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62-580: In summer 2016, Mexico City authorities announced plans to demolish the stadium would begin at the end of the 2017-2018 Liga MX season. However, in July 2018, the demolition project was put on hold. In the 2023–24 Liga MX season , Cruz Azul returned to the stadium. Both times Mexico hosted the World Cup , Estadio Azul did not host matches mainly due to the age of the structure, bad parking facilities, and complex traffic patterns. A peculiarity of this stadium

124-579: A bye to the Round of 16. Liga MX would implement a formula for ensuring that the Apertura and Clausura had two qualifying teams should one or more teams reach the finals of both tournaments, devised when Liga MX sent 4 teams to North America's top club competition: With Liga MX sending a minimum of six teams to the Champions Cup (Liga MX can send a maximum of nine teams if three Liga MX teams all hold

186-583: A local league consisting of teams near and around Mexico City , was the first amateur football league created in Mexico, and also other regional leagues were created, which were the Liga Amateur de Veracruz , Liga Amateur de Puebla, Liga Occidental De Jalisco and the Liga Amateur del Bajío that had talented clubs. In 1922, after the foundation of the first football federation in Mexico, they created

248-409: A series of friendly matches between 1926 and 1930 as part of promotional tours by Liga Occidental de Jalisco. The Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association was the first amateur football league created in Mexico by football fans and company workers on July 19, 1902. It was completely amateur level since it was played only by football fans and foreign immigrant workers, and also the organizing body

310-573: A sports venue in Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Liga MX Liga MX , officially known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football division of the Mexican football league system . Formerly called Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and then Primera División de México (1949–2012), it has 18 clubs and the season is divided into two short tournaments, Apertura from July to December and Clausura from January to May. The champions of each tournament

372-543: 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

434-684: 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. 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). Telelatino and Fox Sports World formerly hold broadcasting rights in Canada. From 2019–20 until 2021–22, OneSoccer broadcast

496-567: A unified professional football system in the country. The first true national and professional league in Mexico was established in 1943. The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF) announcement of the nation's first professional league brought interest from many clubs to join. The FMF announced that 10 clubs would form the Liga Mayor. The league was founded by six clubs from the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, two clubs from

558-509: Is decided by a final phase called "liguilla" . Since 2020, promotion and relegation has been suspended, which is to last until 2026. The league currently ranks first in CONCACAF's league ranking index. According to the IFFHS , Liga MX was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century. According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during

620-573: Is that it is built as a pit with the playing field is below street level. Just beside the stadium is the Plaza México , the world's largest bullring . On 2 November 2024, local authorities closed the stadium indefinitely due to a lack of required safety certifications and issues with the stadium's infrastructure. The closure caused scheudle disruptions for Club América , Atlante , and Cruz Azul . The stadium reopened on 7 November with new regulations such as an increase in security personnel at both

682-583: 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 NFL and MLB . 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 . Liga MX ranks second in terms of television viewership in

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744-413: The 2018–19 season , only six teams met the full requirements to be promoted to Liga MX, those teams being Atlético San Luis , Atlante , Celaya , Juárez , Sinaloa , and UdeG . On April 16, 2020, the Ascenso MX was folded due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic as well as the lack of financial resources. Liga MX President Enrique Bonilla later announced during a video meeting with the club owners of

806-817: The Apertura tournament . The league will, however, still need final approval from FIFA to fully implement the technology. Liga MX uses a single table of 18 teams that play two short tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) resulting in two champions per season. The season opens with the Apertura from July to December, followed by the Clausura from January to May. This format matches other Latin American schedules and corresponds with FIFA's world footballing calendar, which "opens" in July/August and "closes" in April/May of

868-508: The Campeonato de Primera Fuerza , which was the first amateur league organized by a national football federation. It was held from 1922 to 1943, although most of the participating teams were from Mexico City and the first matches held outside the country's capital were played until the 1940–41 season. Many club owners were keen to remain amateur although they paid players under the table. The increasing interest in football would not thwart

930-617: The Copa Libertadores . 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 FMF changed the league format and established a final phase to determine the national champion. This was done to regenerate interest and reward teams that placed fairly high in the standings. The final phase, called Liguilla , was played using various formats to determine

