The Liga MX, officially known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional
football division in
Mexico
Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...
, holding 2 tournaments per year.
The league is considered the strongest in
North America
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, and among the strongest in all of the
Americas. According to the
International Federation of Football History & Statistics, the league currently ranks 20th worldwide and was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010). According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during 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
National Football League
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and
Major League Baseball, and ahead of the
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ...
. 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.
Of the 56 teams to have competed in the league,
América has won the title 13 times, followed by
Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,3