Liga de Expansión MX

The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo (Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons), is a Mexican semi-professional 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 seasons.[7] The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with strong administration, finances, and infrastructure.

Liga de Expansión MX
Founded24 April 2020 (2020-04-24)
CountryMexico
ConfederationCONCACAF
Number of teams17
Level on pyramid2
Current championsAtlante (1st title)
(Grita México 2021)
Most championshipsAtlante
Tampico Madero
Tepatitlán (1 title)
TV partnersClaro[1]
ESPN[2]
Fox Sports[3]
Multimedios[4]
Televisa[5]
TVC Deportes[6]
WebsiteLigaBBVAExpansion.mx
Current: 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX season

History

On 20 February 2020, the presidents of the Liga MX clubs, the Ascenso MX clubs and Mexican Football Federation executives had a meeting, in which different topics were discussed with the intent of strengthening the two main leagues in the country.[8]

On 26 June 2020, the league was officially presented, with the participation of 16 teams: Alebrijes de Oaxaca, Atlante, Atlético Morelia, Cancún, Celaya, Cimarrones de Sonora, Correcaminos UAT, Dorados de Sinaloa, Leones Negros UdeG, Mineros de Zacatecas, Tampico Madero, and Venados F.C. as Ascenso MX teams. Pumas Tabasco and Tapatío entered to the league as Liga MX affiliates.[9] Finally, on 17 July 2020, Tepatitlán and Tlaxcala were invited as Liga Premier expansion teams.[10]

Clubs
Location of teams in the 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX
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
La Paz La Paz, Baja California Sur TBD TBD
Pumas Tabasco Villahermosa, Tabasco Olímpico de Villahermosa 12,000
Oaxaca Oaxaca City, Oaxaca Tecnológico de Oaxaca 14,598
Raya2 Guadalupe, Nuevo León BBVA 53,500
Sinaloa Culiacán, Sinaloa Dorados 20,108
Sonora Hermosillo, Sonora Héroe de Nacozari 18,747
Tapatío Zapopan, Jalisco Akron 46,232
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
U. de G. Guadalajara, Jalisco Jalisco 55,020
Venados Mérida, Yucatán Carlos Iturralde 15,087
Zacatecas Zacatecas City, Zacatecas Carlos Vega Villalba 20,068

Champions
Club Winners Runner-Up Winning Seasons
Atlante11Grita México 2021
Tampico Madero*11Guardianes 2020
Tepatitlán10Guardianes 2021
Atlético Morelia01

Campeón de Campeones
Club Winners Runner-Up Winning Seasons
Tepatitlán102020–21
Tampico Madero*01

* Dissolved teams

Managers

The current managers in the Liga de Expansión MX are:

Nat. Name Team Appointed Time as manager
Ricardo Valiño Atlético Morelia 26 June 2020 1 year, 311 days
Israel Hernández Celaya 1 July 2020 1 year, 306 days
Omar Alexis Moreno Zacatecas 1 July 2020 1 year, 306 days
Gabriel Pereyra Sonora 3 July 2020 1 year, 304 days
Mario García Covalles Atlante 20 July 2020 1 year, 287 days
Rafael García Sinaloa 21 December 2020 1 year, 133 days
Federico Vilar Cancún 1 June 2021 336 days
Alfonso Sosa U. de G. 7 September 2021 238 days
Jorge Manrique Oaxaca 1 October 2021 214 days
Bruno Marioni Tepatitlán 4 February 2022 88 days
Héctor Altamirano UAT 9 February 2022 83 days
Héctor Becerra (Interim) Raya2 4 March 2022 60 days
Raúl Alpizar (Interim) Pumas Tabasco 18 March 2022 46 days
Jonathan Estrada (Interim) Tlaxcala 25 March 2022 39 days
Joaquín Moreno (Interim) Tapatío 15 April 2022 18 days
Vacant La Paz 0 days
Vacant Venados 0 days

Top scorers
Year Name Team Goals
Guardianes 2020 Alberto Alvarado Morín
Lizandro Echeverría
Guillermo Martínez
Gustavo Ramírez		 UAT
Atlante
Celaya
Atlético Morelia		 7
Guardianes 2021 Julio Cruz Oaxaca 10
Apertura 2021 Raúl Zúñiga Sinaloa 12
Clausura 2022 David Angulo
Juan Machado
Óscar Villa		 Tepatitlán
Raya2
Sonora		 8

References
  1. includes Claro Sports
  2. includes ESPN 2 and ESPN 3
  3. includes Fox Sports 2
  4. includes Canal 6
  5. includes TUDN
  6. includes TVC Deportes 2
  7. Enrique Martínez Villar (24 April 2020). "¡Se confirma! No habrá ascenso ni descenso en 6 años; aprueban Liga de Desarrollo". Mediotiempo. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  8. "Comunicado de la LIGA MX / ASCENSO MX y la FMF". LIGA MX. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  9. "Asamblea Ordinaria de Clubes del 26 de Junio del 2020". Liga BBVA MX (in Spanish). 26 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  10. "Comunicado de la LIGA MX sobre la LIGA de Expansión". Liga BBVA MX (in Spanish). 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.


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