2018–19 Liga MX Femenil season explained

Competition:	Liga MX Femenil
Season:	2018–19
Winners:	Apertura: América (1st title) Clausura: UANL (2nd title)
Matches:	288
Total Goals:	787
League Topscorer:	Apertura: Desirée Monsiváis (13 goals) Clausura: Fabiola Ibarra Isela Ojeda (7 goals)
Biggest Home Win:	Apertura: Monterrey 8–0 Querétaro Clausura: UANL 7–1 Querétaro
Biggest Away Win:	Apertura: Morelia 1–5 Guadalajara Morelia 1–5 UANL Necaxa 0–4 Atlas Clausura: Veracruz 0–3 Pachuca Necaxa 1–4 UANL Veracruz 0–3 Cruz Azul Necaxa 0–3 Monterrey Atlas 0–3 Monterrey
Highest Scoring:	Apertura: Monterrey 4–5 UANL Clausura: UANL 7–1 Querétaro
Longest Wins:	Apertura: 6 matches Pachuca Clausura: 5 matches América Atlas Monterrey
Longest Unbeaten:	Apertura: 16 matches UANL Clausura: 11 matches Monterrey
Longest Winless:	Apertura: 15 matches Santos Laguna Clausura: 14 matches Necaxa
Longest Losses:	Apertura: 7 matches Cruz Azul Clausura: 7 matches Querétaro
Highest Attendance:	Apertura: 37,601 UANL vs Monterrey Clausura: 30,161 UANL vs Monterrey
Lowest Attendance:	Apertura: 70 Veracruz vs Toluca Clausura: 125 Veracruz vs Cruz Azul
Attendance:	Apertura: 250,304 Clausura: 262,754
Average Attendance:	Apertura: 1,738 Clausura: 1,825
Prevseason:	2017–18
Nextseason:	2019–20
Extra Information:	Source: Liga MX Femenil

The 2018–19 Liga MX Femenil season was the second season of the top-flight women's football league in Mexico. The season was contested by eighteen teams, all being the counterpart women's teams of the men's league clubs Liga MX. The season was split into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. Unlike the inaugural season, all eighteen Liga MX clubs fielded a women's team.^[1]

Teams, stadiums, and personnel

The following eighteen teams competed this season. Puebla and Lobos BUAP are fielding a team for the first time.^[2]

Stadiums and locations

América	Atlas	BUAP	Cruz Azul	Guadalajara	León
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Jalisco	Estadio Universitario BUAP	Estadio 10 de Diciembre	Estadio Akron	Estadio León
Capacity: 81,070	Capacity: 55,110	Capacity: 19,283	Capacity: 7,761	Capacity: 46,232	Capacity: 31,297

Monterrey	Morelia	Necaxa	Pachuca	Puebla	Querétaro
Estadio BBVA Bancomer	Estadio Morelos	Estadio Victoria	Estadio Hidalgo	Estadio Cuauhtémoc	Estadio Corregidora
Capacity: 51,348	Capacity: 34,795	Capacity: 23,851	Capacity: 27,512	Capacity: 51,726	Capacity: 33,162

Santos Laguna	Tijuana	Toluca	UANL	UNAM	Veracruz
Estadio Corona	Estadio Caliente	Estadio Nemesio Díez	Estadio Universitario	La Cantera	Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente
Capacity: 29,237	Capacity: 27,333	Capacity: 31,000	Capacity: 41,886	Capacity: 2,000	Capacity: 28,703

Alternate venues

América – Cancha Centenario No. 5^[3]
Atlas – Estadio Colomos Alfredo 'Pistache' Torres (Capacity: 3,000)^[4]
Guadalajara – Verde Valle^[5]
Monterrey – El Barrial (Capacity: 570)^[6]
UANL – Instalaciones Zuazua (Capacity: 800)^[7]

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
América	Santiago Baños	Leonardo Cuéllar	Nike	Huawei
Atlas	Gustavo Guzmán	Fernando Samayoa	Adidas	Linio
BUAP	Juan Carlos Bozikián	José Julio Cevada	Pirma	Zurich
Cruz Azul	Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas	Hugo Santana	Under Armour	Cemento Cruz Azul
Guadalajara	Jorge Vergara	Luis Manuel Díaz	Puma	Sello Rojo
León	Jesús Martínez Murguia	Everaldo Begines	Pirma	Cementos Fortaleza
Monterrey	Duilio Davino	Héctor Becerra	Puma	AT&T
Morelia	Álvaro Dávila	Filadelfo Rangel	Pirma	Kansas City Southern de México
Necaxa	Ernesto Tinajero Flores	Fabiola Vargas	Charly	Rolcar
Pachuca	Jesús Martínez Patiño	Eva Espejo	Charly	Cementos Fortaleza
Puebla	Manuel Jiménez García	Jorge Gómez	Li-Ning	AT&T
Querétaro	Jaime Ordiales	Alberto Arellano	Puma	Banco Multiva
Santos Laguna	Alejandro Irarragorri	Jorge Macías	Charly	Soriana
Tijuana	Jorge Hank Inzunsa	Gerardo Romo	Charly	Caliente
Toluca	Francisco Suinaga	Juan Carlos Mendoza	Under Armour	Banamex
UANL	Miguel Ángel Garza	Ramón Villa Zevallos	Adidas	Cemex
UNAM	Rodrigo Ares de Parga	Ileana Dávila	Nike	DHL Express
Veracruz	Fidel Kuri Mustieles	Rodolfo Vega	Charly	Winpot

