2021–22 Liga MX season

The 2021–22 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 75th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season was divided into two championships—the Apertura 2021 and the Clausura 2022—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

On 5 March 2022, during a match between Queretaro and Atlas, a riot broke out in the stands at the Estadio Corregidora, resulting in 26 injuries.

Torneo Apertura
The Grita México Apertura 2021 was the first tournament of the season. The tournament was renamed Torneo Grita México Apertura 2021 (stylized as Grita... México A21) with the intention of encouraging fans in the stands not to scream an offensive chant after a goal kick. The tournament began on 22 July. The defending champions were Cruz Azul.

Results
Teams played every other team once (either at home or away), completing a total of 17 rounds.

Regular season statistics
🇨🇴 Juan Otero for Santos Laguna against Necaxa (23 July 2021) 🇧🇷 Diogo de Olivera for UNAM against Cruz Azul (7 November 2021)
 * First goal of the season:
 * Last goal of the season:

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home team (A) – Away team
 * Notes

Per team
Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Reclassification

 * All games were played in a single-leg hosted by the higher seed.
 * If a game ended in a draw, it proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

 * Teams were re-seeded each round.
 * The winners of the Reclassification matches were seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
 * Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
 * No away goals rule is applied in neither round, if the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced.
 * In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, the match went to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
 * Both finalists qualified to the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.

Torneo Clausura
The Grita México Clausura 2022 was the second tournament of the season. Like the Apertura 2021, the tournament was renamed Torneo Grita México Clausura 2022 (stylized as Grita... México C22) with the intention of encouraging fans in the stands not to scream an offensive chant after a goal kick. Atlas are the defending champions.

Results
Teams played every other team once (either at home or away), completing a total of 17 rounds.

Regular season statistics
🇦🇷 Nicolás Ibáñez for Pachuca against Atlético San Luis (6 January 2022) 🇨🇴 Jaine Barreiro for León against Toluca (1 May 2022)
 * First goal of the season:
 * Last goal of the season:

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home team (A) – Away team
 * Notes

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Riot
On 5 March 2022, during a Round 9 match between Queretaro and Atlas, a riot broke out in the stands at Estadio Corregidora resulting in 26 injuries. As a result, Liga MX President Mikel Arriola announced that all remaining league matches scheduled for that week were postponed. One Liga de Expansión MX match and five Liga MX Femenil matches scheduled for that week were also postponed.

Reclassification

 * All games were played in a single-leg hosted by the higher seed.
 * If a game ended in a draw, it proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

 * Teams were re-seeded each round.
 * The winners of the Reclassification matches were seeded based on their ranking in the classification table.
 * Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
 * No away goals rule is applied in neither round, if the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced.
 * In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, the match went to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
 * Both finalists qualified to the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.

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.

Per Article 24 of the competition regulations, the payment of $MXN160 million will be distributed among the last three positioned in the coefficient table as follows: 80 million in the last place; 47 million the penultimate; and 33 million will be paid by the sixteenth team in the table, as of the 2021–22 season the remaining $MXN80 million will be paid through the financial remnants generated by the Liga MX itself. 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 Atlético San Luis, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2021–22 season coefficient table, they will be fined an additional $MXN20 million.

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 = Team will have to pay fine indicated

Source: Liga MX

Aggregate table
The aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022 tournaments) was being used to determine the participants in the 2022 Leagues Cup. On 15 April 2022, it was announced the tournament was cancelled due to fixture congestion from the 2022 FIFA World Cup.