992-604: The Spanish Civil War , the first Basque President José Antonio Aguirre, had decided to send a Basque football club abroad in order to raise funds for the civil war that was taking place in Spain. When their homeland was captured by their enemies the players dared not return home. The Basques, under the name Club Deportivo Euzkadi , were allowed into the league and developed a fierce rivalry with traditional all Hispanic teams (Real España and Asturias) and despite winning 13 of

1054-444: The 17 games played, they came out of the tournament as runners-up to Asturias. At the end of the season, the team disbanded and the players became part of the Liga Mayor teams or other leagues. The 1940–41 season was the first with matches played outside of Mexico City, after Selección Jalisco and Moctezuma de Orizaba joined the league. Selección Jalisco formed by elements of Guadalajara, Atlas, Nacional, y Oro. This team had played

1116-685: The 18 clubs and to be invested in each club's youth teams. On 18 September 2015, the sponsorship deal was extended until 2019. On 18 June 2019, the league was renamed as Liga BBVA MX, adopting the new identity of the sponsor. On 4 July 2019, the sponsorship contract with BBVA was renewed until 2021. Since 1986, Voit has been the official match ball manufacturer. In 2014, the contract was extended for four years. The current managers in Liga MX are: [REDACTED] Media related to Liga MX at Wikimedia Commons Primera Fuerza Campeonato de Primera Fuerza (English: First Force Championship ), later known as Liga Mayor (English: Major League ),

1178-620: The Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes and the Plaza de Toros, promotion of public transport to reach the venues, and the prohibition of holding two events on the same day. Atlante announced they would move to Estadio Hidalgo in Pachuca . Following the arrival of Cruz Azul, there have been many renovations to make the stadium safer, more comfortable, and appropriate to the needs of fans. Among these amenities are: This article about

1240-581: The FMF to disable Gaspar Rubio who had signed for Real España. It got to the point of suspension of the three clubs who unsuccessfully tried to make a parallel tournament and the Federation decided to suspend the season to definitively resolve administrative problems. After months of conflict, smoothed asperities and the competition were renamed as Liga Mayor , to organize two competitions: the Campeonato Preferente consisted of six teams, and

1302-494: The Liga MX during the 2024–25 season. 87,523 All Liga MX clubs have the right to sell their own broadcast rights . Televisa , TV Azteca , Imagen Televisión , Claro Sports, Fox Sports , and ESPN have broadcasting rights in México, while ESPN Deportes , Fox Deportes , Univision , and Telemundo have the rights in the United States, with FS1 / FS2 airing select matches with English commentary. In previous years, when

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1364-410: The Liga MX trophy, and the runners-up is awarded a smaller version of the trophy. The start 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. Originally at the end of a season, after the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, one team is relegated to

1426-593: The Liga Mexicana. The 1920–21 season was played separately with the creation of the Liga Nacional founded by Real Club España and later joined América, Luz y Fuerza, L'Amicale Française and Reforma. Meanwhile, the Liga Mexicana had the participation of Asturias, Deportivo Internacional, Club México, Club Morelos and Germania. Only two seasons were played before both leagues merged to form the first Mexican football federation. The first football federation

1488-550: The Liga Occidental, and two from the Liga Veracruzana. 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

1550-546: The Primera Ordinaria, that served as a promotion division. This competition had durability and grew to cluster up to 16 teams. Club Necaxa , founded by members of Compañía de Luz y Fuerza del Centro, was an unforgettable dynasty in the decade 1930–40 known as the "11 brothers"; the first team to win promotion, won four league titles and the Copa México twice, becoming the first "Campeonísimo" in Mexico. Among

1612-528: 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

1674-671: The Trinidad and Refugio Martinez brothers. While between 1918 and 1920 the teams Cuenta y Administración, Guerra y Marina y Son-Sin resulted in the Club Esparta, which was then rebranded as CD Marte , brilliant team that never became popular, and even in the professional era and would move to Cuernavaca. Regularly attended clubs outside the Mexico City as Pachuca AC, Puebla AC, Veracruz SC, Iberia de Córdoba, Moctezuma de Orizaba, Orizaba AC, Tigres México, España Veracruz, these being

1736-731: The United States, behind the English Premier League. América have won the league a record of 15 times, followed by Guadalajara with 12 titles, Toluca 10 titles and Cruz Azul 9 titles. In all, twenty-four teams have won the Liga Mayor/Primera División/Liga MX title at least once. Prior to the Liga Mayor , there was no national football league in Mexico, and football competitions were held within relatively small geographical regions. The Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association ,

