2024–25 Liga De Expansión MX Season

The 2024–25 Liga de Expansión MX season is the fifth professional season of the second-tier football division in Mexico. The season is divided into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format. The Apertura tournament will begin on 25 July 2024. The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2025.

Changes from the previous season

The Liga de Expansión MX is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second-tier league in Mexico, for which there will be no promotion and relegation during the following six years. The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.

* The owner's assembly decided to adjust liguilla qualification, which was modified as of the Apertura 2023 season. The number of teams directly qualifying to the quarter-finals was increased from six to eight, eliminating the play-in system that had been established in the Apertura 2023 tournament.
* The 2023–24 Serie A champions Tampico Madero was certified for promotion to the Liga de Expansión MX. However, the team will participate as a guest team and not as a full member of the league. After being promoted, the team was renamed Club Jaiba Brava.
* On June 18, 2024, Cimarrones de Sonora sold the franchise to businessmen from Chiapas, who formed a team called Jaguares F.C. However, the new team had to be approved by the owner's assembly. On July 12, the vote was held, the project was not approved by the partners, so the franchise was put on hiatus for the 2024–25 season.

Stadiums and locations

Stadium Changes

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

The defending champions are Atlante. The regular tournament began on 25 July and will end on 3 November.

Regular season

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Each team plays once all other teams in 15 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks

⁴ Player scored four goals
(H) – Home; (A) – Away

* First goal of the season:
Brandon Rodríguez for Tepatitlán against Venados (26 July 2024)
* Last goal of the season:
Ángel Sayago for Atlante against Jaiba Brava (4 November 2024)

Discipline

Team

* Most yellow cards: 52
** Jaiba Brava
* Most red cards: 5
**Tepatitlán
* Fewest yellow cards: 27
** Atlético La Paz
** UAT
* Fewest red cards: 0
**Atlético Morelia

Sourc
Liga de Expansión MX

Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Final phase

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The first legs will be played between 6–7 November, and the second legs will be played between 9–10 November.

''Atlante won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''2–2 on aggregate. Tapatío advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

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''UdeG won 5–3 on aggregate.''
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''Celaya won 8–4 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

The first legs will be played between 14 November, and the second legs will be played between 17 November.

''Celaya won 4–1 on aggregate.''

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''4–4 on aggregate. Tapatío advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

Finals

The first leg was played on 20 November, and the second leg was played on 23 November.

''Tapatío won 5–3 on aggregate.''

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura tournament will begin on 10 January 2025.

Changes from the previous season

* On December 6, 2024 Atlante was relocated from Mexico City to Zacatepec, Morelos because the team broke the contract it had with the owners of the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, following the closure of the stadium due to non-compliance with civil protection rules, which affected Atlante in the previous tournament.
* On December 17, 2024 Dorados de Sinaloa was established in Tijuana, the city where it had been playing since the middle of the previous tournament due to security problems that occurred in Culiacán since September 2024. The team could return to Culiacán if the security situation in the city improves.

Regular season

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Each team plays once all other teams in 15 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks

⁴ Player scored four goals
(H) – Home; (A) – Away

* First goal of the season:
Juan José Machado for Tepatitlán against Venados (10 January 2025)
* Last goal of the season:
Luis Ruiz for Sinaloa against Oaxaca (19 April 2025)

Discipline

Team

* Most yellow cards: 50
**La Paz
* Most red cards: 5
**Tlaxcala
**Zacatecas
* Fewest yellow cards: 25
**Celaya
* Fewest red cards: 1
**La Paz
** UAT

Sourc
Liga de Expansión MX

Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Source
Liga de Expansión MX

Final phase

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played between 23–24 April, and the second legs will be played between 26–27 April.

''3–3 on aggregate. UdeG advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

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''Atlético Morelia won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''2–2 on aggregate. Zacatecas advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''

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''Jaiba Brava won 1–0 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

The first legs will be played between 3–4 May, and the second legs will be played between 10–11 May.

''2–2 on aggregate. UdeG advanced due to being the higher seeded team.''
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''Jaiba Brava won 2–0 on aggregate.''

Finals

The first leg will be played on 17 May, and the second leg will be played on 24 May.

''2–2 on aggregate. UdeG won 5–4 on penalty kicks.''

Campeón de Campeones 2025

The Campeón de Campeones Final is a two-legged playoff between the winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments and the Liga de Expansión MX Super cup. The final would not be played if the same team wins both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The higher ranked team on the aggregate table for the 2024–25 season will play the second leg at home.

First leg

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) 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. As of the 2023–24 season, the bottom three ranked Liga de Expansión MX teams will not pay a fine. The last ranked team can not qualify for the Clausura 2024 liguilla.

Tiebreakers: 1) 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

Source
Liga de Expansión

Aggregate table

The Aggregate table is a sum of the Apertura 2024 and Clausura 2025 tournament standings. The aggregate table is used to determine seeding for the "Campeón de Campeones" Final.

References

External links

Official website of Liga de Expansión MX

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