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The Mexican Primera Division or better known as Liga MX is Mexico’s top-tier professional football league. Founded in 1943, this league has produced a crazy amount of awesome games throughout the years that bettors loved. Today, they are able to bet on their favorite teams like America, and Guadalajara to name a couple. Below are the upcoming betting odds for Mexico Primera Division.
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The League MX or Primera División de México, known in the 1940s as the League Mayor, is the highest Mexican football league. It was founded in 1943 and currently consists of 18 teams, three from Mexico City and two each from Guadalajara and Monterrey. Club América is the record champion with 13 titles (December 2018). Since 2013, the league has officially been named Liga BBVA Bancomer after the sponsor BBVA.
Mode
Unlike in Europe, two championships are held annually: The “Clausura” takes place in the first half of a calendar year and thus during the second half of a European season; the “Apertura” takes place correspondingly in the second half of a calendar year or during the first half.
The 18 teams play against each other once. After the 17 match days of the regular season, the eight best placed teams qualify for the playoffs, the so-called “Liguilla”. They play for the championship title in a knockout system with outward and return legs. The relegation takes place once a year after the Clausura. To determine the relegated team, the point average of the last three years is formed, the team with the lowest value relegates. The two champions of the second league play out the promoted team in a deciding match.
The MX League teams will qualify for both the CONCACAF Champions League of the North and Central American federation CONCACAF and the Copa Libertadores of the South American federation CONMEBOL. As a member of CONCACAF, the Mexican sides can only qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup via the Champions League, but not via the Copa Libertadores.
History of the Mexican professional league
The professional Mexican soccer league started in the 1943/44 season and replaced the amateur soccer championship Primera Fuerza. Like the latter, it was initially known as the Liga Mayor (German: Höchste Liga).
Founding members
The ten founding members of the professional league were América, Asturias, Atlante, España and Marte (all from Mexico City and previously represented in unison in the Primera Fuerza), Atlas Guadalajara and Deportivo Guadalajara (from the old Liga de Occidente and indirectly represented in the Primera Fuerza by the Selección Jalisco) as well as three clubs from the state of Veracruz: the CF Veracruz from the port city of the same name and A.D.O. and Moctezuma, both of which were located in the then industrially important city of Orizaba. Moctezuma also came from the old Primera Fuerza, the CF Veracruz, newly formed by members of the two clubs España and Sporting Veracruz, and the Asociación Deportiva Orizabeña, A.D.O. for short, from the old league Veracruzana.
The fact that the first champion of the newly installed professional league, Asturias, had finished last place in last year’s Primera Fuerza season is worthy of special mention. Conversely, the last champion of the Primera Fuerza, Marte, finished last at the end of the opening season of the professional league. This curiosity was to be repeated a decade later. Even as the champions of the 1953/54 season, Marte finished last in the following 1954/55 season. But at that time this also meant the relegation from the football upper house to which Marte could never return.
The first champions
The first championship in 1943/44 ended with two teams with equal points at the top of the standings. Because the goal difference was not the deciding factor for the champions, a deciding match for the championship became necessary in the very first year, in which the two Spanish arch rivals Asturias and España faced each other. Here Asturias surprisingly clearly kept the upper hand with 4:1. But España won the championship in the following season. But this triumph also marked the end of the Spanish-dominated era. From now on no Spanish – or other foreign – team should win the title. 1 The loss of the Spanish teams was both a blessing and a curse for the capitals. It was a blessing because the Mexicans were as historically hostile to the Spaniards as they were to the Americans, and in football they were anxious to free themselves from Spanish domination. But it was also a curse, because now Province 2 began to dominate the league and with the title win of CF Veracruz in 1946, a 20-year dry spell began for the capital city, in which not a single championship title went to the metropolis. It was not until 1966 that América was able to finish this negative series.
First additions and disposals
Already in the second season 1944/45 the professional league of the clubs León, Oro and Puebla was increased to 13 participants and again one year later the league consisted of 16 teams. CF Monterrey were the first representatives from northern Mexico to do so, but were forced to retire after just one season due to internal problems, making them the first team to drop out of the professional league.
The first major upheaval took place in 1950. By the end of 1949/50, Asturias, España and Moctezuma had retreated as a result of disputes between the federations. A year earlier the AD Orizaba had already been eliminated due to internal quarrels, so that in the 1950/51 season four of the former ten founding members no longer took part in the game. The same season saw the first nationwide second division, the Segunda División, and the first league was given its new name, Primera División, which is still valid today. Since then, there has been one promoted and one relegated between the two leagues. The first relegator was San Sebastian, Zacatepec the first promoted.
