2022–23 Liga de Expansión MX season

The 2022–23 Liga de Expansión MX season was the third professional season of the second-tier football division in Mexico. The season is divided into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams. The Apertura tournament began on 24 June 2022. The Clausura tournament will began in January 2023.

Changes from the previous season
The Liga de Expansión MX is a Mexican 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 years. The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.

On April 21, 2022, Tampico Madero were sold and relocated to La Paz as Club Atlético La Paz.

On April 5, 2022, Atlante, Atlético Morelia, UAT, U. de G. and Venados applied for promotion certification to restart the promotion and relegation process. The league required four teams to be certified for promotion before reactivating it. On May 13, 2022, Leones Negros was the only team that met all requirements for promotion to Liga MX. Atlético Morelia did not complete the certification process.

On June 1, 2022, the rule that awarded an extra point to teams that won their away matches was abolished.

On June 14, 2022, Durango was accepted as a new member of the league after passing the certification process to join the competition, Durango was the champion of the 2021–22 Serie A de México season.

On November 7, 2022, the league owner's assembly announced the 2023–24 promotion certification process for Liga de Expansión MX teams would begin in January 2023 and would be finalized in May 2023.

Apertura 2022
The defending champions were Atlético Morelia. The tournament began on 24 June 2022.

Results
Each team plays once all other teams in 17 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Top goalscorers
Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Source: Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away


 *  First goal of the season: 🇲🇽 José Cobián for Zacatecas against Celaya (24 June 2022)
 *  Last goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Eduardo Banda for UAT against Celaya (16 October 2022)

Team
Source Liga de Expansión MX
 * Most yellow cards: 64
 * Oaxaca
 * Most red cards: 8
 * Tepatitlán
 * Fewest yellow cards: 39
 * Atlante
 * Tapatío
 * Fewest red cards: 0
 * Celaya

Per team
A match played behind closed doors is not included.

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga de Expansión MX

Reclassification

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 * All rounds are played in a single game hosted by a higher seed
 * If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out.


 * Matches

Quarter-finals
The first legs were played between 25 and 26 October, and the second legs were played between 28 and 29 October. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

U. de G. won 3–2 on aggregate.

''3–3 on aggregate. Sonora advanced as the higher seed in the classification table.''

Celaya won 2–0 on aggregate.

Atlante won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
The first legs were played on 2 November, and the second legs were played on 5 November. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

Celaya won 3–1 on aggregate.

Atlante won 2–1 on aggregate.

Finals
The first leg was played on 9 November, and the second was played on 12 November. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

Atlante won 3–1 on aggregate.

Clausura 2023
The Clausura tournament began on 4 January 2023. The defending champions are Atlante.

Results
Each team plays once all other teams in 17 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.

Top goalscorers
Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Source: Liga de Expansión MX

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away


 *  First goal of the season: Carlos Monges for Celaya against Cancún (4 January 2023)
 *  Last goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Maximiliano García for Atlante against Durango (23 April 2023)

Team

 * Most yellow cards: 63
 * Celaya
 * Most red cards: 7
 * Venados
 * Fewest yellow cards: 29
 * UAT
 * Fewest red cards: 1
 * Tlaxcala
 * UAT

Source Liga de Expansión MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga de Expansión MX

Reclassification

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 * All rounds are played in a single game hosted by a higher seed
 * If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out.


 * Matches

Quarter-finals
The first legs were played between 2–4 May, and the second legs were played between 5–7 May. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

Celaya won 4–0 on aggregate.

Atlante won 2–1 on aggregate.

''3–3 on aggregate. Tapatío advanced due to being higher seed in the table.''

Atlético Morelia won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
The first legs will be played between 10 and 11 May, and the second legs will be played between 13 and 14 May. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

Tapatío won 1–0 on aggregate.

Atlético Morelia won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final
The first leg will be played between 17 May, and the second leg will be played between 20 May. 


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 * First leg


 * Second leg

Tapatío won 4–3 on aggregate.

Campeón de Campeones Final
The Campeón de Campeones Final is a two-legged playoff between the winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments and the Liga de Expansión MX Super cup. The final would not be played if the same team wins both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The higher ranked team on the aggregate table for the 2021–22 season will play the second leg at home.

Second leg
Tapatío won 3–2 on aggregate.

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 $MXN3 million from Liga de Expansión clubs will be distributed among the last three positioned in the coefficient table as follows: Last place pays 1.5 million, the penultimate place pays 1 million, and the sixteenth place pays 500 thousand. If any affiliate club or new club from the Liga Premier is ranked in the bottom three at the end of the season, they are exempt from paying any fine and it will not be covered by any other club. Any club that does not pay their corresponding fine, for any reason, will be dissafiliated. The team that finishes last on the table will start the following season with a coefficient of zero. If the last ranked team repeats as the last ranked team in the 2023–24 season coefficient table, they will be fined an additional $MXN1 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 X = Team will have to pay fine, the amount is TBD. Source: Liga de Expansión

Aggregate table
The Aggregate table is a sum of the Apertura 2022 and Clausura 2023 tournament standings. The aggregate table is used to determine seeding for the "Campeón de Campeones" Final.