Clausura 2015 Copa MX

The Copa 2015 MX Clausura was the 73rd staging of the Copa MX, the 46th staging in the professional era and is the sixth tournament played since the 1996–97 edition.

This tournament started on January 20, 2015 and ended April 21, 2015.

Puebla won their fifth title after defeating Guadalajara 4–2 in the final.

Participants Clausura 2015

This tournament will feature the clubs from the Liga MX who did not participate in the 2014-15 CONCACAF Champions League ( León, América, Pachuca and Cruz Azul), and the teams who will participate in the 2015 Copa Libertadores ( UANL, Atlas and Morelia) will not participate as well. The first 13 Ascenso MX teams in the classification phase during the Apertura 2014 season will participate.

Tiebreakers

If two or more clubs are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

# superior goal difference;
# higher number of goals scored;
# scores of the group matches played among the clubs in question;
# higher number of goals scored away in the group matches played among the clubs in question;
# best position in the Relegation table;
# fair play ranking;
# drawing of lots.

Group stage

All but one group is composed by four clubs, two from Liga MX and two from Ascenso MX. The remaining group will have one from Liga MX and three from Ascenso MX. Instead of a traditional robin-round schedule, the clubs will play in three two-legged "rounds", the last one being contested by clubs of the same league.

Each win gives a club 3 points, each draw gives 1 point. An extra point is awarded for every round won; a round is won by aggregated score, and if it is a tie, the extra point will be not be awarded to neither team.

''All times are UTC-05:00 except for matches in Sinaloa, Tepic (both UTC−06:00) and Tijuana ( UTC−07:00)''

Group 1

Round 1

''Santos Laguna won the round 4–3 on aggregate''

''Teams drew 3–3 on aggregate, San Luis won the round on away goals''

Round 2

''Querétaro won the round 3–0 on aggregate''

''Santos Laguna won the round 3–0 on aggregate''

Round 3

''Zacatecas won the round 5–4 on aggregate''

''Querétaro won the round 7–2 on aggregate''

Group 2

Round 1

''Veracruz won the round 2–1 on aggregate''

''UAT won the round 2–1 on aggregate''

Round 2

''UAT won the round 3–2 on aggregate''

''Monterrey won the round 9–0 on aggregate''

Round 3

''UAT won the round 4–3 on aggregate''

''Monterrey won the round 4–1 on aggregate''

Group 3

Round 1

''Tepic won the round 3–0 on aggregate''

''Tijuana originally won the first leg 3–1 but Tijuana was later awarded a 3–0 win after Necaxa only had 6 registered Ascenso MX players available for the leg instead of the mandatory 8.''http://www.ligamx.net/home/noticia.html?id=9861

''Tijuana won the round 6–1 on aggregate''

Round 2

''U de G. won the round 3–1 on aggregate''

''Tijuana won the round 5–4 on aggregate''

Round 3

''Tijuana won the round 3–1 on aggregate''

''Tepic won the round 4–2 on aggregate''

Group 4

Round 1

''Teams drew 1–1 on aggregate and tied on away goals, thus neither team received the extra point''

''Sinaloa won the round 3–2 on aggregate''

Round 2

''Guadalajara won the round 3–0 on aggregate''

''Sinaloa won the round 3–0 on aggregate''

Round 3

''Guadalajara won the round 2–0 on aggregate''

''BUAP won the round 6–5 on aggregate''

Group 5

Round 1

''Puebla won the round 3–1 on aggregate''

''Mérida won the round 7–1 on aggregate''

Round 2

''Toluca won the round 4–2 on aggregate''

''Puebla won the round 4–1 on aggregate''

Round 3

''Teams drew 4–4 on aggregate, Puebla won the round on away goals''

''Mérida won the round 5–2 on aggregate''

Group 6

Round 1

''Teams drew 3–3 on aggregate, Oaxaca won the round on away goals.''

''UNAM won the round 2–1 on aggregate''

Round 2

''Zacatepec won the round 4–3 on aggregate''

''Teams drew 3–3 on aggregate, UNAM won the round on away goals''

Round 3

''Zacatepec won the round 4–2 on aggregate''

''Chiapas won the round 6–1 on aggregate''

Ranking of runners-up clubs

The best two runners-up advance to the Championship Stage. If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

# superior goal difference;
# higher number of goals scored;
# higher number of goals scored away;
# best position in the Relegation table;
# fair play ranking;
# drawing of lots.

Championship stage

The eight clubs that advance to this stage were ranked and seeded 1 to 8 based on performance in the group stage. In case of ties, the same tiebreakers used to rank the runners-up were used.

In this stage, all the rounds will be a one-off match. If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out. The highest seeded club will host each match, regardless of which division each club belongs.

Seeding

Bracket

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Final

Top goalscorers

Source
LigaMX.net

References

External links

Official page of Copa MX (as well as Liga MX and Ascenso MX)

{{2014–15 in North and Central America, and Caribbean football (CONCACAF)

2015, 2
2015 domestic association football cups
2014–15 in Mexican football