2021-22_Liga_MX_season

2021–22 Liga MX season

2021–22 Liga MX season

75th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico

The 2021–22 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 75th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season was divided into two championships—the Apertura 2021 and the Clausura 2022—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...

On 5 March 2022, during a match between Queretaro and Atlas, a riot broke out in the stands at the Estadio Corregidora, resulting in 26 injuries.[1]

Stadiums and locations

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Stadium Changes

More information Querétaro (Clausura 2022 Week 11) ...
Locations of the 2021–22 Liga MX teams
Greater Mexico City Liga MX football clubs

Personnel and kits

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Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Grita México Apertura 2021 was the first tournament of the season. The tournament was renamed Torneo Grita México Apertura 2021 (stylized as Grita... México A21) with the intention of encouraging fans in the stands not to scream an offensive chant after a goal kick.[44] The tournament began on 22 July. The defending champions were Cruz Azul.

Standings

More information Pos, Pld ...
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. The first four places in the table qualified for the quarter-finals.
  2. Teams ranked 5th to 12th in the table qualified for reclassification.

Positions by Round

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

Results

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

More information Home \ Away, AMÉ ...
Source: Liga MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Regular season statistics

  • First goal of the season:
    Colombia Juan Otero for Santos Laguna against Necaxa (23 July 2021)
  • Last goal of the season:
    Brazil Diogo de Olivera for UNAM against Cruz Azul (7 November 2021)

Top goalscorers

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

More information Rank, Player ...

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks

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Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Attendance

Per team

Home match played behind closed doors
Away match
Highest attended match of the week
Lowest attended match of the week
PPD Match postponed
More information Team, Week ...

Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest

More information Highest attended, Lowest attended[a] ...

Source: Liga MX

  1. ^
    Does not include matches played behind closed doors.

Final phase – Apertura 2021

Main article: Apertura 2021 Liga MX final phase

Reclassification

More information Team 1, Score ...
  • All games were played in a single-leg hosted by the higher seed.
  • If a game ended in a draw, it proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
               
2 Atlas (s) 0 1 1
7 Monterrey 0 1 1
2 Atlas (s) 1 0 1
8 UNAM 0 1 1
1 América 0 1 1
8 UNAM 0 3 3
2 Atlas (p) 2 1 3 (4)
3 León 3 0 3 (3)
3 León 1 2 3
6 Puebla 2 0 2
3 León (s) 1 2 3
4 UANL 2 1 3
4 UANL (s) 1 1 2
5 Santos Laguna 2 0 2
  • Teams were re-seeded each round.
  • The winners of the Reclassification matches were seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
  • Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
  • No away goals rule is applied in neither round, if the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced.
  • In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, the match went to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
  • Both finalists qualified to the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.
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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Finals

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More information Apertura 2021 winners: ...

Torneo Clausura

The Grita México Clausura 2022 was the second tournament of the season. Like the Apertura 2021, the tournament was renamed Torneo Grita México Clausura 2022 (stylized as Grita... México C22) with the intention of encouraging fans in the stands not to scream an offensive chant after a goal kick.[44] Atlas are the defending champions.

Standings

More information Pos, Pld ...
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. The first four places in the table qualified for the Liguilla quarter-finals.
  2. The match between Querétaro and Atlas was stopped in the 60th minute, with the score Querétaro 0–1 Atlas, after a brawl broke out in the stands between fans and a subsequent pitch invasion.[46] As a result, Atlas was given a 0–3 victory.
  3. Teams ranked 5th to 12th in the table qualified for Reclassification.
  4. The last place team in the coefficient table cannot qualify for the final phase, the 13th place team qualifies in their stead.

Positions by Round

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

Results

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

More information Home \ Away, AMÉ ...
Source: Liga MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Regular season statistics

  • First goal of the season:
    Argentina Nicolás Ibáñez for Pachuca against Atlético San Luis (6 January 2022)
  • Last goal of the season:
    Colombia Jaine Barreiro for León against Toluca (1 May 2022)

Top goalscorers

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

More information Rank, Player ...

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks

More information Player, For ...
Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Attendance

Per team

More information Pos, Team ...

Source: Liga MX
Notes:
Only regular season listed
1: Played one match behind closed doors
2: As a result of the riot on 5 March 2022, Querétaro will play all matches behind closed doors for one year. The ban began on 7 March 2022.

Highest and lowest

More information Highest attended, Lowest attended[a] ...

Source: Liga MX

  1. ^
    Does not include matches played behind closed doors.

Riot

Main article: Querétaro–Atlas riot

On 5 March 2022, during a Round 9 match between Queretaro and Atlas, a riot broke out in the stands at Estadio Corregidora resulting in 26 injuries.[1] As a result, Liga MX President Mikel Arriola announced that all remaining league matches scheduled for that week were postponed.[47] One Liga de Expansión MX match and five Liga MX Femenil matches scheduled for that week were also postponed.[48]


Final phase – Clausura 2022

Main article: Clausura 2022 Liga MX final phase

Reclassification

More information Team 1, Score ...
  • All games were played in a single-leg hosted by the higher seed.
  • If a game ended in a draw, it proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
               
1 Pachuca 2 3 5
8 Atlético San Luis 2 2 4
1 Pachuca 1 3 4
4 América 1 0 1
4 América 1 3 4
5 Puebla 1 2 3
1 Pachuca 0 2 2
3 Atlas 2 1 3
2 UANL (s) 1 0 1
7 Cruz Azul 0 1 1
2 UANL 0 0 0
3 Atlas 3 2 5
3 Atlas 2 1 3
6 Guadalajara 1 1 2
  • Teams were re-seeded each round.
  • The winners of the Reclassification matches were seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
  • Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
  • No away goals rule is applied in neither round, if the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced.
  • In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, the match went to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
  • Both finalists qualified to the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.
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Quarter-finals

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

Semi-finals

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Finals

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More information Clausura 2022 winners: ...

Annual awards

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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.[51]

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,[52] as of the 2021–22 season the remaining $MXN80 million will be paid through the financial remnants generated by the Liga MX itself.[53] 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 Atlético San Luis, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2021–22 season coefficient table, they will be fined an additional $MXN20 million.

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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

  1. ^
    2019–20 points were accumulated as Monarcas Morelia.
  2. ^
    2019–20 and 2020–21 accumulated points are not counted towards their relegation coefficient.

Aggregate table

The aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022 tournaments) was being used to determine the participants in the 2022 Leagues Cup. On 15 April 2022, it was announced the tournament was cancelled due to fixture congestion from the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[54]

More information Pos, Team ...
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
(A) Apertura champion; (C) Champions; (X) Clausura champion
Notes:
  1. The match between Querétaro and Atlas was stopped in the 60th minute, with the score Querétaro 0–1 Atlas, after a brawl broke out in the stands between fans and a subsequent pitch invasion.[46] As a result, Atlas was given a 0–3 victory.

Number of teams by state

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Although appointed on 27 September 2021, Guede would not immediately take charge. Due to league schedule, his first match will be delayed to 3 October 2021 vs UANL.[15]

      See also

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