On April 24, 1996 the Mexican FA announced that the 1996-97 Mexican Football League
(Primera Division & Primera División A) is split into two different tournaments
(Invierno (Winter) 1996 and Verano (Summer) 1997).
In each tournament,
a 17-game regular season will be followed by a playoff to determine the champion.
Playoff qualification for each tournament will be determined by the following criteria:
(a) The winner of every group (4 in total) goes right to the quarter-finals, that is,
has a 1st-round bye.
(b) The runner-up of every group goes to the playoffs as well. The top two runner-ups
get a 1st-round bye. The third and fourth runner up (RU.3 & RU.4) might play in
the 1st-round playoff against two wild card teams.
(c) The top two teams of the remaining ten not yet considered will go to the 1st-round
playoff ONLY if they have a better overall standing than that of the lowest
qualified team according to (a) and (b) above. They are tagged WC.1 and WC.2
(wild cards) according to their final overall standing.
(d) Every match-up is played in a home-to-home series with the following tie-breaker
criteria:
(i) Aggregate score.
(ii) Away goals.
(iii) Final overall standing.
Therefore, every series (except the final) will be decided after 180 minutes of action
(no extra time).
Tie-breaker (ii) and (iii) are removed for the final, allowing for the typical extra-time period
plus penalty shots should it be necessary.
Invierno 1996
FINAL TABLES
Group 1 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Atlante 17 12 2 3 30 11 +19 38 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
2. Puebla 17 9 4 4 32 22 +10 31 (playoffs)
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3. Toros Neza 17 8 0 9 30 36 -6 24 (repechaje)[Nezahualcoyotl]
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4. Cruz Azul 17 5 5 7 26 26 0 20
5. Veracruz 17 4 6 7 14 21 -7 18
Group 2 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Necaxa 17 8 5 4 24 19 +5 29 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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2. León 17 5 8 4 24 19 +5 23 (repechaje)
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3. América 17 4 5 8 24 27 -3 17 [Ciudad de México]
4. Pachuca 17 3 6 8 25 26 -11 15
5. Atlético Morelia 17 3 3 11 20 31 -11 12
Group 3 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Guadalajara 17 9 4 4 33 19 +14 31 (playoffs)
2. Toluca 17 9 3 5 26 15 +11 30 (playoffs)
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3. Atlas 17 6 8 3 28 26 +2 26 (repechaje)[Guadalajara]
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4. U.N.A.M. 17 4 6 7 23 27 -4 18 [Ciudad de México]
Group 4 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Santos Laguna 17 10 4 3 21 15 +6 34 (playoffs)[Torreón]
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2. Monterrey 17 5 4 8 15 21 -6 19 (repechaje)
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3. U.A.G. 17 5 3 9 20 30 -10 18 [Zapopan]
4. Atlético Celaya 17 5 2 10 19 33 -14 17
Regular Season
Round 1
[Aug 9]
U.A.G. 0-1 Atlas
[Rodolfo García 68]
[Aug 10]
Cruz Azul 3-0 Toros Neza
[Luis Carlos de Oliveira "Pintado" 9, Sergio Verdirame 30, Carlos Hermosillo 67]
Puebla 2-1 Toluca
[Daniel Guzmán 39, Carlos Muñoz 74; José Manuel Abundis 85]
Atlético Celaya 0-0 Monterrey
[Aug 11]
Atlante 3-0 Veracruz
[Mario Jáuregui 7, Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 21, 63]
Guadalajara 2-0 U.N.A.M.
[Claudio Suárez 40pen, Gabriel García 49]
Pachuca 2-2 Necaxa
[Antonio Torres Servín 26pen, Guillermo López 28; Alberto García Aspe 5pen,
Luis Hernández 36]
Atlético Morelia 1-1 Leon
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 41; Carlos Turrubiates 43]
Santos Laguna 1-0 America
[Jared Borguetti 89]
Round 2
[Aug 16]
Monterrey 0-1 Santos Laguna
[Benjamín Galindo 25pen]
[Aug 17]
Toluca 5-0 U.A.G.
[Carlos María Morales 29, 53, José Cardozo 69, 89, Marcelino Bernal 73pen]
Veracruz 1-1 Atlético Celaya
[Daniel Fasciolli 29; Richard Zambrano 35pen]
Necaxa 1-2 Atlante
[Alberto García Aspe 79pen; José Damasceno "Tiba" 20, Martín Félix Ubaldi 45]
Leon 0-0 Guadalajara
[Aug 18]
Atlas 5-1 Pachuca
[Gustavo Dezzoti 36, Rodolfo García 41, 57, Esteve Padilla 69, 81;
Antonio Torres Servín 59]
U.N.A.M. 1-2 Cruz Azul
[Jesús Olalde 54; Carlos Hermosillo 7, Miguel Ángel Carreón 36og]
Toros Neza 0-3 Puebla
[Uwe Wolf 50pen, Daniel Guzmán 64, Carlos Muñoz 87]
[Aug 20]
America 5-1 Atlético Morelia
[Francois Omam Biyik 8, Luis García 35pen 54, 59, 75; Marco Antonio Figueroa 28]
Advanced match Round 4
[Aug 20]
Necaxa 3-0 Monterrey
[Alberto García Aspe 35, Sergio Zárate 56, Ricardo Peláez 65]
Round 3
[Aug 24]
U.A.G. 1-2 Toros Neza
[Fabián Arias 74; Nildeson Silva 29, 40]
Cruz Azul 2-2 Leon
[Carlos Hermosillo 58pen, Sergio Verdirame 69pen; Milton Queiroz "Tita" 53,
Damián Álvarez 87]
Puebla 2-1 U.N.A.M.
[Gilberto Jiménez 41, Carlos Muñoz 50; Vicente Nieto 33]
Monterrey 2-1 Veracruz
[Luis Miguel Salvador 57, Gabriel Ruiz 76; Jair de Brito 86]
[Aug 25]
Guadalajara 5-0 America
[Ramón Ramírez 4, Sergio Pacheco 28, Paulo César Chávez 54, Gabriel García 67, 78]
Pachuca 3-0 Toluca
[Hernán Medford 47, Gonzalo Farfán 67, Lorenzo Sáez 75]
Atlante 1-1 Atlas
[Miodrag Belodedici 76; Gerardo Mascareño 46]
Santos Laguna 2-1 Atlético Morelia
[Benjamín Galindo 24pen, Nicolás Ramírez 43; José Guadalupe Rubio 74og]
Atlético Celaya - Necaxa [postponed]
Round 4
[Aug 30]
U.N.A.M. 1-2 U.A.G.
[Israel López 76; Christian Ramírez 65og, Amarildo Soarez 84]
[Aug 31]
Toluca - Atlante [postponed]
Veracruz 0-0 Santos Laguna
Atlas 2-1 Atlético Celaya
[Omar Avilán 7, Rodolfo García 8; Richard Zambrano 63pen]
Leon 1-1 Puebla
[Carlos Turrubiates 68; Carlos Muñoz 37]
[Sep 1]
Atlético Morelia 1-4 Guadalajara
[Jafet Soto 88; Gabriel García 58, 90, Gustavo Nápoles 84, Alberto Coyote 89]
America - Cruz Azul [postponed]
Toros Neza 5-2 Pachuca
[Antonio Mohamed 15, Jesús López Meneses 35, Nildeson Silva 47, 56, 85;
Hernán Medford 9, Lorenzo Sáez 43]
Round 5
[Sep 6]
Monterrey 0-0 Atlas
[Sep 7]
Veracruz 1-1 Necaxa
[José Luis González China 47; Ricardo Peláez 31]
U.A.G. 0-1 Leon
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 31]
Cruz Azul 1-1 Atlético Morelia
[Carlos Hermosillo 60; Jafet Soto 43]
Puebla 1-0 America
[Carlos Muñoz 86]
[Sep 8]
Atlético Celaya 0-1 Toluca
[Marcelino Bernal 11pen]
Pachuca 0-0 U.N.A.M.
Atlante 0-1 Toros Neza
[Antonio Mohamed 52]
Santos Laguna 1-1 Guadalajara [in Estadio Francisco Villa, Zacatecas]
[Jared Borguetti 23; Gustavo Nápoles 85]
Rescheduled match Round 3
[Sep 10]
Atlético Celaya 1-2 Necaxa
[José Miguel González "Michel" 89; Alberto García Aspe 6pen, José Enrique García 68]
Rescheduled matches Round 4
[Sep 10]
America 2-1 Cruz Azul
[Pedro Pineda 62pen, Javier Margas 68; Carlos Hermosillo 65pen]
[Sep 11]
Toluca 0-0 Atlante
Round 6
[Sep 14]
Toluca 1-0 Monterrey
[José Cardozo 70]
Atlético Morelia 2-2 Puebla
[Everaldo Begines 30, Marcelo Carracedo 64; Leopoldo Castañeda 59,
Marco dos Santos "Marquinho" 62]
Necaxa - Santos Laguna [postponed]
Leon 2-2 Pachuca
[Roberto López Segoviano 19, Alfonso Sosa 59; Lorenzo Sáez 31, Alberto Rodríguez 90]
Atlas 1-2 Veracruz
[Pablo Hernán Lavallén 51; Daniel Fasciolli 21, 83]
[Sep 15]
U.N.A.M. 1-3 Atlante
[Jesús Olalde 33; Ignacio Ambríz 44pen, Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 59,
Mario Jáuregui 89]
Guadalajara - Cruz Azul [postponed]
America - U.A.G. [postponed]
Advanced match Round 7
[Sep 15]
Santos Laguna 0-2 Cruz Azul
[Jorge Santillana 56, Carlos Hermosillo 88]
Round 6
[Sep 16]
Toros Neza 1-2 Atlético Celaya
[Antonio Mohamed 31; José Miguel González "Michel" 11, 18]
Round 7
[Sep 20]
U.A.G. 1-0 Atlético Morelia
[Gilberto Adame 53]
[Sep 21]
Veracruz 1-1 Toluca
[Daniel Fasciolli 90; José Cardozo 75]
Atlético Celaya 0-1 U.N.A.M.
[Cristian Domizzi 68]
[Sep 22]
Atlante 1-0 Leon
[Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 40]
[Sep 24]
Puebla 1-1 Guadalajara
[Carlos Muñoz 9; Gabriel García 79]
[Sep 25]
Necaxa 0-2 Atlas
[Gerardo Mascareño 2, 30]
Pachuca 2-2 America
[Lorenzo Sáez 11, 39; Pedro Pineda 73, 77]
Monterrey 5-1 Toros Neza
[David Patiño 16, 65, 71, Luis Miguel Salvador 26, Ramón Morales 88; Nildeson Silva 68]
Round 8
[Sep 28]
Toluca 2-0 Necaxa
[José Manuel Abundis 51, Alberto Macías 83]
Cruz Azul 3-1 Puebla
[Carlos Hermosillo 39, Sergio Verdirame 49, Juan Francisco Palencia 70;
Sergio Almaguer 9]
Leon 4-1 Atlético Celaya
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 24, 63pen, Christian Torres 73, 82;
José Miguel González "Michel" 52pen]
Atlas 1-1 Santos Laguna
[Darío Franco 15; Christian Montesinos 89]
[Sep 29]
Guadalajara 4-1 U.A.G.
[Alberto Coyote 11, Gustavo Nápoles 15, Gabriel García 41, Felipe de Jesús Robles 87;
Flavio Davino 16]
Atlético Morelia 3-0 Pachuca
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 20, 41, 77]
America 1-2 Atlante
[Luis García 27; Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 32, 50]
Toros Neza 2-0 Veracruz
[Javier Saavedra 22, Germán Arangio 65]
[Sep 30]
U.N.A.M. 1-1 Monterrey
[Marco de Almeida 10; Roberto Medina 61]
Rescheduled match Round 6
[Oct 2]
Guadalajara 1-0 Cruz Azul
[Gabriel García 68]
Round 9
[Oct 4]
Monterrey 1-0 Leon
[David Patiño 73]
[Oct 5]
Veracruz 1-1 U.N.A.M.
[Lenin Becerra 44; Cristian Domizzi 4]
Necaxa 2-0 Toros Neza
[Ricardo Peláez 32, Sergio Zárate 49]
Atlético Celaya - America [postponed]
Atlas 1-1 Toluca
[Darío Franco 69; Marcelino Bernal 75]
[Oct 6]
U.A.G. 1-1 Cruz Azul
[Duilio Davino 7; Carlos Hermosillo 6]
Pachuca 0-2 Guadalajara
[Claudio Suárez 18pen, Gabriel García 55]
Atlante 2-0 Atlético Morelia
[Mario Jáuregui 72, José Luis Malibrán 80]
Santos Laguna 1-0 Puebla
[Jared Borguetti 35]
Rescheduled match Round 6
[Oct 9]
America 2-2 U.A.G.
[Luis García 27, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 88; David Embé 20, Ángel Monáres 66]
Round 10
[Oct 12]
Toluca 0-2 Santos Laguna
[Pedro Muñoz 61, Jared Borguetti 88]
Cruz Azul 1-2 Pachuca
[Sergio Verdirame 48; Hernán Medford 50, Lorenzo Sáez 72]
Puebla 5-2 U.A.G.
