2018–19 Liga MX season

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Veracruz

(13 April 2019)
Longest winning run	Apertura: 3 matches List Morelia Querétaro Santos Laguna Tijuana Toluca UANL UNAM Clausura: 12 matches Atlas Clausura: 7 matches Querétaro Veracruz
Highest attendance	Apertura: 69,486 América vs Guadalajara (30 September 2018) Clausura: 51,027 Monterrey vs UANL (9 March 2019)
Lowest attendance	Apertura: 5,845 BUAP vs Veracruz (29 July 2018) Clausura: 6,350 BUAP vs Santos Laguna (6 January 2019)
Total attendance	Apertura: 3,503,135 Clausura: 3,470,006
Average attendance	Apertura: 22,896 Clausura: 22,680
← 2017–18 2019–20 → Stats are from the regular season only Source: Liga MX (Apertura) Liga MX (Clausura)

The 2018–19 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA Bancomer MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 72nd professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season was split into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

Teams, stadiums, and personnel

The following eighteen teams competed this season.

Cafetaleros de Tapachula, who won promotion after defeating Alebrijes de Oaxaca, was not certified to be promoted. Lobos BUAP paid MXN$120 million to be disbursed to Cafetaleros de Tapachula and remain in Liga MX.^[1]^[2]

Stadiums and locations

América & Cruz Azul	Atlas	BUAP	Guadalajara	León	Monterrey
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio Universitario BUAP	Estadio Akron	Estadio León	Estadio BBVA Bancomer
Capacity: 87,000	Capacity: 55,110	Capacity: 19,283	Capacity: 45,364	Capacity: 31,297	Capacity: 53,500

Morelia	Necaxa	Pachuca	Puebla	Querétaro	Santos Laguna
Estadio Morelos	Estadio Victoria	Estadio Hidalgo	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Corregidora	Estadio Corona
Capacity: 34,795	Capacity: 23,851	Capacity: 27,512	Capacity: 51,726	Capacity: 33,162	Capacity: 29,237

Tijuana	Toluca	UANL	UNAM	Veracruz
Estadio Caliente	Estadio Nemesio Díez	Estadio Universitario	Estadio Olímpico Universitario	Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente
Capacity: 27,333	Capacity: 31,000	Capacity: 41,886	Capacity: 48,297	Capacity: 28,703

Location of the 2018–19 Liga MX teams

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
América	Santiago Baños	Miguel Herrera	Oribe Peralta	Nike	AT&T
Atlas	Gustavo Guzmán	Leandro Cufré	Juan Pablo Vigón	Adidas	Linio
BUAP	Juan Carlos Bozikián	Francisco Palencia	Francisco Javier Rodríguez	Pirma	Zurich
Cruz Azul	Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas	Pedro Caixinha	José de Jesús Corona	Under Armour^[a] / Joma^[b]	Cemento Cruz Azul
Guadalajara	Jorge Vergara	Tomás Boy	Jair Pereira	Puma
León	Jesús Martínez Murguia	Ignacio Ambriz	Mauro Boselli	Pirma	Cementos Fortaleza
Monterrey	Duilio Davino	Diego Alonso	José María Basanta	Puma	AT&T
Morelia	Álvaro Dávila	Javier Torrente	Gabriel Achilier	Pirma	Caliente
Necaxa	Ernesto Tinajero Flores	Guillermo Vázquez	Ventura Alvarado	Charly	Rolcar
Pachuca	Jesús Martínez Patiño	Martín Palermo	Jorge Hernández	Charly	Cementos Fortaleza
Puebla	Manuel Jiménez García	José Luis Sánchez Solá	José Daniel Guerrero	Li-Ning	AT&T
Querétaro	Jaime Ordiales	Víctor Manuel Vucetich	Miguel Martínez	Puma	Banco Multiva
Santos Laguna	Alejandro Irarragorri	Guillermo Almada	José Abella	Charly	Soriana
Tijuana	Jorge Hank Inzunsa	Óscar Pareja	Juan Carlos Valenzuela	Charly	Caliente
Toluca	Francisco Suinaga	Ricardo La Volpe	Antonio Ríos	Under Armour	Banamex
Tigres	Miguel Ángel Garza	Ricardo Ferretti	Juninho	Adidas	Cemex
UNAM	Rodrigo Ares de Parga	Bruno Marioni	Pablo Barrera	Nike	DHL Express
Veracruz	Fidel Kuri Mustieles	Robert Siboldi	Pedro Gallese	Charly	Winpot

