2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX season

The 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX season was the 3rd and 4th edition of the second level professional division of Mexican football. The season was divided into two short tournaments, which was called Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022, each tournament with an identical format and contested by the same 17 participating clubs. It was started on 27 July 2021 and ended on 14 May 2022.

Liga de Expansión MX

Season	2021–22
Champions	Apertura 2021 Atlante (1st title) Clausura 2022: Morelia (1st title)
Matches played	272 Apertura: 136 Clausura: 136
Goals scored	630 (2.32 per match) Apertura: 327 (2.4 per match) Clausura: 303 (2.23 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura 2021: Raúl Zúñiga (12 goals) Clausura 2022: Juan Angulo Juan José Machado Óscar Villa (8 goals)
Biggest home win	Apertura 2021: Atlante 3–0 UAT (1 August 2021) Tampico Madero 3–0 Venados (10 August 2021) Celaya 3–0 Tlaxcala (17 August 2021) Sinaloa 4–1 Sonora (18 August 2021) Zacatecas 3–0 UAT (7 September 2021) UdeG 3–0 Tapatío (15 September 2021) Raya2 4–1 Tlaxcala (5 October 2021) Sinaloa 4–1 Raya2 (15 October 2021) Sonora 3–0 Tlaxcala (20 October 2021) Sinaloa 3–0 Venados (27 October 2021) Venados 3–0 Tapatío (17 November 2021) Clausura 2022: Celaya 5–0 Tapatío (25 March 2022)
Biggest away win	Apertura 2021: Tapatío 0–3 Atlético Morelia (19 August 2021) Tapatío 1–4 Atlante (26 September 2021) Zacatecas 1–4 Sinaloa (29 September 2021) Tepatitlán 0–3 Sonora (17 October 2021) Clausura 2022: Pumas Tabasco 0–5 Zacatecas (9 January 2022)
Highest scoring	Apertura 2021: Tampico Madero 3–3 UAT (9 October 2021) Clausura 2022: Zacatecas 3–4 Tlaxcala (27 March 2022)
Longest winning run	Apertura 2021: 6 matches Sinaloa Clausura 2022: 7 matches Zacatecas
Longest unbeaten run	Apertura 2021: 14 matches Sinaloa Clausura 2022: 9 matches Venados Zacatecas
Longest winless run	Apertura 2021: 7 matches Oaxaca Tepatitlán Clausura 2022: 10 matches Raya2
Longest losing run	Apertura 2021: 4 matches Zacatecas Clausura 2022: 5 matches Sinaloa
Highest attendance	Apertura 2021: 10,577 Raya2 vs Tampico Madero (7 September 2021) Clausura 2022: 10,521 Atlético Morelia vs Sinaloa (3 March 2022)
Lowest attendance	Apertura 2021: 189 Tapatío vs Atlético Morelia (19 August 2021) Clausura 2022: 30 UAT vs Sinaloa (9 January 2022)
Total attendance	Apertura 2021: 184,920 Clausura 2022: 195,069
Average attendance	Apertura 2021: 1,849 Clausura 2022: 1,599
← 2020–21 2022–23 → Stats are from the regular season only

Changes from the previous season

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] The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.^{[citation needed]}

At first it was reported that the Irapuato were promoted from the Liga Premier de México in 2021.^[2] However, on 3 June 2021, the Mexican Football Federation announced the opening of a selection process to choose the club that would occupy the Liga Premier 3 place,^[3] because Irapuato must still meet some requirements to compete in the Liga de Expansión MX,^[4] three Liga Premier clubs (Durango, Irapuato and Matamoros), were chosen for an audit process that would determine the winner of the promotion. On 5 July 2021, it was confirmed that no team undergoing the certification audit approved the procedure, so there will be no club promoted from the Liga Premier, finally, the Liga de Expansión will be play with 17 teams.^[5]

As of this season, C.F. Monterrey will have its own team participating in the Liga de Expansión MX,^[6] which will be called Raya2.^[7]

As of 2021 Tepatitlán F.C. will be considered as a full member team of the Liga de Expansión MX, leaving the status of guest club with which it participated in the previous season.^[6]

The league format will be modified, with the top four ranked teams from the tournament general table advancing directly to the quarter–finals, while clubs ranked between fifth and twelfth place will play the reclassification round.^[6]

Stadiums and locations

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Atlante	Mexico City	Ciudad de los Deportes	33,000
Atlético Morelia	Morelia, Michoacán	Morelos	35,000
Cancún	Cancún, Quintana Roo	Andrés Quintana Roo	18,844
Celaya	Celaya, Guanajuato	Miguel Alemán Valdés	23,182
Oaxaca	Oaxaca City, Oaxaca	Tecnológico de Oaxaca	14,598
Pumas Tabasco	Villahermosa, Tabasco	Olímpico de Villahermosa	12,000
Raya2	Monterrey, Nuevo León	BBVA	53,500
Sinaloa	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Dorados	20,108
Sonora	Hermosillo, Sonora	Héroe de Nacozari	18,747
Tampico Madero	Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas	Tamaulipas	19,667
Tapatío	Zapopan, Jalisco	Akron	49,850
Tepatitlán	Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco	Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez	8,085
Tlaxcala	Tlaxcala City, Tlaxcala	Tlahuicole	11,135
UAT	Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	Marte R. Gómez	10,520
UdeG	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco	55,020
Venados	Mérida, Yucatán	Carlos Iturralde	15,087
Zacatecas	Zacatecas City, Zacatecas	Carlos Vega Villalba	20,068

