2017
Juárez Ascenso MX2019–2002019–2000-
León 51944–45772012–13147Clausura 2014
Monterrey 41945–46861960–61845Apertura 2019
Morelia 151957–58731981–82621Invierno 2000
Necaxa 121951-52712016–1763Invierno 1998
Pachuca 61967–68531998–99426Clausura 2016
Puebla 111944–45812007–082421989/90
Querétaro 161990–91302009–10200-
Santos Laguna 71988–89541988–89546Clausura 2018
Tijuana 102011–12162011–12161Apertura 2012
Toluca 81953–54831953–548310Bicentenario 2010
UANL 11974–75671997–98447Clausura 2019
UNAM 91962–63821962–63827Clausura 2011

Champions
See also: List of Mexican football champions
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years
América 13 10 1965–66, 1970–71, 1975–76, 1983–84, 1984–85, Prode '85, 1987–88, 1988–89, Verano 2002, Clausura 2005, Clausura 2013, Apertura 2014, Apertura 2018
Guadalajara 12 9 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1969–70, 1986–87, Verano 1997, Apertura 2006, Clausura 2017
Toluca 10 7 1966–67, 1967–68, 1974–75, Verano 1998, Verano 1999, Verano 2000, Apertura 2002, Apertura 2005, Apertura 2008, Bicentenario 2010
Cruz Azul 8 11 1968–69, 1970, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1978–79, 1979–80, Invierno 1997
UNAM 7 7 1976–77, 1980–81, 1990–91, Clausura 2004, Apertura 2004, Clausura 2009, Clausura 2011
León 7 6 1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1991–92, Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014
UANL 7 5 1977–78, 1981–82, Apertura 2011, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017, Clausura 2019
Santos Laguna 6 5 Invierno 1996, Verano 2001, Clausura 2008, Clausura 2012, Clausura 2015, Clausura 2018
Pachuca 6 3 Invierno 1999, Invierno 2001, Apertura 2003, Clausura 2006, Clausura 2007, Clausura 2016
Monterrey 5 6 Mexico '86, Clausura 2003, Apertura 2009, Apertura 2010, Apertura 2019
Atlante * 3 4 1946–47, 1992–93, Apertura 2007
Necaxa 3 3 1994–95, 1995–96, Invierno 1998
Puebla 2 2 1982–83, 1989–90
Zacatepec**** 2 1 1954–55, 1957–58
Veracruz**** 2 0 1945–46, 1949–50
Oro*** 1 5 1962–63
Atlético Morelia* 1 3 Invierno 2000
Atlas 1 3 1950–51
Tampico Madero* 1 2 1952–53
Tecos** 1 1 1993–94
Real España**** 1 1 1944–45
Tijuana 1 0 Apertura 2012
Asturias**** 1 0 1943–44
Marte**** 1 0 1953–54

* Teams currently in the Liga de Expansión MX
** Teams currently in the Liga Premier
*** Teams currently in the Amateur Levels
**** Dissolved teams

Stadiums and locations
Location of the 2020–21 Liga MX teams
Location of the 2020–21 Liga MX teams in Greater Mexico City
Club Location Stadium Capacity Ref
América Mexico City Azteca 87,000 [14]
Atlas Guadalajara Jalisco 56,713 [15]
Atlético San Luis San Luis Potosí City Alfonso Lastras 25,111
Juárez Ciudad Juárez Olímpico Benito Juárez 19,703 [16]
Cruz Azul Mexico City Azteca 87,000 [17]
Guadalajara Zapopan Akron 45,364 [18]
León León León 31,297 [19]
Monterrey Guadalupe BBVA 53,500 [20]
Mazatlán Mazatlán Mazatlán 25,000 [21]
Necaxa Aguascalientes City Victoria 25,500 [22]
Pachuca Pachuca Hidalgo 30,000 [23]
Puebla Puebla City Cuauhtémoc 51,726 [24]
Querétaro Querétaro City Corregidora 33,162 [25]
Santos Laguna Torreón Corona 30,000 [26]
Tijuana Tijuana Caliente 27,333 [27]
Toluca Toluca Nemesio Díez 31,000 [28]
UANL San Nicolás de los Garza Universitario 42,000 [29]
UNAM Mexico City Olímpico Universitario 52,000 [30][31]

Media coverage

In theory, all First Division clubs have the right to sell their own broadcast rights. In practice, however, the league is divided between teams broadcast on Televisa, TV Azteca, Imagen Televisión, Claro Sports, Fox Sports, and ESPN in México. ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes, and Univision have the rights in the United States, with FS1/FS2 airing select matches with English commentary.