^ Apertura 2018
^ Clausura 2019

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table	Ref.
Pre-Apertura changes
Pachuca	Diego Alonso	End of contract	May 4, 2018	Pako Ayestarán	June 11, 2018	Preseason	^[3]^[4]
Querétaro	Luis Fernando Tena	Mutual agreement	May 6, 2018	Rafael Puente Jr.	May 7, 2018		^[5]^[6]
Monterrey	Antonio Mohamed	Mutual agreement	May 7, 2018	Diego Alonso	May 18, 2018		^[7]^[8]
Necaxa	Ignacio Ambríz	Mutual agreement	May 8, 2018	Marcelo Michel Leaño	May 11, 2018		^[9]^[10]
Lobos BUAP	Daniel Alcántar (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	May 31, 2018	Francisco Palencia	June 1, 2018		^[11]
Guadalajara	Matías Almeyda	Resigned	June 11, 2018	José Cardozo	June 12, 2018		^[12]^[13]
Apertura changes
Santos Laguna	Robert Siboldi	Resigned	August 8, 2018	Salvador Reyes	August 8, 2018	6th	^[14]^[15]
Veracruz	Guillermo Vázquez	Resigned	August 14, 2018	Hugo Chávez (interim)	August 14, 2018	13th	^[16]
Veracruz	Hugo Chávez (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	^{[note 1]}	Juvenal Olmos	August 15, 2018^{[note 1]}	13th	^[19]
Atlas	Gerardo Espinoza	Sacked	September 3, 2018	Ángel Guillermo Hoyos	September 11, 2018	18th	^[20]^[21]
León	Gustavo Díaz	Sacked	September 17, 2018	Ignacio Ambriz	September 18, 2018	15th	^[22]^[23]
Necaxa	Marcelo Michel Leaño	Sacked	October 21, 2018	Jorge Martínez Merino (interim)	October 23, 2018	15th	^[24]^[25]
Veracruz	Juvenal Olmos	Sacked	October 27, 2018	Hugo Chávez (interim)	October 27, 2018	18th	^[26]
Tijuana	Diego Cocca	Mutual agreement	October 30, 2018	Frankie Oviedo (interim)	October 31, 2018	14th
Pre-Clausura changes
Tijuana	Frankie Oviedo (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	November 27, 2018	Óscar Pareja	November 27, 2018	Preseason
Necaxa	Jorge Martínez Merino (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	November 29, 2018	Guillermo Vázquez	November 29, 2018
Veracruz	Hugo Chávez (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	December 5, 2018	Robert Siboldi	December 5, 2018
Clausura changes
Pachuca	Pako Ayestarán	Sacked	January 19, 2019	Martín Palermo	January 21, 2019	12th	^[27]^[28]
UNAM	David Patiño	Sacked	January 27, 2019	Bruno Marioni	January 27, 2019	16th	^[29]^[30]
Puebla	Enrique Meza	Sacked	February 3, 2019	José Luis Sánchez Solá	February 6, 2019	14th	^[31]^[32]
Querétaro	Rafael Puente Jr.	Sacked	February 17, 2019	Víctor Manuel Vucetich	February 18, 2019	18th	^[33]^[34]
Morelia	Roberto Hernández	Sacked	February 24, 2019	Gastón Obledo (interim)	February 24, 2019	16th	^[35]^[36]
Toluca	Hernán Cristante	Sacked	February 25, 2019	José Luis Real (interim)	February 25, 2019	15th	^[37]^[38]
Morelia	Gastón Obledo (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	^{[note 2]}	Javier Torrente	February 28, 2019^{[note 2]}	16th	^[41]^[42]
Toluca	José Luis Real (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	March 4, 2019	Ricardo La Volpe	March 4, 2019	14th	^[43]^[44]
Atlas	Guillermo Hoyos	Sacked	March 9, 2019	Leandro Cufré	March 11, 2019	15th	^[45]^[46]
Guadalajara	José Cardozo	Sacked	March 31, 2019	Alberto Coyote (interim)	April 1, 2019	11th	^[47]^[48]
Santos Laguna	Salvador Reyes	Sacked	April 4, 2019	Rubén Duarte (interim)	April 4, 2019	12th	^[49]^[50]
Guadalajara	Alberto Coyote (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	April 9, 2019	Tomás Boy	April 9, 2019	14th	^[51]^[52]
Santos Laguna	Rubén Duarte (interim)	End of tenure as caretaker	April 11, 2019	Guillermo Almada	April 11, 2019	12th
Veracruz	Robert Siboldi	Resigned	April 15, 2019	José Luis González China	April 15, 2019	18th	^[53]^[54]

