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Liga MX
Organising bodyMexican Football Federation
Founded17 October 1943; 81 years ago (1943-10-17)
CountryMexico
ConfederationCONCACAF
Number of teams18
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toAscenso MX
Domestic cup(s)Copa MX
Supercopa MX
Campeón de Campeones
International cup(s)CONCACAF Champions League
Campeones Cup
Current championsSantos Laguna
(6th title)
(Clausura 2018)
Most championshipsAmérica
Guadalajara
(12 titles each)
TV partnersClaro[1]
ESPN[2]
Fox Sports[3]
Grupo Imagen[4]
Televisa[5]
TV Azteca[6]
WebsiteLigaMX.net
Current: 2018–19 Liga MX season

The Liga MX (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈliɣa ˈeme ˈekis]) is the top level of the Mexican football league system. Currently sponsored by BBVA through its Mexican subsidiary BBVA Bancomer, it is officially known as Liga BBVA Bancomer.[7]

Each season, the league holds two tournaments: the Apertura, which starts in the summer, and the Clausura, which starts in the winter. As of 2017, the league comprises 18 clubs, with one being relegated every year (two tournaments) based upon its league performances over the previous three years. 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"). Up until July 2011, the league was divided into 3 groups. The group formatting was removed in favor of a single-table format.

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[8] and was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010).[9] 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 fourth largest crowds of any professional sports league in North America, behind only the National Football League and Major League Baseball, and the Canadian Football League.[10] 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.[11]

Of the 56 teams to have competed in the league, América and Guadalajara have each won the title 12 times, followed by Toluca (10), Cruz Azul (8), León and Pumas UNAM (7), and Pachuca, Tigres UANL, and Santos Laguna (6). The current league champions are Santos Laguna, who won the Clausura 2018 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 considered the national competition. There were other regional leagues such as the Liga Amateur de Veracruz, the Liga Occidental De Jalisco and the Liga del Bajío that also had notable clubs. Many club owners were not keen on the idea of establishing a professional league, despite paying players under the table. With the increasing demand for football, there was a sense of urgency to unite all the local amateur leagues in Mexico to progress as a football nation. The professional national league was finally established in 1943.[12]

Professional era

When the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación (F.M.F.) announced the formation of the nation's first professional league, many clubs petitioned 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. Like many South American and European clubs, Mexico's clubs that placed high in the league standings could not afford to participate in prestigious international tournaments, 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.[13]

On 20 August 2018, it was announced that the Liga MX would begin testing the use of video assistant referee technology.[14] 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.[15]

Competition format

Regular season tournaments

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.

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.

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. 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.

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:[16]

  • 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), and SuperLiga (2007–10), Copa Libertadores (1998-2015)

Clubs

Main article: List of football clubs in Mexico

2018–19 season

The following 18 clubs will compete in the Liga MX during the 2018–19 season.

Club Position in
2017–18 		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 4th 1943–44 94 1943–44 94 12 Apertura 2014
Atlas 11th 1943–44 90 1979–80 56 1 1950/51
BUAP 17th 2017–18 2 2017–18 2 0 -
Cruz Azul 6th 1964–65 72 1964–65 72 8 Invierno 1997
Guadalajara 16th 1943–44 94 1943–44 94 12 Clausura 2017
León 7th 1944–45 69 2012–13 6 7 Clausura 2014
Monterrey 1st 1945–46 78 1960–61 76 4 Apertura 2010
Morelia 5th 1957–58 65 1981–82 54 1 Invierno 2000
Necaxa 9th 1951-52 82 2015–16 6 3 Invierno 1998
Pachuca 12th 1967–68 44 1998–99 34 6 Clausura 2016
Puebla 13th 1944–45 73 2007–08 16 2 1989/90
Querétaro 15th 1990–91 22 2009–10 12 0 -
Santos Laguna 8th 1988–89 30 1988–89 30 6 Clausura 2018
Tijuana 10th 2011–12 8 2011–12 8 1 Apertura 2012
Toluca 2nd 1953–54 83 1953–54 83 10 Bicentenario 2010
UANL 3rd 1974–75 59 1997–98 36 6 Apertura 2017
UNAM 14th 1962–63 74 1962–63 74 7 Clausura 2011
Veracruz 18th 1943–44 53 2013–14 6 2 1949/50

