The 2022–23 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season was divided into two championships—the Apertura 2022 and the Clausura 2023—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. The winners of the two championships met in the 2023 Campeón de Campeones match.
With the 2022 FIFA World Cup commencing on 20 November, the second leg of the Apertura 2022 final was played on 30 October.
Clubs Stadiums and locations The Estadio Azteca will be closed from 2023 to 2025 due to renovations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Although the project was anticipated to begin in January 2023, the renovations were postponed for the summer of 2023.
Team Location Stadium CapacityAméricaMexico CityAzteca 87,000AtlasGuadalajara, JaliscoJalisco 55,110Atlético San LuisSan Luis Potosí, San Luis PotosíAlfonso Lastras 25,709Cruz AzulMexico CityAzteca 87,000GuadalajaraZapopan, JaliscoAkron 45,364JuárezCiudad Juárez, ChihuahuaOlímpico Benito Juárez 19,703LeónLeón, GuanajuatoLeón 31,297MazatlánMazatlán, SinaloaMazatlán 25,000MonterreyGuadalupe, Nuevo LeónBBVA 53,500NecaxaAguascalientes, AguascalientesVictoria 23,851PachucaPachuca, HidalgoHidalgo 27,512PueblaPuebla, PueblaCuauhtémoc 51,726QuerétaroQuerétaro, QuerétaroCorregidora 33,162Santos LagunaTorreón, CoahuilaCorona 29,237TijuanaTijuana, Baja CaliforniaCaliente 27,333TolucaToluca, State of MexicoNemesio Díez 31,000UANLSan Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo LeónUniversitario 41,886UNAMMexico CityOlímpico Universitario 48,297
Personnel and kits Team Chairman Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor(s) (front)América Santiago Baños Fernando Ortiz Henry Martín Nike AT&T, The Home DepotAtlas José Riestra Benjamín Mora Aldo Rocha Charly Caliente, Perdura, Uniclick Atlético San Luis Alberto Marrero André Jardine Javier Güémez Sporelli Canel's, BH Fitness, Cementos Moctezuma, Laboratorio TEQUISCruz Azul Víctor Velázquez Ricardo Ferretti José de Jesús Corona Joma Cemento Cruz AzulGuadalajara Amaury Vergara Veljko Paunović Víctor Guzmán Puma CalienteJuárezMiguel Ángel Garza Diego Mejía Alfredo Talavera Sporelli BetcrisLeón Jesús Martínez Murguia Nicolás Larcamón Rodolfo Cota Charly Cementos Fortaleza, Office Depot, Roshfrans, TelcelMazatlán Mauricio Lanz González Rubén Omar Romano Néstor Vidrio Pirma Caliente, Paquetexpress, Banda el RecodoMonterrey José Antonio Noriega Víctor Manuel Vucetich Celso Ortiz Puma BBVA, CodereNecaxa Ernesto Tinajero Flores Andrés Lillini Fabricio Formiliano Pirma Rolcar, Playdoit, J.M. RomoPachuca Armando Martínez Patiño Guillermo Almada Oscar Ustari Charly Cementos Fortaleza, Office Depot, Roshfrans, TelcelPuebla Manuel Jiménez García Eduardo Arce Antony Silva Pirma Caliente, Red ColaQuerétaro Vacant Mauro Gerk Pablo Barrera Charly Pedigree Petfoods, Boing, Grupo Sayer, NOX Móvil, Petro Figue's, Tarro 33Santos Laguna Dante Elizalde Pablo Repetto Carlos Acevedo Charly Soriana, Peñoles, Lala, Grupo SIMSATijuana Jorge Hank Inzunsa Miguel Herrera Lisandro López Charly CalienteToluca Francisco Suinaga Ignacio Ambríz Claudio Baeza Under Armour RoshfransUANL Mauricio Culebro Robert Siboldi Guido Pizarro Adidas Cemex, BitsoUNAM Antonio Mohamed Nicolás Freire Nike DHL Express
