2010–11 Mexican Primera División season explained

Competition:	Primera División de México
Season:	2010–11
Winners:	Apertura: Monterrey (4th title) Clausura: UNAM (7th title)
Relegated:	Necaxa
Continentalcup1:	Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	Monterrey UNAM Santos Laguna Morelia
Continentalcup2:	Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:	América San Luis Jaguares
Continentalcup3:	SuperLiga
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:	Pachuca Morelia Puebla UNAM
Matches:	320
Total Goals:	823
League Topscorer:	Apertura: Christian Benítez (16 goals) Clausura: Ángel Reyna (13 goals)
Biggest Home Win:	Apertura: Morelia 6–0 Querétaro (August 8, 2010) Clausura: Atlas 5-0 Morelia (January 8, 2011)
Biggest Away Win:	Apertura: Atlante 1–4 Santos Laguna (July 24, 2010) Clausura: Querétaro 0-5 Toluca (February 12, 2011) and Toluca 1-6 Morelia (March 6, 2011)
Highest Scoring:	Apertura: Monterrey 5–2 UNAM (August 14, 2010) Querétaro 5–2 Santos Laguna (September 11, 2010) Clausura: América 5-4 Puebla (April 3, 2011)
Longest Wins:	Apertura: 5 games: Cruz Azul (August 14–September 24, 2010) Clausura: 4 games UNAM (Feb 18-Mar 20, 2011) UANL (Apr 13-Apr 30, 2011) Morelia (Feb 13-Mar 13, 2011)
Longest Unbeaten:	Apertura: 13 games: Monterrey (July 24–October 27, 2010) Clausura: 11 games UNAM (Jan 9-Apr 2, 2011)
Longest Winless:	Apertura: 8 games: Atlas (July 25–September 25, 2010) Clausura: 10 games San Luis (Feb 2-Apr 23, 2011)
Longest Losses:	Apertura: 4 games: Atlas (August 21–September 25, 2010) Clausura: Jaguares (Jan 23-Feb 26, 2011)
Prevseason:	2009–10
Nextseason:	2011–12

The 2010–11 Primera División Profesional season is the 64th professional season top-flight football league. The season is split into two parts Apertura and Clausura each of which includes a tournament - the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each part has an identical format and each is contested by the same eighteen teams.

Clubs

Eighteen teams return for this season. Indios de Ciudad Juárez was relegated the previous season after accumulated the lowest coefficient over the past three seasons. Necaxa won promotion into the first division, returning after one year in the Liga de Ascenso.

Club	Home City	Stadium	Capacity
América	Mexico City	Azteca	105,000
Atlante	Cancún	Andrés Quintana Roo	20,000
Atlas	Guadalajara	Jalisco	56,700
Cruz Azul	Mexico City	Estadio Azul	35,000
Estudiantes Tecos	Zapopan	3 de Marzo	30,000
Guadalajara	Guadalajara	Omnilife	45,500
Jaguares	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Víctor Manuel Reyna	25,000
Monterrey	Monterrey	Tecnológico	38,000
Morelia	Morelia	Morelos	41,500
Necaxa	Aguascalientes	Victoria	28,000
Pachuca	Pachuca	Hidalgo	30,000
Puebla	Puebla	Cuauhtémoc	42,650
Querétaro	Querétaro	La Corregidora	40,785
San Luis	San Luis Potosí	Alfonso Lastras Ramírez	24,000
Santos Laguna	Torreón	Corona	30,000
Toluca	Toluca	Nemesio Díez	27,000
UANL	San Nicolás	Universitario	45,000
UNAM	Mexico City	Olímpico Universitario	63,000