In previous years, when a team was relegated, the team that was promoted could only negotiate with the company holding the television rights of the relegated team. This agreement was canceled by Liga MX in 2012 when the promotion of Club León caused a television rights dispute with Televisa.[32] Currently, Club León matches are broadcast in Mexico by Fox Sports and other online media sites, and in the United States by Univision (Telemundo from 2013–16).[33]

Telelatino and Fox Sports World hold broadcasting rights in Canada; Fox Sports is the only network that holds rights to broadcast selected matches in United States and South America. Additionally, Televisa-owned networks Sky Sports and TDN hold exclusive broadcasting rights over selected matches throughout the regular season, although the majority of the most important ones are broadcast live on the national networks.

Most of the Saturday afternoon and evening matches broadcast by Televisa are shown primarily on Gala TV, though Saturday games played by Televisa's club America, are broadcast on Televisa's flagship network, Canal de las Estrellas. However, a blackout policy is usually applied in selected markets where affiliates are forced to air alternate programming during the matches, Sunday noon and afternoon games broadcast by Televisa are shown on Canal de las Estrellas. All of the games broadcast by TV Azteca on Saturday and Sunday are shown on Azteca 13; Friday's matches however are shown on Azteca 7. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (known in Mexico as Fecha Doble or Double Date) matches picked by the national networks are shown on Canal 5 and Azteca 7 and the rest of the matches air on Sky Sports and TDN.

A recent rule, in effect since 2011, requires teams to play the final game of every season on Sunday during prime time, regardless of whether the team used to play local games in another timeslot, in order to capture more television audience during the game.

For the Apertura 2016, and the majority of the Clausura 2017, Guadalajara home matches in Mexico were not shown on over-the-air television or cable and satellite operators. Instead, they were exclusively shown on an internet streaming service called Chivas TV. As of April 8, 2017, the matches are shown on both Televisa's Televisa Deportes Network (TDN) and Chivas TV.

On February 13, 2017, it was announced Univision Deportes would live stream 46 games in English on Facebook in the United States.[34]

After the Clausura 2017 season, Azteca América sold the rights of the Atlas, Morelia, Tijuana, and Veracruz matches to Univision. The network then held the rights of 17 of the 18 clubs, only missing recently promoted Lobos BUAP. In September 2017, Univision began airing Lobos BUAP's home matches, thus holding the rights to all 18 Liga MX teams through the end of the Clausura 2018 season.

In July 2017, Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) announced it would show Liga MX matches involving Chilean players in Chile.[35]

In Japan, Liga MX will be broadcast on Fuji TV.[36] León and Pachuca's home matches will be broadcast on Fox Sports Asia

In October 2017, Fox Sports announced that it acquired the long-term exclusive Spanish-language rights to Tijuana and Santos Laguna home matches in the United States, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America starting in the Apertura 2018 and Apertura 2019 respectively, thus ending Univision's monopoly.[37] The matches air on Fox Deportes in the United States and Fox Sports Latin America in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.[37]

On May 26, 2018, Fox Sports announced it acquired the rights of C.F. Monterrey's home matches in the United States and Latin America.[38] The network announced the matches would be shown in the United States on Fox Deportes in Spanish as well as the Fox Sports family of networks in English.[38]

As of the Apertura 2019 season, via a sublicense agreement with Univision, ESPN Deportes airs the majority of León, Necaxa, Pachuca, Querétaro, and UANL regular season home matches in the United States. The network also airs at least one home match of nine other clubs.[39] Televisa also sublicenses one match per week to ESPN in Mexico and Central America.[40]