1798-765: The United States. 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. In October 2017, Fox Sports announced that it acquired

1860-506: The United States. The network also airs at least one home match of nine other clubs. Televisa also sublicenses one match per week to ESPN in Mexico and Central America. In Brazil, DAZN broadcast the league for two seasons 2019–20 and 2020–21. On 15 July 2021, OneFootball announced it would broadcast between two and five live matches as part of a deal covering the 2021/22 Liga MX season in selected international markets. On 16 August 2021, Eleven Sports announced it would broadcast

1922-403: The champions. 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 liguilla and in some seasons the playoff matches themselves involved teams playing in groups with the group winners playing off for the title. The format

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1984-405: 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. This also prevents most playoff collusion, where one or both teams already in the liguilla put in lesser effort to lose or draw, in order to draw a more favorable opponent. For the Apertura 2016, and

2046-415: 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

2108-407: The home Liga MX matches of C.D. Guadalajara for the 2021-22 season in more than 100 countries. Up until its rebranding in 2012, 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

2170-466: The league for Canada viewers. 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 TUDN 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. The coverage also available for Central America viewers. Most of

2232-530: The league that promotion and relegation would be suspended for six years. During the suspension, the Ascenso MX was replaced with the Liga de Expansión MX although no club from that league will be promoted to Liga MX nor any Liga MX team that performs poorly will be relegated from the Liga MX for the time being. Each year, at least six teams from Liga MX qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup ,

2294-501: 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. The matches air on Fox Sports in the United States (via Fox Deportes ) and the rest of Latin America (including Mexico and excluding Brazil). On May 26, 2018, Fox Sports announced it acquired

2356-466: The losing team has another chance facing the winning team between the 9th and 10th-placed. The winner of that match advances to complete the 8 teams for the quarterfinals. After this round, the team that advanced between 7th and 8th-placed then faces the winners of the last play-in match then faces the best team in the regular phase, while the 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play in two more matchups, with the winner on aggregate score progressing. The champions were awarded

2418-522: 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

2480-542: The most successful of them, Pachuca was crowned in seasons 1904–05, 1917–18 and 1919–20. In 1920 there was a split in the Mexican amateur league, shortly before the start of the season. Real España and España Veracruz in solidarity with the expulsion of Tigres México, withdrew from the league and founded its own league called the Liga Nacional . As this idea went nowhere, Orizaba scheduled a series of friendly matches to remain active, with so many rivals like España Veracruz who

2542-416: 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

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2604-399: The next year. The top 10 teams advance to the final phase for each tournament, with the top 6 teams in the table at the end of the regular phase of the tournament qualifying directly to the liguilla , and the next 4 teams qualifying for the play-in round that determines the next 2 liguilla spots. If one team is in last place in the league's relegation table (see below), that team is replaced by

2666-471: The premier North American club competition; Liga MX itself is guaranteed six spots while teams from the league can earn three more spots via the Leagues Cup with MLS for a maximum of nine spots. Generally, the Apertura and Clausura winners and runners-up, as well as the next best two teams in the aggregate table, qualify, with the higher ranking champion from the Apertura and Clausura tournaments earning

2728-429: The promotion playoff, which should be utilized to fulfill necessary requirements for promotion within the next season, and remain in Ascenso MX, 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. As of

2790-498: The ranks of the "11 brothers" also arises a top Mexican football legends: Horacio Casarín. In the 1931–32 season, Veracruz SC were invited and also played the following season, although all their matches were played in Mexico City. In the 1938–39 season, CD Euzkadi was included when it was formed because the Basque Country national football team was refused permission by FIFA to play with affiliated teams. In 1937, during

2852-495: The relegation table is among the 12 teams qualifying for the Liguilla at the end of the Clausura tournament, the 13th 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

2914-544: The rights of C.F. Monterrey 's home matches in the United States and Latin America. 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. 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

2976-456: The sport. In 1910, Club México is founded, the first team formed by Alfredo B. Cuellar headed Mexican, Jorge Alberto Gomez de Parada and Sierra, then promoted by other foreign colonies: L'Amicale Française in 1911, Rovers FC and Real Club España in 1912, Centro Deportivo Español in 1914, Germania FV in 1915, Catalonia in 1917, Asturias FC in 1918, and CF Aurrerá in 1919. Club América (at that time called Centro Unión ), founded on

