Liga MX is a men’s football league in Mexico, formed in 1943, with competition coverage from the 2016 season through 2025. Visitors can follow live scores, fixtures, results, standings, and player and team statistics in one place, making it easy to track the league across its recorded seasons.
Upcoming matches, Liga MX
Apertura - 16
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- Apertura - 16
Club Queretaro
Puebla
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- Apertura - 16
Leon
Guadalajara Chivas
Apertura - 7
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- Apertura - 7
Club Queretaro
Monterrey
Apertura - 17
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- Apertura - 17
Puebla
Atletico San Luis
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- Apertura - 17
Club Tijuana
No H2HAtlante FC
Estadio Caliente -
- Apertura - 17
FC Juarez
Atlas
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- Apertura - 17
Santos Laguna
Leon
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- Apertura - 17
Pachuca
Toluca
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- Apertura - 17
U.N.A.M. - Pumas
Monterrey
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- Apertura - 17
Tigres UANL
Club America
Latest played matches, Liga MX
Apertura - 16
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Apertura - 16
Atlante FC
0 - 2Santos Laguna
Estadio Banorte
Apertura - 15
Liga MX Standings
Liga MX: Apertura
| Rank | Club | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Club America | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 36 | 21 | 15 | 29 | DDLWW |
| 2 |
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Guadalajara Chivas | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 29 | WWWDD |
| 3 |
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Cruz Azul | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 29 | WWWWD |
| 4 |
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Atlas | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 30 | -3 | 27 | LWWLW |
| 5 |
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Santos Laguna | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 25 | WWLWW |
| 6 |
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Toluca | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 31 | 21 | 10 | 24 | DDDDL |
| 7 |
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Pachuca | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 22 | WWWLL |
| 8 |
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Club Tijuana | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 22 | LDDWD |
| 9 |
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Leon | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 22 | LDWLD |
| 10 |
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Monterrey | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 21 | DLWWD |
| 11 |
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U.N.A.M. - Pumas | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 24 | -2 | 20 | WDLWD |
| 12 |
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Club Queretaro | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 21 | -3 | 20 | LLLLW |
| 13 |
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Atletico San Luis | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 24 | -5 | 19 | LLWWD |
| 14 |
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Puebla | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 23 | -6 | 16 | LLLDD |
| 15 |
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Tigres UANL | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 22 | -7 | 15 | LDLDW |
| 16 |
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Atlante FC | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 26 | -10 | 14 | LLLWL |
| 17 |
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Necaxa | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 28 | -11 | 13 | WLDLL |
| 18 |
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FC Juarez | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 34 | -21 | 11 | WWDLL |
Liga MX Statistics
Top scorers 2026
| # | Player | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
S. Rondón
Pachuca |
14 |
| 2 |
Juninho
U.N.A.M. - Pumas |
9 |
| 3 |
J. Brunetta
Tigres UANL |
7 |
| 4 |
H. Martín
Club America |
7 |
| 5 |
Tahiel Adrián Jiménez Sánchez
Santos Laguna |
6 |
| 6 |
M. Borja
Club America |
6 |
| 7 |
J. Carranza
Necaxa |
6 |
| 8 |
Ó. Estupiñán
FC Juarez |
6 |
| 9 |
A. Montaño
Cruz Azul |
5 |
| 10 |
F. Viñas
Toluca |
5 |
Top assists 2026
| # | Player | Assists |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Helinho
Toluca |
6 |
| 2 |
E. Bullaude
Santos Laguna |
5 |
| 3 |
A. Montaño
Cruz Azul |
5 |
| 4 |
J. Paradela
Cruz Azul |
4 |
| 5 |
N. Castro
Toluca |
4 |
| 6 |
Óliver Torres
Monterrey |
4 |
| 7 |
R. Pizarro
Pachuca |
4 |
| 8 |
J. Julio
Atlante FC |
4 |
| 9 |
R. Morales
U.N.A.M. - Pumas |
4 |
| 10 |
Iker Benito
Club Queretaro |
3 |
Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
Liga MX teams participation since 2016
History
| Team | Nb participations |
|---|---|
| Guadalajara Chivas | 10 |
| Tigres UANL | 10 |
| Club Tijuana | 10 |
| Toluca | 10 |
| Monterrey | 10 |
| Atlas | 10 |
| Santos Laguna | 10 |
| U.N.A.M. - Pumas | 10 |
| Club America | 10 |
| Necaxa | 10 |
| Leon | 10 |
| Club Queretaro | 10 |
| Puebla | 10 |
| Pachuca | 10 |
| Cruz Azul | 10 |
| FC Juarez | 7 |
| Atletico San Luis | 7 |
| Mazatlán | 6 |
| Monarcas | 4 |
| Veracruz | 4 |
| Lobos Buap | 2 |
| Jaguares de Chiapas | 1 |
Liga MX top scorer teams
Goals scored vs. conversion rate
| Team | Goals scored | Total shots | Conversion % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Club America | 38 | 305 |
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| Cruz Azul | 37 | 269 |
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| Toluca | 31 | 260 |
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| Pachuca | 29 | 246 |
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| Atlas | 27 | 209 |
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| Monterrey | 26 | 210 |
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| U.N.A.M. - Pumas | 24 | 182 |
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| Santos Laguna | 23 | 215 |
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| Club Tijuana | 21 | 177 |
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| Guadalajara Chivas | 20 | 210 |
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| Leon | 19 | 185 |
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| Atletico San Luis | 19 | 213 |
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| Club Queretaro | 18 | 193 |
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| Puebla | 17 | 186 |
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| Tigres UANL | 15 | 232 |
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| Necaxa | 15 | 217 |
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| Atlante FC | 14 | 184 |
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| FC Juarez | 13 | 159 |
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Liga MX About
Liga MX is Mexico’s top-flight professional men’s football league, a national league competition governed by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF). It represents the highest level of the Mexican football pyramid and provides the principal domestic stage for the country’s leading clubs, players and coaches.
