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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 2024–25 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) is the 78th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season is to be divided into two championships—the Apertura 2024 and the Clausura 2025 —each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.
The Liga de Expansión MX is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second-tier league in Mexico, for which there will be no promotion and relegation during the following six years. [1]