[Sergio Almaguer 15, Carlos Muñoz 32, 79, 82, 88; Eustacio Rizo 41, David Embé 87]
Leon 2-1 Veracruz
[Martín Peña 8, Christian Torres 27; Jair de Brito 14]
America 2-0 Monterrey
[Pedro Pineda 78, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 84]
[Oct 13]
Guadalajara 1-0 Atlante
[Manuel Martínez 46]
U.N.A.M. 0-1 Necaxa
[Edson Alvarado 56]
Atlético Morelia 1-2 Atlético Celaya
[Andrés Garza 34; José Miguel González "Michel" 14, Richard Zambrano 65]
Toros Neza 6-2 Atlas
[Germán Arangio 38, Antonio Mohamed 57, 68, Guillermo Vázquez 62pen, Rodrigo Ruiz 73,
Enrique Figueroa 90; Steve Padilla 49, Gerardo Mascareño 76]
Round 11
[Oct 18]
Monterrey 0-3 Atlético Morelia
[Jorge Chávez 42, Everaldo Begines 51, Marcelo Carracedo 86]
[Oct 19]
Toluca 1-0 Toros Neza
[José Cardozo 82pen]
Veracruz 1-0 America
[Daniel Fasciolli 88]
Necaxa 0-0 Leon
Atlético Celaya 3-0 Guadalajara
[José Miguel González "Michel" 17pen, Carlos Hernández 59, 73]
Atlas 2-2 U.N.A.M.
[Miguel Larrosa 56, Héctor López 78; Marco de Almeida 11, 86]
[Oct 20]
Pachuca 3-4 Puebla
[Lorenzo Sáez 8, 60, Hernán Medford 31; José Juan Hernández 24, Daniel Guzmán 67,
Carlos Muñoz 70, Francisco Rotllán 83]
Atlante 3-1 Cruz Azul
[Ricardo Carvajal 15, José Damasceno "Tiba" 27, Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 55;
Carlos Hermosillo 72pen]
Santos Laguna 1-2 U.A.G.
[Jared Borguetti 76; David Embé 54, Eustacio Rizo 78]
Rescheduled match Round 9
[Oct 23]
Atlético Celaya 0-2 America
[Cuauhtémoc Blanco 22, Francois Omam Biyik 83]
Rescheduled match Round 6
[Oct 24]
Necaxa 0-1 Santos Laguna
[Jared Borguetti 66]
Round 12
[Oct 25]
U.N.A.M. 0-3 Toluca
[Miguel Ángel Carreón 4og, José Cardozo 72, Enrique Alfaro 74]
U.A.G. 1-1 Pachuca
[David Embé 35; Lorenzo Sáez 77]
[Oct 26]
Cruz Azul 2-3 Atlético Celaya
[Juan Francisco Palencia 30, Julio Zamora 57; Carlos Hernández 21, Carlos López 34, 52]
Puebla 2-3 Atlante
[Carlos Muñoz 70, Eduardo Medina 86og; Mario Jáuregui 53, 80, Javier Flores 78]
Leon 1-1 Atlas
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 42pen; Rodolfo García 26pen]
[Oct 27]
Guadalajara 3-1 Monterrey
[Gabriel García 1, 26, Gustavo Nápoles 29; Hugo Castillo 85]
America 1-1 Necaxa
[Pedro Pineda 44; Alberto García Aspe 24pen]
Atlético Morelia 0-2 Veracruz
[José Luis González China 23, 53]
Toros Neza 2-3 Santos Laguna
[Pedro Pablo Osorio 70, Antonio Mohamed 74; Jared Borguetti 30, Nicolás Ramírez 72,
Benjamín Galindo 79]
Round 13
[Nov 1]
Monterrey 1-0 Cruz Azul
[Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 35pen]
[Nov 2]
Toluca 2-3 Leon
[Marcelino Bernal 53pen, Fabián Estay 69; Milton Queiroz "Tita" 17,
Roberto López Segoviano 30, Sergio Martínez 80pen]
Veracruz 3-2 Guadalajara
[Daniel Fasciolli 15, Jair de Brito 65, José Luis González China 74; Camilo Romero 25,
Ignacio Vázquez 55]
Necaxa 2-1 Atlético Morelia
[Octavio Becerril 15, Sergio Zárate 69; Gerardo Esquivel 83og]
Atlético Celaya 0-1 Puebla
[Carlos Muñoz 70]
Atlas 2-1 America
[Omar Avilán 38, Rodolfo García 53; Francois Omam Biyik 61]
[Nov 3]
Atlante 1-0 U.A.G.
[Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 90]
Toros Neza 2-6 U.N.A.M.
[Antonio Mohamed 44, Rodrigo Ruiz 45; Jesús Olalde 32, 57, Marco de Almeida 35, 52, 62,
Cristian Domizzi 75]
Santos Laguna 2-1 Pachuca
[Alberto García 21, José Guadalupe Rubio 81; Salvador Aguado 42]
Round 14
[Nov 8]
U.A.G. 5-2 Atlético Celaya
[David Embé 11, 25, Juan Parra 25, 58, Markus López 71; Carlos Hernández 20,
Salvador Luis Reyes 83]
[Nov 9]
Cruz Azul 0-0 Veracruz
Puebla 1-0 Monterrey
[Daniel Guzmán 35]
Pachuca 1-2 Atlante
[Lorenzo Sáez 89; Ricardo Carvajal 3, José Damasceno "Tiba" 90]
Leon 2-3 Toros Neza
[Fabián Prátola 10, Roberto García Reza 72; Nildeson Silva 56, Federico Lussenhoff 83,
Pedro Pablo Osorio 90]
[Nov 10]
U.N.A.M. 2-2 Santos Laguna
[Cristian Domizzi 30pen, 89; Benjamín Galindo 47pen, Jared Borguetti 81]
Guadalajara 2-3 Necaxa
[Ignacio Vázquez 33, Gabriel García 77; Sergio Zárate 15, Jesús Eduardo Córdova 26,
Ricardo Peláez 83]
Atlético Morelia 1-2 Atlas
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 57pen; Pedro Duana 44pen, Omar Avilán 65]
America 1-2 Toluca
[Alberto Macías 56og; Enrique Alfaro 14, Salvador Carmona 75]
Round 15
[Nov 13]
Veracruz 0-3 Puebla
[Daniel Guzmán 51, 60, 80]
Santos Laguna 1-0 Atlante
[Jared Borguetti 9]
Necaxa 3-3 Cruz Azul
[Ricardo Peláez 2, Luis Hernández 82, Alex Aguinaga 90pen;
Carlos Hermosillo 42pen, 57pen, Marco Garcés 85]
Atlas 2-2 Guadalajara
[Gerardo Mascareño 11, Pedro Duana 19pen; Gustavo Nápoles 43, Gabriel García 53]
Monterrey 2-1 U.A.G.
[David Patiño 50, Eber Moas 81; Eustacio Rizo 64]
[Nov 14]
U.N.A.M. 1-0 Leon
[Cristian Domizzi 82]
Toluca 1-0 Atlético Morelia
[Juan Carlos Chávez 14og]
Toros Neza 2-1 America
[Germán Arangio 50, Nildeson Silva 78; Luis García 32pen]
Atlético Celaya 3-2 Pachuca
[Luis Fernando Soto 49, Juvenal Patiño 75, Richard Zambrano 78; Hernán Medford 41,
Lorenzo Sáez 43]
Round 16
[Nov 16]
Cruz Azul 4-1 Atlas
[Carlos Barra 44, Carlos Hermosillo 52, 64, Joahan Rodríguez 74; Pedro Duana 48]
U.A.G. 1-0 Veracruz
[Eustacio Rizo 55]
Puebla 1-2 Necaxa
[Carlos Muñoz 70; Alberto García Aspe 34pen, Felipe del Ángel Malibrán 80]
[Nov 17]
Leon 3-0 Santos Laguna
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 18pen, Damián Álvarez 46, Christian Torres 85]
Guadalajara 2-1 Toluca
[Claudio Suárez 50, 64pen; José Manuel Abundis 10]
Pachuca 2-2 Monterrey
[Lorenzo Sáez 37pen, 77pen; Roberto Medina 16pen, Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 47pen]
America 2-2 U.N.A.M.
[Luis García 20, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 44; Cristian Domizzi 54pen, 57]
Atlético Morelia 2-1 Toros Neza
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 44pen, Emilio Mora 70; Nildeson Silva 24]
[Nov 18]
Atlante 6-0 Atlético Celaya
[Mario Jáuregui 10, José Damasceno "Tiba" 42, Juan Hernández 44, Ricardo Carvajal 50,
Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 66, 84]
Round 17
[Nov 23]
Veracruz 0-1 Pachuca
[Roy Myers 30]
Monterrey 0-1 Atlante
[Mario Jáuregui 23]
Necaxa 1-0 U.A.G.
[Sergio Zárate 60]
Atlético Celaya 0-2 Santos Laguna
[Christian Montesinos 64, Pedro Muñoz 74]
[Nov 24]
Leon 2-2 America
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 45pen, Christian Torres 81; Isaac Terrazas 55,
Cuauhtémoc Blanco 60]
Atlas 2-2 Puebla
[Darío Franco 19, Pedro Duana 70; Francisco Rotllán 59, Carlos Muñoz 74pen]
Toluca 4-0 Cruz Azul
[José Cardozo 12, Marcelino Bernal 31pen, Carlos María Morales 65, 78]
U.N.A.M. 3-2 Atlético Morelia
[Braulio Luna 45, Jesús Olalde 53, 90; Marco Antonio Figueroa 20, Andrés Garza 69]
Toros Neza 2-1 Guadalajara
[Rodrigo Ruiz 59, Nildeson Silva 61; Ignacio Vázquez 27]
FINAL TABLES
Group 1 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Atlante 17 12 2 3 30 11 +19 38 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
2. Puebla 17 9 4 4 32 22 +10 31 (playoffs)
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3. Toros Neza 17 8 0 9 30 36 -6 24 (repechaje)[Nezahualcoyotl]
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4. Cruz Azul 17 5 5 7 26 26 0 20
5. Veracruz 17 4 6 7 14 21 -7 18
Group 2 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Necaxa 17 8 5 4 24 19 +5 29 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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2. León 17 5 8 4 24 19 +5 23 (repechaje)
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3. América 17 4 5 8 24 27 -3 17 [Ciudad de México]
4. Pachuca 17 3 6 8 25 26 -11 15
5. Atlético Morelia 17 3 3 11 20 31 -11 12
Group 3 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Guadalajara 17 9 4 4 33 19 +14 31 (playoffs)
2. Toluca 17 9 3 5 26 15 +11 30 (playoffs)
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3. Atlas 17 6 8 3 28 26 +2 26 (repechaje)[Guadalajara]
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4. U.N.A.M. 17 4 6 7 23 27 -4 18 [Ciudad de México]
Group 4 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Santos Laguna 17 10 4 3 21 15 +6 34 (playoffs)[Torreón]
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2. Monterrey 17 5 4 8 15 21 -6 19 (repechaje)
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3. U.A.G. 17 5 3 9 20 30 -10 18 [Zapopan]
4. Atlético Celaya 17 5 2 10 19 33 -14 17
Topscorers:
1. Carlos Muñoz 15 Puebla
2. Carlos Hermosillo 13 Cruz Azul
3. Gabriel Garcia 13 Guadalajara
4. Lorenzo Saez 13 Pachuca
5. Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 10 Atlante
6. Nildeson Silva de Melo 10 Toros Neza
7. Jared Borguetti 9 Santos Laguna
8. Luis García 8 América
9. Marco Antonio Figueroa 8 Atlético Morelia
10. Cristian Domizzi 8 U.N.A.M.
11. Milton Queiroz "Tita" 8 León
Championship playoffs
Repechaje Round
First Legs
[Nov 27]
Estadio León (Nou Camp)
León 1-2 Toros Neza
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 64; Germán Arangio 61, Jesús López Meneses 84]
Estadio Tecnológico
Monterrey 1-5 Atlas
[Hugo Castillo 88; Rafael Márquez 19, 90, Pablo Hernán Lavallén 28, Esteve Padilla 44,
Gerardo Mascareño 61]
Second Legs
[Nov 30]
Estadio Jalisco
Atlas 1-2 Monterrey
[Pedro Duana 58pen; Ramón Morales 47, Luis Miguel Salvador 59]
[Dec 1]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 2-1 León
[Antonio Mohamed 1, Guillermo Vázquez 58pen; Christian Torres 19]
Quarterfinals
First Legs
[Dec 4]
Estadio La Bombonera
Toluca 1-2 Puebla
[David Rangel 44; Omar Blanco 46og, Marco dos Santos "Marquinho" 66]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 4-0 Atlante
[Rodrigo Ruiz 8, Nildeson Silva 22, 31, Guillermo Vázquez 71pen]
Estadio Azteca
Necaxa 2-0 Guadalajara
[Alberto García Aspe 16, Luis Hernández 25]
Estadio Jalisco
Atlas 1-1 Santos Laguna
[Miguel Larrosa 87; Jared Borguetti 26]
Second Legs
[Dec 7]
Estadio Azteca
Atlante 2-5 Toros Neza
[José Luis Malibrán 53, Ricardo Carvajal 82pen; Nildeson Silva 28, 47, Rodrigo Ruiz 41,
Germán Arangio 43, Miguel Herrera 74]
Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Puebla 0-0 Toluca
[Nov 8]
Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara 2-1 Necaxa
[Joel Sánchez 21, Claudio Suárez 58pen; Alex Aguinaga 76pen]
Estadio Corona
Santos Laguna 3-1 Atlas
[Benjamín Galindo 36pen, Jared Borguetti 59, 87; Pedro Duana 39]
Semifinals
First Legs
[Dec 11]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 0-2 Santos Laguna
[Héctor Adomaitis 57, Gabriel Caballero 59]
Estadio Azteca
Necaxa 3-2 Puebla
[Luis Hernández 21, Sergio Zárate 30, Alberto García Aspe 70;
Marco dos Santos "Marquinho" 37, Daniel Guzmán 51]
Second Legs
[Dec 15]
Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Puebla 1-4 Necaxa
[Daniel Guzmán 12; Alberto García Aspe 4pen, Alex Aguinaga 25, Ricardo Peláez 69,
Edson Alvarado 85]
Estadio Corona
Santos Laguna 3-2 Toros Neza
[Jared Borguetti 31, 57, 79; Manuel Virchis 54, Nildeson Silva 89]
Final
First Leg
[Dec 19]
Estadio Azteca
Necaxa 1-0 Santos Laguna
[Benjamín Galindo 77og]
Second Leg
[Dec 22]
Estadio Corona
Santos Laguna 4-2 Necaxa
[Francisco Gabriel de Anda 35, Gabriel Caballero 38, 62, Jared Borguetti 83;
Ricardo Peláez 41, Luis Hernández 60]
Verano 1997
FINAL TABLES
Group 1 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Toros Neza 17 9 3 5 40 32 +8 30 (playoffs)[Nezahualcoyotl]
2. Atlante 17 8 4 5 23 19 +4 28 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Cruz Azul 17 7 4 6 21 22 -1 25 [Ciudad de México]
4. Puebla 17 4 8 5 15 18 -3 20
5. Veracruz 17 2 4 11 17 31 -14 10
Group 2 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. América 17 11 4 2 27 12 +15 37 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
2. Necaxa 17 8 4 5 33 20 +13 28 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Atlético Morelia 17 6 7 4 26 23 +3 25 (repechaje)
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4. León 17 5 8 4 21 18 +3 23
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5. Pachuca 17 5 2 10 24 32 -8 17 (relegated)
Group 3 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Guadalajara 17 9 7 1 27 16 +11 34 (playoffs)
2. U.N.A.M. 17 8 3 6 25 26 -1 27 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Toluca 17 5 6 6 24 21 +3 21
4. Atlas 17 4 4 9 23 36 -13 16 [Guadalajara]
Group 4 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Santos Laguna 17 8 2 7 27 28 -1 26 (playoffs)[Torreón]
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2. U.A.G. 17 5 5 7 26 24 +2 20 (repechaje)[Zapopan]
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3. Monterrey 17 5 3 9 25 38 -13 18
4. Atlético Celaya 17 2 6 9 20 28 -8 12
Regular Season
Round 1
[Jan 11]
Toluca 0-0 Puebla
Veracruz 2-1 Atlante
[Daniel Fasciolli 23, René Iván Valenciano 45; José Damasceno 46]
Monterrey 1-0 Atlético Celaya
[Jesús Arellano 10]
Necaxa 2-1 Pachuca
[Alberto García Aspe 5, José Maria Higareda 10; Lorenzo Sáez 63pen]
Leon 0-0 Atlético Morelia
Atlas 6-4 U.A.G.