Defending champion, serial champion and “eternal member”
The first team to defend its title was León (1948/49). Esmeraldas also defended their title in Clausura 2014, while Toluca (1967/68), Necaxa (1994/95) and UNAM Pumas (Apertura 2004) also defended their title. Three clubs even managed to defend their (multiple) titles twice: Cruz Azul (title defence 1979/80 and previous hat-trick between 1972 and 1974) and América (title defence 1988/89 and previous hat-trick between 1983/84 and PRODE 85) each managed to defend their titles one time and one time each: Guadalajara, the only club that could win the championship four times in a row between 1959 and 1962 and that also managed to defend its title again in 1964/65. If Guadalajara hadn’t lost their last game of the 1962/63 season to their closest rival Oro, they would have been champions seven times in a row. With a total of eleven titles, Guadalajara had long been record holders in the professional league, but has now been overtaken by his arch-rival América, who has already won twelve times. These two clubs are also the only ones to have always been represented in the professional league.
Mode change
Up to and including the 1969/70 season, the champion was determined by an overall table. A deciding match for the championship was only necessary if there was a tie of points, since the goal difference was not taken into account to determine the champion.
In the 1970/71 season, the championship was played in two groups, although all the teams in the league played against each other (a procedure that has remained in place to this day). The two group winners played in the final. The two-group mode was maintained in the following years, but the final round was extended to include the top two players in each group and a semi-final.
Since 1975/76, the championship has been played out in four groups and after the actual season is decided in play-offs (called Liguilla in Mexico) from the quarter-finals. Since 1996/97, two championships per year have been held. The first half of the season was initially regarded as the winter season (Invierno) and the second half as the summer season (Verano), as its conclusion took place in the corresponding season. Since the 2002/03 season, the preliminary round has been called Apertura and the second round Clausura.
Comments
Before the First World War, the Mexican Football Championship was played exclusively by teams founded by the British, who largely dominated the clubs. The most successful team of this epoch was the Reforma Athletic Club. Between the two world wars, Mexican club football was repeatedly dominated by Spanish clubs, of which Real Club España was by far the most successful. With the withdrawal of España and Asturias in the summer of 1950, the era of clubs dominated by foreigners came to an end. However, this was by no means the case for the teams themselves. Many Mexican clubs bought in masses of foreign players – mainly South American, and here primarily Argentinean and Brazilian, players – who produced so-called legionnaires’ troops by the dozen. Only Club Deportivo Guadalajara vehemently resisted this trend and signed only players born in Mexico. With this self-commitment, he also resisted the new habit of naturalising foreign players after the Mexican Football Association imposed a limit on foreign players.
For the last time in the 1969/70 season, an overall annual table was valid in Mexico at the end of the season, such as in the Bundesliga. Since then, the championship has been played in various variations. If no championship or runner-up championship could be achieved and the team in question did not reach its best position until the later epoch, the position stated here was determined on the basis of an overall annual table, as is customary in most countries.
Necaxa and Atlético Español are basically the same club as Oro and Jalisco. Their respective renaming was related to a transfer of ownership, which is why they were legally different clubs. Therefore, they are listed separately in the table above. On the other hand, pure name changes, such as from Atlético Morelia to Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia (1999) or UAG Tecos or Tecos de la UAG to Estudiantes Tecos (2009), are not considered as two separate clubs and are therefore listed only once in each case.
- As a non-certified team, the cafeteros were not allowed to take part in the promotion and with a payment of 6 million US dollars, the Lobos BUAP, who had been relegated to sports, bought themselves further membership in the first league. (cf. season report 2017/18 at RSSSF)
- La Piedad did not notice the rise, but sold his license to the CD Veracruz.
- Querétaro escaped relegation by purchasing a license and San Luis FC finally left the league.
- Unión de Curtidores were not allowed to take advantage of his promotion as his license was sold. After the 1998/99 season, the first league licence of their city rivals Club León was sold to Puebla FC, who were relegated to the league, and the Club León players were transferred to Unión de Curtidores. This decision led to massive fan protests on the part of Club León. To reassure the situation, the sporting authorities decided to let Club León continue to play in the first division and to withdraw Unión de Curtidores from it. (cf. 1998/99 season report on RSSSF)
- Potros Neza did not notice the rise, but sold his license to the CD Veracruz.
Audience figures
In Apertura 2018, the average number of spectators per match was 22,896, making the MX League one of the most watched football leagues in the world. UANL Tigres (40,995) and CD Cruz Azul (35,999) had the highest average number of spectators.