Torneo Apertura

Regular season

The Apertura 2018 was the first championship of the season. The regular season began on 20 July 2018 and ended on 25 November 2018.^[55] The defending champions were Santos Laguna, having won their sixth title.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cruz Azul	17	11	3	3	26	13	+13	36	Advance to Liguilla^[a]
2	América (C)	17	9	6	2	33	17	+16	33
3	UNAM	17	8	6	3	29	19	+10	30
4	Santos Laguna	17	8	6	3	27	18	+9	30
5	Monterrey	17	9	3	5	25	19	+6	30
6	UANL	17	8	5	4	32	18	+14	29
7	Toluca	17	8	2	7	27	22	+5	26
8	Querétaro	17	7	5	5	19	20	−1	26
9	Morelia	17	7	4	6	23	26	−3	25
10	Pachuca	17	6	6	5	26	18	+8	24
11	Guadalajara	17	5	5	7	21	22	−1	20
12	Puebla	17	5	5	7	23	30	−7	20
13	BUAP	17	5	4	8	21	25	−4	19
14	León	17	5	3	9	18	23	−5	18
15	Tijuana	17	4	5	8	13	24	−11	17
16	Necaxa	17	3	5	9	19	29	−10	14
17	Atlas	17	2	5	10	11	27	−16	11
18	Veracruz	17	2	4	11	17	40	−23	10	Team is last in Relegation table

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:

^ The first 8 places in the table qualified for the Liguilla. The last ranked team in the relegation table could qualify for the Liguilla in the Apertura tournament.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches were 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 was scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it was added to the standings for day 16.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Team ╲ Round
Veracruz	17	18	15	13	17	17	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	18	18	18	18

	Leader and qualification to playoffs
	Qualification to playoffs
	Last place in table

Source: Liga MX

Home \ Away	AMÉ	ATL	BUP	CAZ	GUA	LEÓ	MON	MOR	NEC	PAC	PUE	QUE	SLA	TIJ	TOL	UNL	UNM	VER
América		3–0			1–1		3–0	2–1						3–0	1–1		2–2	4–1
Atlas					0–1	0–0		0–1		0–0		0–0		0–1	2–0		0–3	4–3
BUAP	0–2	0–0			1–1		1–2	3–1						3–1	2–0			2–0
Cruz Azul	0–0	2–0	2–1			3–0	2–1				3–0				1–0	1–0		4–1
Guadalajara				0–1				1–2	1–0	1–3		1–1	1–2			0–1	1–2
León	2–0		0–1		0–1		0–2	1–2			0–4	4–0					1–2
Monterrey		3–1			2–4			2–2				2–1		3–0	2–1		1–0	2–0
Morelia				0–2					2–1	1–1	2–0	1–4	3–1			0–2	0–0
Necaxa	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–0		0–2	1–1				2–2		0–1			1–1
Pachuca	1–3		3–0	3–1		1–1	0–1		6–2		2–0		1–1			1–1
Puebla	2–3	2–0	2–2		2–2		2–1							0–0	2–1			1–2
Querétaro	1–1		2–0	2–0					1–0	1–0	0–1		2–1			0–2
Santos Laguna	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1		3–0	1–0				2–0					3–1		1–1
Tijuana				1–1	2–1	1–1		2–3	1–0	1–0		1–1	2–2				0–1
Toluca					2–2	1–2		2–0	3–2	2–1			2–1	3–0			0–1
UANL	2–3	3–1	2–2			2–0	0–0				6–1			1–0	2–1			4–0
UNAM			4–2	1–2					5–3	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–1			3–3
Veracruz					0–2	0–4		2–2	0–0	2–3		2–2		1–0	2–3		0–2