Television home matches broadcast rights
Team Mexico Broadcaster U.S. Broadcaster Day Time[1]
AméricaTelevisaESPN Deportes / UnivisionSaturday7:00 PM
AtlasFox Sports / TV AztecaUnivisionFriday9:00 PM
Atlético San LuisESPNNoneFriday7:00 PM
Cruz AzulTelevisaESPN Deportes / UnivisionSaturday7:00 PM
GuadalajaraChivas TV[Note 1]
Multimedios
Televisa
TV Azteca		Chivas TV[Note 4]
CBS[Note 5]
ESPN Deportes[Note 5]
Fox Deportes[Note 5]
Univision[Note 5]		Saturday9:06 PM
JuárezTelevisaUnivision[ESPN]Sunday6:00 PM[1]
LeónFox Sports / ClaroESPN Deportes / UnivisionSaturday7:06 PM
MazatlánTV AztecaUnivision[ESPN]TBATBA
MonterreyFox SportsFox Sports[Note 2][ESPN]Saturday9:00 PM
NecaxaTelevisaUnivisionSaturday9:00 PM
Pachuca Fox Sports / ClaroESPN Deportes / UnivisionSaturday7:06 PM
PueblaTV AztecaUnivision[ESPN]Friday9:00 PM
QuerétaroFox Sports / Grupo ImagenUnivisionSaturday5:00 PM
Santos LagunaFox SportsFox Sports[Note 2][ESPN]Sunday6:50 PM
TijuanaFox SportsFox Sports[Note 2][ESPN]Saturday7:00 PM[1]
TolucaTelevisaUnivision[ESPN]Sunday12:00 PM
UANLTelevisaESPN Deportes / UnivisionSaturday7:00 PM
UNAMTelevisaUnivision[ESPN]Sunday12:00 PM
  1. ^
    For the Apertura 2016 and the majority of the Clausura 2017, Guadalajara home matches in Mexico were not shown on over-the-air television or cable and satellite operators, instead they exclusively were shown on an internet streaming service called Chivas TV. As of April 8, 2017, the matches are shown on both Televisa's Televisa Deportes Network (TDN) and Chivas TV.
  2. ^
    Matches are shown on Fox Deportes in Spanish as well as the Fox Sports family of networks (FS1, FS2, Fox Soccer Plus) in English. Select Tijuana matches also air on Fox 5 in San Diego.
  3. ^
    ESPN Deportes will show at least one home match
  4. ^
    All match times are UTC−06:00 except for matches in Ciudad Juárez (UTC−07:00) and Tijuana (UTC−08:00).
  5. ^
    Starting with the Clausura 2020 season, all Guadalajara home matches are streamed exclusively through Chivas TV, ending the practice of streaming though social media at no cost to U.S. viewers.[41]
  6. ^
    The networks (CBS via digital platforms and Univsion via TUDN) aired Guadalajara's week 10 home match against Monterrey.

International broadcasters
Country/region Broadcaster
International Claro Sports
CaribbeanESPN, Fox Sports, Sky Sports, Televisa
Latin AmericaESPN, Fox Sports
 BrazilDAZN
 CanadaOneSoccer

Sponsorship
BBVA México is the league's current title sponsor after the 2019 rebranding of BBVA Bancomer.

Up until its rebranding in 2012, the Liga MX did not have a title sponsor. In July 2013, league president Decio de María announced BBVA Bancomer as the official sponsor, with the goal of modernizing the league's image. De María also stated that the money generated from the sponsorship would be divided among the 18 clubs and to be invested in each club's youth teams.[42] On 18 September 2015, the sponsorship deal was extended until 2019.[43] On 18 June 2019, the league was renamed as Liga BBVA MX, adopting the new identity of the sponsor.[44] On 4 July 2019, the sponsorship contract with BBVA was renewed until 2021.[45]

Since 1986, Voit has been the official match ball manufacturer. In 2014, the contract was extended for four years.[46]

Managers

The current managers in the Liga MX are:

Nat. Name Team Appointed Time as manager
Ricardo Ferretti UANL 20 May 2010 10 years, 38 days
Miguel Herrera América 26 May 2017 3 years, 32 days
Gabriel Caballero Juárez 4 June 2018 2 years, 23 days
Ignacio Ambríz León 18 September 2018 1 year, 283 days
Guillermo Almada Santos Laguna 11 April 2019 1 year, 77 days
Míchel González UNAM 16 May 2019 1 year, 42 days
Juan Reynoso Puebla 23 August 2019 309 days
Robert Siboldi Cruz Azul 6 September 2019 295 days
Luis Fernando Tena Guadalajara 26 September 2019 275 days
Antonio Mohamed Monterrey 9 October 2019 262 days
Paulo Pezzolano Pachuca 25 November 2019 215 days
José Manuel de la Torre Toluca 1 December 2019 209 days
Alfonso Sosa Necaxa 13 December 2019 197 days
Guillermo Vázquez Atlético San Luis 15 December 2019 195 days
Rafael Puente Atlas 30 January 2020 149 days
Francisco Palencia Mazatlán 11 June 2020 16 days
Pablo Guede Tijuana 19 June 2020 8 days
Alex Diego Querétaro 23 June 2020 4 days

Player records

Most appearances
Rank Player Appearances
1 Óscar Pérez 740
2 Oswaldo Sanchez 725
3 Benjamín Galindo 700
4 Rodrigo Ruiz 638
5 Adolfo Ríos 635
6 Juan Pablo Rodríguez 634
7 Miguel España 631
8 Alfonso Sosa 610
9 Cristóbal Ortega 608
10 Israel López 604
Italics denotes players still playing professional football.
Bold denotes players still playing in the Liga MX.