Champions

See also: List of Mexican football champions
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years
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
América 12 9 1965–66, 1970–71, 1975–76, 1983–84, 1984–85, PRODE 85, 1987–88, 1988–89, Verano 2002, Clausura 2005, Clausura 2013, Apertura 2014
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 10 1968–69, México '70, 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 5 1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1991–92, Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014
UANL 6 5 1977–78, 1981–82, Apertura 2011, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017
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 4 6 México '86, Clausura 2003, Apertura 2009, Apertura 2010
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
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
UdeG † 0 3
Querétaro 0 1
Toros Neza †††† 0 1
Atlético Celaya † 0 1
Atlético Español †††† 0 1
San Luis † 0 1

† Teams currently in the Ascenso MX
†† Teams currently in the Liga Premier
††† Teams currently in the Amateur Levels
†††† Defunct teams

Stadiums and locations

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Location of the 2018–19 Liga MX teams
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Location of the 2018–19 Liga MX teams in Greater Mexico City
Club Location Stadium Capacity Ref
América Mexico City Azteca 81,070 [17]
Atlas Guadalajara Jalisco 55,020 [18]
BUAP Puebla City Universitario BUAP 19,283 [19]
Cruz Azul Mexico City Azteca 81,070 [18]
Guadalajara Zapopan Akron 46,232 [20]
León León Nou Camp 31,297 [21]
Monterrey Guadalupe BBVA Bancomer 51,348 [22]
Morelia Morelia Morelos 34,975 [23]
Necaxa Aguascalientes City Victoria 23,851 [24]
Pachuca Pachuca Hidalgo 27,512 [25]
Puebla Puebla City Cuauhtémoc 46,928 [26]
Querétaro Querétaro City La Corregidora 33,162 [27]
Santos Laguna Torreón TSM Corona 29,101 [28]
Tijuana Tijuana Caliente 27,333 [29]
Toluca Toluca Nemesio Díez 31,000 [30]
UANL San Nicolás de los Garza Universitario 41,886 [31]
UNAM Mexico City Olímpico Universitario 48,297 [32]
Veracruz Boca del Río Luis "Pirata" Fuente 28,703 [33]

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, ESPN in México. ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes and Univision have the rights in the United States.

In previous years, when a team got relegated, the team that got promoted could only negotiate with the company that had the television rights of the team that got relegated. This agreement was cancelled in 2012 by the Liga MX when the promotion of Club León caused a television rights dispute with Televisa.[34] 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).[35]

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.[36]

After the Clausura 2017 season, Azteca América sold the rights of the Atlas, Morelia, Tijuana and Veracruz matches to Univision, thus the network held the rights of 17 of the 18 clubs, the only team the network did not carry was recently promoted team Lobos BUAP. In September 2017, Univision started airing Lobos BUAP's home matches, thus the network has 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.[37]

In Japan, Liga MX will be broadcast on Fuji TV.[38] 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.[39] The matches will air on Fox Deportes in the United States and Fox Sports Latin America in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.[39]

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.[40] 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.[40]

As of the Apertura 2018 season, ESPN Deportes airs most Cruz Azul, León, Pachuca, and Querétaro regular season home matches, the network will also air at least one home match of nine other Liga MX clubs.

Television home matches broadcast rights

Team Mexico Broadcaster U.S. Broadcaster Day Time[1]
América Televisa Univision[ESPN] Saturday 7:00 PM
Atlas TV Azteca / ESPN Univision Friday 9:00 PM
BUAP Televisa Univision[ESPN] Sunday 4:00 PM
Cruz Azul Televisa ESPN Deportes / Univision Saturday 5:00 PM
Guadalajara Chivas TV[Note 1]/Televisa Univision[ESPN] Saturday 9:06 PM
León Grupo Imagen / Fox Sports / Claro ESPN Deportes / Univision Saturday 7:06 PM
Monterrey Fox Sports Fox Sports (English and Spanish)[Note 2] Saturday 9:00 PM
Morelia TV Azteca / ESPN[Note 3] Univision[ESPN] Friday 7:00 PM
Necaxa Televisa Univision[ESPN] Saturday 9:00 PM
Pachuca Grupo Imagen / Fox Sports / Claro ESPN Deportes / Univision Saturday 7:06 PM
Puebla TV Azteca / ESPN[Note 3] Univision[ESPN] Friday 9:00 PM
Querétaro Grupo Imagen / TV Azteca ESPN Deportes / Univision Saturday 5:00 PM
Santos Laguna TV Azteca / ESPN Univision Sunday 6:00 PM
Tijuana Fox Sports Fox Sports (English and Spanish)[Note 2] Saturday 7:00 PM[1]
Toluca Televisa Univision[ESPN] Sunday 12:00 PM
UANL Televisa ESPN Deportes / Univision Saturday 7:00 PM
UNAM Televisa Univision Sunday 12:00 PM
Veracruz TV Azteca / ESPN[Note 3] Univision[ESPN] Friday 7:00 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 FS1 and FS2 in English. Matches are also shown on Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports San Diego, and Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket.
  3. ^
    Games are shown on ESPN but only on tape delay
  4. ^
    All match times are UTC−06:00 except for matches in Tijuana (UTC−08:00).
  5. ^
    ESPN Deportes will show at least one home match

