The 2022–23 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) is the 76th professional season of the top-flight football league in

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. The season will be divided into two championships—the Apertura 2022 and the Clausura 2023—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. With the

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commencing on 20 November, the Apertura 2022 second leg final will be on 30 October.

Stadiums and locations

The Estadio Azteca will be closed from 2023 to 2025 due to renovations for the

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. Although the project was anticipated to begin in the winter of 2023, the renovations were postponed for the summer of 2023.

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2022 was the first tournament of the season. The tournament began on 1 July. The defending champions were

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Standings

Positions by Round

Results

Teams played 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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Hat-tricks

(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

* First goal of the season:
Israel Reyes for

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against

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(1 July 2022) * Last goal of the season:

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for León against

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(2 October 2022)

Discipline

;Player * Most yellow cards: 9 ** Fernando Gorriarán (Santos Laguna) * Most red cards: 3 ** Nicolás Díaz (Tijuana) ;Team * Most yellow cards: 48 **

* Most red cards: 8 ** UANL * Fewest yellow cards: 28 ** América * Fewest red cards: 0 ** América **

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Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Source
Liga MX

Final phase – Apertura 2022

Reclassification

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura tournament will begin on 6 January and end on 28 May 2023. The defending champions are

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Standings

Positions by Round

Results

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

Coefficient table

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) 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,https://s3.amazonaws.com/lmxwebsite/docs/Reglamentos/Competencia/1_LIGA_MX/11_LIGA_MX_1_20190722101600.pdf 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 Juárez, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2022–23 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
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Source
Liga MX

Aggregate tables

CONCACAF Champions League

The league champion with more points at the end of the Apertura 2022 and Clausura 2023 seasons will qualify directly to the

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round of 16. The league champion with less points at the end of the season will qualify for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions League first round. The Apertura runner-up, Clausura runner-up, and the next two best ranked teams will also qualify for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions League first round.

Leagues Cup

The league champion with the highest aggregate points accumulated across the Clausura 2022 and Apertura 2022 seasons will qualify directly to the 2023 Leagues Cup round of 32. Liga MX clubs ranked 2 to 16 in the aggregate table will be in the second position in each group, opposite the MLS Supporter's Shield table (for example, the best remaining team in the Supporter's Shield table is drawn against the 15th best team remaining in the Liga MX 2022 aggregate table). The remaining 13 MLS clubs, along with the two remaining Liga MX clubs, will be drawn into groups and divided geographically.

References

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