The 2023–24 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) is the 77th professional season of the top-flight football league in

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. The season is to be divided into two championships—the Apertura 2023 and the Clausura 2024—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams are participating in the 2023–24 edition of the Liga MX. All eighteen teams have participated in Liga MX since the 2020–21 season.

Changes

The owner's assembly decided to adjust liguilla qualification, which was modified as of the Guardianes 2020 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's "play-in" round. 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.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2023 is the first tournament of the season and began on 30 June 2023. The defending champions are UANL. The season was paused in mid-July due to the 2023 Leagues Cup and was resumed on 18 August. On 8 July 2023, the match between Querétaro and América was postponed due to poor pitch condition.

Standings

Results

Teams will play every other team once (either at home or away), completing a total of 17 rounds.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Source
Liga MX

Top assists

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Clean sheets

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FBRef

Hat-tricks

(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

* First goal of the season:

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for América against Juárez (30 June 2023) * Last goal of the season:
Federico Viñas for León against Juárez (12 November 2023)

Discipline

;Player * Most yellow cards: 7 ** Jesús Angulo (UANL) ** Gustavo Cabral (Pachuca) ** Juan Escobar (Cruz Azul) ** Sebastián Vegas (Monterrey) * Most red cards: 2 ** Luis Amarilla (Mazatlán) **

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(Santos Laguna) ** Jair Díaz (Mazatlán) **

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(Querétaro) ** Jean Meneses (Toluca) ;Team * Most yellow cards: 56 **

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* Most red cards: 6 **

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* Fewest yellow cards: 29 **

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* Fewest red cards: 0 ** Puebla ** UANL Source
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Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Source
Liga MX

Final phase – Apertura 2023

Play-in round

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.

=Play-in matches

=No. 8 seed match

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2024.

Coefficient table

As of the 2020–21 season, the promotion and relegation between Liga MX and

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(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. Per Article 24 of the competition regulations, the payment of $MXN160 million will be distributed among the last three positioned in the coefficient table as follows: 80 million in the last place; 47 million the penultimate; and 33 million will be paid by the sixteenth team in the table,Liga BBVA
Liga MX as of the 2021–22 season the remaining $MXN80 million will be paid through the financial remnants generated by the Liga MX itself. The team that finishes last on the table will start the following season with a coefficient of zero. If the last ranked team, which was Querétaro, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2023–24 season coefficient table, they will be fined an additional $MXN20 million.
Rules for fine payment: 1) Fine 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
F = Team will have to pay fine indicated
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Liga MX