2023–24 Liga De Expansión MX Season

The 2023–24 Liga de Expansión MX season is the second professional season of the second-tier football division in Mexico. The season is divided into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format. The Apertura tournament began on 21 July 2023. The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2024 as a 33-team league with the addition of 18 Liga MX under-23 teams.

Changes from the previous season

The Liga de 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 years. 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.

* The 2022–23 Serie A champions Tampico Madero and runners-up Tuzos UAZ were not certified for promotion to the Liga de Expansión MX.

* The Liga MX under-20 league was reformed as a under-23 league. The Liga MX under-23 league will play their Apertura 2023 season and join Liga de Expansión MX as of the Clausura 2024 season.

* The owner's assembly decided to adjust liguilla qualification, which was modified as of the Apertura 2021 season. The number of teams directly qualifying to the quarter-finals was increased from four to six, while reducing the number of teams entering the reclassification round from eight to four, aligning it with the NBA play-in tournament. The 9th place team hosts the 10th place team in an elimination game. The 7th hosts the 8th place team in the double-chance game, with the winner advancing as the 7-seed. The loser of this game then hosts the winner of the elimination game between the 9th and 10th place teams to determine the 8-seed.

* Atlante obtained certification for promotion to Liga MX. Venados and Zacatecas applied and were not certified for promotion. UdeG lost their status as a certified team due to financial issues. The league will not reactivate promotion until four teams are certified.
* On June 29, 2023 Durango was returned to Liga Premier de México, after one year as guest club in the Liga de Expansión MX, due to financial problems. The Liga de Expansión requested that the Liga Premier propose another affiliated team to play as a guest team in the second–tier. Due to the short preparation time for the new season, the team was put on hiatus on June 30.

Stadiums and Locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Apertura 2023

The defending champions are Tapatío. The regular tournament began on 21 July and will end on 31 October. The round 2 match between Celaya and Tepatitlán was postponed due to poor pitch condition and played on 19 August during round 5.

Regular season

Standings

Positions by Round

Results

Each team plays once all other teams in 15 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Regular Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks

(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

* First goal of the season:
Mauro Pérez for Venados against Tlaxcala (21 July 2023)
* Last goal of the season:
José Flores for Atlético Morelia against Tepatitlán (2 November 2023)

Discipline

Team

* Most yellow cards: 48
**Oaxaca
* Most red cards: 6
** Zacatecas
* Fewest yellow cards: 21
** Zacatecas
* Fewest red cards: 0
** Tepatitlán

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Liga de Expansión MX

Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Final phase

Play-in bracket

Play-in matches

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No. 8 seed match

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played between 15–16 November, and the second legs were played between 18–19 November.

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''4–4 on aggregate. Atlante advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

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''UdeG won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''2–2 on aggregate. Cancún advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''
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''Zacatecas won 7–2 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

The first legs were played between 22–23 November, and the second legs were played between 25–26 November.

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''Atlante won 4–1 on aggregate.''

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''3–3 on aggregate. Cancún advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

Final

The first leg was played on 30 November, and the second leg was played on 3 December.

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''Cancún won 3–0 on aggregate.''

Clausura 2024

The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2024. The league will add eighteen under-23 Liga MX teams.

Coefficient table

As of the 2020–21 season, the promotion and relegation between Liga MX and Liga de Expansión MX (formerly known as Ascenso MX) was suspended, however, the coefficient table will be used to establish the payment of fines that will be used for the development of the clubs of the silver circuit. As of the 2023–24 season, the bottom three ranked Liga de Expansión MX teams will not pay a fine. The last ranked team can not qualify for the Clausura 2024 liguilla.

Tiebreakers: 1) Coefficient; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Fair Play points

Source
Liga de Expansión

Aggregate table

The Aggregate table is a sum of the Apertura 2023 and Clausura 2024 tournament standings. The aggregate table is used to determine seeding for the "Campeón de Campeones" Final.

References

External links

Official website of Liga de Expansión MX

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