3038-512: The start of the 2012–13 season , the organization Liga MX/Ascenso MX was created to replace the FMF as the organizing body of the competition. The league also announced a rebranding, with the introduction of a new logo. On 20 August 2018, it was announced that Liga MX would begin testing the use of VAR technology. 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

3100-433: The team that finished 11th in the tournament. From 1996 to 2002, the league followed a two short tournaments in the season, schedule with Invierno and Verano tournaments. 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

3162-554: The top three spots in Leagues Cup), these rules still generally apply, although if a team qualifies for the Champions Cup via Liga MX and the Leagues Cup, the spot is given to the next best team in the aggregate table. If a team is the highest ranked tournament champions and also wins the Leagues Cup for that same cycle, both the Apertura and Clausura champions qualify for the round of 16. The following 18 clubs will compete in

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3224-410: The tournament lasted 17 weeks, with all teams playing each other once per tournament in a home and away series over both tournaments. The liguilla is the final phase of the tournament, consisting of 10 teams. This phase starts with the play-in round, with teams ranked 7-10 playing a single match hosted by the higher seed, the winning team between the 7th and 8th-placed advances to the quarterfinals and

3286-470: The union of two Marist College in 1916, was the first important team composed of Mexicans in the capital city and achieved to win four consecutive championships between 1924 and 1928. In 1918, Sinaloa was founded and changed several times its name, first to Lusitania in 1919, then to U-53 in 1920, then to Atlántico in 1921 but due to the colloquial use of that word it was derived to Atlante , whose components were proletarian extraction; their leaders were

3348-426: Was a sense of urgency to unite all the local amateur leagues in Mexico to progress as a football nation. The first professional national league was finally established in 1943. The people who pushed football in Mexico were Percy C. Clifford and Robert J. Blackmoore. This brought the rules of play and the first regulatory balls. English Alfred Crowle, who played for Pachuca since 1908, also had considerable influence on

3410-469: Was an amateur football league founded by the first football governing body formed in Mexico after the merger of the Liga Mexicana and Liga Nacional , it was called Federación Mexicana de Football Asociación (English: Mexican Association Football Federation ). Asturias FC won the inaugural season and CD Marte were the last champions. It had the total participation of 18 teams, of which only 2 teams played their matches outside of Mexico City. The league

3472-470: Was an association of football fans called Asociación de Aficionados de México en la Liga de Football (English: The Mexico Amateur Association in the Football League ). It had the total participation of 22 teams between 1902 and 1922, although mostly from Mexico City. The founding clubs were Orizaba AC , Pachuca AC , Reforma AC , Mexico Cricket Club and British Club . The Liga Nacional

3534-411: 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 final phase (Cruz Azul in the 1970s, América in the 1980s, and Toluca in the 2000s). Prior to

3596-624: Was defeated 9–0 on 20 October 1919, or their wins 4–0 and 2–0 against Tigres México, 2–0 on the Río Blanco and the achievements of Copa Alfonso XIII in a three-game series against Reforma and the Copa Elche in two games against Asturias. The power and influence of the Hispanic teams was such that the press of the time chose to cover their sports facilities to those meetings. Spain interference on means, suitable to be published little news about

3658-407: Was founded in Mexico on August 1922, it was called Federación Mexicana de Football Asociación . They immediately organized to create the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza on August 28, 1922. It was considered the first direct antecedent of the current Liga MX. The members of the new league promoted the creation of the first national team, which would dispute its first match in 1923. The 1930–31 season

3720-478: Was held from 1922 to 1943, when the first true national and professional league was started. Prior to the Liga MX (at that time called Liga Mayor ), there was no true national football league in Mexico and all football competitions were held within relatively small geographical regions. The winners of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association , a local league consisting of teams in and around Mexico City,

3782-586: Was suspended after two days, when Asturias, Atlante, Germania, Club Mexico and Marte requested permission to remodel Campo Asturias (not to be confused with the Parque Asturias, built until 1936) which was in poor condition, to make their home games there; to the disagreement of Real España, Necaxa (both who owned their own parks) and América. This coupled with the conflict arose with the Real Federación Española de Fútbol, which had asked

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3844-458: Was the first amateur football league played in Mexico from 1902 to 1922. There were other regional leagues such as the Liga Amateur de Veracruz , Liga Occidental De Jalisco and 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

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