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-season changes
América	Jesús Ramírez	Sacked	June 30, 2010	Manuel Lapuente	July 1, 2010	6th
Atlante	José Guadalupe Cruz	End of contract	June 30, 2010	René Isidoro García	July 1, 2010	16th
Querétaro	Carlos Reinoso	End of contract	June 30, 2010	Ángel David Comizzo	July 1, 2010	11th
Jaguares	Pablo Marini	Sacked	June 30, 2010	José Guadalupe Cruz	July 1, 2010	12th
UNAM	Ricardo Ferretti	End of contract	June 30, 2010	Guillermo Vázquez	July 1, 2010	4th
UANL	Daniel Guzmán	Sacked	June 30, 2010	Ricardo Ferretti	July 1, 2010	15th
Apertura changes
Pachuca	Guillermo Rivarola	Resigned	August 16, 2010	Pablo Marini	August 18, 2010	13th
Atlas	Carlos Ischia	Sacked	August 23, 2010	José Luis Mata	August 24, 2010	18th
Puebla	José Luis Sánchez Solá	Resigned	August 23, 2010	Eduardo Fentanes	August 24, 2010	8th
Necaxa	Omar Arellano Nuño	Sacked	August 31, 2010	Daniel Brailovsky	September 1, 2010	13th
Estudiantes Tecos	Miguel Herrera	Sacked	September 6, 2010	Eduardo Mario Acevedo	September 8, 2010	16th
Atlante	René Isidoro García	Sacked	September 13, 2010	Eduardo Bacas	September 13, 2010	17th
Puebla	Eduardo Fentanes	Resigned	September 13, 2010	José Luis Trejo	September 14, 2010	6th
Atlas	José Luis Mata	Sacked	October 15, 2010	Benjamín Galindo	October 15, 2010	18th
Inter-tournament changes
Querétaro	Ángel David Comizzo	End of contract	December 31, 2010	Gustavo Matosas	January 1, 2011	14th
Estudiantes Tecos	Eduardo Mario Acevedo	Sacked	December 31, 2010	José Luis Sánchez Solá	January 1, 2011	17th
Atlante	Eduardo Bacas	Sacked	December 31, 2010	Miguel Herrera	January 1, 2011	16th
Toluca	José Manuel de la Torre	End of contract	December 31, 2010	Sergio Lugo	January 1, 2011	11th
Clausura changes
América	Manuel Lapuente	Sacked	January 25, 2011	Carlos Reinoso	January 25, 2011	16th
Necaxa	Daniel Brailovsky	Sacked	January 30, 2011	Sergio Bueno	January 31, 2011	18th
Puebla	José Luis Trejo	Sacked	February 15, 2011	Héctor Hugo Eugui	February 15, 2011	16th
Santos	Rubén Omar Romano	Sacked	February 20, 2011	Diego Cocca	February 21, 2011	12th
Pachuca	Pablo Marini	Resigned	March 4, 2011	Efraín Flores	March 8, 2011	15th

Torneo Apertura

The 2010 Torneo Apertura began on July 23, 2010 and ended on December 12, 2010.

Classification phase

Overall table

Group standings

Results

Final phase

See main article: 2010 Primera División de México Apertura Liguilla.

• If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
• Both finalist qualify to the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League. The champion qualifies directly to the Group Stage, while the runner-up qualifies to the Preliminary Round.

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
align=center	1	Christian Benítez	Santos Laguna	16
align=center	2	Humberto Suazo	Monterrey	15
align=center rowspan=2	3	Johan Fano	Atlante	9
Itamar	UANL	9
align=center rowspan=5	5	Sergio Blanco	Querétaro	8
Darío Cvitanich	Pachuca	8
Christian Giménez	Cruz Azul	8
Gabriel Pereyra	Puebla	8
Matías Vuoso	América	8
align=center rowspan=4	10	Mauro Cejas	Estudiantes Tecos	7
Alfredo Moreno	Atlas	7
Carlos Ochoa	Jaguares	7
Miguel Sabah	Morelia	7

Torneo Clausura

The 2011 Torneo Clausura began on January 8, 2011 and ended on May 22, 2011.

Classification phase

Overall table

Group standings

Results

Final phase

See main article: 2011 Primera División de México Clausura Liguilla.

• If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
• Both finalist qualify to the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League. The champion qualifies directly to the Group Stage, while the runner-up qualifies to the Preliminary Round.

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
align=center rowspan=1	1	Ángel Reyna	América	13
align=center rowspan=1	2	Wilmer Aguirre	San Luis	10
align=center rowspan=5	3	Christian Bermúdez	Atlante	9
Carlos Bueno	Querétaro	9
Héctor Mancilla	UANL	9
Rafael Márquez	Morelia	9
Emanuel Villa	Cruz Azul	9
align=center rowspan=1	8	Marco Fabián	Guadalajara	8
align=center rowspan=2	9	Juan Carlos Cacho	UNAM	7
Mauro Cejas	Estudiantes Tecos	7

Relegation

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1	Toluca	27	36	35	30	22	21	171	102
2	Monterrey	19	26	30	36	32	26	169	102
3	Cruz Azul	26	13	33	25	39	26	162	102
4	UNAM	26	28	17	28	25	35	159	102
5	Morelia	24	22	33	25	21	31	156	102
6	América	21	23	30	25	27	26	152	102
7	Santos Laguna	22	22	27	28	30	23	152	102
8	Pachuca	21	36	24	25	25	18	149	102
9	Guadalajara	25	21	19	32	22	25	144	102
10	UANL	26	14	22	19	24	35	140	102
11	San Luis	29	17	21	14	26	21	128	102
12	Atlante	27	17	23	16	16	27	126	102
13	Puebla	15	26	26	19	19	18	123	102
14	Atlas	22	21	18	24	13	23	121	102
15	Estudiantes Tecos	25	25	20	19	15	17	121	102
16	Jaguares	18	21	19	19	25	14	116	102
17	Querétaro	0	0	18	21	19	16	74	68
18	Necaxa	0	0	0	0	16	15	31	34		Relegation to the Liga de Ascenso

Source: FeMexFut

External links

• Clausura 2011 fixtures, tables and top scorers at ESPN Soccernet
• 2010–11 Primera División de México season at Soccerway