Primera División de México Apertura 2005

Primera División de México
Season	2005−06
Champions	Toluca (8th title)
Champions' Cup	Toluca
Copa Libertadores	UNAM; UANL; Guadalajara (First Stage)
Copa Sudamericana	Toluca
Top goalscorer	Walter Gaitán (14 goals)
	← Clausura 2005 Clausura 2006 →

Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2005 was the 2005 edition of La Primera División del Futbol Méxicano, crowning Mexico's fall champion in football. The season ran from August to December, 2005. San Luis was promoted to the Primera División de México thus, Puebla was relegated to the Primera División A. Toluca won the championship and qualified for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2006.

Final Standings (groups)

Group 1

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	América	17	12	2	3	34	22	+12	38
2.	Necaxa	17	9	4	4	35	31	+4	31
3.	Tecos	17	7	3	7	27	28	-1	24
4.	Morelia	17	6	2	9	27	29	-2	20
5.	San Luis	17	4	4	9	18	25	-7	16
6.	Atlante	17	4	3	10	29	37	-8	15

Group 2

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Toluca	17	9	3	5	27	21	+6	30
2.	Pachuca	17	7	7	3	26	18	+8	28
3.	Santos	17	5	5	7	31	31	0	20
4.	Sinaloa	17	5	3	9	20	31	-11	18
5.	UNAM	17	4	4	9	17	34	-17	16
6.	Veracruz	17	3	6	8	24	34	-10	15

Group 3

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Monterrey	17	10	5	2	32	20	+12	35
2.	Cruz Azul	17	9	3	5	34	20	+14	30
3.	UANL	17	6	4	7	30	25	+5	22
4.	Atlas	17	6	3	8	22	24	-2	21
5.	Chiapas	17	5	8	4	30	27	+3	20
6.	Guadalajara	17	4	7	6	16	22	-6	19


	First and second place teams automatically qualified for the Liguilla
	Third place teams qualified for Liguilla on a points basis, since the repechaje system was not used this year
	Jaguares de Chiapas deducted 3 points for insufficient use of youth team players

Final Standings (general)

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	América	17	12	2	3	34	22	+12	38
2.	Monterrey	17	10	5	2	32	20	+12	35
3.	Necaxa	17	9	4	4	35	31	+4	31
4.	Cruz Azul	17	9	3	5	34	20	+14	30
5.	Toluca	17	9	3	5	27	21	+6	30
6.	Pachuca	17	7	7	3	26	18	+8	28
7.	Tecos	17	7	3	7	27	28	-1	24
8.	UANL	17	6	4	7	30	25	+5	22
9.	Atlas	17	6	3	8	22	24	-2	21
10.	Chiapas	17	5	8	4	30	27	+3	20
11.	Santos	17	5	5	7	31	31	0	20
12.	Morelia	17	6	2	9	27	29	-2	20
13.	Guadalajara	17	4	7	6	16	22	-6	19
14.	Sinaloa	17	5	3	9	20	31	-11	18
15.	San Luis	17	4	4	9	18	25	-7	16
16.	UNAM	17	4	4	9	17	34	-17	16
17.	Atlante	17	4	3	10	29	37	-8	15
18.	Veracruz	17	3	6	8	24	34	-10	15

Top scorers

Goals scored throughout the entire tournament including Repechaje, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals.

Pos.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Walter Gaitán	Tigres	14
2	Guillermo Franco	Monterrey	13
	Kléber Boas	América	13
4	Sebastian Abreu	Monterrey	11
	Vicente Matías Vuoso	Santos	11
6	Luis Ernesto Pérez	Monterrey	10
7	Carlos Ochoa	Jaguares	9
	Rodrigo Ruiz	Santos	9
	Daniel Ludueña	Tecos UAG	9
	Patricio Galaz	Atlante	9
	Salvador Cabañas	Jaguares	9
	César Delgado	Cruz Azul	9