Atlante

Atl. Morelia

Cancún

Celaya

Oaxaca

Pumas Tabasco

Sinaloa

Sonora

Raya2

Tampico Madero

Tapatío
UdeG

Tepatitlán

Tlaxcala

UAT

Venados

Zacatecas

Location of teams in the 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
Atlante	Jorge Santillana	Mario García Covalles	Humberto Hernández	UIN Sports	Betcris
Atlético Morelia	José Luis Higuera	Ricardo Valiño	Arturo Ledesma	Keuka	Akron, Axen Capital
Cancún	José Luis Orantes Costanzo	Federico Vilar	Armando Zamorano	Nike	Cancún, Riviera Maya
Celaya	Carlos Benavides Escardó	Israel Hernández	Leobardo López	Keuka	Bachoco
Oaxaca	Juan Carlos Jones	Jorge Manrique	Juan Portales	Silver Sport	Patsa, Romasa, Bunker
Pumas Tabasco	Ramón Neme	Raúl Alpizar (Interim)	Édgar Alaffita	Nike	DHL
Raya2	Duilio Davino	Héctor Becerra (Interim)	William Mejía	Puma
Sinaloa	José Antonio Núñez	Rafael García	Hiram Muñoz	Charly	Coppel, Caliente, Sukarne
Sonora	Juan Pablo Rojo	Gabriel Pereyra	José Saavedra	Keuka	Caliente
Tampico Madero	Carlos Gutiérrez Riera	Gerardo Espinoza	Óscar Manzanarez	Charly	Nexum, TSH Systems
Tapatío	Amaury Vergara	Joaquín Moreno (Interim)	José González	Puma	Caliente
Tepatitlán	Víctor Flores Cosío	Bruno Marioni	Luis Robles	Sporelli	Pacífica
Tlaxcala	Rafael Torre Mendoza	Jonathan Estrada (Interim)	Efrén Mendoza	Keuka	Providencia, Tlaxcala
UAT	Felipe del Ángel Malibrán	Héctor Altamirano	Rodolfo Salinas	Silver Sport	RVG Combustibles
UdeG	José Alberto Castellanos Gutiérrez	Alfonso Sosa	José Hernández	Sporelli	Electrolit
Venados	Rodolfo Rosas Cantillo	Carlos Gutiérrez	Alfonso Luna	Spiro	Yucatán
Zacatecas	Eduardo López Muñoz	Omar Alexis Moreno	Sergio Ceballos	Spiro	Fresnillo plc

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table	Ref.
Pre-Apertura changes
UAT	Hibert Ruíz	Sacked	16 April 2021	Daniel Alcántar	21 May 2021	Preseason	[8][9]
Cancún	Christian Giménez	Mutual agreement	6 May 2021	Federico Vilar	1 June 2021		[10][11]
Tlaxcala	Irving Rubirosa	Mutual agreement	28 May 2021	Silvio Rudman	4 June 2021		[12][13]
Apertura changes
UAT	Daniel Alcántar	Resigned	19 August 2021	Francisco Rotllán	19 August 2021	7th	[14][15]
Tlaxcala	Silvio Rudman	Mutual agreement	27 August 2021	Juan Antonio Torres	28 August 2021	14th	[16][17]
UdeG	Jorge Dávalos	Sacked	6 September 2021	Alfonso Sosa	7 September 2021	17th	[18][19]
Tapatío	Alberto Coyote	Sacked	17 September 2021	Ricardo Cadena	20 September 2021	17th	[20][21]
Oaxaca	Oscar Fernando Torres	Resigned	1 October 2021	Jorge Manrique	1 October 2021	17th	[22]
UAT	Francisco Rotllán	Sacked	13 October 2021	Jorge Urbina	13 October 2021	14th	[23]
Clausura changes
Tepatitlán	Paco Ramírez	Mutual agreement	3 February 2022	Bruno Marioni	4 February 2022	16th	[24][25]
UAT	Jorge Urbina	Sacked	8 February 2022	Héctor Altamirano	9 February 2022	11th	[26][27]
Raya2	Aldo de Nigris	Signed as assistant in Monterrey	3 March 2022	Héctor Becerra (Interim)	4 March 2022	11th	[28][29]
Pumas Tabasco	Alejandro Pérez Macías	Sacked	18 March 2022	Raúl Alpizar (Interim)	18 March 2022	16th	[30][31]
Tlaxcala	Juan Antonio Torres	Sacked	20 March 2022	Jonathan Estrada (Interim)[note 1]	22 March 2022	15th	[32][33][34]
Tapatío	Ricardo Cadena	Signed as Guadalajara interim manager	14 April 2022	Joaquín Moreno (Interim)	15 April 2022	9th	[35][36]

Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2021 was the second tournament of the season and the 3rd edition of the competition. The tournament was renamed Torneo Apertura Grita México 2021 with the intention of encouraging fans in the stands not to scream an offensive chant after a goal kick.^[37] The tournament started on 27 July and ended on 18 December 2021.

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Ext	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sinaloa	16	11	4	1	4	34	13	+21	41	Qualification to the quarter-finals[a]
2	Atlante (C)	16	9	4	3	2	22	9	+13	33
3	Atlético Morelia	16	8	4	4	4	22	18	+4	32
4	Celaya	16	7	4	5	3	20	16	+4	28
5	Pumas Tabasco	16	5	8	3	5	16	15	+1	28	Qualification to the Reclassification[b]
6	UdeG	16	7	4	5	2	21	18	+3	27
7	Tampico Madero	16	4	10	2	2	23	18	+5	24
8	Sonora	16	6	3	7	3	22	22	0	24
9	Venados	16	6	3	7	2	17	19	−2	23
10	Zacatecas	16	6	1	9	3	24	28	−4	22
11	UAT	16	5	4	7	1	19	27	−8	20
12	Tepatitlán	16	4	6	6	1	17	20	−3	19
13	Tlaxcala	16	4	6	6	1	15	20	−5	19
14	Raya2	16	4	5	7	1	16	18	−2	18
15	Oaxaca	16	3	7	6	0	13	16	−3	16
16	Tapatío	16	3	5	8	2	11	27	−16	16
17	Cancún	16	3	4	9	2	14	22	−8	15

Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. The Teams ranked from 1st to 4th place qualify to the Liguilla quarter-finals.
2. The Teams ranked from 5th to 12th place qualify to the Repechage.

Positions by round

	Qualification to quarter-finals
	Qualification to repechaje.
	Last place in table

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Sinaloa	7	5	5	3	1	1	1	1†	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Atlante	3	1	4	1	4	2	2	2	1	2	2	3†	3	2	2	2	2
Atlético Morelia	6	14	10	5	2	5†	5	4	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3
Celaya	1	3	7	4	7	8	6	6	6†	9	6	4	5	6	7	6	4
Pumas Tabasco	12	2	6†	2	5	3	4	3	4	4	4	6	6	4	4	5	5
UdeG	14	16	16	14	14	17	17†	16	14	8	9	10	8	8	5	4	6
Tampico Madero	4	7	2	8†	6	4	3	5	5	6	8	9	9	9	9	8	7
Sonora	11	4	1	6	8†	10	10	12	8	5	7	5	4	5	6	7	8
Venados	15	9	13	13	13	12	7	10	10	13	12	8	7	7	8	9†	9
Zacatecas	5	6	8	11	12	15	12	14	12	15	15†	16	16	14	11	12	10
UAT	17	10	3	7	9	7	11	13	15	14	13	15	15†	15	16	13	11
Tepatitlán	13†	15	11	9	3	6	8	11	11	10	10	12	11	11	13	15	12
Tlaxcala	8	12	14	16	16	16	14	8	9	11†	14	14	14	16	12	10	13
Raya2	16	17	12	10	10	9	9	7	7	7	5	7	10	10†	10	11	14
Oaxaca	10	13	15	15	15	14	16	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	14	15†
Tapatío	9	11	17	17	17	13	15	17	17	16	16	11	13	13	15†	16	16
Cancún	2	8†	9	12	11	11	13	9	13	12	11	13	12	12	14	17	17