[Rodolfo García 35pen, 47, Esteve Padilla 64, Pablo Hernán Lavallén 76,
Héctor López 88, 90; Juan Parra 10, Eustacio Rizo 22, 30, Markus López 56]
[Jan 12]
U.N.A.M. 2-1 Guadalajara
[Cristian Domizzi 30pen, Braulio Luna 43; Paulo César Chávez 33]
Toros Neza - Cruz Azul [postponed]
[Jan 13]
America 2-1 Santos Laguna
[Luis García 44, Edson Astivia 90; Gabriel Caballero 30]
Round 2
[Jan 18]
U.A.G. - Toluca [postponed]
Cruz Azul - U.N.A.M. [postponed]
Puebla 1-1 Toros Neza
[Daniel Guzmán 58; Pedro Pablo Osorio 13]
Atlético Celaya 1-1 Veracruz
[David Hernández 59og; René Iván Valenciano 24]
[Jan 19]
Pachuca 1-0 Atlas
[Lorenzo Sáez 63]
Atlético Morelia 1-1 America
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 85pen; Goran Milojevic 57]
Santos Laguna 1-2 Monterrey
[Christian Montesinos 61; Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 75pen, Roberto Medina 88pen]
Atlante - Necaxa [postponed]
Guadalajara - Leon [postponed]
Round 3
[Jan 24]
U.N.A.M. 1-1 Puebla
[Cristian Domizzi 44; Carlos Muñoz 74pen]
[Jan 25]
Toluca 1-1 Pachuca
[Marcelino Bernal 50; Lorenzo Sáez 48]
Veracruz 1-0 Monterrey
[José Mari Bakero 88]
Necaxa 2-1 Atlético Celaya
[Sergio Vázquez 17, Alberto García Aspe 83; José Miguel González "Michel" 65pen]
Leon 3-0 Cruz Azul
[Christian Torres 22, 68, Alfonso Sosa 72]
Atlas 2-0 Atlante
[Rodolfo García 9pen, Miguel Larrosa 58]
[Jan 26]
America 0-0 Guadalajara
Atlético Morelia 2-2 Santos Laguna
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 24pen, 85pen; Jared Borguetti 51, Gabriel Caballero 59]
Toros Neza 3-2 U.A.G.
[Miguel Herrera 29, Antonio Mohamed 73, 83; Markus López 43, Eustacio Rizo 50]
Rescheduled matches Round 2
[Jan 28]
Atlante 1-1 Necaxa
[Ricardo Carvajal 30pen; Sergio Zárate 72]
[Jan 29]
U.A.G. 1-1 Toluca
[Markus López 64pen; Fabián Estay 11]
Cruz Azul 0-1 U.N.A.M.
[Cristian Domizzi 59pen]
[Jan 30]
Guadalajara 1-1 Leon
[Claudio Suárez 2; Damián Álvarez 42]
Round 4
[Feb 1]
Monterrey 3-2 Necaxa
[David Patiño 21pen, 58, Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 63pen; Sergio Zárate 30pen,
Ricardo Peláez 35]
Cruz Azul 2-1 America
[Carlos Hermosillo 29, Juan Francisco Palencia 33; Luis García 12]
Atlético Celaya 3-0 Atlas
[Juvenal Patiño 31, Julio César Pinheiro 36, Hugo Sánchez 44]
U.A.G. 2-2 U.N.A.M.
[Julio César Yegros 53, 87; Cristian Domizzi 5, 8]
[Feb 2]
Puebla 1-1 Leon
[Carlos Muñoz 90; Cristian Colusso 48]
Atlante 3-2 Toluca
[Ricardo Carvajal 20, Mario Jáuregui 52, Germán Carty 68; José Cardozo 25, 70]
Guadalajara 2-1 Atlético Morelia
[Gustavo Nápoles 61pen, Gabriel García 65; Juan Carlos Chávez 77]
Pachuca 4-1 Toros Neza
[Lorenzo Sáez 27, 47, Hernán Medford 46, 89; Carlos Briceño 28]
Santos Laguna 2-0 Veracruz
[Gabriel Caballero 61, Alberto García 81]
Rescheduled match Round 1
[Feb 5]
Toros Neza 1-2 Cruz Azul
[Federico Lussenhoff 80; Juan Francisco Palencia 24, Joahan Rodríguez 67]
Round 5
[Feb 7]
Necaxa 4-0 Veracruz
[Jesús Eduardo Córdova 41, Luis Hernández 65, Edson Alvarado 84, Ricardo Peláez 85]
[Feb 8]
Toluca 2-0 Atlético Celaya
[Enrique Alfaro 47, Eduardo Lillingston 73]
Leon 1-0 U.A.G.
[Amara Simba 57]
America 2-0 Puebla
[Luis García 26, Ilie Dumitrescu 68]
Atlas 3-3 Monterrey
[Miguel Larrosa 10, Rodolfo García 13, Gerardo Torres 75; Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 64pen,
Héctor del Ángel 65, Luis Miguel Salvador 80]
[Feb 9]
Guadalajara 1-1 Santos Laguna
[Pedro Muñoz 47og; Gabriel Caballero 37]
Atlético Morelia - Cruz Azul [postponed]
U.N.A.M. 2-1 Pachuca
[Cristian Domizzi 43pen, Jesús Olalde 73; Hernán Medford 55]
Toros Neza 1-2 Atlante
[Rodrigo Ruiz 73; Luis Roberto Alves 59, Ricardo Carvajal 90pen]
Round 6
[Feb 14]
U.A.G. 0-0 America
[Feb 15]
Monterrey 1-4 Toluca
[David Patiño 46; Carlos María Morales 2, Marcelino Bernal 7pen, Eduardo Lillingston 77,
Enrique Alfaro 79]
Puebla 2-1 Atlético Morelia
[Carlos Muñoz 2, 47; Everaldo Begines 80]
Atlético Celaya 2-2 Toros Neza
[Julio César Pinheiro 18, 49; Javier Saavedra 22, Federico Lussenhoff 71]
[Feb 16]
Cruz Azul 1-1 Guadalajara
[Marco Garcés 7; Joel Sánchez 42]
Atlante 0-1 U.N.A.M. [in Estadio Sergio León Chávez]
[Alejandro Pérez 60]
Pachuca 0-2 Leon
[Sigifredo Mercado 66pen, Roberto López Segoviano 77]
Veracruz 1-2 Atlas
[Hugo Chávez 51; Pablo Hernán Lavallén 39, Miguel Salcedo 46]
Santos Laguna 1-3 Necaxa
[Benjamín Galindo 38pen; Luis Hernández 36, Alberto García Aspe 67pen, 79pen]
Round 7
[Feb 22]
Toluca 2-1 Veracruz
[Armando González 6, Carlos María Morales 85; René Iván Valenciano 33pen]
Atlético Morelia 1-2 U.A.G.
[Juan Carlos Chávez 33; David Embé 30, Eustacio Rizo 88]
Cruz Azul 2-0 Santos Laguna
[José Antonio Noriega 52, Carlos Hermosillo 78]
Leon 1-2 Atlante
[Amara Simba 74; Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 46, 88]
Atlas 0-2 Necaxa
[Ricardo Peláez 30, Luis Hernández 80]
[Feb 23]
Guadalajara - Puebla [postponed]
U.N.A.M. 4-3 Atlético Celaya
[Cristian Domizzi 7, 51pen, 58, Jesús Olalde 84; José Miguel González "Michel" 44pen,
Hugo Santana 81, Luis Fernando Soto 89]
Toros Neza 5-1 Monterrey
[Nildeson Silva 9, 55, Rodrigo Ruiz 15, 25, Germán Arangio 39; César Pantoja 69]
[Feb 24]
America 1-0 Pachuca
[Goran Milojevic 85]
rescheduled match Round 5
[Feb 26]
Atlético Morelia 1-0 Cruz Azul
[Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 38]
Round 8
[Mar 1]
Veracruz 3-5 Toros Neza
[René Iván Valenciano 2, Daniel Fasciolli 7, Gustavo Gaytán 65; Germán Arangio 23,
Nildeson Silva 28, Guillermo Vázquez 35, Javier Saavedra 63, Rodrigo Ruiz 78]
Monterrey 2-2 U.N.A.M.
[César Pantoja 8, David Patiño 15; Marco de Almeida 28, 58]
Puebla 1-0 Cruz Azul
[Uwe Wolf 38pen]
Atlético Celaya 0-0 Leon
[Mar 2]
Santos Laguna 2-1 Atlas
[Gabriel Caballero 48, Héctor Adomaitis 76; Rodolfo García 46]
Pachuca 2-2 Atlético Morelia
[Lorenzo Sáez 11pen, 54; Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 34, Emilio Mora 64]
[Mar 5]
Necaxa 1-1 Toluca
[Alberto García Aspe 35pen; José Manuel Abundis 52]
U.A.G. 1-2 Guadalajara
[Eustacio Rizo 41; Gustavo Nápoles 33, 61]
[Mar 6]
Atlante 0-1 America
[Luis García 76]
Round 9
[Mar 8]
Toluca 4-0 Atlas
[José Cardozo 40, Carlos María Morales 66, Fabián Estay 68, Jaime Ordiales 77]
Cruz Azul 0-3 U.A.G.
[David Embé 13, 71, Eustacio Rizo 77]
Puebla 1-2 Santos Laguna
[Daniel Guzmán 65; Gabriel Caballero 31, Nicolás Ramírez 40]
Leon 0-0 Monterrey
[Mar 9]
Guadalajara 2-0 Pachuca
[Ignacio Vázquez 81, Missael Espinosa 84]
Atlético Morelia 1-1 Atlante
[Jafet Soto 5; Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 60]
U.N.A.M. 3-2 Veracruz
[Marco de Almeida 28, Cristian Domizzi 54, Antonio Sancho 62;
René Iván Valenciano 1, 76]
Toros Neza 3-2 Necaxa
[Guillermo Vázquez 38pen, Carlos Briceño 88, Federico Lussenhoff 89; Ricardo Peláez 50,
Felipe del Ángel Malibrán 75]
[Mar 10]
America 4-0 Atlético Celaya
[Isaac Terrazas 24, Goran Milojevic 61, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 77, 82]
Round 10
[Mar 15]
Veracruz 0-0 Leon
Atlético Celaya 0-1 Atlético Morelia
[Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 78]
[Mar 16]
Santos Laguna 2-1 Toluca
[Francisco Gabriel de Anda 20, Gabriel Caballero 59; Fabián Estay 64]
[Mar 19]
Pachuca 1-3 Cruz Azul [in Estadio 10 de Diciembre]
[Lorenzo Sáez 21; Juan Francisco Palencia 40, 66, Carlos Hermosillo 81]
U.A.G. 0-0 Puebla
Atlante 1-3 Guadalajara
[Martín Félix Ubaldi 81; Paulo César Chávez 32, 52, Missael Espinosa 73]
[Mar 20]
Necaxa 3-0 U.N.A.M.
