Standings

Two championships every year, not one. A Liga MX season is split into two entirely separate competitions: the Apertura (July–December) and the Clausura (January–May). Each has its own table, its own knockout and its own champion. A club can win the Apertura and finish bottom of the Clausura five months later — they are not two halves of one season.

Everyone plays everyone once. 18 clubs, 17 rounds, a single round-robin. A table is complete at 17 games, roughly half the length of a European league season, so a bad month costs far more here.

Topping the table does not win you anything. The regular season only seeds the knockout — the liguilla — which is where the title is actually decided:

• 🟢 1st–6th → straight into the liguilla quarter-finals
• 🟡 7th–10th → the play-in, competing for the last two places
• ⚪ 11th–18th → season over

Every liguilla tie is played over two legs, and the club finishing higher in the table gets the advantage of hosting the second one. If the aggregate is level after both legs of a quarter- or semi-final, there is no shootout — the better-seeded club goes through. The final is the exception: level there means extra time, then penalties.

No relegation. Unlike the other leagues on this platform, nobody goes down — relegation is currently suspended in Liga MX, so the bottom of the table carries no jeopardy.