Results

Tablewise results

	Team	AME	ATE	ATL	CHP	CAZ	SIN	GDL	MON	MOR	NEC	PAC	SAN	SLP	TOL	UANL	TEC	UNAM	VER
1.	América	XXX	4-3	3-1	3-4	1-0	2-1	0-0	1-4	2-1	4-1	0-0	2-1	3-1	1-0	3-1	2-1	2-1	1-2
2.	Atlante	3-4	XXX	0-1	1-1	3-5	1-3	2-3	0-2	4-3	2-1	2-3	0-0	2-2	0-1	2-0	0-1	3-2	4-5
3.	Atlas	1-3	1-0	XXX	0-0	0-1	1-2	2-2	0-1	0-1	5-3	3-2	2-2	1-0	1-2	2-1	2-1	0-1	1-2
4.	Chiapas	4-3	1-1	0-0	XXX	1-3	1-2	1-1	1-2	1-0	1-1	1-5	5-1	1-1	1-0	1-1	3-3	5-1	2-2
5.	Cruz Azul	0-1	5-3	1-0	3-1	XXX	2-2	0-0	1-2	2-1	1-3	0-0	2-3	3-0	1-2	2-1	5-1	5-0	1-0
6.	Sinaloa	1-2	3-1	2-1	2-1	2-2	XXX	0-1	1-3	2-1	1-1	1-2	0-3	1-4	2-2	1-3	0-2	0-2	1-0
7.	Guadalajara	0-0	3-2	2-2	1-1	0-0	1-0	XXX	2-3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0-3	2-1	0-3	1-1	1-0	0-1	1-1
8.	Monterrey	4-1	2-0	1-0	2-1	2-1	3-1	3-2	XXX	2-2	1-1	1-2	2-2	2-1	2-1	2-1	1-2	1-1	1-1
9.	Morelia	1-2	3-4	1-0	0-1	1-2	1-2	2-1	2-2	XXX	3-4	3-1	1-0	1-2	3-1	0-2	1-2	2-2	2-1
10.	Necaxa	1-4	1-2	3-5	1-1	3-1	1-1	2-1	1-1	4-3	XXX	2-1	4-3	2-1	0-0	3-2	2-3	2-0	3-2
11.	Pachuca	0-0	3-2	2-3	5-1	0-0	2-1	0-0	2-1	1-3	1-2	XXX	0-0	0-0	1-1	2-2	1-0	3-1	3-1
12.	Santos	1-2	0-0	2-2	1-5	3-2	3-0	3-0	2-2	0-1	3-4	0-0	XXX	3-1	4-1	1-4	2-3	1-2	2-2
13.	San Luis	1-3	2-2	0-1	1-1	0-3	4-1	1-2	1-2	2-1	1-2	0-0	1-3	XXX	1-2	0-1	2-1	0-0	1-0
14.	Toluca	0-1	1-0	2-1	0-1	2-1	2-2	3-0	1-2	1-3	0-0	1-1	1-4	2-1	XXX	3-1	2-1	3-0	3-2
15.	UANL	1-3	0-2	1-2	1-1	1-2	3-1	1-1	1-2	2-0	2-3	2-2	4-1	1-0	1-3	XXX	1-1	3-1	5-0
16.	Tecos	1-2	1-0	1-2	3-3	1-5	2-0	0-1	2-1	2-1	2-3	0-1	3-2	1-2	1-2	1-1	XXX	3-1	2-2
17.	UNAM	1-2	2-3	1-0	1-5	0-5	2-0	1-0	1-1	2-2	0-2	1-3	2-1	0-0	0-3	1-3	1-3	XXX	1-1
18.	Veracruz	2-1	5-4	2-1	2-2	0-1	0-1	1-1	1-1	1-2	2-3	1-3	2-2	0-1	2-3	0-5	2-2	1-1	XXX

Playoffs

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

7	Tecos	0	0	0

2	Monterrey	3	4	7
					2	Monterrey	0	2	2

					9	UANL	1	1	2
6	Pachuca	2	2	4

3	Necaxa	0	0	0
										2	Monterrey	3	0	3

										5	Toluca	3	3	6
5	Toluca	1	0	1

4	Cruz Azul	0	0	0
					5	Toluca	0	2	2

					6	Pachuca	0	1	1
9	UANL	1	4	5

1	América	3	1	4

Apertura 2005 winners:
Toluca 8th Title

External links

Mediotiempo.com (where information was obtained)

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