Updated to match(es) played on 18 November 2021. Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Notes: † indicates team rested that round

Results

Each team plays once all other teams in 16 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Home \ Away	ATL	ATM	CAN	CEL	OAX	PUM	RAY	SIN	SON	TAM	TAP	TEP	TLA	UAT	UDG	VEN	ZAS
Atlante	—	—	1–0	1–1	—	—	2–1	0–1	—	—	—	1–0	—	3–0	2–0	2–1	—
Atlético Morelia	1–0	—	—	2–1	1–0	0–1	—	—	2–2	—	—	2–2	1–3	2–1	—	—	2–2
Cancún	—	0–1	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	2–2	1–1	—	—	—	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–1
Celaya	—	—	3–1	—	1–0	1–2	—	2–2	1–0	0–0	—	—	3–0	—	—	—	—
Oaxaca	0–0	—	—	—	—	—	0–0	—	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	—	2–1	—	—	2–1
Pumas Tabasco	0–2	—	0–0	—	0–0	—	—	0–2	—	—	—	1–1	—	—	0–0	1–1	—
Raya2	—	0–1	1–2	1–0	—	1–1	—	—	—	0–0	2–0	—	4–1	—	0–1	—	0–1
Sinaloa	—	3–1	2–0	—	2–1	—	4–1	—	4–1	0–3	—	0–0	—	3–1	—	3–0	—
Sonora	2–0	—	—	—	—	2–1	1–2	—	—	—	0–0	—	3–0	0–1	—	—	1–3
Tampico Madero	1–1	1–1	—	—	—	1–1	—	—	1–2	—	1–1	—	0–2	3–3	3–2	3–0	—
Tapatío	1–4	0–3	1–1	1–1	—	1–2	—	1–3	—	—	—	1–0	—	—	—	—	—
Tepatitlán	—	—	1–2	0–1	—	—	1–1	—	0–3	1–1	—	—	—	—	2–1	2–0	3–2
Tlaxcala	0–0	—	3–1	—	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	—	—	2–0	0–0	—	—	—	—	0–2
UAT	—	—	—	1–0	—	0–2	2–1	—	—	—	2–2	2–1	1–1	—	2–2	1–2	—
UdeG	—	2–1	—	1–2	1–1	—	—	0–0	3–2	—	3–0	—	1–0	—	—	—	—
Venados	—	0–1	—	1–2	1–1	—	1–1	—	2–0	—	3–0	—	1–0	—	0–1	—	3–1
Zacatecas	0–3	—	—	3–1	—	1–2	—	1–4	—	1–2	0–1	—	—	3–0	2–1	—	—

Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Rank Player Club Goals 1 Raúl Zúñiga Sinaloa 12 2 Martín Barragán Atlético Morelia 8 3 Omar Islas Pumas Tabasco 6 Víctor Mañón Tepatitlán Eduardo Pérez Tampico Madero Diego Pineda UAT Paolo Yrizar Sinaloa 8 Diego Abella Atlético Morelia 5 Armando Escobar Atlante Marco Granados UdeG Diego Jiménez Celaya Ignacio Lago Tlaxcala Source:Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Round Reference (H) – Home; (A) – Away

Attendance

Per team

	Home match played behind closed doors
	Away match
	Rest week
	Highest attended match
	Lowest attended match
PPD	Match postponed

Team	Week																	Total Att	Avg.	Total Pld
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Atlante	3,465	2,345		2,377		2,904		2,152		2,106					2,298		3,123	20,770	2,596	8
Atlético Morelia									3,248		6,329		5,451	3,675				18,703	4,676	4
Cancún			2,558		2,257		2,448		1,993	1,997		2,122		1,937		1,988		17,300	2,162	8
Celaya		1,627		1,319		1,464					1,157		1,386		2,472			9,425	1,570	6
Oaxaca												2,123		2,113	1,234			5,470	1,823	3
Pumas Tabasco	891															421		1,312	656	2
Raya2	1,195		541		1,025		10,577		1,496		2,742		1,102		2,026		1,571	22,275	2,475	9
Sinaloa											2,833	2,923		2,982		3,233		11,971	2,992	4
Sonora	918							1,389		1,318			1,032		1,518		1,317	7,492	1,248	6
Tampico Madero																		0	0	0
Tapatío		226		189		267			210		241		274			275		1,682	240	7
Tepatitlán			487				458	669		563		614		651			2,499	5,941	742	8
Tlaxcala	2,400		2,047		1,776		947		1,266			2,806			1,785		2,578	15,605	1,950	8
UAT		574		870								537		790		1,563		4,334	866	5
UdeG			255		1,567			1,794		1,402		1,084		1,206		4,854		12,162	1,737	7
Venados	3,433	3,012		3,257		2,686		2,037			2,778		3,756		4,375		3,070	28,404	3,156	9
Zacatecas		354		475		507	520			1,134		520		980		2,150		6,640	830	8
Total	12,302	8,138	5,888	8,487	6,625	7,828	14,950	8,041	8,213	8,520	16,080	12,729	13,001	14,334	15,708	14,484	14,158	184,920	1,849	100

Source: Liga de Expansión MX

Highest and lowest

Highest attended					Lowest attended[a]
Week	Home	Score	Away	Attendance	Home	Score	Away	Attendance
1	Atlante	3–0	UAT	3,465	Pumas Tabasco	0–0	Oaxaca	891
2	Venados	1–0	Tlaxcala	3,012	Tapatío	1–2	Pumas Tabasco	226
3	Cancún	0–1	UAT	2,558	U. de G.	0–0	Sinaloa	255
4	Venados	1–1	Raya2	3,257	Tapatío	1–2	Atlético Morelia	189
5	Cancún	3–1	Zacatecas	2,257	Raya2	1–0	Celaya	1,025
6	Atlante	2–0	U. de G.	2,904	Tapatío	1–0	Tepatitlán	267
7	Raya2	0–0	Tampico Madero	10,577	Tepatitlán	0–1	Celaya	458
8	Atlante	1–1	Celaya	2,152	Sonora	1–2	Raya2	1,389
9	Atlético Morelia	1–0	Oaxaca	3,248	Tapatío	1–4	Atlante	210
10	Atlante	2–1	Venados	2,106	Tepatitlán	1–1	Raya2	563
11	Atlético Morelia	1–0	Atlante	6,329	Tapatío	1–1	Cancún	241
12	Sinaloa	1–1	Raya2	2,923	Zacatecas	0–1	Tapatío	520
13	Atlético Morelia	2–2	Tepatitlán	5,451	Tapatío	1–3	Sinaloa	274
14	Atlético Morelia	0–1	Pumas Tabasco	3,675	Tepatitlán	1–1	Tampico Madero	651
15	Venados	0–1	U. de G.	4,375	Oaxaca	2–1	UAT	1,234
16	U. de G.	3–2	Sonora	4,854	Tapatío	1–1	Celaya	275
17	Atlante	0–1	Sinaloa	3,123	Sonora	0–1	UAT	1,317

Source: Liga de Expansión MX

1. ^
   Does not include matches played behind closed doors.

