The 2019–20 Copa MX was the 82nd staging of the Copa MX, the 54th staging in the professional era and the fifteenth tournament played since the 1996–97 edition. The tournament started on 30 July 2019 and ended on 4 November 2020.^[1]

It marked the first year since it was restored in 2012 that only one tournament will be played in the Mexican football year.^[2] In previous years, two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) were played throughout the year.^[3]

América were the defending champions after they defeated Juárez 0–1 in the Clausura 2019 final.^[4]

The winners would have qualified for the 2020 Leagues Cup.^[5] However, the Leagues Cup was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America.

This has also been the latest edition of the tournament, as it suspended play due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Mexican Football Federation giving preference for matches for the Mexico National Football Team towards the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

This tournament featured the 15 clubs from Liga MX who did not participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League (América, Cruz Azul, León, and UANL).^[6]

The tournament also featured the top 12 Ascenso MX teams of the 2018–19 aggregate table not promoted to Liga MX.^[7]

Atl. San Luis

Atlante

Chiapas

Celaya

Guadalajara

Juárez

Monterrey

Morelia

Necaxa

Oaxaca

Pachuca

Puebla

Querétaro

Santos Laguna

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tijuana

Toluca

UAT

UNAM

Venados

Veracruz

Zacatecas

Zacatepec

Guadalajara teams
Atlas
Guadalajara
UdeG

Toluca teams
Toluca
UAEM

Location of the participating teams.
Red: Liga MX clubs; Blue: Ascenso MX clubs

The draw for the tournament took place on 12 June 2019 in Cancún.^[1] 27 teams were drawn into nine groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots.

Clubs in Pot 1 were drawn to be the seed of each group according to the order of their drawing. That is, the first club that was drawn is seed of Group 1, the second drawn is seed of Group 2 and so on and so on.^[8] The Liga MX teams in Pot 1 are the five best teams in the 2018–19 Liga MX aggregate table not participating in the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League.^[8] Pot 1 also contains the top four Ascenso MX teams in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table.^[8]

Pot 2 contains the next five best placed Liga MX clubs in the 2018–19 Liga MX aggregate table and Ascenso MX clubs who ended 7–11 in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table.^[8] Pot 2 also contains Juárez who replaced Lobos BUAP (ranked 13th in Liga MX aggregate table) in Liga MX.^[8]

Pot 3 contains the next five Liga MX clubs in the 2018–19 Liga MX aggregate table and the Ascenso MX clubs who ended 12–14 in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table.^[8] Pot 3 also contains recently promoted Atlético San Luis.^[8]

If two or more clubs are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. scores of the group matches played among the clubs in question;
2. superior goal difference;
3. higher number of goals scored;
4. higher number of goals scored away in the group matches played among the clubs in question;
5. fair play ranking;
6. drawing of lots.

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Every group is composed of three clubs, each group has at least one club from Liga MX and Ascenso MX.

All match times listed are UTC–6, except for matches in Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán (both UTC–7), Hermosillo and Tijuana (both UTC–8).

• The clubs that advance to this stage will be ranked and seeded 1 to 16 based on performance in the group stage. In case of ties, the same tiebreakers used to rank the runners-up will be used.^[9]
• The winners of the groups and the seven best second place teams of each group will advance to the Knockout stage.
• Unlike previous editions, the 16 qualified teams will play a single-elimination tournament. Each tie will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. There is no away goals rule. If the aggregate score is tied after the second leg, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out. The highest seeded club will host each match, regardless of which division each club belongs.^[12][13]

Round of 16

Summary

The first legs were played on 21–22 January, and the second legs were played on 28–29 January.

More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celaya	3–7	Monterrey	3–4	0–3
Atlas	4–4 (3–5 p)	Toluca	2–1	2–3
Chiapas	4–4 (2–3 p)	Morelia	4–1	0–3
Querétaro	4–5	Juárez	3–2	1–3
Guadalajara	2–2 (5–6 p)	Sinaloa	1–2	1–0
Atlético San Luis	0–2	Tijuana	0–1	0–1
Venados	2–4	Pachuca	1–1	1–3
Santos Laguna	5–4	UNAM	4–2	1–2

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Matches

More information Celaya, 3–4 ...

Celaya	3–4	Monterrey
Camacho 19' Reyes 51' López 90+3'	Report	Layún 29' Funes Mori 56' (pen.) Meza 72', 80'

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22 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés, Celaya

Attendance: 10,301

Referee: Edgar Allan Morales

More information Monterrey, 3–0 ...

Monterrey	3–0	Celaya
Gallardo 8' Janssen 65' Layún 73'	Report

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29 January 2020

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe

Attendance: 24,644

Referee: Víctor Cáceres Hernández

Monterrey won 7–3 on aggregate

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More information Atlas, 2–1 ...

Atlas	2–1	Toluca
Jeraldino 57' Zaldívar 22'	Report	Castañeda 42'

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22 January 2020

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Attendance: 14,958

Referee: Juan Andrés Esquivel

More information Toluca, 3–2 ...