[Sergio Vázquez 52, Ricardo Peláez 66, Luis Hernández 88]
Atlas 1-4 Toros Neza
[Pedro Duana 60; Germán Arangio 8, Rodrigo Ruiz 17, Humberto González 33,
Ramiro Romero 48]
Monterrey 0-1 America
[Luis García 30pen]
Round 11
[Mar 22]
Cruz Azul 1-1 Atlante
[Marco Garcés 75; Vlada Stocic 21]
Puebla 1-0 Pachuca
[Carlos Muñoz 36]
U.A.G. 3-0 Santos Laguna
[David Embé 33, Mauricio Gallaga 39pen, Mario Sánchez 83]
[Mar 23]
Guadalajara 3-2 Atlético Celaya
[Gabriel García 34, Joel Sánchez 77, Gustavo Nápoles 87; Sergio Prado 6,
Adriano Fernández 64]
Leon 2-1 Necaxa
[Damián Álvarez 13, 53; Sergio Zárate 75]
Atlético Morelia 4-1 Monterrey
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 10, 79, Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 14, 90; Jesús Arellano 35]
U.N.A.M. 1-0 Atlas
[Cristian Domizzi 25]
Toros Neza 2-1 Toluca
[Nildeson Silva 20, Guillermo Vázquez 83; Enrique Alfaro 4]
[Mar 24]
America 2-1 Veracruz
[Isaac Terrazas 41, 61; Filiberto Fulgencio 25]
Rescheduled match Round 7
[Mar 25]
Guadalajara 1-1 Puebla
[Uwe Wolf 50og; Daniel Guzmán 34]
Round 12
[Mar 29]
Veracruz 2-2 Atlético Morelia
[Filiberto Fulgencio 20, José Mari Bakero 90; Javier Hernández 62, Cleomar Pires 78]
Atlético Celaya - Cruz Azul [postponed]
Atlas 1-1 Leon
[Pedro Duana 61pen; Rodolfo Navarro 56]
[Mar 30]
Atlante 1-0 Puebla
[Ignacio Ambríz 14]
Pachuca 2-1 U.A.G.
[Roy Myers 36, Guillermo Rivarola 51; David Embé 26]
Santos Laguna 2-0 Toros Neza
[Jared Borguetti 39, Gabriel Caballero 50]
[Apr 1]
Toluca 1-0 U.N.A.M.
[Carlos María Morales 3]
Monterrey 1-2 Guadalajara
[David Patiño 61; Gustavo Nápoles 14, Joel Sánchez 76]
[Apr 3]
Necaxa 1-2 America
[Sergio Zárate 48; Isaac Terrazas 11, Leonardo Rodríguez 54]
Round 13
[Apr 4]
U.N.A.M. 2-3 Toros Neza
[Marco de Almeida 1, Braulio Luna 60; Rodrigo Ruiz 38, Germán Arangio 49,
Javier Saavedra 58]
U.A.G. 1-2 Atlante
[Mauricio Gallaga 31; Juan Hernández 61, Germán Carty 81]
[Apr 5]
Cruz Azul 2-1 Monterrey
[Joahan Rodríguez 43, Juan Francisco Palencia 67; Luis Miguel Salvador 75pen]
Puebla 2-1 Atlético Celaya
[Carlos Muñoz 9, Gilberto Jiménez 31; José Miguel González 13]
Leon 1-1 Toluca
[Christian Torres 3; Armando González 35]
[Apr 6]
Guadalajara 1-0 Veracruz
[Manuel Martínez 84]
Atlético Morelia 2-1 Necaxa
[Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 43, Marco Antonio Figueroa 87; Sergio Zárate 23]
Pachuca 3-1 Santos Laguna
[Lorenzo Sáez 11, Guillermo Rivarola 83, Hernán Medford 89; Alberto Rodríguez 40og]
America 3-0 Atlas
[Cuauhtémoc Blanco 9, Luis García 76, Kalusha Bwualya 78]
Round 14
[Apr 9]
Toluca 1-2 America
[Salvador Carmona 24; Adán Núñez 60og, Pedro Pineda 82]
Atlético Celaya 1-1 U.A.G.
[Adriano Fernández 80; David Embé 1]
Atlas 1-2 Atlético Morelia
[Gerardo Torres 77; Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 31, Marco Antonio Figueroa 39]
Atlante 3-0 Pachuca
[Ignacio Ambríz 46pen, Germán Carty 68, José Damasceno "Tiba" 74]
[Apr 10]
Necaxa 1-1 Guadalajara
[Sergio Vázquez 49; Gabriel García 41]
[Apr 12]
Monterrey 4-2 Puebla
[Miguel García 41, Jesús Arellano 70, Luis Maldonado 78, Roberto Medina 82pen;
Uwe Wolf 43, Gilberto Jiménez 87]
Veracruz - Cruz Azul [postponed]
Resceduled match Round 12
[Apr 12]
Atlético Celaya 1-1 Cruz Azul
[Emilio Butragueño 12; Joahan Rodríguez 9]
Round 14
[Apr 13]
Toros Neza 4-2 Leon
[Carlos Briseño 15, 50, Javier Saavedra 53, Rodrigo Ruiz 57; Christian Torres 10,
Amara Simba 68]
Santos Laguna 2-0 U.N.A.M.
[Jared Borguetti 5pen, Gabriel Caballero 58]
[Apr 19]
Veracruz 0-1 Cruz Azul
[Juan Francisco Palencia 32]
Round 15
[Apr 20]
Leon 2-1 U.N.A.M.
[Christian Torres 16pen, 82; Marco de Almeida 48]
Pachuca 1-3 Atlético Celaya
[Roy Myers 41; Adriano Fernández 19, Hugo Sánchez 50, Emilio Butragueño 88]
[Apr 22]
U.A.G. 3-0 Monterrey
[David Embé 24, 71, Héctor Mukuoko 67]
Atlante 3-2 Santos Laguna
[Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 8, José Luis Malibrán 86, Juan Hernández 90;
Christian Montesinos 19, Alberto García 22]
[Apr 23]
Atlético Morelia 1-1 Toluca
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 77pen; Marcelino Bernal 72pen]
Puebla 0-0 Veracruz
Guadalajara 2-2 Atlas
[Manuel Martínez 7, Gustavo Nápoles 71; Claudio Suárez 10og, Pablo Hernán Lavallén 14]
Cruz Azul 1-4 Necaxa
[Carlos Hermosillo 62; Sergio Vázquez 15, Ricardo Peláez 32, Sergio Zárate 80, 85]
[Apr 24]
America 1-1 Toros Neza
[Cuauhtémoc Blanco 38; Rodrigo Ruiz 73pen]
Round 16
[Apr 26]
Veracruz 1-2 U.A.G.
[Leonel Álvarez 63; Porfirio Jiménez 49, Julio César Yegros 75]
Monterrey 5-4 Pachuca
[Luis Miguel Salvador 13, Jesús Arellano 26, 74, Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 48,
Hugo Castillo 66; Roy Myers 10, Lorenzo Sáez 20, 50, Hernán Medford 63]
Necaxa 1-1 Puebla
[José Juan Hernández 87og; Daniel Guzmán 37]
Atlético Celaya 0-0 Atlante
Atlas 2-2 Cruz Azul
[Darío Franco 8, 54; Carlos Hermosillo 9, 13pen]
[Apr 27]
Toluca 1-2 Guadalajara
[Manuel Vidrio 4; Gustavo Nápoles 86, Guillermo Hernández 88]
U.N.A.M. 2-1 America
[Alejandro Pérez 11, Joaquín Beltrán 22; Pedro Pineda 81pen]
Toros Neza 4-2 Morelia
[Germán Arangio 12, Jesús López Meneses 24, 78, Nildeson Silva 70;
Juan Carlos Chávez 67, Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 72]
Santos Laguna 3-2 Leon
[Gabriel Caballero 30pen, 72, Daniel Deeke 75; Carlos Turrubiates 28,
Christian Torres 90pen]
Round 17
[May 3]
Guadalajara 2-0 Toros Neza
[Gustavo Nápoles 11, 49]
[May 4]
Cruz Azul awd Toluca [originally 3-2; match awarded to Cruz Azul 3-0 by undue alignment of Toluca (5 foreign players in Mexico City)]
[Carlos Hermosillo 12, 53, Juan Francisco Palencia 90]
Puebla 1-2 Atlas
[Francisco Rotllán 45; Omar Avilán 7, Rodolfo García 77]
U.A.G. 0-2 Necaxa
[Luis Hernández 29, Mario Ordiales 36]
Atlante 2-0 Monterrey
[Vlada Stocic 43, Germán Carty 80]
Atlético Morelia 2-1 U.N.A.M.
[Marco Antonio Figueroa 6, Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 48; Vicente Nieto 35]
Santos Laguna 3-2 Atlético Celaya
[Jared Borguetti 14, 64, Gabriel Caballero 26pen; Hugo Santana 80, Salvador Reyes 88pen]
America 3-2 Leon [in Estadio La Corregidora]
[Isaac Terrazas 29, Luis García 73, Christian Patiño 87; Damián Álvarez 10,
Cristian Colusso 32]
Pachuca 3-2 Veracruz
[Leonel Álvarez 19og, Hernán Medford 32, Lorenzo Sáez 40; Leonel Álvarez 27pen,
José Mari Bakero 63]
FINAL TABLES
Group 1 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Toros Neza 17 9 3 5 40 32 +8 30 (playoffs)[Nezahualcoyotl]
2. Atlante 17 8 4 5 23 19 +4 28 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Cruz Azul 17 7 4 6 21 22 -1 25 [Ciudad de México]
4. Puebla 17 4 8 5 15 18 -3 20
5. Veracruz 17 2 4 11 17 31 -14 10
Group 2 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. América 17 11 4 2 27 12 +15 37 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
2. Necaxa 17 8 4 5 33 20 +13 28 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Atlético Morelia 17 6 7 4 26 23 +3 25 (repechaje)
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4. León 17 5 8 4 21 18 +3 23
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5. Pachuca 17 5 2 10 24 32 -8 17 (relegated)
Group 3 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Guadalajara 17 9 7 1 27 16 +11 34 (playoffs)
2. U.N.A.M. 17 8 3 6 25 26 -1 27 (playoffs)[Ciudad de México]
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3. Toluca 17 5 6 6 24 21 +3 21
4. Atlas 17 4 4 9 23 36 -13 16 [Guadalajara]
Group 4 M W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1. Santos Laguna 17 8 2 7 27 28 -1 26 (playoffs)[Torreón]
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2. U.A.G. 17 5 5 7 26 24 +2 20 (repechaje)[Zapopan]
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3. Monterrey 17 5 3 9 25 38 -13 18
4. Atlético Celaya 17 2 6 9 20 28 -8 12
Topscorers:
1. Lorenzo Sáez 12 Pachuca
2. Gabriel Caballero 12 Santos Laguna
3. Cristian Domizzi 11 U.N.A.M.
4. Gustavo "Gusano" Nápoles 9 Guadalajara
5. Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 9 Atlético Morelia
6. Marco Antonio Figueroa 9 Atlético Morelia
7. Carlos Hermosillo 8 Cruz Azul
8. Rodrigo Ruiz 8 Toros Neza
9. David Embé 8 U.A.G.
Relegation table
Team Average (PTS/GMS)
1. Guadalajara 1.25962 (131/104)
2. Necaxa 1.22115 (127/104)
3. America 1.21154 (126/104)
4. Cruz_Azul 1.18269 (123/104)
5. U.N.A.M. 1.06731 (111/104)
6. Toros Neza 1.01923 (106/104)
7. Santos Laguna 1.00962 (105/104)
7. Atlante 1.00962 (105/104)
9. Leon 1.00000 (104/104)
9. U.A.G. 1.00000 (104/104)
11. Atlas 0.99038 (103/104)
12. Puebla 0.96154 (100/104)
13. Monterrey 0.94231 ( 98/104)
14. Toluca 0.88462 ( 92/104)
14. Veracruz 0.88462 ( 92/104)
16. Atlético Celaya 0.88235 ( 60/ 68)
17. Atlético Morelia 0.81731 ( 85/104)
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18. Pachuca 0.70588 ( 24/ 34) (relegated)
The team with the lowest average (AVG) at the end of the regular season is
relegated to second level.
AVG = Total of points earned from the 1994-95 through the 1996-97 season divided by
the total of games played during that period. Only regular season, Division 1
matches are considered. Points are based on 2 points per each game won and 1
point per each game tied.
Championship Playoffs
Repechaje Round
First Leg
[May 7]
Estadio 3 de Marzo
U.A.G. 2-0 Atlético Morelia
[Julio César Yegros 65, David Embé 78]
Second Leg
[May 11]
Estadio Morelos
Atlético Morelia 4-0 U.A.G.
[Mario Juárez 7, Marco Antonio Figueroa 49 79, Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 67]
Quarterfinals
First Legs
[May 14]
Estadio Morelos
Atlético Morelia 1-0 Amèrica
[Mario Juárez 88]
Estadio Corona
Santos Laguna 1-1 Guadalajara
[Gabriel Caballero 18; Ramón Ramírez 50]
Estadio Azteca
Atlante 2-0 Necaxa
[Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 36, 54]
[May 15]
Estadio Olímpico Universitario
U.N.A.M. 1-3 Toros Neza
[Antonio Sancho 89; Germán Arangio 15, 32, Rodrigo Ruiz 60]
Second Legs
[May 17]
Estadio Azteca
América 1-3 Atlético Morelia
[Luis García 19pen; Claudio da Silva "Claudinho" 3, Jafet Soto 68, Mario Juárez 75]
[May 18]
Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara 5-0 Santos Laguna
[Ignacio Vázquez 19 57, Noe Zárate 29, Jorge Arreola 80 89]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 1-2 U.N.A.M.
