Liga de Expansión MX

Liga de Expansión MX

Founded	2020 (2020)
Country	Mexico
Confederation	CONCACAF
Number of teams	16
Level on pyramid	2
Domestic cup(s)	Copa MX
TV partners	ESPN Fox Sports Televisa Claro Megacable
Website	LigaBBVAExpansion.mx
Current: 2020–21 Liga de Expansión MX season

The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo and Liga BBVA Expansión MX, is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second-tier league in Mexico, for which there will be no promotion and relegation during the following six seasons. The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.

History

On 20 February 2020, the presidents of the Liga MX clubs, the Ascenso MX clubs and Mexican Football Federation executives had a meeting, in which different topics were discussed with the intent of strengthening the two main leagues in the country.

On 26 June 2020, the league was officially presented, with the participation of 17 teams: Alebrijes de Oaxaca, Atlante, Atlético Morelia, Cancún, Celaya, Cimarrones de Sonora, Correcaminos UAT, Dorados de Sinaloa, Leones Negros UdeG, Mineros de Zacatecas, Tampico Madero and Venados F.C. as Ascenso MX teams. Pumas Tabasco and Tapatío entered to the league as Liga MX affiliates. Finally, on 17 July 2020 Tepatitlán and Tlaxcala were invited as Liga Premier expansion teams, the seventeenth team will be the champion of the 2020-21 Liga Premier season.

Participating teams

Atlante

Atl. Morelia

Cancún

Celaya

Oaxaca

Pumas Tabasco

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tampico Madero

Tapatío
UdeG

Tepatitlán

Tlaxcala

UAT

Venados

Zacatecas

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Location of teams in the 2020–21 Liga de Expansión MX

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Atlante	Mexico City	Azul	33,000
Atlético Morelia	Morelia, Michoacán	Morelos	35,000
Cancún	Cancún, Quintana Roo	Andrés Quintana Roo	17,289
Celaya	Celaya, Guanajuato	Miguel Alemán Valdés	23,182
Pumas Tabasco	Villahermosa, Tabasco	Olímpico de Villahermosa	10,500
Oaxaca	Oaxaca City, Oaxaca	Tecnológico de Oaxaca	14,598
Sinaloa	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Banorte	20,108
Sonora	Hermosillo, Sonora	Héroe de Nacozari	18,747
Tampico Madero	Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas	Tamaulipas	19,667
Tapatío	Zapopan, Jalisco	Akron	49,850
Tepatitlán	Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco	Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez	10,000
Tlaxcala	Tlaxcala City, Tlaxcala	Tlahuicole	12,000
UAT	Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	Marte R. Gómez	10,520
U. de G.	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco	55,020
Venados	Mérida, Yucatán	Carlos Iturralde	15,087
Zacatecas	Zacatecas City, Zacatecas	Carlos Vega Villalba	20,068

Managers

The current managers in the Liga de Expansión MX are:

Nat.	Name	Team	Appointed	Time as manager
	Paco Ramírez	Tepatitlán	5 September 2019	5 years, 59 days
	Jorge Dávalos	U. de G.	29 October 2019	5 years, 5 days
	Gerardo Espinoza	Tampico Madero	27 November 2019	4 years, 342 days
	Roberto Hernández	UAT	28 November 2019	4 years, 341 days
	David Patiño	Sinaloa	4 December 2019	4 years, 335 days
	Carlos Gutiérrez	Venados	10 December 2019	4 years, 329 days
	Carlos Humberto González	Pumas Tabasco	24 June 2020	4 years, 132 days
	Ricardo Valiño	Atlético Morelia	26 June 2020	4 years, 130 days
	Ricardo Cadena	Tapatío	26 June 2020	4 years, 130 days
	Christian Giménez	Cancún	30 June 2020	4 years, 126 days
	Israel Hernández	Celaya	1 July 2020	4 years, 125 days
	Omar Alexis Moreno	Zacatecas	1 July 2020	4 years, 125 days
	Gabriel Pereyra	Sonora	3 July 2020	4 years, 123 days
	Oscar Fernando Torres	Oaxaca	10 July 2020	4 years, 116 days
	Irving Rubirosa	Tlaxcala	20 July 2020	4 years, 106 days
	Mario García Covalles	Atlante	20 July 2020	4 years, 106 days

External links

• Official website