Toluca	3–2	Atlas
Estrada 17' Diego 77' Güémez 87'	Report	Correa 28' Conti 49'
Penalties
Fernández Canelo Diego Ruiz Güémez	5−3	Isijara Abella Reyes Zaldívar

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28 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 24,446

Referee: Luis Enrique Santander

4–4 on aggregate. Toluca won 5–3 on penalty kicks.

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More information Chiapas, 4–1 ...

Chiapas	4–1	Morelia
Jaques 19' Díaz 39' (pen.), 75' (pen.) Imperiale 90+2'	Report	Aristeguieta 29'

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22 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

Attendance: 8,214

Referee: Alan Enrique Martínez

More information Morelia, 3–0 ...

Morelia	3–0	Chiapas
Rocha 15' (pen.), 45' Aristeguieta 58'	Report
Penalties
Rocha Aristeguieta Achilier Mendoza	3−2	Díaz Monge Venegas Martínez Illanes

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29 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 10,522

Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez

4–4 on aggregate. Morelia won 3–2 on penalty kicks.

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More information Querétaro, 3–2 ...

Querétaro	3–2	Juárez
Triverio 3' Viniegra 47' (o.g.) Cortizo 52'	Report	Cadete 39' (o.g.) Rubio 87'

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21 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Corregidora, Querétaro

Attendance: 9,511

Referee: Alejandro Funk Villafañe

More information Juárez, 3–1 ...

Juárez	3–1	Querétaro
Sagal 45' Rabuñal 53' Lezcano 84' (pen.)	Report	Castillo 68'

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29 January 2020

20:10 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juárez

Attendance: 9,147

Referee: César Arturo Ramos

Juárez won 5–4 on aggregate

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More information Guadalajara, 1–2 ...

Guadalajara	1–2	Sinaloa
Calderón 90+3'	Report	Escoto 39' (pen.) Monges 59'

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21 January 2020

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Akron, Zapopan

Attendance: 21,853

Referee: Víctor Alfonso Cáceres

More information Sinaloa, 0–1 ...

Sinaloa	0–1	Guadalajara
	Report	Calderón 24'
Penalties
Escoto Contreras Domínguez Muñoz Monges Zúñiga	6−5	Briseño Antuna Sepúlveda Calderón López Ponce

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28 January 2020

20:10 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Banorte, Culiacán

Attendance: 19,333

Referee: Alan Enrique Martínez

2–2 on aggregate. Sinaloa won 6–5 on penalty kicks.

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More information Atlético San Luis, 0–1 ...

Atlético San Luis	0–1	Tijuana
	Report	Sánchez 83'

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21 January 2020

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Alfonso Lastras, San Luis Potosí

Attendance: 8,742

Referee: Mario Humberto Vargas

More information Tijuana, 1–0 ...

Tijuana	1–0	Atlético San Luis
López 67'	Report

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28 January 2020

19:10 PST (UTC−8)

Estadio Caliente, Tijuana

Attendance: 17,333

Referee: Óscar Macías

Tijuana won 2–0 on aggregate

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More information Venados, 1–1 ...

Venados	1–1	Pachuca
Acosta 8'	Report	Copete 90+5'

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21 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Carlos Iturralde, Mérida

Attendance: 6,588

Referee: Saúl Alfredo Silva

More information Pachuca, 3–1 ...

Pachuca	3–1	Venados
Kazim-Richards 11', 67', 86'	Report	Acosta 68'

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28 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca

Attendance: 7,545

Referee: Eduardo Galván

Pachuca won 4–2 on aggregate

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More information Santos Laguna, 4–2 ...

Santos Laguna	4–2	UNAM
Aguirre 30', 66' Rivero 49', 59'	Report	M. García 70' (pen.) Malcorra 90+1' (pen.)

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22 January 2020

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Corona, Torreón

Attendance: 9,042

Referee: Brian Gonzalez Veles

More information UNAM, 2–1 ...

UNAM	2–1	Santos Laguna
Mayorga 6' Dinenno 88'	Report	Aguirre 24'

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29 January 2020

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

Attendance: 9,405

Referee: Marco Antonio Ortiz

Santos Laguna won 5–4 on aggregate

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

Players and teams in bold are still active in the competition.

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kevin Castañeda	Toluca	7
	Vincent Janssen	Monterrey
3	Octavio Rivero	Santos Laguna	5
4	Eduardo Aguirre	Santos Laguna	4
	Camilo Sanvezzo	Tijuana
6	Brayan Angulo	Tijuana	3
	Leandro Carrijó	Juárez
	Amaury Escoto	Sinaloa
	Michael Estrada	Toluca
	Rogelio Funes Mori	Monterrey
	Colin Kazim-Richards	Pachuca
	Nicolás Sánchez	Monterrey
	Diego Valdez	Atlético San Luis

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