[Antonio Mohamed 68; Antonio Sancho 80, 86]
Estadio Azteca
Necaxa 3-1 Atlante
[Alex Aguinaga 7, Alberto García Aspe 54pen, Ricardo Peláez 65; Martín Félix Ubaldi 52]
NB: Necaxa qualified on better position
Semifinals
First Legs
[May 22]
Estadio Morelos
Atlético Morelia 1-0 Guadalajara
[Heriberto Ramón Morales 53]
Estadio Azteca
Necaxa 2-1 Toros Neza
[Sergio Vázquez 11, Sergio Zárate 84; Federico Lussenhoff 51]
Second Legs
[May 25]
Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara 1-0 Atlético Morelia
[Paulo César Chávez 80]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 3-1 Necaxa
[Guillermo Vázquez 26pen, 69, Pedro Pablo Osorio 54; Alberto García Aspe 31pen]
NB: Guadalajara qualified on better position
Final
First Leg
[May 29]
Estadio Neza '86
Toros Neza 1-1 Guadalajara
[Carlos Briceño 77; Manuel Martínez 27]
Second Leg
[JUn 1]
Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara 6-1 Toros Neza
[Gustavo Nápoles 51, 56, 74, 85, Paulo César Chávez 52, Manuel Martínez 62;
Germán Arangio 79]
Copa México 1996/97 (Cup Tournament)
Group winners advance to the semi-finals.
In the qualifying round, a penalty shutout follows if tie after regulation.
Points awarded: 3 for a win, 0 for a loss.
All playoff matchups are a 1-game series.
Notation:
M - Matches
W - Won
2 - Won on penalties
1 - Lost on penalties
L - Lost
F - Goals for
A - Goals against
P - Points
First Level teams: Atlante, Atlético Celaya, Atlético Morelia, Toros Neza, Pachuca,
Toluca, Atlas, Guadalajara, León, U.A.G., América, Monterrey, Santos Laguna, Cruz Azul,
Necaxa, Puebla, U.N.A.M. and Veracruz.
Second Level teams: Cruz Azul Hidalgo, Irapuato, San Luis, Gallos Blancos, La Piedad,
Atlético San Francisco, Inter Tijuana, Saltillo Soccer, Tampico, Tigres, U.A.Tamaulipas,
Tigrillos U.de N.L., Guerreros Acapulco, Marte Morelos and Zacatepec.
FINAL TABLES
Group I
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Toros Neza 8 6 0 0 2 17 8 18 (qualified)[Nezahualcoyotl]
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2. San Luis 8 4 1 0 3 14 11 15 [San Luis Potosí]
3. Irapuato 8 4 0 2 2 11 7 12
4. Pachuca 8 4 0 1 3 13 10 12
5. Atlante 8 4 0 0 4 11 12 12 [Ciudad de México]
6. Atlético Morelia 8 3 1 0 4 10 12 12
7. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 8 3 1 1 3 9 13 12 [Ciudad Cooperativa]
8. Toluca 8 1 2 0 5 9 13 9
9. Atlético Celaya 8 1 1 1 5 7 15 6
Group II
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Guadalajara 7 6 0 0 1 25 6 18 (qualified)
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2. Leon 7 4 0 1 2 13 10 12
3. Atlas 7 4 0 0 3 14 12 12 [Guadalajara]
4. La Piedad 7 2 2 2 1 10 11 12
5. U.A.G. 7 3 1 0 3 13 17 12 [Zapopan]
6. Inter Tijuana 7 3 0 0 4 7 10 9
7. Atl. San Francisco 7 2 0 1 4 8 12 6 [San Francisco del Rincón]
8. Gallos Blancos 7 0 1 0 6 7 19 3 [Hermosillo]
Group III
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Tigres 7 4 2 0 1 11 8 18 (qualified)[Monterrey]
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2. America 7 4 1 1 1 16 12 15 [Ciudad de México]
3. Tampico 7 3 2 0 2 16 13 15
4. U. de N.L. 7 2 2 0 3 7 10 12 [Monterrey]
5. Saltillo Soccer 7 3 0 0 4 7 8 9
6. Santos Laguna 7 1 1 3 2 9 9 6 [Torreón]
7. Monterrey 7 1 1 2 3 12 16 6
8. U.A.Tamaulipas 7 1 0 3 3 9 11 3 [Ciudad Victoria]
Group IV
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Cruz Azul 7 5 1 0 1 20 8 18 (qualified)[Ciudad de México]
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2. U.N.A.M. 7 3 2 1 1 12 8 15 [Ciudad de México]
3. Necaxa 7 4 1 0 2 13 11 15 [Ciudad de México]
4. Puebla 7 3 1 2 1 9 6 12
5. Zacatepec 7 2 1 0 4 15 14 9
6. Veracruz 7 2 0 2 3 7 8 6
7. Marte Morelos 7 2 0 1 4 9 15 6 [Xochitepec]
8. Guerreros Acapulco 7 1 0 0 6 3 18 3
Group Phase
Round 1
[Jun 28]
San Luis 3-2 Atlético Celaya
[Martín Elías Terán 11, 75, Martín Vázquez 78; Arturo Moisés Rico 83,
Milton Nunez "Zico" 84]
[Jun 30]
Atlante 1-3 Pachuca
[Martín Félix Ubaldi 74; Hernán Medford 10, 62, Narciso Cuevas 23]
Irapuato 3-2 Toros Neza
[Jorge Salas 19, Luis Alberto Flores 23, José Luis Castro 70pen; Rodrigo Ruiz 7,
Juan Manuel Rivera 76]
Toluca awd Atlético Morelia [originally 2-1; match awarded to Atlético Morelia by undue alignment of Antonio Taboada]
Cruz Azul Hgo. bye
Round 2
[Jul 3]
San Luis 1-2 Toros Neza
[Israel Ayala; Guillermo Vázquez 40, Antonio Mohamed 43]
Irapuato 1-1 Atlético Morelia [1-3pen]
[Luis Alberto Flores 37; Marco Antonio Figueroa 26pen]
[Jul 4]
Toluca 4-0 Atlético Celaya
[Marcelino Bernal 3pen, Carlos María Morales 40, Eduardo Lillingston 51,
Gilberto Mora 81]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 3-1 Atlante
[Jorge Hernández 8pen, César García 49, Adalberto García 86; Martín Félix Ubaldi 19]
Pachuca bye
Round 3
[Jul 6]
San Luis 0-2 Atlético Morelia
[Héctor Nicanor 23, Everaldo Begines 71]
Saltillo Soccer 1-2 America
[Renato da Silva 25; Francois Omam Biyik 18, 69]
Tigres 0-0 Santos Laguna [4-3pen]
Marte Morelos 1-2 Veracruz
[Apolinar Cortéz 57; Daniel Corral 8, José Luis González China 61pen]
Acapulco 0-2 U.N.A.M.
[Braulio Luna 39, 51]
Puebla 0-2 Cruz Azul
[Carlos Hermosillo 38pen, 56pen]
Gallos Blancos - Leon [suspended at 10' by rain (0-0)]
[Jul 7]
Pachuca 3-1 Atlético Celaya
[Lorenzo Sáez 27, 32pen, 55; Dante Juárez 29og]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 0-0 Toluca [4-5pen]
Toros Neza 1-2 Atlante
[Rodrigo Ruiz 45; Javier Flores 49, Mario Jáuregui 85]
Gallos Blancos 0-1 León [80 minutes left]
[Rodolfo Navarro 23]
La Piedad 3-1 Atlas
[Eduardo Alcalá 7pen, 85, Raúl Paredes 10; Pedro Duana 55]
San Francisco 2-1 U.A.G.
[Luis Antonio Macías 29, 45; Juan Parra 44]
Inter Tijuana 0-2 Guadalajara
[Gustavo Nápoles 55, Salvador Mercado 62]
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-2 Tigrillos [1-4pen]
[Renato Porto 56, Ricardo Chávez Medrano; Israel García 34, 59]
Tampico 4-2 Monterrey
[Gerardo Fernández 38, 43, 60pen, 79; David Patiño 30, Luis Miguel Salvador 73]
Zacatepec 1-2 Necaxa
[Antonio Anguiano 59; José Enrique García 24, Luis Hernández 85pen]
Irapuato bye
Round 4
[Jul 10]
Pachuca 2-2 Toluca [3-5pen]
[Lorenzo Sáez 19pen, Rolando Fonseca 70; Carlos María Morales 9, Eduardo Lillingston 80]
San Luis 1-0 Atlante
[Israel Ayala 72]
Irapuato 0-0 Atlético Celaya [3-5pen]
La Piedad 1-1 San Francisco [4-3pen]
[Rafael Vázquez 4; Luis Antonio Macías 37]
Inter Tijuana 3-2 Gallos Blancos
[Carlos Cruz 8, Narciso Zazueta 47, 75; Enrique Lima 4, Juan Colorado 84]
Atlas 2-0 Leon
[Omar Avilán 54, Esteve Padilla 75]
U.A.Tamaulipas 0-1 Tigres
[Marco Antonio Ruiz 73]
Tampico 2-1 Saltillo Soccer
[Gerardo Fernández 50, 83; Eric Hernández 22]
Tigrillos 2-0 Monterrey
[Israel García 44, Alejandro Villalobos 45]
Zacatepec 7-0 Acapulco
[Nilton Rogeiro 10, 51, Rildo Procopio 23, 71, Armando Vara 66, Ricardo Sánchez 74,
Jaime Ríos 82]
Necaxa 1-3 U.N.A.M.
[Felipe del Ángel Malibrán 5; Antonio Sancho 64, Marco de Almeida 67,
Cristian Domizzi 80pen]
[Jul 11]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 2-1 Atlético Morelia
[Salvador Aguado 26, César García 35; Everaldo Begines 90]
Guadalajara 5-1 U.A.G.
[Ignacio Vázquez 10pen, 34pen, 40pen, Gabriel García 48, Sergio Pacheco 67;
Eustacio Rizo 79]
America 3-2 Santos Laguna
[Francois Omam Biyik 29, Roberto Andrade 62, Pedro Pineda 80; Benjamín Galindo 25,
Jared Borguetti 84]
Marte Morelos 1-5 Cruz Azul [in Estadio Isidro Gil Tapia, Cuautla]
[Arturo Santana 21; Sergio Verdirame 25, Marco Antonio Garcés 35,
Carlos Hermosillo 37pen, Pedro Reséndiz 77, Rubén Cuevas 83og]
Puebla 0-0 Veracruz [5-4pen]
Toros Neza bye
Round 5
[Jul 13]
San Luis 3-2 Toluca
[Israel Ayala 5, 30, 41; Eduardo Lillingston 31, Leonel Bolsonello 85]
Gallos Blancos 2-3 Atlas
[Juan Colorado 37, Sergio Castañeda 42; Miguel Larrosa 46, 57, Rodolfo García 85pen]
Saltillo Soccer 1-0 Santos Laguna
[Renato Ferreira 82]
Tigrillos 1-4 Tigres
[Valtencir Gomes 51; Marcos Ayala 8, Juan Antonio Flores Barrera 18,
Javier Lozano 34pen, 47]
Marte Morelos 2-0 Necaxa
[Apolinar Cortéz 37, Juan Rodrigo Macías 74]
Acapulco 0-1 Puebla
[Francisco Rotllán 60]
[Jul 14]
Pachuca 0-2 Atlético Morelia
[Everaldo Begines 56, 88]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 0-2 Toros Neza
[Martín Vilallonga 23, Enrique Figueroa 76]
Irapuato 3-2 Atlante
[Ángel Lemus 5, 14, Enrique González 8; Luis Roberto Alves "Zague" 36,
Juan Hernández 85]
San Francisco 2-3 Leon
[Ernesto Santillán 16pen, Ignacio Porras 36; Carlos Orozco 2, Víctor Santos 39pen,
Roberto López Segoviano 54]
Inter Tijuana 1-2 U.A.G.
[Carlos Cruz 69pen; Daniel Macías 26, 89]
La Piedad 0-4 Guadalajara
[Alberto Coyote 24, Sergio Pacheco 49, 83, 90]
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-3 Monterrey
[José Luis Mendoza 25, Luis Américo Scatolaro 48; Hugo Norberto Castillo 12,
David Patiño 49, Roberto Medina 55]
Tampico 3-5 America
[Gerardo Fernández 34, Carlos Ramírez 69, Sergio Lira 87; Roberto Andrade 19,
Kalusha Bwalya 22, Pedro Pineda 26, 40, 65]
U.N.A.M. 0-0 Cruz Azul [2-4pen]
Zacatepec 0-2 Veracruz
[Gustavo Gaytán 25, José Luis González China 41pen]
Atlético Celaya bye
Round 6
[Jul 17]
Irapuato 0-1 Pachuca
[Rolando Fonseca 35]
San Luis 3-3 Cruz Azul Hgo. [1-4pen]
[Martín Elías Terán 54, 83, Jorge Coronel 67; Oscar González 21pen,
Salvador Aguado 30, 52]
La Piedad 1-0 Inter Tijuana
[Raúl Paredes 61]
Leon 4-2 U.A.G.
