2017-18_Liga_MX_season

2017–18 Liga MX season

2017–18 Liga MX season

71st professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico


The 2017–18 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA Bancomer MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 71st professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season is split into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

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Teams, stadiums, and personnel

These are the eighteen teams that competed in the 2017-18 season. Chiapas was relegated to the Ascenso MX after accumulating the lowest coefficient last season, and were replaced by the Ascenso MX Clausura 2017 champion Lobos BUAP, who won promotion after defeating the Ascenso MX Apertura 2016 champion Dorados de Sinaloa in the 2016–17 Ascenso MX Promotion Final.

Stadiums and locations

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Personnel and kits

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Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2017 is the first championship of the season.

Regular season

The season began on 21 July 2017 and ended on 19 November 2017.

Standings

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Source: Liga MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
(C) Champions
Notes:
  1. BUAP was supposed to be relegated but Tapachula were not certified to be promoted prior to the beginning of the season.
  2. The first 8 places in the table qualify for the Liguilla.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

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Leader and qualification to playoffs
Qualification to playoffs
Last place in table
Source: Liga MX

Results

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Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Liga MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks

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Attendance

Per team

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Source: Liga MX
Notes:
Only regular season listed
1: Team played in Ascenso MX last season.
2: UNAM played one home match at Estadio Corregidora


Highest and lowest

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Source: Liga MX

Liguilla – Apertura

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
               
1 Monterrey 2 4 6
8 Atlas 1 1 2
1 Monterrey 1 4 5
4 Morelia 0 0 0
4 Morelia (s) 1 2 3
5 Toluca 2 1 3
1 Monterrey 1 1 2
2 UANL 1 2 3
2 UANL (s) 1 1 2
7 León 1 1 2
2 UANL 1 3 4
3 América 0 0 0
3 América (s) 0 0 0
6 Cruz Azul 0 0 0
  • Teams are re-seeded each round.
  • Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
  • Away goals rule is applied in the quarterfinals and semifinals, but not the final.
  • In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate and away goals, the higher seeded team advances.
  • In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, the match goes to extra-time and, if necessary, a shootout.
  • Both finalists qualify to the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League (champions as MEX1, runners-up as MEX3).

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Finals

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Torneo Clausura

The Clausura 2018 is the second championship of the season. The regular phase of the tournament began in January 2018.

Regular season

Standings

More information Pos, Team ...
Source: Liga MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. The first 8 places in the table qualify for the Liguilla, if team last in Relegation table is in the top eight, the ninth placed team qualifies.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

More information Team ╲ Round, Toluca ...
Leader and qualification to playoffs
Qualification to playoffs
Last place in table
Source: Liga MX

Results

More information Home \ Away, AMÉ ...
Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2018. Source: Liga MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks

More information Player, For ...

4 Player scored four goals

Attendance

Per team

More information Pos, Team ...

Source: Liga MX
Notes:
Only regular season listed.

Highest and lowest

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Source: Liga MX

Liguilla – Clausura

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
               
1 Toluca (s) 2 2 4
8 Morelia 2 2 4
1 Toluca 1 4 5
6 Tijuana 2 1 3
3 Monterrey 1 1 2
6 Tijuana 1 2 3
1 Toluca 1 1 2
4 Santos Laguna 2 1 3
2 América 4 2 6
7 UNAM 1 1 2
2 América 1 2 3
4 Santos Laguna 4 2 6
4 Santos Laguna (s) 0 2 2
5 UANL 2 0 2
  • Teams are re-seeded each round.
  • Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
  • Away goals rule is applied in the quarterfinals and semifinals, but not the final.
  • In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate and away goals, the higher seeded team advances.
  • In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, the match goes to extra-time and, if necessary, a shootout.
  • Both finalists qualify to the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League (champions as MEX2, runners-up as MEX4).

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Finals

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Relegation table

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Rules for relegation: 1) Relegation 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
R = Relegated.
Source: LigaMX

Aggregate table

The aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments) will be used to determine the participants of the Apertura 2018 Copa MX. This table also displays teams that have qualified for the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League.

More information Pos, Team ...
Source: Liga MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
Notes:
  1. Necaxa is in Pot 1 due to winning the Clausura 2018 Copa MX
  2. BUAP is ineligible for Copa MX

See also


References

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