Final phase

Reclassification

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Pumas Tabasco	0–1	Tepatitlán
UdeG	2–1	UAT
Tampico Madero	2–1	Zacatecas
Sonora	1–2	Venados

• All rounds are played in a single game hosted by a higher seed
• If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Matches

Tampico Madero	2–1	Zacatecas
Mireles 34' (o.g.) Pérez 90+3'	Report	Hernández 59'

23 November 2021

18:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas

Referee: Martín Molina Astorga (Nuevo León)

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Pumas Tabasco	0–1	Tepatitlán
	Report	Angulo 35'

23 November 2021

20:15 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Olímpico de Villahermosa, Villahermosa

Attendance: 1,322

Referee: Ismael Rosario Lopez (Sinaloa)

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Sonora	1–2	Venados
Saavedra 88'	Report	López 42' Luna 54'

23 November 2021

21:15 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Héroe de Nacozari, Hermosillo

Attendance: 2,394

Referee: Jesus Rafael Lopez (Sinaloa)

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UdeG	2–1	UAT
Granados 35' Jaramillo 76'	Report	A. Sánchez 15'

24 November 2021

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Attendance: 3,871

Referee: Jorge Abraham Camacho (Jalisco)

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	2	Atlante	2	0	2
	7	Venados	0	0	0
								2	Atlante	1	2	3
								4	Celaya	0	2	2
	4	Celaya	0	3	3
	5	UdeG	1	0	1
															2	Atlante	0	3	3
															6	Tampico Madero	0	0	0
	1	Sinaloa	1	1	2
	8	Tepatitlán	0	0	0
								1	Sinaloa	0	0	0
								6	Tampico Madero	1	1	2
	3	Atlético Morelia	2	0	2
	6	Tampico Madero	2	2	4

• Teams are re-seeded each round.
• The winners of the Repechage matches will be seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
• Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
• In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advances.
• In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, the match goes to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
• The champion qualifies to the Campeón de Campeones match against the Clausura 2022 champion.^{[citation needed]}

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 1–2 December, and the second legs were played on 4–5 December.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tepatitlán	0–2	Sinaloa	0–1	1–0
Venados	0–2	Atlante	0–2	0–0
Tampico Madero	4–2	Atlético Morelia	2–2	0–2
UdeG	1–3	Celaya	1–0	3–0

First leg

Tampico Madero	2–2	Atlético Morelia
Reyes 66' (pen.) Loroña 72'	Report	Acosta 11' Vergara 50'

30 November 2021

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas

Attendance: 7,345

Referee: Mario Terrazas Chávez (Estado de México)

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UdeG	1–0	Celaya
Godínez 77'	Report

30 November 2021

21:05 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Attendance: 7,195

Referee: Maximiliano Quintero Hernández (Veracruz)

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Tepatitlán	0–1	Sinaloa
	Report	Betancourt 75'

1 December 2021

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez, Tepatitlán

Attendance: 3,991

Referee: Iván Antonio López (Estado de México)

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Venados	0–2	Atlante
	Report	Partida 8' Escobar 49'

2 December 2021

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Carlos Iturralde, Mérida

Attendance: 9,876

Referee: Vicente Jassiel Reynoso (Nayarit)

Second leg

Atlético Morelia	0–2	Tampico Madero
	Report	Robles 6' Loroña 70'

4 December 2021

17:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 7,345

Referee: Louis Adrian Vielmas (Jalisco)

Tampico Madero won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Sinaloa	1–0	Tepatitlán
Manríquez 90+4'	Report

4 December 2021

18:05 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Dorados, Culiacán

Attendance: 3,203

Referee: Jesus Rafael Lopez (Sinaloa)

Sinaloa won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Atlante	0–0	Venados
	Report

5 December 2021

12:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 4,119

Referee: Ismael Rosario Lopez (Sinaloa)

Atlante won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Celaya	3–0	UdeG
D. Jiménez 3' Marín 37', 90+3'	Report

5 December 2021

17:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés, Celaya

Attendance: 0^{[note 2]}

Referee: Áxel Meza Méndez (Michoacán)

Celaya won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 8–9 December, and the second legs were played on 11–12 December.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tampico Madero	2–0	Sinaloa	1–0	0–1
Celaya	2–3	Atlante	0–1	2–2

First leg

Tampico Madero	1–0	Sinaloa
Reyes 23'	Report

8 December 2021

18:30 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas

Attendance: 7,952

Referee: Jorge Abraham Camacho (Jalisco)

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Celaya	0–1	Atlante
	Report	Costa 21'

9 December 2021

19:30 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés, Celaya

Attendance: 6,508

Referee: Mario Terrazas Chávez (State of Mexico)

Second leg

Sinaloa	0–1	Tampico Madero
	Report	Medina 19'

11 December 2021

20:00 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Dorados, Culiacán

Attendance: 4,253

Referee: Louis Adrian Vielmas (Jalisco)

Tampico Madero won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Atlante	2–2	Celaya
Escobar 83' Figueroa 90+5'	Report	Illescas 77', 89'

12 December 2021

12:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 5,972

Referee: Jesus Rafael Lopez (Sinaloa)

Atlante won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

The first leg was played on 15 December, and the second leg will be played on 18 December.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tampico Madero	0–3	Atlante	0–0	0–3

First leg

Tampico Madero	0–0	Atlante
	Report

15 December 2021

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico/Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas

Attendance: 8,578

Referee: Ismael Rosario Lopez (Sinaloa)

Second leg

Atlante	3–0	Tampico Madero
Costa 53', 56' Bermúdez 77'	Report

18 December 2021

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 17,780

Referee: Jorge Abraham Camacho (Jalisco)

Atlante won 3–0 on aggregate.