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Carlos González	UNAM	UANL	3–3	21 October 2018
Víctor Guzmán⁴	Pachuca	Necaxa	6–2	3 November 2018
André-Pierre Gignac⁴	UANL	Puebla	6–1	10 November 2018

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	UANL	368,957	41,615	38,141	40,995	−0.9%^†
2	Cruz Azul	323,992	62,003	18,541	35,999	+96.8%¹
3	Monterrey	282,778	42,288	28,482	35,347	−17.5%^†
4	América	245,208	69,486	13,005	30,651	+11.8%²
5	Tijuana	238,197	27,333	25,333	26,466	−0.6%^†
6	Guadalajara	202,924	37,412	18,210	25,366	−20.9%^†
7	UNAM	196,272	42,717	10,420	24,534	−19.3%^†
8	Atlas	214,171	40,207	14,216	23,797	−22.5%^†
9	Santos Laguna	214,094	28,479	20,854	23,788	+1.5%^†
10	Pachuca	195,177	27,512	15,976	21,686	−9.9%^†
11	Morelia	159,801	28,076	14,584	19,975	−7.0%^†
12	Querétaro	155,753	29,348	12,594	19,469	−14.0%^†
13	Toluca	164,063	30,000	15,308	18,229	−22.9%^†
14	León	139,131	25,175	12,356	17,391	+2.5%^†
15	Puebla	111,701	23,234	6,628	13,963	−29.1%^†
16	Necaxa	122,188	22,578	8,389	13,576	−31.1%^†
17	Veracruz	93,113	16,981	7,523	10,346	−51.2%^†
18	BUAP	75,615	18,619	5,845	9,452	−28.8%^†
	League total	3,503,135	69,486	5,845	22,896	−9.7%^†

Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals

1	Cruz Azul	2	1	3

8	Querétaro	0	1	1
					1	Cruz Azul (s)	0	1	1

					5	Monterrey	1	0	1
4	Santos Laguna	0	0	0

5	Monterrey	1	2	3
										1	Cruz Azul	0	0	0

										2	América	0	2	2
2	América	2	3	5

7	Toluca	2	2	4
					2	América	1	6	7

					3	UNAM	1	1	2
3	UNAM	1	3	4

6	UANL	2	1	3

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Querétaro	1–3	Cruz Azul	0–2	1–1
Toluca	4–5	América	2–2	2–3
UANL	3–4	UNAM	2–1	1–3
Monterrey	3–0	Santos Laguna	1–0	2–0

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ángel Mena	León	14
2	Brian Fernández	Necaxa	12
3	Milton Caraglio	Cruz Azul	11
3	Rogelio Funes Mori	Monterrey	11
5	Gustavo Bou	Tijuana	8
	José Juan Macías	León
	Leonardo Ramos	BUAP
8	Miller Bolaños	Tijuana	7
	André-Pierre Gignac	UANL
	Franco Jara	Pachuca

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Monterrey	382,543	51,027	38,371	42,505	+20.3%^†
2	UANL	330,287	41,615	40,136	41,286	+0.7%^†
3	Guadalajara	272,650	41,075	23,557	30,294	+19.4%^†
4	Atlas	219,243	46,056	19,901	27,405	+15.2%^†
5	América	229,694	47,407	14,241	25,522	−16.7%^†
6	Tijuana	189,460	27,333	10,329	23,683	−10.5%^†
7	Santos Laguna	180,901	27,919	18,778	22,613	−4.9%^†
8	León	197,490	25,731	17,653	21,943	+26.2%^†
9	UNAM	194,769	42,600	12,763	21,641	−11.8%^†
10	Pachuca	165,445	27,293	17,303	20,681	−4.6%^†
11	Morelia	185,459	30,125	15,021	20,607	+3.2%^†
12	Puebla	174,065	25,127	12,129	19,341	+38.5%^†
13	Cruz Azul	143,105	32,881	10,311	17,888	−50.3%^†
14	Toluca	142,643	25,744	12,242	17,830	−2.2%^†
15	Necaxa	131,263	24,296	13,923	16,408	+20.9%^†
16	Querétaro	138,371	26,562	9,655	15,375	−21.0%^†
17	Veracruz	111,829	26,550	7,744	13,979	+35.1%^†
18	BUAP	80,789	14,275	6,350	8,977	−5.0%^†
	League total	3,470,006	51,027	6,350	22,680	−0.9%^†