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 23, Damián Álvarez 37, 88, Alfonso Sosa 42;
Mauricio Gallaga 54pen, Eustacio Rizo 66]
Guadalajara 4-1 Atlas
[Joel Sánchez 65, Jorge Arreola 72, Sergio Pacheco 80, Noé Zárate 88; Esteve Padilla 66]
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-1 Saltillo Soccer
[Ignacio Ruvalcaba 30, Ricardo Chávez Medrano 63; Ramón Rocha 72]
Tampico 4-1 Tigres
[Graciano del Castillo 53, 65, Tomás Cruz 66, Marco Antonio Vaal 84; David Oliva 39]
Monterrey 2-2 America [0-2pen]
[Luis Miguel Salvador 75, Hugo Norberto Castillo 90; Isaac Terrazas 20,
Francois Omam Biyik 62]
Necaxa 1-0 Veracruz
[Ricardo Peláez 13]
Zacatepec 1-1 Marte Morelos [4-2pen]
[Jorge Ramos 57; Salvador Ramírez 8]
Acapulco 1-3 Cruz Azul
[Cuauhtémoc Castillo 17; Carlos Hermosillo 28pen, 69, 76]
Puebla 0-0 U.N.A.M. [2-3pen]
[Jul 18]
Toros Neza 2-0 Atlético Celaya
[Martín Vilallonga 82, 90]
Toluca 0-2 Atlante
[Víctor Saavedra 4, Juan Hernández 84]
Tigrillos 0-2 Santos Laguna
[Benjamín Galindo 43, Nicolás Ramírez 70]
San Francisco awd Gallos Blancos [Gallos Blancos dns; awarded match to San Francisco 2-0]
Atlético Morelia bye
Round 7
[Jul 20]
San Luis 2-0 Pachuca
[Martín Vázquez 3, José Guadalupe García 65]
Gallos Blancos 1-7 Guadalajara
[Juan Colorado 21; Sergio Pacheco 12, Joel Sánchez 15, 47, Ignacio Vázquez 20pen, 72,
Ramón Ramírez 80, Manuel Martínez 84]
Saltillo Soccer 2-1 Monterrey
[Edson Zwarics 2, 4; David Patiño 82pen]
Tigres 2-1 America
[Javier Lozano 60, Omar Arellano 69; Pedro Pineda 43pen]
Veracruz 1-1 U.N.A.M. [2-4pen]
[José Luis González China 3; Vicente Nieto 9]
Necaxa 2-2 Puebla [5-4pen]
[Alberto García Aspe 30pen, Ricardo Peláez 65; Joaquín Hernández 52,
Francisco Rotllán 78]
Acapulco 0-1 Marte Morelos
[Apolinar Cortéz 60]
[Jul 21]
Atlante 1-0 Atlético Celaya
[Juan Hernández 53]
Toros Neza 4-0 Atlético Morelia
[Martín Vilallonga 20, 41 Guillermo Vázquez 58, Ramiro Romero 88]
Irapuato 2-0 Cruz Azul Hgo.
[Jorge Salas 64, José Luis Castro 88pen]
San Francisco 0-3 Atlas
[Gustavo Dezotti 25, Carlos Serafín 34, Pedro Duana 72]
Inter Tijuana 1-0 Leon
[Ricardo Ruvalcaba 10]
La Piedad 2-2 U.A.G. [3-4pen]
[Luis Contreras 19, Raúl Paredes 59; David Embé 23, Markus López 27]
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-1 Santos Laguna [1-3pen]
[Ricardo Chávez Medrano 66; Nicolás Ramírez 27]
Tampico 0-1 Tigrillos
[Israel García 35]
Zacatepec 1-4 Cruz Azul
[Nilton Rogerio 42; Julio César Yegros 27, 48, Carlos Hermosillo 66,
Jorge Santillana 86]
Toluca bye
Round 8
[Jul 23]
Tigrillos 1-1 América [3-2pen]
[Israel García 12; Joaquín del Olmo 14]
[Jul 24]
San Luis 1-0 Irapuato
[Israel Ayala 56]
La Piedad 1-1 Gallos Blancos [2-3pen]
[Marcelo Silva 46; Guillermo Ortiz 32]
Leon 3-1 Guadalajara
[Milton Queiroz "Tita" 51, Christian Torres 69, Roberto López Segoviano 86;
Sergio Pacheco 77]
Atlas 2-3 U.A.G.
[Pedro Duana 59pen, Rodolfo García 75; Markus López 50pen, Eustacio Rizo 56,
Amarildo Soares 87]
Saltillo Soccer 0-1 Tigres
[Nilson Esidio 34]
Tampico 1-1 U.A.Tamaulipas [7-6pen]
[Gerardo Fernández 10; Luis Américo Scatolaro 60pen]
Monterrey 2-2 Santos Laguna [5-4pen]
[Hugo Norberto Castillo 56, Gabriel Ruiz 74; Benjamín Galindo 29, Pedro Muñoz 50]
Zacatepec 1-2 Puebla
[Roberto Ventura 89; Carlos Muñoz 33, 67]
Acapulco 1-0 Veracruz
[Norberto Anzorena 50]
Necaxa 3-2 Cruz Azul
[Alberto García Aspe 71, 79, Ricardo Peláez 86; Carlos Hermosillo 81,
Julio César Yegros 90]
[Jul 25]
Atlético Morelia 1-3 Atlético Celaya
[Jorge Chávez 23; Arturo Moisés Rico 4, Nicolás Trejo 43, Felipe Aguirre 60]
Toros Neza 2-1 Toluca
[Rodrigo Ruiz 8, Federico Lussenhoff 67; Eduardo Lillingston 80]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 0-3 Pachuca
[Jesús Estrada 61, Gonzalo Farfán 84, Antonio Torres Servín 88]
San Francisco 1-2 Inter Tijuana
[Israel Mujica; Víctor Dávila, Cristian Escalera]
Marte Morelis 2-3 U.N.A.M.
[Enrique Guzmán 33, 52pen; Cristian Domizzi 21, 69, Jesús Olalde 45]
Atlante bye
Round 9
[Jul 26] atletico morelia
U.A.G. 2-1 Gallos Blancos [originally scheduled to be played in Hermosillo]
[Mauricio Gallaga 11pen, Amarildo Soares 75; Guillermo Ortiz 4]
[Jul 27]
Saltillo Soccer 1-0 Tigrillos
[Sergio Pérez 82]
Tigres 2-2 Monterrey [5-4pen]
[Claudio Núñez 50, 71pen; Hugo Norberto Castillo 44, Gabriel Ruiz 89]
Marte Morelos 1-4 Puebla
[Hugo Ochoa 64; Carlos Muñoz 42, 66, Uwe Wolf 51pen, Daniel Guzmán 55pen]
Acapulco 1-4 Necaxa
[Elías Ledesma 28; José Enrique García 14, 79, Sergio Zárate 21, Ricardo Peláez]
[Jul 28]
Atlético Morelia 1-2 Atlante
[Marcelo Carracedo 44; Miodrag Belodedici 59, Eduardo García 66]
Cruz Azul Hgo. 1-1 Atlético Celaya [4-3pen]
[Jorge Hernández 39; Emilio Butragueño 49]
Toros Neza 2-1 Pachuca
[Rodrigo Ruiz 34, Ramiro Romero 83; Hernán Medford 36]
Irapuato 2-0 Toluca
[Ángel Lemus 8, José Luis Castro]
San Francisco 0-2 Guadalajara
[Sergio Pacheco 65, Salvador Mercado 84]
Inter Tijuana 0-2 Atlas
[Eduardo Berizzo 15, Pedro Duana 85]
La Piedad 2-2 Leon [3-2pen]
[Adrián Cano 12, Salvador Patiño 76; Víctor García Reza 19, Sergio Martínez 87]
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-2 América
[José Luis Mendoza 37; Kalusha Bwalya 49, Francois Omam Biyik 63]
Tampico 2-2 Santos Laguna [7-6pen]
[Porfirio Jiménez, Ricardo Moreno; Jared Borguetti, Christian Montecinos]
Veracruz 2-4 Cruz Azul
[Miguel Hernández 14, Gilmar da Silva 62; Sergio Verdirame 5,
Luis Carlos De Oliveira "Pintado" 33, 52, 83pen]
Zacatepec 4-3 U.N.A.M.
[Antonio Anguiano 3, 57, Nilton Rogeiro 27, Omar Trejo 87;
Cristian Domizzi 21pen, 71pen, Jesús Olalde 52]
San Luis bye
FINAL TABLES
Group I
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Toros Neza 8 6 0 0 2 17 8 18 (qualified)[Nezahualcoyotl]
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2. San Luis 8 4 1 0 3 14 11 15 [San Luis Potosí]
3. Irapuato 8 4 0 2 2 11 7 12
4. Pachuca 8 4 0 1 3 13 10 12
5. Atlante 8 4 0 0 4 11 12 12 [Ciudad de México]
6. Atlético Morelia 8 3 1 0 4 10 12 12
7. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 8 3 1 1 3 9 13 12 [Ciudad Cooperativa]
8. Toluca 8 1 2 0 5 9 13 9
9. Atlético Celaya 8 1 1 1 5 7 15 6
Group II
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Guadalajara 7 6 0 0 1 25 6 18 (qualified)
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2. Leon 7 4 0 1 2 13 10 12
3. Atlas 7 4 0 0 3 14 12 12 [Guadalajara]
4. La Piedad 7 2 2 2 1 10 11 12
5. U.A.G. 7 3 1 0 3 13 17 12 [Zapopan]
6. Inter Tijuana 7 3 0 0 4 7 10 9
7. Atl. San Francisco 7 2 0 1 4 8 12 6 [San Francisco del Rincón]
8. Gallos Blancos 7 0 1 0 6 7 19 3 [Hermosillo]
Group III
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Tigres 7 4 2 0 1 11 8 18 (qualified)[Monterrey]
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2. America 7 4 1 1 1 16 12 15 [Ciudad de México]
3. Tampico 7 3 2 0 2 16 13 15
4. Tigrillos U.de N.L. 7 2 2 0 3 7 10 12 [Monterrey]
5. Saltillo Soccer 7 3 0 0 4 7 8 9
6. Santos Laguna 7 1 1 3 2 9 9 6 [Torreón]
7. Monterrey 7 1 1 2 3 12 16 6
8. U.A.Tamaulipas 7 1 0 3 3 9 11 3 [Ciudad Victoria]
Group IV
M W 2 1 L GF GA PTS
1. Cruz Azul 7 5 1 0 1 20 8 18 (qualified)[Ciudad de México]
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2. U.N.A.M. 7 3 2 1 1 12 8 15 [Ciudad de México]
3. Necaxa 7 4 1 0 2 13 11 15 [Ciudad de México]
4. Puebla 7 3 1 2 1 9 6 12
5. Zacatepec 7 2 1 0 4 15 14 9
6. Veracruz 7 2 0 2 3 7 8 6
7. Marte Morelos 7 2 0 1 4 9 15 6 [Xochitepec]
8. Guerreros Acapulco 7 1 0 0 6 3 18 3
Final Stage
Seeding after 1st round pool play:
M PTS GD
1. Guadalajara 7 18 +19
2. Cruz Azul 7 18 +12
3. Tigres 7 18 + 3
4. Toros Neza 8 18 + 9
NB: Tigres plays host to Cruz Azul because of its second level condition.
Semifinals
One single leg
[Jul 31]
Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara 0-2 Toros Neza
[Guillermo Vázquez 13pen, Martín Vilallonga 44]
Estadio Universitario
Tigres 1-1 Cruz Azul [3-4pen]
[Omar Arellano 61; Jorge Santillana 51]
Final
One single leg
[Aug 3]
Estadio 10 de Diciembre, Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul
Cruz Azul 2-0 Toros Neza
[Carlos Hermosillo 15, Luis Carlos de Oliveira "Pintado" 52]
Mexico 1996/97 Primera División A (Second Level)
Invierno 1996
NB: Before the start of the tournament, Inter Tijuana changed its name to Tijuana Stars.
FINAL TABLES
Group 1
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Tigres U.A.N.L. 16 11 2 3 29 12 35 2.4167 (playoffs)[Monterrey]
2. U.A.Tamaulipas 16 7 5 4 21 21 26 1.0000 (playoffs)[Ciudad Victoria]
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3. Real Sociedad 16 6 7 3 24 17 25 1.4118 (repesca)[Zacatecas]
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4. San Luis 16 7 3 6 26 31 24 0.8387 [San Luis Potosí]
5. Tigrillos U.de N.L. 16 4 4 8 21 21 16 1.0000 [Monterrey]
Group 2
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Tampico 16 7 4 5 16 18 25 0.8889 (playoffs)
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2. La Piedad 16 5 5 6 20 22 20 1.9091 (repesca)
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3. Yucatán 16 5 5 6 13 16 20 0.8125 [Mérida]
4. Tijuana Stars 16 4 3 9 16 26 15 0.6164
Group 3
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Marte Morelos 16 7 5 4 24 17 26 1.4118 (playoffs)[Xochitepec]
2. Atlético Hidalgo 16 7 4 5 21 15 25 1.4000 (playoffs)[Pachuca]
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3. Guerreros Acapulco 16 4 3 9 17 27 15 0.6296
4. Atl. San Francisco 16 4 2 10 19 25 14 0.7600 [San Francisco del Rincón]
Group 4
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Irapuato 16 8 3 5 16 13 27 1.2308 (playoffs)
2. Saltillo Soccer 16 6 6 4 20 15 24 1.3333 (playoffs)
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3. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 16 5 4 7 21 20 19 1.0500 [Ciudad Cooperativa]
4. Zacatepec 16 4 5 7 14 22 17 0.6364
Regular Season
Round 1
[Aug 10]
Tigres 1-0 San Luis
San Francisco 0-2 Yucatan
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 0-1 Marte Morelos
U.A.Tamaulipas 3-2 Acapulco
Tijuana Stars 1-0 Atl. Hidalgo
[Aug 11]
Zacatepec 0-0 Tampico
Irapuato 1-0 Saltillo Soccer
La Piedad 1-1 Real Sociedad
Gallos Blancos awd Tigrillos [awarded match to U. de N.L. 2-0; after annulled]
Round 2
[Aug 16]
San Luis 1-0 Tijuana Stars
[Aug 17]
Saltillo Soccer 1-2 Zacatepec
Atl. Hidalgo 4-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Marte Morelos 2-2 Irapuato
Yucatan 1-1 La Piedad
Tigrillos 1-2 San Francisco
Real Sociedad 0-0 U.A.Tamaulipas
[Aug 18]
Acapulco 1-2 Tigres
Tampico awd Gallos Blancos [awarded match to Tampico 2-0; after annulled]
Round 3
[Aug 24]
San Francisco 4-0 Tampico
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 4-2 San Luis
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-0 Tigres
Tijuana Stars 1-0 Acapulco
Real Sociedad 1-1 Yucatan
[Aug 25]
Irapuato 0-1 Atl. Hidalgo
Zacatepec 1-1 Marte Morelos
La Piedad 1-1 Tigrillos
Gallos Blancos awd Saltillo Soccer [awarded match to Saltillo Soccer 2-0; after annulled]
Round 4
[Aug 30]
Tigrillos 1-1 Real Sociedad
San Luis 0-0 Irapuato
[Aug 31]
Saltillo Soccer 1-0 San Francisco
Atl. Hidalgo 4-1 Zacatepec
Yucatan 0-0 U.A.Tamaulipas
Tigres 5-1 Tijuana Stars
Tampico 1-0 La Piedad
[Sep 1]
Acapulco 2-2 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Marte Morelos awd Gallos Blancos [awarded match to Marte Morelos 2-0; after annulled]
NB: On Sep. 2, Mexican FA announced the ejection of Gallos Blancos by debts, its four matches awarded to its opponents were annulled.