Champions
Atlante 1st title

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura 2022 was the second tournament of the season and the 4th edition of the competition. The tournament started on 5 January and ended on 14 May 2022.

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Ext	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Oaxaca	16	9	4	3	3	21	13	+8	34	Qualification to the quarter-finals[a]
2	UdeG	16	8	5	3	4	21	16	+5	33
3	Celaya	16	7	6	3	3	23	15	+8	30
4	Atlético Morelia	16	7	4	5	2	24	19	+5	27
5	Zacatecas	16	7	3	6	3	23	18	+5	27	Qualification to the Reclassification[b]
6	Cancún	16	7	2	7	3	15	17	−2	26
7	Atlante	16	6	5	5	2	15	15	0	25
8	Sonora	16	6	5	5	1	20	14	+6	24
9	Tapatío	16	6	4	6	2	14	16	−2	24
10	Venados	16	5	7	4	1	17	16	+1	23
11	Tepatitlán	16	6	4	6	1	17	17	0	23
12	Tlaxcala	16	6	4	6	1	18	19	−1	23
13	Sinaloa	16	6	1	9	3	16	24	−8	22
14	UAT	16	4	6	6	1	18	21	−3	19
15	Raya2	16	4	5	7	1	14	17	−3	18	Team is last in the relegation table.
16	Pumas Tabasco	16	2	6	8	0	13	25	−12	12
17	Tampico Madero	16	2	5	9	0	14	21	−7	11

Updated to match(es) played on 15 April 2022. Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
Notes:

1. The Teams ranked from 1st to 4th place qualify to the Liguilla quarter-finals.
2. The Teams ranked from 5th to 12th place qualify to the Repechage.

Positions by round

	Leader and qualification to quarter-finals
	Qualification to repechaje.
	Qualification to repechaje.
	Last place in table

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Oaxaca	5	4	5	6	11	6	5	2	3	3	4†	5	1	1	1	1	1
UdeG	11	6	6	10	5	10	11	4	5	5	5	4†	3	2	2	2	2
Celaya	8	13	14	16†	12	8	9	6	7	8	6	9	6	4	3	3	3
Atlético Morelia	1	1	1	2	2	2	4	3	4†	4	3	2	4	5	5	6	4
Zacatecas	15	17	16	11	9	4	3	5†	2	1	1	1	2	3	4	4	5
Cancún	16	8	10	15	16	13	10	11	12	9	11	7	10†	10	7	5	6
Atlante	13	12	12	14	8	3	2	7	8	7†	7	10	8	9	9	10	7
Sonora	9	15	17	12	7	5	7†	10	11	10	9	6	7	7	10	12	8
Tapatío	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	5	6	6†	7	9
Venados	6	7†	8	8	14	14	14	14	10	12	8	8	9	8	8	8	10
Tepatitlán	7	9	11†	13	15	16	16	16	16	14	15	14	15	12	12	9	11
Tlaxcala	16	14	7	7	6	11†	12	13	14	15	14	15	13	11	11	13	12
Sinaloa	2	5	3	4	4	9	6	8	6	6	10	11	11	14	15	11	13†
UAT	12	11	13	5	10	12	13	12	13	13	13	13	14	13	13	14†	14
Raya2	3	3	4	3	3	7	8	9	9	11	12	12	12	15†	14	15	15
Pumas Tabasco	14	16	9	9	13†	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Tampico Madero	10†	10	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17

Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Notes: † indicates team rested that round

Results

Each team plays once all other teams in 16 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Home \ Away	ATL	ATM	CAN	CEL	OAX	PUM	RAY	SIN	SON	TAM	TAP	TEP	TLA	UAT	UDG	VEN	ZAS
Atlante	—	2–0	—	—	1–0	0–0	—	—	1–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	—	—	—	2–1
Atlético Morelia	—	—	4–1	—	—	—	1–0	2–0	—	2–1	1–2	—	—	—	0–1	2–2	—
Cancún	1–2	—	—	2–0	—	2–2	0–0	1–2	—	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	—	—	—	—
Celaya	1–1	2–2	—	—	—	—	2–1	—	—	—	5–0	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1
Oaxaca	—	1–1	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	—	5–1	—	—	—	—	2–1	—	1–1	1–0	—
Pumas Tabasco	—	0–1	—	0–1	—	—	0–1	—	2–2	2–0	2–1	—	0–0	1–2	—	—	0–5
Raya2	0–1	—	—	—	2–0	—	—	0–1	1–0	—	—	0–2	—	3–3	—	3–3	—
Sinaloa	2–1	—	—	0–2	—	4–1	—	—	—	—	0–2	—	2–0	—	0–1	—	0–1
Sonora	—	3–0	0–1	3–2	0–1	—	—	2–0	—	1–0	—	2–0	—	—	2–3	1–1	—
Tampico Madero	—	—	1–2	2–2	1–1	—	0–0	1–1	—	—	—	3–1	—	—	—	—	1–0
Tapatío	—	—	—	—	0–1	—	1–2	—	0–0	2–1	—	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Tepatitlán	2–1	2–1	—	—	1–2	1–0	—	2–0	—	—	1–0	—	1–1	1–1	—	—	—
Tlaxcala	—	0–4	—	0–1	—	—	2–1	—	1–0	1–0	—	—	—	4–0	1–2	1–0	—
UAT	2–0	1–1	0–1	—	0–1	—	—	1–2	0–2	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–0
UdeG	3–1	—	1–0	—	—	3–1	0–0	—	—	1–1	—	2–1	—	0–3	—	0–1	2–3
Venados	1–0	—	1–0	—	—	2–2	—	2–1	—	2–1	—	0–0	—	2–2	—	—	—
Zacatecas	—	1–2	1–0	—	4–2	—	1–0	—	1–1	—	—	1–0	3–4	—	—	0–0	—

Source: Liga de Expansión MX
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Regular season statistics

Top goalscorers Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Rank Player Club Goals 1 Juan Angulo Tepatitlán 8 Juan José Machado Raya2 Óscar Villa Sonora 4 Jesús Ramírez Atlético Morelia 7 5 Ricardo Marín Celaya 6 6 Daniel Delgadillo Cancún 5 Rafael Durán Celaya Diego Jiménez Celaya José Ángel López Zacatecas Jorge Sánchez Oaxaca Source:Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Héctor Mascorro Zacatecas Pumas Tanasco 5–0 (A) 2 March 2022 (H) – Home; (A) – Away

