Primera División A Primera may refer to * Nissan Primera, a car * Primera Air, a former airline * Primera división (disambiguation), multiple top division football leagues * Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas * Alí Primera, Venezuelan musician, compos ...

''(Méxican First A Division)'' is a Mexican

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

tournament. This season was composed of Invieno 2001 and Verano 2002.

Real San Luis San Luis Fútbol Club was a Mexican professional football club from the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The club was founded in 1957, when they were known as Santos (saints). The team's nickname of ''Tuneros'', a reference to the tuna fruit, w ...

was the winner of the promotion to First Division after winning

Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz Club Deportivo Veracruz, commonly known as Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, was a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in the city of Veracruz, Veracruz, Veracruz. ''El Aston'' was founded in 1943, and played in the Liga M ...

in the promotion playoff. However, Veracruz was also promoted to First Division after defeating

Club León Club León Fútbol Club, also known as León, is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, that competes in the Liga MX, the top flight of Mexican football. León has won the Primera División de México/Liga MX title ...

in a promotional series.

Changes for the 2001–02 season

* Potros Marte was relocated to

Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has bee ...

and renamed Potros Guerrero. *

Yucatán Yucatán (, also , , ; yua, Yúukatan ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán,; yua, link=no, Xóot' Noj Lu'umil Yúukatan. is one of the 31 states which comprise the political divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. I ...

was bought by new owners, they relocated the team to

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...

and renamed

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*Real San Sebastián was relocated to

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servi ...

and renamed

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. * Lobos UAP was relocated to

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and renamed

Chapulineros de Oaxaca Chapulineros de Oaxaca is a Mexican football team nicknamed ''Los chapulineros'' (Grasshoppers). The club was founded in 1983 and is based in the state of Oaxaca where it plays its home matches at the Estadio Independiente MRCI. The club has play ...

. *C.F. Monterrey and Tigres UANL exchanged their Primera A teams.

Saltillo Soccer Saltillo Soccer Fútbol Club is a Mexican football club from Saltillo, Coahuila that plays in the Liga TDP. History Since 1991, businessman Jorge Lankenau Rocha, owner of Grupo Financiero Abaco, had bought C.F. Monterrey with immediate results ...

was moved to

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and renamed Cobras Juárez and Tigres de Ciudad Juárez was moved to

Saltillo Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and highwa ...

and renamed Tigrillos Saltillo. * Águilas de Tamaulipas was promoted from

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. However, before the season started, the team was renamed

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* Potros Zitácuaro was promoted from Second Division after winning a promotion playoff.

Stadiums and locations

Invierno 2001

Group league tables

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

General league table

Results

Reclassification series

First leg

Second leg

Liguilla

*(t.p.) The team was classified by its best position in the general table

Quarter-finals

=First leg

=Second leg

Semi-finals

=First leg

=Second leg

Final

=First leg

=Second leg

Top scorers

Verano 2002

Group league tables

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

General league table

Results

Reclassification series

First leg

Second leg

Liguilla

Quarter-finals

=First leg

=Second leg

Semi-finals

=First leg

=Second leg

Final

=First leg

=Second leg

Top scorers

Relegation table

Promotion final

The Promotion Final faced

against

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

to determine the winner of the First Division Promotion. San Luis was the winner.

First leg

Second leg

First division promotion playoff

The Mexican Football Federation decided to increase the number of teams in the

Primera División Primera may refer to * Nissan Primera, a car * Primera Air, a former airline * Primera división (disambiguation), multiple top division football leagues * Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas * Alí Primera, Venezuelan musician, compos ...

to 20 participants, so it was decided to play a promotion series between León, the last place in the Primera División relegation table, and Veracruz, Primera A season runner-up. Finally, Veracruz was the winner the team was promoted to Primera División. However, there was already a team in Veracruz, the owners decided to transfer the team promoted to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, where it was renamed as

Jaguares de Chiapas Chiapas Fútbol Club, commonly known as Jaguares de Chiapas, was a football club based in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, that played in the Mexican football league system Liga MX. The team played their home matches at the Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyn ...

First leg

Second leg

Relegation playoff

A relegation series faced Chapulineros de Oaxaca, last team in the Primera A relegation table, against Astros de Ciudad Juárez, Second Division runner-up.

First leg

Second leg

References

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Ascenso MX seasons