Primera División de México Clausura 2005

Primera División de México

Season	2004–05
Champions	América (10th title)
Relegated	Puebla
Champions' Cup	América
Interliga	UANL Guadalajara Atlante Santos Laguna Chiapas Toluca América Necaxa
Copa Sudamericana	América
Top goalscorer	Vicente Matías Vuoso (15 goals)
← Apertura 2004 Apertura 2005 →

Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Clausura 2005 was the 2005 edition of Primera División de México, crowning Mexico's spring champion in football. América won the championship for the tenth time in its history and thus qualified for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2006.

Overview

Mexico City

Atlas
Guadalajara
UAG

Toluca

Necaxa

Monterrey
UANL

Veracruz

Morelia

Chiapas

Puebla

Sinaloa

Pachuca

Santos Laguna

Greater Mexico City teams
América
Atlante
Cruz Azul
UNAM

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Location of the Primera División Clausura 2005 teams

Final standings (groups)

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morelia	17	11	2	4	27	16	+11	35	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	América	17	7	9	1	38	27	+11	30
3	UAG	17	8	5	4	31	21	+10	29	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
4	Sinaloa	17	7	5	5	23	19	+4	26
5	Atlante	17	5	5	7	24	21	+3	20
6	UNAM	17	4	2	11	11	28	−17	14

Source: MedioTiempo

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cruz Azul	17	9	4	4	36	19	+17	31	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	UANL	17	6	6	5	25	19	+6	24
3	Guadalajara	17	6	5	6	29	31	−2	23
4	Toluca	17	6	5	6	17	22	−5	23
5	Puebla	17	4	4	9	19	29	−10	16
6	Atlas	17	2	5	10	21	35	−14	11

Source: MedioTiempo

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Necaxa	17	9	1	7	28	20	+8	28	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Santos Laguna	17	9	1	7	31	31	0	28
3	Monterrey	17	8	3	6	24	25	−1	27	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
4	Chiapas	17	6	4	7	19	23	−4	22
5	Pachuca	17	5	5	7	20	27	−7	20
6	Veracruz	17	3	5	9	15	33	−18	14

Source: MedioTiempo

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morelia	17	11	2	4	27	16	+11	35	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Cruz Azul	17	9	4	4	36	19	+17	31
3	América	17	7	9	1	38	27	+11	30
4	UAG	17	8	5	4	31	21	+10	29	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
5	Necaxa	17	9	1	7	28	20	+8	28	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
6	Santos Laguna	17	9	1	7	31	31	0	28
7	Monterrey	17	8	3	6	24	25	−1	27	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
8	Sinaloa	17	7	5	5	23	19	+4	26
9	UANL	17	6	6	5	25	19	+6	24	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
10	Guadalajara	17	6	5	6	29	31	−2	23
11	Toluca	17	6	5	6	17	22	−5	23
12	Chiapas	17	6	4	7	19	23	−4	22
13	Atlante	17	5	5	7	24	21	+3	20
14	Pachuca	17	5	5	7	20	27	−7	20
15	Puebla	17	4	4	9	19	29	−10	16
16	UNAM	17	4	2	11	19	28	−9	14
17	Veracruz	17	3	5	9	15	33	−18	14
18	Atlas	17	2	5	10	21	35	−14	11

Source: MedioTiempo

Results

Home \ Away	AME	ATE	ATS	CHI	CAZ	GDL	MTY	MOR	NEC	PAC	PUE	SAN	SIN	TOL	UAG	UNL	UNM	VER
América	—	1–1	5–2	4–1	–	3–3	–	–	2–0	–	–	4–2	–	0–0	3–3	1–1	–	–
Atlante	–	—	–	2–0	2–0	1–1	–	–	2–3	1–1	–	3–0	1–1	–	–	–	–	5–1
Atlas	–	2–2	—	0–1	–	2–3	–	–	2–0	–	–	1–2	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	–	–
Chiapas	–	–	–	—	1–3	–	1–1	0–2	–	0–1	–	2–0	2–2	–	1–1	–	2–0	4–3
Cruz Azul	2–3	–	–	–	—	–	6–1	1–0	–	4–0	3–1	1–2	–	–	–	–	2–2	3–0
Guadalajara	–	–	–	0–2	1–1	—	–	–	2–0	0–4	–	5–1	1–1	–	–	–	2–1	2–0
Monterrey	4–2	1–0	1–0	–	–	0–1	—	–	1–1	–	4–1	–	–	1–3	2–1	1–1	–	–
Morelia	1–1	2–1	4–1	–	–	4–2	1–2	—	–	–	3–1	–	–	1–0	–	2–1	–	–
Necaxa	–	–	–	2–0	0–1	–	–	0–1	—	5–0	–	4–2	4–3	–	1–0	–	3–1	4–0
Pachuca	2–2	–	3–1	–	–	–	2–0	0–1	–	—	1–1	–	–	1–1	–	1–1	1–3	–
Puebla	2–2	2–1	5–2	1–0	–	4–1	–	–	0–1	–	—	–	–	0–0	0–3	0–3	–	–
Santos	–	–	–	–	2–0	–	3–1	3–1	–	2–0	2–0	—	2–1	–	4–2	–	1–1	4–1
Sinaloa	0–1	–	–	–	1–1	–	1–0	0–1	–	3–1	0–0	–	—	–	1–0	–	2–1	2–0
Toluca	–	1–0	–	1–2	0–2	2–1	–	–	1–0	–	–	2–0	1–2	—	–	–	–	1–1
UAG	–	3–0	–	–	3–3	3–2	–	2–0	–	1–0	–	–	–	4–2	—	2–0	1–0	1–1
UANL	–	2–1	–	0–0	0–3	2–2	–	–	2–0	–	–	3–1	1–0	6–0	–	—	–	–
UNAM	2–3	0–1	3–2	–	–	–	1–2	0–2	–	–	1–0	–	–	1–2	–	2–1	—	–
Veracruz	1–1	–	0–0	–	–	–	0–2	1–1	–	1–2	2–1	–	–	–	–	2–0	1–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 May 2005. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Only regular season goals listed.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vicente Matías Vuoso	Santos Laguna	15
2	Kléber Boas	América	12
	Omar Bravo	Guadalajara
4	Gustavo Biscayzacú	Veracruz	10
	Walter Gaitán	UANL
	Sebastián González	Atlante
7	Claudio López	América	9
	Daniel Ludueña	UAG
	Eliomar Marcón	UAG
10	Jared Borgetti	Pachuca	8
	Salvador Cabañas	Chiapas
	Carlos Casartelli	Monterrey
	César Delgado	Cruz Azul
	Francisco Fonseca	Cruz Azul
	Alfredo Moreno	Necaxa