Attendance

Per team

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Atlético Morelia	30,897	10,521	5,741	7,724	+65.2%3
2	Oaxaca	23,971	4,329	1,874	2,996	+64.3%†
3	Tlaxcala	23,767	5,637	1,040	2,971	+52.4%†
4	Venados	15,643	3,356	2,252	2,607	−17.4%1
5	Sinaloa	9,205	1,633	1,433	1,534	−48.7%1
6	UdeG	12,238	2,476	852	1,530	−11.9%1
7	Celaya	12,019	2,410	1,100	1,502	−4.3%1
8	Atlante	10,215	2,703	922	1,459	−43.8%1
9	UAT	6,494	2,537	30	1,299	+50.0%3
10	Sonora	9,695	2,238	887	1,212	−2.9%1
11	Cancún	8,597	2,987	333	1,075	−50.3%†
12	Tepatitlán	7,923	2,022	579	990	+33.4%†
13	Zacatecas	7,750	1,876	367	969	+16.7%†
14	Tampico Madero	5,385	1,551	636	898	n/a1
15	Pumas Tabasco	5,342	1,319	364	702	+7.0%1
16	Raya2	3,229	1,153	204	461	−81.4%†
17	Tapatío	2,699	553	214	337	+40.4%1
	League total	195,069	10,521	30	1,599	−13.5%†

Source: Liga Expansión MX
Notes:
The number listed represents the amount of home matches the club played behind closed doors.

Highest and lowest

Highest attended					Lowest attended[a]
Week	Home	Score	Away	Attendance	Home	Score	Away	Attendance
1	Tlaxcala	0–4	Atlético Morelia	3,744	UAT	1–2	Sinaloa	30
2	Sinaloa	0–2	Tapatío	1,533	Raya2	1–0	Cimarrones	298
3	Oaxaca	1–1	UdeG	4,329	Tapatío	1–0	Venados	214
4	Venados	2–2	Pumas Tabasco	2,394	Tepatitlán	1–1	Tlaxcala	579
5	Oaxaca	1–1	Atlético Morelia	3,245	Tapatío	2–1	Tampico Madero	328
6	Venados	2–2	UAT	2,478	Raya2	0–1	Atlante	352
7	Oaxaca	1–0	Venados	3,825	Tapatío	1–1	Tlaxcala	369
8	Tlaxcala	0–1	Celaya	5,637	Sonora	0–1	Oaxaca	916
9	Atlante	0–0	Pumas Tabasco	1,733	Tapatío	0–0	Sonora	292
10	Atlético Morelia	2–0	Sinaloa	10,521	Pumas Tabasco	0–5	Zacatecas	364
11	Matches were played behind closed doors due to the Querétaro–Atlas riot
12	Atlético Morelia	2–1	Tampico Madero	7,410	Raya2	0–1	Sinaloa	342
13	Venados	0–0	Tepatitlán	2,410	Pumas Tabasco	2–2	Sonora	375
14	Atlético Morelia	0–1	UdeG	7,225	Cancún FC	2–2	Pumas Tabasco	1,234
15	Venados	2–1	Sinaloa	3,356	Atlante	1–0	Oaxaca	922
16	Atlético Morelia	2–2	Venados	5,741	Raya2	0–2	Tepatitlán	204
17	Tlaxcala	1–0	Tampico Madero	4,673	Tapatío	1–2	Raya2	291

Source: Liga Expansión MX

1. ^
   Does not include matches played behind closed doors.

Final phase

Reclassification

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Zacatecas	2–0	Tlaxcala
Cancún	2–2 (4–1 p)	Tepatitlán
Atlante	1–0	Venados
Sonora	2–1	Tapatío

• All rounds are played in a single game hosted by a higher seed
• If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Matches

Zacatecas	2–0	Tlaxcala
Mascorro 16' Monreal 82'	Report

20 April 2022

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Carlos Vega Villalba, Zacatecas

Attendance: 2,190

Referee: Andrés Esquivel González (Mexico City)

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Atlante	1–0	Venados
Domínguez 10'	Report

21 April 2022

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 2,307

Referee: Maximiliano Quintero Hernández (Veracruz)

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Cancún	2–2	Tepatitlán
Pérez 59' Zaragoza 62'	Report	Angulo 25' (pen.) Alvarado 84' (pen.)
Penalties
Uscanga Delgadillo Pérez Landa	4–1	Robles Alvarado Mañón

21 April 2022

19:10 EST (UTC−5)

Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancún

Attendance: 3,565

Referee: Martín Molina Astorga (Nuevo León)

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Sonora	2–1	Tapatío
Villa 90+1' Peralta 90+4'	Report	Gómez 85'

21 April 2022

19:10 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Héroe de Nacozari, Hermosillo

Attendance: 4,275

Referee: Áxel Meza Méndez (Michoacán)

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	4	Atlético Morelia (s)	3	2	5
	5	Zacatecas	3	2	5
								4	Atlético Morelia	0	1	1
								7	Atlante	0	0	0
	2	UdeG	0	1	1
	7	Atlante	2	2	4
															4	Atlético Morelia	0	2	2
															8	Sonora	0	0	0
	3	Celaya	1	2	3
	6	Cancún	0	1	1
								3	Celaya	0	1	1
								8	Sonora	1	1	2
	1	Oaxaca	0	0	0
	8	Sonora	1	0	1

• Teams are re-seeded each round.
• The winners of the Repechage matches will be seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
• Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
• In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advances.
• In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, the match goes to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
• The champion qualifies to the Campeón de Campeones match against the Clausura 2022 champion.^{[citation needed]}

Quarter-finals

The first legs will be played between 26 and 28 April, and the second legs will be played between 29 April–1 May.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sonora	1–0	Oaxaca	1–0 w/o	0–0
Atlante	4–1	UdeG	2–0	2–1
Cancún	1–3	Celaya	0–1	1–2
Zacatecas	5–5 (s)	Atlético Morelia	3–3	2–2

First leg

Zacatecas	3–3	Atlético Morelia
Torres 39' (pen.), 71' Poggi 71' (o.g.)	Report	Pérez 5' J. Ramírez 8' Ibarra 86'

26 April 2022 (2022-04-26)

19:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Carlos Vega Villalba, Zacatecas

Attendance: 1,837

Referee: Alejandro Funk Villafañe

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Sonora	1–0 Awarded[note 3]	Oaxaca
Tona 57'	Report

26 April 2022 (2022-04-26)

21:05 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Héroe de Nacozari, Hermosillo

Attendance: 7,421

Referee: Edgar Ulises Rangel (Mexico City)

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Atlante	2–0	UdeG
Partida 58' Costa 68'	Report

28 April 2022 (2022-04-28)

19:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 2,923

Referee: Vicente Jassiel Reynoso (Nayarit)

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Cancún	0–1	Celaya
	Report	Marín 53' (pen.)