Pos	Team	'16 A Pts	'17 C Pts	'17 A Pts	'18 C Pts	'18 A Pts	'19 C Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	GD	Relegation
1	UANL	30	25	32	28	29	37	181	102	1.7745	+73	Safe for 2019–20 Season
2	Monterrey	25	27	37	29	30	30	178	102	1.7451	+61
3	América	28	24	30	29	33	29	173	102	1.6961	+43
4	Toluca	24	27	29	36	26	25	167	102	1.6373	+26
5	Cruz Azul	19	21	27	22	36	30	155	102	1.5196	+29
6	Tijuana	33	31	21	25	17	28	155	102	1.5196	+14
7	León	26	20	26	22	18	41	153	102	1.5000	+15
8	Pachuca	31	24	19	23	24	28	149	102	1.4608	+29
9	Santos Laguna	16	26	18	29	30	22	141	102	1.3824	+7
10	Necaxa	26	21	24	22	14	29	136	102	1.3333	+9
11	Morelia	20	24	29	24	25	13	135	102	1.3235	–11
12	UNAM	27	18	13	24	30	17	129	102	1.2647	–11
13	Guadalajara	28	27	18	15	20	18	126	102	1.2353	–11
14	Puebla	20	16	16	23	19	24	119	102	1.1667	–29
15	Atlas	19	26	25	18	11	19	118	102	1.1569	–30
16	BUAP	Ascenso MX		0^[a]	0^[a]	19	20	39	34	1.1471	–21
17	Querétaro	20	19	16	18	26	11	110	102	1.0784	–43
18	Veracruz (R)	12	21	14	18	10	0	73	102	0.7157	–99	Relegated to Ascenso MX

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	UANL^[a] (C)	34	19	9	6	65	34	+31	66	2020 CONCACAF Champions League^[b]
2	Cruz Azul	34	19	9	6	52	28	+24	66	2020 CONCACAF Champions League^[c]
3	América^[d] (C)	34	18	8	8	61	36	+25	62	2020 CONCACAF Champions League^[e]
4	Monterrey	34	17	9	8	58	40	+18	60	2019–20 Copa MX Pot 1
5	León	34	18	5	11	59	37	+22	59	2020 CONCACAF Champions League^[f]
6	Pachuca	34	14	10	10	58	44	+14	52	2019–20 Copa MX Pot 1
7	Santos Laguna	34	14	10	10	48	41	+7	52
8	Toluca	34	15	6	13	55	45	+10	51
9	UNAM	34	12	11	11	48	45	+3	47
10	Tijuana	34	13	6	15	38	44	−6	45	2019–20 Copa MX Pot 2
11	Puebla	34	11	11	12	41	51	−10	44
12	Necaxa	34	11	10	13	51	53	−2	43
13	BUAP^[g]	34	11	6	17	38	59	−21	39
14	Guadalajara	34	10	8	16	37	43	−6	38	2019–20 Copa MX Pot 3
15	Morelia	34	9	11	14	43	57	−14	38
16	Querétaro	34	10	7	17	30	50	−20	37
17	Atlas	34	8	6	20	30	55	−25	30
18	Veracruz^[h] (R)	34	2	8	24	24	74	−50	8	Relegated to Ascenso MX 2019–20 Copa MX Pot 3

Teams, stadiums, and personnel

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

Regular season

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Liguilla – Apertura

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Torneo Clausura

Regular season

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Attendance

Per team

Highest and lowest

Liguilla – Clausura

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Relegation table

Aggregate table

Notes

See also

References

External links