Source: MedioTiempo

Playoffs

Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	2	Cruz Azul (s)	0	3	3
	7	Monterrey	0	3	3
								2	Cruz Azul	1	1	2
								3	América	3	3	6
	3	América (s)	2	1	3
	6	Santos Laguna	2	1	3
															3	América	1	6	7
															4	UAG	1	3	4
	1	Morelia (s)	2	2	4
	9	UANL	3	1	4
								1	Morelia	0	1	1
								4	UAG	1	1	2
	4	UAG	2	2	4
	5	Necaxa	0	1	1

Quarterfinals

May 11, 2005

21:00

Monterrey	0–0	Cruz Azul
	Report

Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

May 14, 2005

17:00

Cruz Azul	3–3	Monterrey
Zepeda  45' (pen.) Fonseca 52' Delgado 77'	Report	Martínez  6' Erviti  13' Arellano 90'

Estadio Azul, Mexico City

Referee: Jorge Eduardo Gasso (Mexico City)

3–3 on aggregate. Cruz Azul advanced for being the higher seeded team.

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May 12, 2005

19:00

Santos Laguna	2–2	América
Rangel 72' Vuoso  90'	Report	Kléber 15'  López 67'

Estadio Corona, Torreón

Referee: Mauricio Morales (Mexico City)

May 15, 2005

18:00

América	1–1	Santos Laguna
Kléber 34'	Report	Ruiz  76'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Referee: Manuel Ernesto Glower (Mexico City)

3–3 on aggregate. América advanced for being the higher seeded team.

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May 11, 2005

19:00

UANL	3–2	Morelia
Gaitán  32' (pen.), 51' (pen.), 63'	Report	Márquez Lugo  12' M. Trujillo 78' (pen.)

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Referee: Adolfo Aquino Benítez (Guerrero)

May 14, 2005

19:00

Morelia	2–1	UANL
Márquez Lugo  31' Castro 40'	Report	de Nigris  67'

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Referee: Armando Archundia (Estado de México)

4–4 on aggregate. Morelia advanced for being the higher seeded team.

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May 12, 2005

21:00

Necaxa	0–2	UAG
	Report	Ludueña  16' Marcón  27'

Estadio Victoria, Aguascalientes

Referee: Gilberto Alcalá Pineda (Mexico City)

May 15, 2005

16:00

UAG	2–1	Necaxa
Rodríguez  13' Ludueña 90'	Report	López  24'

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

Referee: José Gabriel Gómez (Morelos)

Tecos won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Semifinals

May 19, 2005

20:30

América	3–1	Cruz Azul
Blanco  2', 56' López 81'	Report	Fonseca  71'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Referee: Manuel Ernesto Glower (Mexico City)

May 22, 2005

17:00

Cruz Azul	1–3	América
Delgado  9'	Report	Padilla 14' Torres  38' López 43'

Estadio Azul, Mexico City

Referee: Armando Archundia (Estado de México)

América won 6–2 on aggregate.

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May 18, 2005

20:30

UAG	1–0	Morelia
Leaño  30'	Report

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

May 21, 2005

19:00

Morelia	1–1	UAG
Castro 53'	Report	Morales  18'

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Referee: Gilberto Alcalá Pineda (Mexico City)

UAG won 2–1 on aggregate.

Finals

May 26, 2005

20:30

UAG	1–1	América
Colotto  59'	Report	Blanco  87' (pen.)

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

May 29, 2005

18:00

América	6–3	UAG
Padilla 2', 37' López 4', 89' Blanco  62' Mendoza  68'	Report	Lillingston 21' Morales  59' Davino  86'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Referee: Gilberto Alcalá Pineda (Mexico City)

América won 7–4 on aggregate.

Clausura 2005 winners
América 10th title

Relegation

Pos.	Team	Pts.	Pld.	Ave.
14.	Atlas	142	110	1.2909
15.	Chiapas	138	110	1.2545
16.	Sinaloa	42	34	1.2352
17.	UAG	130	110	1.1818
18.	Puebla	115	110	1.0454