28 April 2022 (2022-04-28)

21:05 EST (UTC−5)

Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancún

Attendance: 5,135

Referee: Mario Terrazas Chávez (Estado de México)

Second leg

Atlético Morelia	2–2	Zacatecas
J. Ramírez 45+2' Milke 90+3'	Report	Blanco 25', 66'

29 April 2022 (2022-04-29)

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 10,025

Referee: Louis Adrián Vielmas (Jalisco)

5–5 on aggregate. Atlético Morelia advanced due to being the higher seed in the classification table

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Oaxaca	0–0	Sonora
	Report

30 April 2022 (2022-04-30)

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca

Attendance: 2,783

Referee: Miguel Ángel Anaya (Michoacán)

Sonora won 1–0 on aggregate.

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UdeG	1–2	Atlante
González 36'	Report	Domínguez 38' Partida 82' (pen.)

1 May 2022 (2022-05-01)

16:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Attendance: 7,049

Referee: Martín Molina Astorga (Nuevo León)

Atlante won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Celaya	2–1	Cancún
Marín 16' Miranda 18'	Report	Pérez 30'

1 May 2022 (2022-05-01)

18:05 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés, Celaya

Attendance: 7,812

Referee: Juan Andrés Esquivel (Mexico City)

Celaya won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The first legs will be played between 3–5 May, and the second legs will be played between 6–8 May.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sonora	2–1	Celaya	1–0	1–1
Atlante	0–1	Atlético Morelia	0–0	0–1

First leg

Atlante	0–0	Atlético Morelia
	Report

4 May 2022 (2022-05-04)

21:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 4,716

Referee: Áxel Meza Méndez (Michoacán)

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Sonora	1–0	Celaya
Peralta 83'	Report

5 May 2022 (2022-05-05)

20:00 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Héroe de Nacozari, Hermosillo

Attendance: 11,313

Referee: Louis Adrián Vielmas (Jalisco)

Second leg

Atlético Morelia	1–0	Atlante
Acosta 46'	Report

7 May 2022 (2022-05-07)

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 15,656

Referee: Vicente Jassiel Reynoso (Nayarit)

Atlético Morelia won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Celaya	1–1	Sonora
Brasil 35'	Report	Tona 63'

8 May 2022 (2022-05-08)

16:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés, Celaya

Attendance: 9,082

Referee: Miguel Ángel Anaya (Michoacán)

Sonora won 2–1 on aggregate.

Finals

The first leg will be played on 11 May, and the second leg will be played on 14 May.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sonora	0–2	Atlético Morelia	0–0	0–2

First leg

Sonora	0–0	Atlético Morelia
	Report

11 May 2022 (2022-05-11)

19:00 MST (UTC−7)

Estadio Héroe de Nacozari, Hermosillo

Attendance: 16,732

Referee: Áxel Meza Méndez (Michoacán)

Second leg

Atlético Morelia	2–0	Sonora
Pérez 80' Ibarra 90+4'	Report

14 May 2022 (2022-05-14)

17:00 CDT (UTC−5)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 32,870

Referee: Martín Molina Astorga (Nuevo León)

Atlético Morelia won 2–0 on aggregate.

Champions
Morelia 1st title

Campeón de Campeones 2022

The Campeón de Campeones Final is a two-legged playoff and super cup matches between the winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The final would not be played if the same team wins both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The higher ranked team on the aggregate table for the 2021–22 season will play the second leg at home. The winner of the final will receive a prize of $MXN 5 million.

First leg

Atlante	0–1	Atlético Morelia
	Report	J. Ramírez 61'

18 May 2022

19:00 UTC−5

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 3,780

Referee: Louis Adrian Vielmas (Jalisco)

Atlante[38]

Atlético Morelia[38]

GK 20 Humberto Hernández DF 4 Jonathan Sánchez  66' DF 6 Edson Partida  84' DF 14 Rolando González  14' DF 15 Fernando Ramírez MF 28 Elbis MF 18 Christian Bermúdez  66' MF 22 Jesús Venegas MF 27 Armando Escobar  79' MF 29 Pablo Domínguez FW 23 Ramiro Costa  25'  39' Substitutions: GK 1 José Fernández DF 2 Leonardo Vilchis  66' DF 16 Francisco Reyes MF 19 Omar Soto MF 7 Duilio Tejeda  88'  84' MF 8 Jonathan Martínez MF 11 Brian Figueroa MF 25 Eleuterio Jiménez MF 31 Diego Martínez FW 21 Wilson Silva  66' Manager: Mario García

GK 12 Santiago Ramírez DF 2 Miguel Velázquez  87' DF 4 Arturo Ledesma DF 5 Víctor Milke  79' DF 14 Mario Trejo MF 19 Diego Gallegos MF 6 Luis Ernesto Pérez  38'  46' MF 25 Vicente Poggi MF 35 Jassiel Ruiz  77' FW 11 Gael Acosta  27'  46' FW 20 Jesús Ramírez  86' Substitutions: GK 21 Sebastián Huerta DF 28 Ulises Zurita DF 33 Rodrigo Melgarejo MF 8 Javier Ibarra  46' MF 10 Jesse Zamudio MF 18 Alan Sosa MF 7 Sergio Vergara  46' FW 9 Diego Abella FW 15 Juan Gamboa  77' FW 29 Diego Pineda  86' Manager: Ricardo Valiño

Assistant referees: Oscar Yahir Barriga (Michoacán) Jair De Jesús Sosa (Puebla) Fourth official: Maximiliano Quintero Hernández (Veracruz)

Second leg

Atlético Morelia	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Atlante
	Report	Figueroa 45'
Penalties
Ibarra Vergara Acosta Ledesma Sosa Milke	4–5	Jiménez González Partida Soto Hernández Elbis

22 May 2022

16:00 UTC−5

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 13,739

Referee: Juan Andrés Esquivel (Mexico City)

1–1 on aggregate. Atlante won 5–4 on penalty kicks.