Identity, history and purpose
Professionally established in 1943, the competition was originally known as Liga Mayor before later operating under the name Primera División de México. It was rebranded as Liga MX in 2012 as part of a modernisation of the league’s commercial and structural identity. Mexican Liga MX remains an alternative name used to describe the same competition.
The league’s role extends beyond deciding a national champion. It provides a sustained elite platform for Mexican football, supports the development and visibility of high-level players, and gives clubs a route into regional competition. Its membership is made up of certified professional clubs that must satisfy the relevant sporting, financial, infrastructure and legal requirements.
Liga MX is a men’s competition based in Mexico and is generally composed of 18 clubs. Unlike a conventional league that runs from late summer to spring and crowns one champion, it divides the football year into two separate tournaments: the Apertura and the Clausura. Each tournament has its own regular phase, postseason and champion.
How the split-season format works
The Apertura is normally played from July to December, while the Clausura usually runs from January to May. This calendar keeps meaningful league football in progress across most of the year, with shorter breaks between the two tournaments.
During the regular phase of each tournament, the 18 clubs play a single round-robin schedule. Each team faces every other club once, producing 17 matches per side. The standard points system applies: three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. Regular-season points determine the standings and are also important for postseason seeding.
The leading clubs progress to the Liguilla, Liga MX’s knockout phase. In the current format used for recent tournaments, the six highest-placed teams qualify directly for the quarter-finals. Clubs finishing from seventh to tenth enter the Play-In, a preliminary stage that determines the remaining quarter-final places. This creates a distinction between direct qualification for the leading sides and an additional route for teams in the middle of the table.
The Liguilla normally uses two-legged ties in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, with one match played at each club’s ground. Teams are seeded according to their regular-phase performance. If the aggregate score is level after the two legs of an early knockout round, the higher-seeded team advances under the applicable league rules rather than relying on an away-goals rule.
Finals, tiebreakers and the champion
The championship final is also normally contested over two legs. Its tiebreaking principle differs from the earlier rounds: seeding does not decide the title if the aggregate score is level after 180 minutes. The teams then play 30 minutes of extra time, followed by a penalty shootout if the scores remain level. The winner is crowned champion of the relevant Apertura or Clausura tournament.
The Play-In has its own decisive procedures, and a tied match can proceed directly to a penalty shootout without extra time. Exact scheduling and competition regulations may be set out for each tournament, but the central progression remains consistent: regular-phase standings determine access and seeding, the Play-In fills the final knockout positions, and the Liguilla decides the champion.
At the end of the annual cycle, the Apertura and Clausura winners meet in the Campeón de Campeones. This Champion of Champions fixture provides a separate contest between the two short-season title holders and recognises the club that prevails across the combined domestic campaign.
Access, governance and wider stakes
Entry to Liga MX is not an open qualification route based solely on sporting performance in a lower division. Clubs must be certified members and meet the standards established through the league’s governing structures and the FMF. Promotion and relegation, historically linked with Liga de Expansión MX, are currently suspended. As a result, participation depends on approved club membership and compliance rather than an active annual promotion-and-relegation exchange.
Domestic success also has regional consequences. The strongest Liga MX clubs can earn places in the CONCACAF Champions Cup under the qualification arrangements applying to the relevant season. That competition offers a route towards broader international recognition and, depending on the applicable qualification pathway, further global opportunities. Liga MX therefore combines a national league framework with access to the wider North and Central American football calendar.
For statistical purposes, the competition record presented here covers ten recorded seasons from 2016 through 2025. Across that period, the most useful comparisons require attention to the separate Apertura and Clausura tournaments, because each produces its own standings, knockout campaign and champion rather than contributing to a single uninterrupted league table.