Most goals
Rank Nat Name Years Goals Apps Ratio
1 Evanivaldo Castro 1974–19873124270.73
2 Carlos Hermosillo 1984–20012945390.55
3 Jared Borgetti 1994–20102524750.63
4 José Cardozo 1994–20052493320.75
5 Horacio Casarín 1936–19572383260.73
6 Osvaldo Castro 1971–19842143980.54
7 Luis Roberto Alves 1986–20032095770.36
8 Adalberto López 1942–19552012310.87
9 Carlos Eloir Perucci 1972–19841993980.5
10 Sergio Lira 1978–19961915640.34
Italics denotes players still playing professional football.
Bold denotes players still playing in the Liga MX.

Promotion and relegation
Relegation and Promotion by Club
Club Promotions Relegations
Zacatepec 5 (1950–51, 1962–63, 1969–70, 1977–78, 1983–84)5 (1961–62, 1965–66, 1976–77, 1982–83, 1984–85)
Querétaro 4 (México '86, 1989–90, 2005–06, 2009–10)3 (1993–94, 2006–07, 2012–13*)
Pachuca 4 (1966–67, 1991–92, 1995–96, 1997–98)3 (1972–73, 1992–93, 1996–97)
Irapuato 4 (1953–54, 1984–85, 1999–00*, 2002–03)2 (1971–72, 1990–91)
Atlas 3 (1954–55, 1971–72, 1978–79)3 (1953–54, 1970–71, 1977–78)
San Luis 3 (1970–71, 2001–02, 2004–05)2 (1973–74, 2002–03)
Puebla 3 (1969–70, 1998–99, 2006–07)2 (1998–99, 2004–05)
Unión de Curtidores 2 (1982–83, 1998–99*)2 (1980–81, 1983–84)
Veracruz 2 (1963–64, 2001–02)5 (1951–52, 1978–79, 1997–98, 2007–08, 2018–19)
Real Zamora 2 (1954–55, 1956–57)2 (1955–56, 1959–60)
Tampico Madero 2 (1964–65, 1972–73)2 (1966–67, 1974–75)
Atlante 2 (1976–77, 1990–91)3 (1975–76, 1989–90, 2013–14)
Monterrey 2 (1955–56,1959–60)1 (1956–57)
Morelia 2 (1956–57, 1980–81)1 (1967–68)
UANL 2 (1973–74, 1996–97*)1 (1995–96)
León 2 (1989–90, 2011–12)2 (1986–87, 2001–02)
Sinaloa 2 (2003–04, 2014–15)2 (2005–06, 2015–16)
La Piedad 2 (2000–01, 2012–13*)—
Necaxa 2 (2009–10*, 2015–16)2 (2008–09, 2010–11)
UAT 1 (1986–87)1 (1994–95)
Atlético Potosino 1 (1974–75)1 (1988–89)
Indios de Ciudad Juárez 1 (2007–08)1 (2009–10)
Toros Neza 1 (1988–89)1 (1999–00)
Tecos 1 (1974–75)1 (2011–12)
Tijuana 1 (2010–11)—
UdeG 1 (2013–14)1 (2014–15)
BUAP 1 (2016–17)1 (2017–18*)
Oro —1 (1979–80)
Chiapas —1 (2016–17)
Tapachula 1 (2017–18*)—
Atlético San Luis 1 (2018–19*)—

Notes:

  • 1976–77: Tampico Madero bought San Luis's spot in first division.
  • 1977–78: Deportivo Neza bought San Isidro Laguna and took its spot.
  • 1981–82: Tampico Madero bought Atletas Campesinos and took over its spot.
  • 1983–84: Ángeles de Puebla bought Oaxtepec and took over its spot.
  • 1988–89: Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz bought Potros Neza and took over its spot.
  • 1992–93: U.T. Neza changes its name to Toros Neza.
  • 1996–97: UANL gained automatic promotion as they won both tournaments.
  • 1998–99: Puebla bought Unión de Curtidores and took over its spot.
  • 1999–00: Irapuato gained automatic promotion as they won both tournaments.
  • 2009–10: Necaxa gained automatic promotion as they won both tournaments.
  • 2012–13: Chiapas relocated to Querétaro rebranding to Querétaro.
  • 2012–13: Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz bought Reboceros de La Piedad's spot in first division.
  • 2017–18: Tapachula won promotion to Liga MX, but were not certified to be promoted to Liga MX.
  • 2018–19: Atlético San Luis gained automatic promotion as they won both tournaments.

See also

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