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Liga MX, officially known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, [6] is the top professional division of Mexican football.Formerly known as Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and then as Primera División de México (1949–2012), it has 18 participating clubs, with each season divided into two short tournaments, Apertura from July to December and Clausura from January to May.
A total of ten teams competed in the final phase to decide the champions of the Clausura 2024 Liga MX season. [ 2 ] For the second straight season, the number of clubs qualifying for the quarter-finals will be six while the teams qualifying for the reclassification is four. [ 3 ]
A total of ten teams will compete in the final phase to decide the champions of the Apertura 2024 Liga MX season. [ 2 ] For the third straight season, the number of clubs qualifying for the quarter-finals will be six while the teams qualifying for the reclassification is four. [ 3 ]
The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1954 as Club Deportivo Universidad, and they play their home games at Estadio Olímpico Universitario, which seats over 72,000 spectators. The club was founded as an amateur club of UNAM college students and later developed into a professional team.
Mexico's men's football has four divisions in the following order of competition level: Liga MX, Liga de Expansión MX, Liga Premier, and Liga TDP. The promotion and relegation are used by the FMF to advance (promote) a lesser level club into competition of like quality their aggregate percentage score warrants play in a higher competition level.
The women's top level in Mexico is the Liga MX Femenil started in September 2017. [5] The Liga TDP Femenil was started in October 2024, as the second women's professional league in Mexico. Another non-professional women's league organized in parallel is the Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil organized by (LIMEFFE), was established in 2007.
For the 2025 season, the Leagues Cup will only include 18 out of the 30 MLS teams (those who qualified for the MLS Cup playoffs in most instances), as well as all Liga MX teams, for a total of 36 participants. The MLS and Liga MX teams will be separated into their own separate groups of 18 and play three games against teams from the other league.
The 2023 Leagues Cup was the third edition of the Leagues Cup, an international club soccer tournament between Major League Soccer (MLS) and Liga MX.It was held from July 21 to August 19, 2023, with all 77 matches held in either Canada and the United States.