2023–24 Liga MX season

The 2023–24 Liga MX season (known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons) is the 77th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico. The season is to be divided into two championships—the Apertura 2023 and the Clausura 2024—each in an identical format and each contested by the same eighteen teams.

Teams
A total of eighteen teams are participating in the 2023–24 edition of the Liga MX. All eighteen teams have participated in Liga MX since the 2020–21 season.

Changes
The owner's assembly decided to adjust liguilla qualification, which was modified as of the Guardianes 2020 season. The number of teams directly qualifying to the quarter-finals was increased from four to six, while reducing the number of teams entering the reclassification round from eight to four, aligning it with the NBA's "play-in" round. The 9th place team hosts the 10th place team in an elimination game. The 7th hosts the 8th place team in the double-chance game, with the winner advancing as the 7-seed. The loser of this game then hosts the winner of the elimination game between the 9th and 10th place teams to determine the 8-seed.

Torneo Apertura
The Apertura 2023 is the first tournament of the season and began on 30 June 2023. The defending champions are UANL. The season was paused in mid-July due to the 2023 Leagues Cup and was resumed on 18 August. On 8 July 2023, the match between Querétaro and América was postponed due to poor pitch condition.

Results
Teams will play 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

Top assists
Source: Soccerway

Clean sheets
Source: FBRef

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

 *  First goal of the season: 🇦🇷 Leonardo Suárez for América against Juárez (30 June 2023)
 *  Last goal of the season: Federico Viñas for León against Juárez (12 November 2023)

Discipline

 * Player
 * Most yellow cards: 7
 * 🇲🇽 Jesús Angulo (UANL)
 * 🇦🇷 Gustavo Cabral (Pachuca)
 * Juan Escobar (Cruz Azul)
 * Sebastián Vegas (Monterrey)


 * Most red cards: 2
 * Luis Amarilla (Mazatlán)
 * 🇦🇷 Javier Correa (Santos Laguna)
 * 🇲🇽 Jair Díaz (Mazatlán)
 * 🇲🇽 Omar Mendoza (Querétaro)
 * Jean Meneses (Toluca)


 * Team
 * Most yellow cards: 56
 * UNAM


 * Most red cards: 6
 * Mazatlán
 * Toluca


 * Fewest yellow cards: 29
 * Tijuana


 * Fewest red cards: 0
 * Puebla
 * UANL

Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Play-in round
The 9th place team hosts the 10th place team in an elimination game. The 7th hosts the 8th place team in the double-chance game, with the winner advancing as the 7-seed. The loser of this game then hosts the winner of the elimination game between the 9th and 10th place teams to determine the 8-seed.

Bracket

 * Teams will be re-seeded each round.
 * The team with more goals on aggregate after two matches will advance.
 * If the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team will advance (the away goals rule was not applied).
 * In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, they will go to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
 * Both finalists will qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup.

Torneo Clausura
The Clausura tournament began on 12 January 2024.

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

Source:Liga MX

Top assists
Source: Soccerway

Clean sheets
Source: Mediotiempo

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Scoring

 *  First goal of the season: Emanuel Gularte for Querétaro against Toluca (12 January 2024)
 *  Last goal of the season: 🇲🇽 Heriberto Jurado for Necaxa against Monterrey (28 April 2024)

Discipline

 * Player
 * Most yellow cards: 9
 * 🇦🇷 Miguel Barbieri (Querétaro)


 * Most red cards: 3
 * 🇵🇪 Anderson Santamaría (Atlas)


 * Team
 * Most yellow cards: 54
 * Querétaro


 * Most red cards: 8
 * Atlas


 * Fewest yellow cards: 26
 * Monterrey


 * Fewest red cards: 0
 * Juárez
 * Pachuca
 * Tijuana
 * Toluca

Source: Liga MX

Highest and lowest
Source: Liga MX

Play-in round
The 9th place team hosts the 10th place team in an elimination game. The 7th hosts the 8th place team in the double-chance game, with the winner advancing as the 7-seed. The loser of this game then hosts the winner of the elimination game between the 9th and 10th place teams to determine the 8-seed.

Bracket

 * Teams will be re-seeded each round.
 * The team with more goals on aggregate after two matches will advance.
 * If the two teams were tied on aggregate, the higher seeded team will advance (the away goals rule was not applied).
 * In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, they will go to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
 * Both finalists will qualify for the 2025 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 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 Querétaro, repeats as the last ranked team in the 2023–24 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

2023–24 aggregate table
The 2023–24 aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Apertura 2023 and Clausura 2024 seasons) is used to determine the participants for the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup. The league champions with more points at the end of the Apertura 2023 and Clausura 2024 seasons qualifies directly to the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup round of 16. The league champions with fewer points at the end of the season qualifies for the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup first round. In addition, the Apertura runners-up, Clausura runners-up, and the next two best ranked teams also qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup first round. The first place club also receives US$1 million in prize money and a recognition at the 2024 Balón de Oro.

2023 aggregate table
The 2023 aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Clausura 2023 and Apertura 2023 seasons) is used to determine the seedings for the 2024 Leagues Cup.