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table Ref.Pre-Apertura changes Juárez Ricardo Ferretti Mutual agreement 5 May 2022 Hernán Cristante 26 May 2022Preseason Santos Laguna Eduardo Fentanes (Interim) Ratified as manager 10 May 2022 Eduardo Fentanes 10 May 2022 Cruz Azul Juan Reynoso Sacked 19 May 2022 Diego Aguirre 30 May 2022 Tijuana Sebastián Méndez Resigned 25 May 2022 Ricardo Valiño 30 May 2022 Querétaro Hernán Cristante Signed by Juárez 26 May 2022 Mauro Gerk 30 May 2022 América Fernando Ortíz (Interim) Ratified as manager 27 May 2022 Fernando Ortíz 27 May 2022 León Christian Martínez (Interim) End of tenure as caretaker 30 May 2022 Renato Paiva 30 May 2022 Guadalajara Ricardo Cadena (Interim) Ratified as manager 31 May 2022 Ricardo Cadena 31 May 2022 Apertura changes Cruz Azul Diego Aguirre Sacked 21 August 2022 Raúl Gutiérrez (Interim) 22 August 2022 17thPre–Clausura changes Atlas Diego Cocca Resigned 2 October 2022 Benjamín Mora 6 October 2022Preseason UNAM Andrés Lillini Mutual agreement 4 October 2022 Rafael Puente Jr. 28 October 2022 Necaxa Jaime Lozano Mutual agreement 10 October 2022 Andrés Lillini 4 November 2022 Guadalajara Ricardo Cadena Sacked 16 October 2022 Veljko Paunović 31 October 2022 UANL Miguel Herrera Sacked 9 November 2022 Diego Cocca 16 November 2022 Puebla Nicolás Larcamón Resigned 9 November 2022 Eduardo Arce 18 November 2022 León Renato Paiva Resigned 28 November 2022 Nicolás Larcamón 30 November 2022 Cruz Azul Raúl Gutiérrez (Interim) Ratified as manager 6 December 2022 Raúl Gutiérrez 6 December 2022 Clausura changes Mazatlán Gabriel Caballero Resigned 29 January 2023 Christian Ramírez (Interim) 29 January 2023 18th Tijuana Ricardo Valiño Sacked 4 February 2023 Cirilo Saucedo (Interim) 7 February 2023 14th Mazatlán Christian Ramírez (Interim) End of tenure as caretaker 6 February 2023 Rubén Omar Romano 6 February 2023 18th UANL Diego Cocca Sacked 9 February 2023 Marco Antonio Ruiz 9 February 2023 3rd Tijuana Cirilo Saucedo (Interim) End of tenure as caretaker 11 February 2023 Miguel Herrera 11 February 2023 11th Cruz Azul Raúl Gutiérrez Sacked 13 February 2023 Joaquín Moreno (Interim) 14 February 2023 17th Joaquín Moreno (Interim) End of tenure as caretaker 22 February 2023 Ricardo Ferretti 22 February 2023 13th UNAM Rafael Puente Jr. Sacked 19 March 2023 Raúl Alpizar (Interim) 21 March 2023 16th Raúl Alpizar (Interim) End of tenure as caretaker 3 April 2023 Antonio Mohamed 3 April 2023 17th Juárez Hernán Cristante Mutual agreement 3 April 2023 Diego Mejía 4 April 2023 14th UANL Marco Antonio Ruiz Sacked 9 April 2023 Robert Siboldi 10 April 2023 7th Santos Laguna Eduardo Fentanes Sacked 24 April 2023 Pablo Repetto 24 April 2023 11th
Torneo Apertura The Apertura 2022 was the first tournament of the season. The tournament began on 1 July. The defending champions were Atlas.
Regular phase League table
Positions by round
Results Teams played every other team once (either at home or away), completing a total of 17 rounds.
Individual statistics Top goalscorers Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Rank Player Club Goals1 Nicolás IbáñezPachuca112 Henry MartínAmérica103 Martín BarragánPuebla8 Lucas Di YorioLeón André-Pierre GignacUANL Abel HernándezAtlético San Luis7 Facundo BatistaNecaxa7 Jean MenesesToluca9 Javier CorreaSantos Laguna6 Juan DinennoUNAM Gabriel FernándezJuárez Harold PreciadoSantos Laguna Jonathan Rodríguez América Camilo Sanvezzo Toluca Leonardo SuárezSantos Laguna
Source: Liga MX
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheetsRef1 Nahuel GuzmánUANL82 Oscar UstariPachuca7 Miguel JiménezGuadalajara.00 Guillermo OchoaAmérica.005 Esteban AndradaMonterrey66 Carlos AcevedoSantos Laguna5 Marcelo BaroveroAtlético San Luis8 Alfredo TalaveraJuárez3 Luis CárdenasMonterrey Camilo VargasAtlas Nicolás VikonisMazatlán0 Luis MalagónNecaxa Rodolfo CotaLeón Jonathan OrozcoTijuana Julio GonzálezUNAM0
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Alfonso GonzálezMonterreyLeón5–1 (H)6 August 2022 Abel HernándezAtlético San LuisUNAM3–2 (H)18 August 2022 (H) – Home; (A) – Away