Format

The Liga MX Femenil season is split into two championships: the Torneo Apertura (opening tournament) and the Torneo Clausura (closing tournament). Each is contested in an identical format and includes the same eighteen teams.^[8]
The teams were divided into two groups of nine, the best four of each group advancing to the quarterfinals of the Liguilla.^[9]

Changes

Due to the addition of Lobos BUAP and Puebla, this season consisted of two groups of nine teams, instead of two groups of eight.^[9]
The Liguilla (playoffs) will now consist of a quarterfinals round, as a result, eight teams (four from each group) will now qualify to the Liguilla.^[9]
This season will consist of 18 rounds (up from 14).^[8]
Morelia moved from Group 1 to Group 2.^[8]
Two teams (one from each group) will rest each round.^[10]

Torneo Apertura

The Apertura 2018 regular season started on 13 July and ended on 19 November.

Regular season

League table

Group 1

Group 2

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 8, but then postponed and played between days 11 and 12, it will be added to the standings for day 12.

Results

Group 1

Group 2

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
align=center rowspan=1	1	Desirée Monsiváis	Monterrey	align=center rowspan=1	13
align=center rowspan=1	2	Katty Martínez	UANL	align=center rowspan=1	12
align=center rowspan=1	3	Mariel Román	Toluca	align=center rowspan=1	11
align=center rowspan=1	4	Mariela Jiménez	Puebla	align=center rowspan=1	9
align=center rowspan=2	5	Diana Evangelista	Monterrey	align=center rowspan=2	8
Mónica Ocampo	Pachuca
align=center rowspan=4	7	Casandra Cuevas	América	align=center rowspan=4	7
Yahaira Flores	Santos Laguna
Fabiola Ibarra	Atlas
Sanjuana Muñoz	León

Source: Liga MX Femenil

Attendance

Highest and lowest

Highest attendance					Lowest attendance
Week	Home	Score	Away	Attendance	Home	Score	Away	Attendance
1	UANL	4–2	Querétaro	9,235	Necaxa	0–1	Santos Laguna	460
2	Pachuca	2–1	Puebla	7,444	Monterrey	4–0	Necaxa	250
3	UANL	2–2	Atlas	7,250	UNAM	2–0	Veracruz	800
4	Monterrey	0–0	Guadalajara	4,645	Atlas	5–0	Querétaro	327
5	UANL	2–2	Monterrey	37,601	Veracruz	2–2	Pachuca	365
6	Morelia	1–5	Guadalajara	5,024	Monterrey	8–0	Querétaro	325
7	UANL	4–0	Morelia	7,150	Atlas	1–0	Santos Laguna	320
8	Guadalajara	1–3	UANL	2,389	Necaxa	0–0	León	223
9	Pachuca	1–2	Toluca	3,222	Atlas	4–1	Necaxa	257
10	Pachuca	4–0	Cruz Azul	4,231	Atlas	2–0	Morelia	163
11	Guadalajara	2–0	Atlas	4,439	Necaxa	0–2	Monterrey	284
12	Pachuca	1–0	Tijuana	2,343	Monterrey	5–0	Morelia	235
13	Guadalajara	1–3	Monterrey	1,668	Cruz Azul	0–3	Toluca	319
14	Monterrey	4–5	UANL	17,321	BUAP	0–1	UNAM	300
15	UANL	7–0	Necaxa	3,215	Veracruz	2–1	BUAP	70
16	Morelia	1–5	UANL	2,101	Necaxa	0–1	Querétaro	183
17	UANL	2–1	Guadalajara	13,521	Veracruz	2–4	Toluca	98
18	Morelia	1–3	León	1,519	Necaxa	0–4	Atlas	182

Source: Liga MX

Liguilla – Apertura

Bracket

The top four clubs of each group qualify
The eight clubs who qualified will be ranked and seeded 1 to 8 based on performance in the regular season
Teams may be re-seeded each round.
Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
Away goals rule is applied in the quarterfinals and semifinals, but not the final.
In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate and away goals, 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 shootout.

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Torneo Clausura

The Clausura 2019 is the second championship of the season. The regular season started on 4 January 2019 and will end on 24 April 2019.^[11]