Round 5
[Sep 7]
San Francisco 3-0 Marte Morelos
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 1-2 Tigres
Irapuato 1-0 Acapulco
Yucatan 1-0 Tigrillos
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-0 Tijuana Stars
Real Sociedad 1-3 Tampico
[Sep 8]
Zacatepec 0-1 San Luis
La Piedad 1-1 Saltillo Soccer
Atl. Hidalgo bye
Round 6
[Sep 13]
Tigrillos 5-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
[Sep 14]
Saltillo Soccer 3-2 Real Sociedad
Marte Morelos 3-1 La Piedad
Tigres 1-0 Irapuato
Atl. Hidalgo 1-0 San Francisco
Tampico 1-0 Yucatan
[Sep 15]
Acapulco 2-0 Zacatepec
Tijuana Stars 0-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
San Luis bye
Round 7
[Sep 21]
San Francisco 4-6 San Luis
Yucatan 2-0 Saltillo Soccer
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Tigrillos 1-2 Tampico
Real Sociedad 1-1 Marte Morelos
[Sep 22]
Irapuato 1-0 Tijuana Stars
Zacatepec 3-2 Tigres
La Piedad 0-1 Atl. Hidalgo
Acapulco bye
Round 8
[Sep 27]
San Luis 2-1 La Piedad
[Sep 28]
Saltillo Soccer 2-1 Tigrillos
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 3-1 Irapuato
Atl. Hidalgo 0-1 Real Sociedad
Marte Morelos 1-2 Yucatan
Tampico 1-0 U.A.Tamaulipas
[Sep 29]
Acapulco 3-2 San Francisco
Tijuana Stars 1-0 Zacatepec
Tigres bye
Round 9
[Oct 5]
San Francisco 1-2 Tigres
Yucatan 0-0 Atl. Hidalgo
Tampico 0-0 Saltillo Soccer
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-1 Irapuato
Tigrillos 1-0 Marte Morelos
Real Sociedad 1-1 San Luis
[Oct 6]
Zacatepec 0-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
La Piedad 4-0 Acapulco
Tijuana Stars bye
Round 10
[Oct 11]
San Luis 4-1 Yucatan
[Oct 12]
Saltillo Soccer 1-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
Tigres 4-0 La Piedad
Atl. Hidalgo 2-0 Tigrillos
Marte Morelos 2-0 Tampico
[Oct 13]
Acapulco 1-4 Real Sociedad
Irapuato 0-1 Zacatepec
Tijuana Stars 2-1 San Francisco
Cruz Azul Hidalgo bye
Round 11
[Oct 19]
San Francisco 1-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Saltillo Soccer 0-0 Marte
Tampico 1-0 Atl. Hidalgo
U.A.Tamaulipas 3-4 Zacatepec
Yucatan 0-1 Acapulco
Real Sociedad 1-1 Tigres
Tigrillos 4-1 San Luis
[Oct 20]
La Piedad 3-2 Tijuana Stars
Irapuato bye
Round 12
[Oct 25]
San Luis 2-2 Tampico
[Oct 26]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 3-0 La Piedad
Atl. Hidalgo 1-1 Saltillo Soccer
Tigres 2-0 Yucatan
Marte Morelos 1-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
[Oct 27]
Acapulco 1-0 Tigrillos
Irapuato 2-1 San Francisco
Tijuana Stars 1-2 Real Sociedad
Zacatepec bye
Round 13
[Nov 2]
San Francisco 0-0 Zacatepec
Saltillo Soccer 5-0 San Luis
Marte Morelos 5-1 Atl. Hidalgo
Yucatan 2-1 Tijuana Stars
Tampico 1-0 Acapulco
Real Sociedad 2-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Tigrillos 1-2 Tigres
[Nov 3]
La Piedad 1-0 Irapuato
U.A.Tamaulipas bye
Round 14
[Nov 8]
San Luis 1-0 Marte Morelos
[Nov 9]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-0 Yucatan
Atl. Hidalgo 1-2 U.A.Tamaulipas
Tigres 2-0 Tampico
[Nov 10]
Acapulco 1-1 Saltillo Soccer
Irapuato 2-0 Real Sociedad
Tijuana Stars 1-1 Tigrillos
Zacatepec 0-1 La Piedad
San Francisco bye
Round 15
[Nov 16]
Saltillo Soccer 0-1 Tigres
Atl. Hidalgo 4-1 San Luis
Marte Morelos 1-0 Acapulco
Yucatan 0-1 Irapuato
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-0 San Francisco
Real Sociedad 3-0 Zacatepec
[Nov 17]
Tigrillos 1-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Tampico 2-2 Tijuana Stars
La Piedad bye
Round 16
[Nov 20]
Acapulco 1-1 Atl. Hidalgo
San Francisco 1-1 La Piedad
Zacatepec 1-1 Yucatan
Tijuana Stars 2-3 Saltillo Soccer
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-1 Tampico
Irapuato 2-1 Tigrillos
Tigres 2-3 Marte Morelos
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-0 San Luis
Real Sociedad bye
Round 17
[Nov 22]
San Luis 4-2 Acapulco
[Nov 23]
Saltillo Soccer 1-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Atl. Hidalgo 0-0 Tigres
Marte Morelos 3-1 Tijuana Stars
Tampico 1-2 Irapuato
Tigrillos 2-1 Zacatepec
Real Sociedad 3-0 San Francisco
[Nov 24]
La Piedad 4-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
Yucatan bye
FINAL TABLES
Group 1
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Tigres U.A.N.L. 16 11 2 3 29 12 35 2.4167 (playoffs)[Monterrey]
2. U.A.Tamaulipas 16 7 5 4 21 21 26 1.0000 (playoffs)[Ciudad Victoria]
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3. Real Sociedad 16 6 7 3 24 17 25 1.4118 (repesca)[Zacatecas]
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4. San Luis 16 7 3 6 26 31 24 0.8387 [San Luis Potosí]
5. Tigrillos U.de.N.L. 16 4 4 8 21 21 16 1.0000 [Monterrey]
Group 2
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Tampico 16 7 4 5 16 18 25 0.8889 (playoffs)
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2. La Piedad 16 5 5 6 20 22 20 1.9091 (repesca)
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3. Yucatán 16 5 5 6 13 16 20 0.8125 [Mérida]
4. Tijuana Stars 16 4 3 9 16 26 15 0.6164
Group 3
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Marte Morelos 16 7 5 4 24 17 26 1.4118 (playoffs)[Xochitepec]
2. Atlético Hidalgo 16 7 4 5 21 15 25 1.4000 (playoffs)[Pachuca]
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3. Acapulco 16 4 3 9 17 27 15 0.6296
4. Atl. San Francisco 16 4 2 10 19 25 14 0.7600 [San Francisco del Rincón]
Group 4
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Irapuato 16 8 3 5 16 13 27 1.2308 (playoffs)
2. Saltillo Soccer 16 6 6 4 20 15 24 1.3333 (playoffs)
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3. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 16 5 4 7 21 20 19 1.0500 [Ciudad Cooperativa]
4. Zacatepec 16 4 5 7 14 22 17 0.6364
Topscorer: Nilson Esidio 12 goals (Tigres)
Championship Playoffs
Repechaje Round
First Leg
[Nov 27]
Estadio Juan N. López
La Piedad 2-1 Real Sociedad 15:00
[Rafael Vázquez 60, Gustavo Godoy 88pen; Francisco Rodríguez 38]
Second Leg
[Nov 30]
Estadio Francisco Villa
Real Sociedad 6-0 La Piedad
[Juan Zandona 12, 47. 81, Hugo Ortiz 32, 73, Gustavo Martínez 83pen]
Quarterfinals
First Legs
[Dec 3]
Estadio Francisco I. Madero
Saltillo Soccer 1-1 Tigres 15:00
[Julio César Carrasco 29; Arnulfo Tinoco 26]
Estadio Tamaulipas
Tampico 3-1 Irapuato 21:00
[Humberto Roon 6, Gabriel Mora 68, Porfirio Jiménez 87; Jorge Salas 48]
[Dec 4]
Estadio Hidalgo
Atl. Hidalgo 0-0 Marte Morelos 20:30
Estadio Francisco Villa
Real Sociedad 2-0 U.A.Tamaulipas 20:30
[Juan Zadona 23, Carlos Vega 51]
Second Legs
[Dec 7]
Estadio Universitario
Tigres 1-1 Saltillo Soccer 17:00
[Marcos Ayala 63; Edson Zwaricz 26]
Estadio Sergio León Chávez
Irapuato 0-0 Tampico 20:30
[Dec 8]
Estadio Mariano Matamoros
Marte Morelos 0-1 Atl. Hidalgo 12:00
[Julio Jaramillo 32]
Estadio Eugenio Alvizo Porras
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-0 Real Sociedad 15:30
[Pablo Rodríguez 73]
NB: Tigres on better position
Semifinals
First Legs
[Dec 11]
Estadio Tamaulipas
Tampico 1-2 Tigres 15:30
[Gerardo Fernández 88; Nilson Esidio 34, Claudio Núñez 75]
[Dec 12]
Estadio Hidalgo
Atl. Hidalgo 2-0 Real Sociedad 20:30
[Jorge Uribe 69, Adrián Mahia 76pen]
Second Legs
[Dec 14]
Estadio Universitario
Tigres 8-0 Tampico 17:00
[Francisco "Flaco" Gómez 9, Claudio "Diablo" Núñez 46, Porfirio Escobar 51og,
Marco Antonio Ruiz 57, Nilson Esidio 70, Francisco Javier Cruz 80pen, 87, 89]
[Dec 15]
Estadio Francisco Villa
Real Sociedad 1-5 Atl. Hidalgo 16:00
[Germán Osorio 73; César Gómez 8, 41, 71, Manuel Ríos 83, Adrián Mahia 89]
Final
First Leg
[Dec 18]
Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca
Atl. Hidalgo 1-0 Tigres 20:45
[César Gómez 55]
Second Leg
[Dec 21]
Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza
Tigres 3-0 Atl. Hidalgo 17:00
[Gabriel "Coca" Mendoza 7, Claudio "Diablo" Núñez 45, Nilson Esidio 47pen]
Changes for the next season:
Tijuana Stars change back its name to Inter Tijuana
Verano 1997
FINAL TABLES
Group 1
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. U.A.Tamaulipas 16 10 4 2 28 16 34 1.7500 (playoffs)[Ciudad Victoria]
2. Tigres U.A.N.L. 16 9 6 1 42 20 33 2.1000 (playoffs)[Monterrey]
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3. Tigrillos U.de N.L. 16 7 5 4 21 16 26 1.3125 (repesca)[Monterrey]
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4. Real Sociedad 16 4 5 7 27 25 17 1.0800 [Zacatecas]
5. San Luis 16 3 8 5 25 32 17 0.7813 [San Luis Potosí]
Group 2
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Yucatán 16 6 4 6 19 21 22 0.9048 (playoffs)[Mérida]
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2. Tampico 16 6 2 8 24 29 20 0.8276 (repesca)
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3. La Piedad 16 3 6 7 26 34 15 0.7647
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4. Inter Tijuana 16 2 4 10 13 32 10 0.4063 (relegated)
Group 3
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Atlético Hidalgo 16 9 4 3 33 27 31 1.2222 (playoffs)[Pachuca]
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2. Atl. San Francisco 16 4 5 7 26 30 17 0.8667 (repesca)[San Francisco del Rincón]
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3. Acapulco 16 3 6 7 17 33 15 0.5152
4. Marte Morelos 16 2 6 8 23 28 12 0.8214 [Xochitepec]
Group 4
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 16 8 3 5 29 20 27 1.4500 (playoffs)[Ciudad Cooperativa]
2. Saltillo Soccer 16 7 5 4 24 19 26 1.2632 (playoffs)
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3. Zacatepec 16 7 3 6 21 23 24 0.9130 (repesca)
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4. Irapuato 16 4 8 4 26 19 20 1.3684
Regular Season
Round 1
[Jan 10]
San Luis 2-4 Tigres [in Estadio Universitario]
[Jan 11]
Saltillo Soccer 1-1 Irapuato
Atl. Hidalgo 2-0 Inter Tijuana
Marte Morelos 2-3 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Tampico 2-1 Zacatepec
Yucatán 1-1 San Francisco
Real Sociedad 1-2 La Piedad
[Jan 12]
Acapulco 0-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
Tigrillos bye
Round 2
[Jan 18]
San Francisco 0-1 Tigrillos
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-3 Atl. Hidalgo
Tigres 4-0 Acapulco
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-1 Real Sociedad
Inter Tijuana 1-1 San Luis
[Jan 19]
Irapuato 2-2 Marte Morelos
Zacatepec 0-2 Saltillo Soccer
La Piedad 0-1 Yucatán
Tampico bye
Round 3
[Jan 24]
Tigrillos 2-1 La Piedad
San Luis 1-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
[Jan 25]
Tigres 3-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