Sponsorship

BBVA Bancomer was named the league's official sponsor in 2013.

Up until its re-branding 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 eighteen clubs and to be invested in each club's youth teams.[41] On 18 September 2015, it was announced that the sponsorship deal was extended until 2019.[42]

Since 1986, Voit has been the official match ball manufacturer. In 2014, the contract was extended for four years.[43]

Managers

The current managers in the Liga MX are:

Nat. Name Club Appointed Time as manager
Brazil Ricardo Ferretti UANL 20 May 2010 14 years, 182 days
Argentina Hernán Cristante Toluca 31 May 2016 8 years, 171 days
Mexico Roberto Hernández Morelia 7 February 2017 7 years, 285 days
Mexico Miguel Herrera América 26 May 2017 7 years, 176 days
Mexico Enrique Meza Puebla 3 October 2017 7 years, 46 days
Mexico David Patiño UNAM 3 October 2017 7 years, 46 days
Portugal Pedro Caixinha Cruz Azul 5 December 2017 6 years, 349 days
Argentina Diego Cocca Tijuana 7 December 2017 6 years, 347 days
Mexico Rafael Puente Jr. Querétaro 7 May 2018 6 years, 195 days
Mexico Marcelo Michel Leaño Necaxa 11 May 2018 6 years, 191 days
Uruguay Diego Alonso Monterrey 18 May 2018 6 years, 184 days
Spain Pako Ayestarán Pachuca 28 May 2018 6 years, 174 days
Mexico Francisco Palencia BUAP 1 June 2018 6 years, 170 days
Paraguay José Cardozo Guadalajara 12 June 2018 6 years, 159 days
Mexico Salvador Luis Reyes Santos Laguna 8 August 2018 6 years, 102 days
Chile Juvenal Olmos Veracruz 15 August 2018 6 years, 95 days
Argentina Ángel Guillermo Hoyos Atlas 11 September 2018 6 years, 68 days
Mexico Ignacio Ambriz León 18 September 2018 6 years, 61 days

Player records

Most appearances

Rank Player Appearances
1 Mexico Óscar Pérez 735
2 Mexico Oswaldo Sanchez 725
3 Mexico Benjamín Galindo 700
4 Chile Rodrigo Ruiz 638
5 Mexico Adolfo Ríos 635
6 Mexico Juan Pablo Rodríguez 634
7 Mexico Miguel España 631
8 Mexico Alfonso Sosa 610
9 Mexico Cristóbal Ortega 608
10 Mexico Israel López 604
Italics denotes players still playing professional football.
Bold denotes players still playing in the Liga MX.

Top scorers

Rank Nat Name Years Goals Apps Ratio
1 Brazil Evanivaldo Castro 1974–1987 312 427 0.73
2 Mexico Carlos Hermosillo 1984–2001 294 539 0.55
3 Mexico Jared Borgetti 1994–2010 252 475 0.63
4 Paraguay José Cardozo 1994–2005 249 332 0.75
5 Mexico Horacio Casarín 1936–1957 238 326 0.73
6 Chile Osvaldo Castro 1971–1984 214 398 0.54
7 Mexico Luis Roberto Alves 1986–2003 209 577 0.36
8 Mexico Adalberto López 1942–1955 201 231 0.87
9 Brazil Carlos Eloir Perucci 1972–1984 199 398 0.5
10 Mexico Sergio Lira 1978–1996 191 564 0.34
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) 4 (1951–52, 1978–79, 1997–98, 2007–08)
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 (2004–05, 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*) -

Notes:

See also

References

  1. ^ includes Claro Sports
  2. ^ includes ESPN 2
  3. ^ includes Fox Sports 2
  4. ^ includes Imagen Televisión
  5. ^ Includes Canal 5, Gala TV, Las Estrellas, Sky México, TDN and Univisión TDN
  6. ^ includes Azteca 7 and Azteca Uno
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