2022–23 Liga MX season

The 2022–23 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season was divided into two championships—the Apertura 2022 and the Clausura 2023—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. The winners of the two championships met in the 2023 Campeón de Campeones match.

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup commencing on 20 November, the second leg of the Apertura 2022 final was played on 30 October.

Stadiums and locations
The Estadio Azteca will be closed from 2023 to 2025 due to renovations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Although the project was anticipated to begin in January 2023, the renovations were postponed for the summer of 2023.

Torneo Apertura
The Apertura 2022 was the first tournament of the season. The tournament began on 1 July. The defending champions were Atlas.

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

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

 *  First goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Israel Reyes for Puebla against Mazatlán (1 July 2022)
 *  Last goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Alfonso Alvarado for León against Tijuana (2 October 2022)

Discipline

 * Player
 * Most yellow cards: 9
 * Fernando Gorriarán (Santos Laguna)


 * Most red cards: 3
 * Nicolás Díaz (Tijuana)


 * Team
 * Most yellow cards: 48
 * Puebla


 * Most red cards: 8
 * UANL
 * Fewest yellow cards: 28
 * América


 * Fewest red cards: 0
 * América
 * Monterrey

Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Reclassification

 * All matches were played in a single leg hosted by the higher seed.
 * If a match 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 regular season position.
 * The team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
 * If the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced (the away goals rule was not applied).
 * In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, they went to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
 * Both finalists qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup.

Torneo Clausura
The Clausura tournament began on 6 January and ended on 28 May 2023. The defending champions were Pachuca.

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

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

Source: Liga MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

 *  First goal of the season: Juan Manuel Sanabria for Atlético San Luis against Necaxa (6 January 2023)
 *  Last goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Héctor Uribe for León against UANL (30 April 2023)

Discipline

 * Player
 * Most yellow cards: 7
 * 🇨🇴 Christian Rivera (Querétaro)
 * 🇲🇽 Luis Rodríguez (Juárez)
 * Most red cards: 2
 * 🇲🇽 Paul Bellón (León)
 * 🇪🇨 Michael Estrada (Cruz Azul)
 * Gabriel Fernández (Juárez)
 * 🇦🇷 Lucas González (Santos Laguna)


 * Team
 * Most yellow cards: 45
 * Necaxa
 * Puebla


 * Most red cards: 6
 * León
 * UNAM


 * Fewest yellow cards: 25
 * Pachuca


 * Fewest red cards: 0
 * América

Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Reclassification

 * All matches were played in a single leg hosted by the higher seed.
 * If a match 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 regular season position.
 * The team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advanced.
 * If the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team advanced (the away goals rule was not applied).
 * In the final, if the two teams were tied after both legs, they went to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
 * Both finalists qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup.

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 was used to establish the payment of fines that would be used for the development of the clubs of the silver circuit.

Per Article 24 of the competition regulations, the payment of MXN$160 million was distributed among the last three positioned in the coefficient table as follows: MXN$80 million in the last place; MXN$47 million the penultimate; and MXN$33 million was paid by the sixteenth team in the table, as of the 2021–22 season the remaining MXN$80 million was paid through the financial remnants generated by the Liga MX itself. The team that finished last on the table started the following season with a coefficient of zero. If the last ranked team, which was Juárez, repeated as the last ranked team in the 2022–23 season coefficient table, they would be fined an additional MXN$20 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 had to pay fine indicated

Source: Liga MX

CONCACAF Champions Cup
The league champions with more points at the end of the Apertura 2022 and Clausura 2023 seasons qualified directly to the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup round of 16. The league champions with fewer points at the end of the season qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup first round. In addition, the Apertura runners-up, Clausura runners-up, and the next two best ranked teams also qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup first round.

Leagues Cup
The league champion with the highest aggregate points accumulated across the Clausura 2022 and Apertura 2022 seasons qualified directly to the 2023 Leagues Cup round of 32. Liga MX clubs ranked 2 to 16 in the aggregate table were put in the second position in each group, opposite the MLS Supporter's Shield table (for example, the best remaining team in the Supporter's Shield table not earning a bye was drawn against the lowest-best remaining team in the Liga MX 2022 aggregate table). The remaining 13 MLS clubs, along with the two remaining Liga MX clubs, were drawn into groups and divided geographically.