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
Mexico. 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
The 2023 Leagues Cup will be the third edition of the Leagues Cup, an inter-league soccer tournament between Major League Soccer and Liga MX. It will be held from July 21 to August 19, 2023, with all 77 matches held in either the United Sta ...
and was resumed on 18 August. On 8 July 2023, the match between
Querétaro
Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...
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
Source
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Clean sheets
Source
FBRef
Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away
Scoring
* First goal of the season:
Leonardo Suárez
Leonardo "Leo" Gabriel Suárez (; born on 30 March 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club América.
Club career Boca Juniors
Born in General San Martín Partido, Suárez joined Boca Juniors' youth ...
for
América against
Juárez (30 June 2023)
* Last goal of the season:
Federico Viñas for
León against
Juárez (12 November 2023)
Discipline
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* Most yellow cards: 7
**
Jesús Angulo (UANL)
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Gustavo Cabral
Gustavo Daniel Cabral (born 14 October 1985) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Pachuca.
Club career
Born in Isidro Casanova, Cabral made his first team debut in 2003 for Racing Club. He pla ...
(Pachuca)
**
Juan Escobar (Cruz Azul)
**
Sebastián Vegas
Sebastián Ignacio Vegas Orellana (; born 4 December 1996) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a defender for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Chile national team.
International career
Along with Chile U20, he won the L'Alcúdia T ...
(Monterrey)
* Most red cards: 2
**
Luis Amarilla
Luis Antonio Amarilla Lencina (born 25 August 1995) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Mazatlán.
International career
He made his debut for the Paraguay national football team on 2 September 2021 i ...
(Mazatlán)
**
Javier Correa
Javier Andrés Correa (born July 17, 1976 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro) is an Argentine sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with tw ...
(Santos Laguna)
**
Jair Díaz (Mazatlán)
**
Omar Mendoza (Querétaro)
**
Jean Meneses
Jean David Meneses Villarroel (born 16 March 1993) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Toluca and the Chile national team.
Career
In March 2018, he came to international attention for his blatant dive t ...
(Toluca)
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* Most yellow cards: 56
**
UNAM
* Most red cards: 6
**
Mazatlán
**
Toluca
* Fewest yellow cards: 29
**
Tijuana
* Fewest red cards: 0
**
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
**
UANL
Source
Liga MX
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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.
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=No. 8 seed match
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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
Liga de Expansión MX (formerly known as
Ascenso MX
Ascenso MX was the second tier of professional football in Mexico of the Mexican football league system. The champion of the competition was promoted to Liga MX (top-flight tier). The bottom team was relegated to Liga Premier (the third tier). ...
) 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,
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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
Source
Liga MX
Aggregate table
Leagues Cup
CONCACAF Champions Cup
References
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