Atlético Morelia[39]

Atlante[39]

GK 12 Santiago Ramírez DF 2 Miguel Velázquez  46' DF 4 Arturo Ledesma DF 5 Víctor Milke DF 14 Mario Trejo MF 19 Diego Gallegos MF 6 Luis Ernesto Pérez  21' MF 25 Vicente Poggi  46' MF 35 Jassiel Ruiz  110' FW 11 Gael Acosta  74' FW 20 Jesús Ramírez  88' Substitutions: GK 21 Sebastián Huerta DF 23 Kenneth Jaime DF 28 Ulises Zurita DF 33 Rodrigo Melgarejo MF 8 Javier Ibarra  21' MF 18 Alan Sosa  46' MF 7 Sergio Vergara  46' FW 9 Diego Abella FW 15 Juan Gamboa  110' FW 29 Diego Pineda  88' Manager: Ricardo Valiño

GK 20 Humberto Hernández DF 4 Jonathan Sánchez  45+3' DF 6 Edson Partida DF 14 Rolando González DF 15 Fernando Ramírez  69' MF 28 Elbis MF 11 Brian Figueroa  75'  89' MF 18 Christian Bermúdez  118' MF 22 Jesús Venegas  78'  83' MF 27 Armando Escobar MF 29 Pablo Domínguez  89' Substitutions: GK 1 José Fernández DF 16 Francisco Reyes MF 19 Omar Soto  83' DF 32 José Alberto López MF 7 Duilio Tejeda  69' MF 8 Jonathan Martínez MF 25 Eleuterio Jiménez  118' MF 31 Diego Martínez  89' FW 21 Wilson Silva  89' FW 26 Manuel López Manager: Mario García

Assistant referees: René Ramírez Ayala (Mexico City) Heder Adán Trujillo (Guanajuato) Fourth official: Vicente Jassiel Reynoso (Nayarit)

Champions
Atlante 1st title

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Balón de Oro de la Liga BBVA Expansión MX	Humberto Hernández[40]	Atlante

Coefficient table

As of the 2020–21 season, the promotion and relegation between Liga MX and Liga de Expansión MX (formerly known as Ascenso MX) was suspended, however, the coefficient table will be used to establish the payment of fines that will be used for the development of the clubs of the silver circuit.^[41]

Per Article 24 of the competition regulations, the payment of $MXN3 million from Liga de Expansión clubs will be distributed among the last three positioned in the coefficient table as follows: Last place pays 1.5 million, the penultimate place pays 1 million, and the fifteenth place pays 500 thousand. If any affiliate club or new club from the Liga Premier is ranked in the bottom three at the end of the season, they are exempt from paying any fine and it will not be covered by any other club. Any club that does not pay their corresponding fine, for any reason, will be dissafiliated. The team that finishes last on the table will start the following season with a coefficient of zero. If the last ranked team, which was Pumas Tabasco, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2021–22 season coefficient table, they will be fined an additional $MXN1 million.^[42]

Pos	Team	'19 A Pts	'20 C Pts	'20 G Pts	'21 G Pts	'21 A Pts	'22 C Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	GD	Fine
1	Atlético Morelia[a]	19	13	26	29	28	25	140	81	1.7284	+23	Safe from paying any fine
2	Atlante	20	11	28	22	31	23	135	81	1.6667	+35
3	Celaya	12	13	32	25	25	27	134	81	1.6543	+34
4	Zacatecas	14	20	23	24	19	24	124	81	1.5309	+22
5	Sonora	15	8	28	26	21	23	121	81	1.4938	+18
6	Tepatitlán	Serie A de México		23	22	18	22	85	62	1.3710	–4
7	Sinaloa	14	5	14	18	37	19	107	81	1.3210	–1
8	UdeG	15	13	13	11	25	29	106	81	1.3086	–4
9	Oaxaca	21	6	13	19	16	31	106	81	1.3086	–5
10	Tapatío	Did not exist		21	22	14	22	79	62	1.2742	–12	Exempt from fine
11	Tampico Madero	17	12	23	16	22	11	101	81	1.2469	+5	Safe from paying any fine
12	Tlaxcala	Serie A de México		18	19	18	22	77	62	1.2419	–17	Exempt from fine
13	Cancún[b]	13	3	24	21	13	23	97	81	1.1975	–11	Safe from paying any fine
14	Venados	8	13	16	17	21	22	97	81	1.1975	–20
15	UAT (F)	10	16	13	13	19	18	89	81	1.0988	–27	$MXN500 thousand
16	Pumas Tabasco	Did not exist		0[c]	0[c]	23	12	35	32	1.0938	–11	Exempt from fine
17	Raya2	Did not exist				17	17	34	32	1.0625	–5	Exempt from fine

Last update: 15 April 2022
Rules for fine payment: 1) Fine coefficient; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Fair Play points
F = Fined.
Source: Liga de Expansión

1. ^
   2019–20 points were accumulated as Atlético Zacatepec.
2. ^
   2019–20 as Cafetaleros de Chiapas.
3. ^
   2020–21 accumulated points are not counted towards their relegation coefficient.

Aggregate table

The Aggregate table is the general ranking for the 2021–22 season. This table is a sum of the Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022 tournament standings. The aggregate table is used to determine seeding for the "Campeón de Campeones" Final.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sinaloa	32	17	5	10	50	37	+13	63
2	UdeG	32	15	9	8	42	34	+8	60
3	Atlético Morelia (C, Q)	32	15	8	9	46	37	+9	59	Campeón de Campeones[a]
4	Atlante (C, Q)	32	15	9	8	37	24	+13	58	Campeón de Campeones[b]
5	Celaya	32	14	10	8	43	31	+12	58
6	Oaxaca	32	12	11	9	35	30	+5	50
7	Sonora	32	12	8	12	42	36	+6	48
8	Zacatecas	32	13	4	15	47	46	+1	48
9	Venados	32	11	10	11	34	35	−1	46
10	Tepatitlán	32	10	10	12	34	37	−3	42
11	Tlaxcala	32	10	10	12	33	39	−6	42
12	Cancún	32	10	6	16	29	39	−10	41
13	Pumas Tabasco	32	7	14	11	29	40	−11	40
14	Tapatío	32	9	9	14	25	43	−18	40
15	UAT	32	9	10	13	37	48	−11	39
16	Raya2	32	8	10	14	30	35	−5	36	Team is last in the relegation table.
17	Tampico Madero	32	6	15	11	37	39	−2	35

Source: Liga Expansión MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

1. As Clausura 2022 champions
2. As Apertura 2021 champions

Notes

1. The team originally announced Jorge Villalpando as their interim manager, however they ultimately placed Jonathan Estrada in that position due to paperwork issues. Estrada had originally been announced as a technical assistant.
2. Two match attendance ban due to pitch invasion in the regular season match Celaya vs. Sinaloa.
3. Sonora were given a 1–0 walkover victory due to Oaxaca fielding an ineligible player.

See also

• 2021–22 Liga MX season
• 2021–22 Liga MX Femenil season