Scoring First goal of the season: Israel Reyes for Puebla against Mazatlán (1 July 2022) Last goal of the season: Alfonso Alvarado for León against Tijuana (2 October 2022)
Discipline
Player Most yellow cards: 9 Fernando Gorriarán (Santos Laguna)
Most red cards: 3 Nicolás Díaz (Tijuana)
Team Most yellow cards: 48 Puebla
Most red cards: 8 UANL Fewest yellow cards: 28 América
Fewest red cards: 0 América Monterrey
Source: Liga MX
Attendance
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Highest and lowest Highest attended Lowest attended Week Home Score Away Attendance Home Score Away Attendance 1 UANL 2–3 Cruz Azul 41,273 Pachuca 2–0 Querétaro 6,1672 Monterrey 3–2 América 41,342 Mazatlán 0–1 UANL 12,1123 UANL 1–0 Tijuana 40,583 Pachuca 1–1 Mazatlán 7,482 4 UANL 2–0 Atlas 42,615 Pachuca 0–0 UNAM 8,3055 Monterrey 1–0 Puebla 35,893 Necaxa 2–0 Pachuca 11,8286 UANL 2–1 Querétaro 41,432 Juárez 1–1 Toluca 12,8547 Monterrey 5–1 León 37,154 Atlético San Luis 1–2 Necaxa 9,4648 UNAM 0–3 América 45,893 Juárez 2–1 Pachuca 9,7339 Guadalajara 1–4 UANL 30,064 Santos Laguna 2–1 León 10,16410 Monterrey 0–0 UANL 52,810 Pachuca 1–0 León 5,80111 UANL 0–0 Necaxa 40,103 Santos Laguna 4–1 Atlético San Luis 12,05312 América 2–1 UANL 45,384 Pachuca 2–0 Santos Laguna 6,59213 UANL 3–1 Toluca 37,638 Santos Laguna 3–1 Necaxa 7,97914 UANL 0–1 León 41,615 Pachuca 6–1 Tijuana 9,51115 América 2–1 Guadalajara 65,461 Atlético San Luis 1–2 Pachuca 9,09416 Guadalajara 1–0 Monterrey 34,279 Pachuca 3–1 Atlas 5,66817 Puebla 1–2 América 43,632 Santos Laguna 3–0 Mazatlán 14,461
Source: Liga MX
Final phase Reclassification
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Finals
Torneo Clausura The Clausura tournament began on 6 January and ended on 28 May 2023. The defending champions were Pachuca.
Regular phase League table
Positions by round
Results Teams played every other team once (either at home or away), completing a total of 17 rounds.
Individual statistics Top goalscorers Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Rank Player Club Goals1 Henry MartínAmérica142 Rogelio Funes Mori Monterrey12 Julián QuiñonesAtlas4 Juan Dinenno UNAM8 Carlos GonzálezToluca6 André-Pierre Gignac UANL7 Víctor Guzmán Guadalajara Harold Preciado Santos Laguna9 Uriel Antuna Cruz Azul6 Maximiliano AraújoToluca Javier Correa Santos Laguna Alfonso GonzálezMonterrey Javier LópezPachuca Brian LozanoAtlas Guillermo MartínezPuebla Édgar MéndezNecaxa Diego ValdésAmérica
Source: Liga MX
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheets1 Rodolfo CotaLeón92 Nahuel GuzmánUANL83 Esteban AndradaMonterrey74 Marcelo BaroveroAtlético San Luis6 José de Jesús CoronaCruz Azul6 Miguel JiménezGuadalajara5 Tiago VolpiToluca Gil AlcaláQuerétaro9 Oscar UstariPachuca4 José Antonio RodríguezTijuana
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Rogelio Funes MoriMonterreyAtlético San Luis3–1 (H)21 January 2023 Henry MartínAméricaMazatlán6–0 (H)28 January 2023 Rogelio Funes MoriMonterreyUNAM4–1 (H)29 April 2023 (H) – Home; (A) – Away
Scoring First goal of the season: Juan Manuel Sanabria for Atlético San Luis against Necaxa (6 January 2023) Last goal of the season: Héctor Uribe for León against UANL (30 April 2023)
Discipline Player Most yellow cards: 7 Christian Rivera (Querétaro) Luis Rodríguez (Juárez) Most red cards: 2 Paul Bellón (León) Michael Estrada (Cruz Azul) Gabriel Fernández (Juárez) Lucas González (Santos Laguna)
Team Most yellow cards: 45 Necaxa Puebla
Most red cards: 6 León UNAM
Fewest yellow cards: 25 Pachuca
Fewest red cards: 0 América
Source: Liga MX
Attendance
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