Atl. Hidalgo 2-1 Irapuato
Marte Morelos 1-2 Zacatepec
Yucatán 3-2 Real Sociedad
Tampico 5-3 San Francisco
[Jan 26]
Acapulco 4-2 Inter Tijuana
Saltillo Soccer bye
Round 4
[Feb 1]
San Francisco 1-1 Saltillo Soccer
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 6-0 Acapulco
Inter Tijuana 1-2 Tigres
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-0 Yucatán
Real Sociedad 0-2 Tigrillos
[Feb 2]
Irapuato 4-2 San Luis
Zacatepec 1-0 Atl. Hidalgo
La Piedad 4-1 Tampico
Marte Morelos bye
Round 5
[Feb 7]
Tigrillos 2-1 Yucatán
San Luis 1-1 Zacatepec
[Feb 8]
Saltillo Soccer 4-2 La Piedad
Tigres 1-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Inter Tijuana 0-2 U.A.Tamaulipas
Marte Morelos 2-3 San Francisco
Tampico 1-0 Real Sociedad
[Feb 9]
Acapulco 0-0 Irapuato
Atl. Hidalgo bye
Round 6
[Feb 15]
San Francisco 2-3 Atl. Hidalgo
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 3-0 Inter Tijuana
U.A.Tamaulipas 0-0 Tigrillos
Yucatán 2-1 Tampico
Real Sociedad 0-0 Saltillo Soccer
[Feb 16]
Irapuato 1-1 Tigres
Zacatepec 0-0 Acapulco
La Piedad 1-1 Marte Morelos
San Luis bye
Round 7
[Feb 21]
San Luis 0-0 San Francisco
[Feb 22]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
Saltillo Soccer 2-1 Yucatán
Tigres 4-1 Zacatepec
Atl. Hidalgo 1-3 La Piedad
Inter Tijuana 1-1 Irapuato
Marte Morelos 2-4 Real Sociedad
Tampico 0-2 Tigrillos
Acapulco bye
Round 8
[Mar 1]
San Francisco 3-1 Acapulco
U.A.Tamaulipas 4-1 Tampico
Yucatán 1-0 Marte Morelos
Real Sociedad 1-1 Atl. Hidalgo
Tigrillos 2-1 Saltillo Soccer
[Mar 2]
Irapuato 2-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
La Piedad 1-1 San Luis
Zacatepec 3-0 Inter Tijuana
Tigres bye
Round 9
[Mar 7]
San Luis 2-2 Real Sociedad
[Mar 8]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 3-1 Zacatepec
Saltillo Soccer 1-0 Tampico
Tigres 4-0 San Francisco
Atl. Hidalgo 4-1 Yucatán
Marte Morelos 1-1 Tigrillos
[Mar 9]
Acapulco 4-3 La Piedad
Irapuato 0-0 U.A.Tamaulipas
Inter Tijuana bye
Round 10
[Mar 15]
San Francisco 4-0 Inter Tijuana
U.A.Tamaulipas 1-0 Saltillo Soccer
Yucatán 2-2 San Luis
Tampico 0-0 Marte Morelos
Real Sociedad 3-0 Acapulco
Tigrillos 0-1 Atl. Hidalgo
[Mar 16]
Zacatepec 2-0 Irapuato
La Piedad 2-2 Tigres
Cruz Azul Hidalgo bye
Round 11
[Mar 21]
San Luis 2-1 Tigrillos
[Mar 22]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-1 San Francisco
Tigres 3-2 Real Sociedad
Atl. Hidalgo 3-2 Tampico
Inter Tijuana 1-1 La Piedad
Marte Morelos 1-1 Saltillo Soccer
[Mar 23]
Acapulco 0-0 Yucatán
Zacatepec 1-3 U.A.Tamaulipas
Irapuato bye
Round 12
[Mar 29]
San Francisco 1-1 Irapuato
Saltillo Soccer 1-2 Atl. Hidalgo
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-1 Marte Morelos
Tampico 4-0 San Luis
Yucatán 3-2 Tigres
Tigrillos 1-1 Acapulco
Real Sociedad 3-1 Inter Tijuana
[Mar 30]
La Piedad 3-3 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Zacatepec bye
Round 13
[Apr 4]
San Luis 2-2 Saltillo Soccer
[Apr 5]
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 1-1 Real Sociedad
Tigres 1-1 Tigrillos
Atl. Hidalgo 4-2 Marte Morelos
Inter Tijuana 1-0 Yucatán
[Apr 6]
Acapulco 0-2 Tampico
Irapuato 6-0 La Piedad
Zacatepec 3-1 San Francisco
U.A.Tamaulipas bye
Round 14
[Apr 12]
Saltillo Soccer 2-0 Acapulco
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-2 Atl. Hidalgo
Marte Morelos 5-1 San Luis
Tampico 2-2 Tigres
Yucatán 0-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Tigrillos 1-1 Inter Tijuana
Real Sociedad 1-1 Irapuato
[Apr 13]
La Piedad 0-1 Zacatepec
San Francisco bye
Round 15
[Apr 18]
San Luis 5-1 Atl. Hidalgo
[Apr 19]
San Francisco 2-3 U.A.Tamaulipas
Tigres 6-1 Saltillo Soccer
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 2-1 Tigrillos
Inter Tijuana 4-1 Tampico
[Apr 20]
Acapulco 2-2 Marte Morelos
Irapuato 2-3 Yucatán
Zacatepec 1-4 Real Sociedad
La Piedad bye
Round 16
[Apr 25]
San Luis 1-1 U.A.Tamaulipas
[Apr 26]
Saltillo Soccer 3-0 Inter Tijuana
Atl. Hidalgo 2-2 Acapulco
Marte Morelos 0-1 Tigres
Tampico 1-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Yucatán 0-0 Zacatepec
Tigrillos 2-1 Irapuato
[Apr 27]
La Piedad 1-1 San Francisco
Real Sociedad bye
Round 17
[May 4]
Acapulco 3-2 San Luis
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 0-2 Saltillo Soccer
Inter Tijuana 0-1 Marte Morelos
Irapuato 3-1 Tampico
Tigres 2-2 Atl. Hidalgo
U.A.Tamaulipas 4-2 La Piedad
Zacatepec 3-2 Tigrillos
San Francisco 3-2 Real Sociedad
Yucatán bye
FINAL TABLES
Group 1
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. U.A.Tamaulipas 16 10 4 2 28 16 34 1.7500 (playoffs)[Ciudad Victoria]
2. Tigres U.A.N.L. 16 9 6 1 42 20 33 2.1000 (playoffs)[Monterrey]
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3. Tigrillos U.de N.L. 16 7 5 4 21 16 26 1.3125 (repesca)[Monterrey]
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4. Real Sociedad 16 4 5 7 27 25 17 1.0800 [Zacatecas]
5. San Luis 16 3 8 5 25 32 17 0.7813 [San Luis Potosí]
Group 2
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Yucatán 16 6 4 6 19 21 22 0.9048 (playoffs)[Mérida]
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2. Tampico 16 6 2 8 24 29 20 0.8276 (repesca)
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3. La Piedad 16 3 6 7 26 34 15 0.7647
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4. Inter Tijuana 16 2 4 10 13 32 10 0.4063 (relegated)
Group 3
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Atlético Hidalgo 16 9 4 3 33 27 31 1.2222 (playoffs)[Pachuca]
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2. Atl. San Francisco 16 4 5 7 26 30 17 0.8667 (repesca)[San Francisco del Rincón]
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3. Acapulco 16 3 6 7 17 33 15 0.5152
4. Marte Morelos 16 2 6 8 23 28 12 0.8214 [Xochitepec]
Group 4
M W T L GF GA PTS AVGE
1. Cruz Azul Hidalgo 16 8 3 5 29 20 27 1.4500 (playoffs)[Ciudad Cooperativa]
2. Saltillo Soccer 16 7 5 4 24 19 26 1.2632 (playoffs)
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3. Zacatepec 16 7 3 6 21 23 24 0.9130 (repesca)
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4. Irapuato 16 4 8 4 26 19 20 1.3684
Topscorers: Ángel Lemus 12 goals (Irapuato)
Carlos Pavón 12 goals (U.A.Tamaulipas)
Relegation Table
AVG PTS/GMS
1. Tigres 1.5000 (48/32)
2. Atlético Hidalgo 1.2500 (40/32)
3. U.A.Tamaulipas 1.1774 (73/62)
4. San Luis 1.0556 (95/90)
5. La Piedad 1.0444 (94/90)
6. A.San Francisco 1.0333 (93/90)
7. Irapuato 1.0333 (93/90)
8. Cruz Azul Hgo. 1.0323 (64/62)
9. Tampico 1.0323 (64/62)
10. Real Sociedad 1.0000 (32/32)
11. Tigrillos 0.9688 (31/32)
12. Saltillo Soccer 0.9677 (60/62)
13. Yucatán 0.9667 (87/90)
14. Zacatepec 0.9556 (86/90)
15. Acapulco 0.8778 (79/90)
16. Marte Morelos 0.8667 (78/90) [-7 goal difference]
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17. Inter Tijuana 0.8667 (78/90) [-30 goal difference] (relegated)
Championship Playoffs
Repechaje Round
First Legs
[May 8]
Estadio Tamaulipas
Tampico 1-1 Zacatepec
[Ricardo Sánchez (2)]
[May 9]
Estadio San Francisco
San Francisco 1-1 Tigrillos
[Ignacio Porras 71; Alberto Durán 51]
Second Legs
[May 11]
Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz
Zacatepec 3-1 Tampico
[José Enrique Rodón (2), Rogerio; Gerardo Fernández]
Estadio Universitario
Tigrillos 4-1 San Francisco
[Alberto Durán 26, Israel García 32, Valtencir Gomes 39, Omar Gutiérrez 58;
César Rodríguez 36]
Quarterfinals
First Legs
[May 14]
Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz
Zacatepec 1-3 Tigres 15:00
[Ricardo Sánchez; Nilson Esidio 43, Arnulfo Tinoco 53, Claudio Núñez 82]
Estadio Francisco I. Madero
Saltillo Soccer 0-1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo 16:00
[Verulio Ríos 61]
[May 15]
Estadio Carlos Iturralde
Yucatán 1-1 U.A.Tamaulipas 16:00
[Fernando Dávila 76; Ricardo Rayas 52]
Estadio Universitario
Tigrillos 4-1 Atl. Hidalgo 20:30
[Alberto Durán 26, Carlos Guerra 59og, Israel García 61, Valtencir Gomes 89;
José Enrique García 7]
Second Legs
[May 17]
Estadio 10 de Diciembre
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 0-1 Saltillo Soccer 12:00
[Edson Zwaricz]
Estadio Universitario
Tigres 2-0 Zacatepec 17:00
[Claudio Núñez 15, Nilson Esidio 84]
[May 18]
Estadio Eugenio Alvizo Porras
U.A.Tamaulipas 2-1 Yucatán 12:00
[Milton Nunez "Zico" 54, Carlos Pavón 60; Amarildo 68]
Estadio Hidalgo
Atl. Hidalgo 3-1 Tigrillos 12:00
[Gerardo Jiménez 38, Milton Hernández 51, Fabián Luna 72; Jorge Cabrera 61]
NB: Cruz Azul Hidalgo on better season record
Semifinals
First Legs
[May 21]
Estadio 10 de Diciembre
Cruz Azul Hidalgo 1-0 Tigres 16:00
[Verulio Ríos 46]
[May 22]
Estadio Universitario
Tigrillos 0-0 U.A.Tamaulipas 20:30
Second Legs
[May 24]
Estadio Universitario
Tigres 3-0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo 17:00
[Nilson Esidio 18, 48, Claudio Núñez 71]
[May 25]
Estadio Eugenio Alvizo Porras
U.A.Tamaulipas 6-2 Tigrillos 12:00
[Ricardo Rayas 8, José Mendoza 13, Carlos Pavón 66, 79, Carlos Medina 86,
Richard Tabares 89; Alberto Durán 18, 51]
Final
First Leg
[May 29]
Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza
Tigres 0-1 U.A.Tamaulipas 17:00
[Francisco Cruz 64]
Second Leg
[Jun 1]
Estadio Universitario Eugenio Alvizo Porras, Ciudad Victoria
U.A.Tamaulipas 0-4 Tigres 16:00
[Nilson Esidio 20, 70, Marcos Ayala 37, Danilo Tosello 87]
Tigres promoted as winner of Invierno 1996 and Verano 1997.
I Juego de Estrellas 1a División "A" (All-star match)
[Mar 12, 1997]
Estadio Universitario, Monterrey
Mexican XI 2-1 Foreign XI
Changes for the next season:
Relegated from first level: Pachuca
Relegated to third level: Inter Tijuana
Promoted from third level: Atlético Bachilleres (Guadalajara)
Guerreros Acapulco moved to Cuautitlán (Truenos)
Atlético Hidalgo moved to Toluca and changes its name to Atlético Mexiquense
Marte Morelos relocated from Xochitepec to Cuernavaca
For expansion to 21 teams three new teams enter:
Unión de Curtidores (León), Chivas Tijuana and Jaguares Colima.
Frozen license of Gallos Blancos is sold to Halcones Querétaro.
For 1997/98 season all teams from first level must have a filial team in second level.
Thanks to Roger Z. Rios-Mercado for earlier version of this file and to Alex Mosqueda for additional information
Prepared and maintained by Erik Francisco Lugo for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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Last updated: 8 Apr 2021
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