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The Apertura 2016 Copa MX (officially the Apertura 2016 Copa Corona MX for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th staging of the Copa MX, the 49th staging in the professional era and is the ninth tournament played since the 1996–97 edition.

This tournament began on 19 July 2016 and ended on 2 November 2016. As winners, Querétaro will face the winner of the Clausura 2017 edition in the 2017 Supercopa MX.

Querétaro won their first title after defeating Guadalajara 3–2 on penalty kicks in the final.

Format changes

A different format was used starting with this edition of the tournament.

• In previous editions of the tournament there was no draw. Starting with this edition, a draw was held to determine the groups.
• Only the top 12 teams in the 2015–16 Liga MX season Aggregate table (the sum of points of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments) not qualified to the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League will participate in the tournament.
• 24 teams were drawn into eight groups of three instead of seven (Apertura) or six (Clausura) groups of four.
• Each group will consist of at least one team from each league, no group can have three teams from the same league.
• The two best teams of each group will advance to the Knockout stage instead of just the group winners and the best second place team.
• There is no more extra point for winning a round since there are no more rounds.
• This is the first time the tournament has a Round of 16.

Participants

This tournament will feature clubs from Liga MX who will not participate in the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League (UANL, UNAM, Pachuca and Monterrey). Atlas will not participate in the tournament after being the worst non-relegated team in the 2015–16 Liga MX season Aggregate table. Necaxa will not participate in the tournament due to being recently promoted to Liga MX.

The tournament will also feature the top 12 Ascenso MX teams of the Clausura 2016 classification table, excluding Correcaminos UAT who were replaced by Dorados de Sinaloa in the tournament.

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on June 7, 2016, at the Iberostar Cancún in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. 24 teams were drawn into eight groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots.

Clubs in Pot 1 were drawn to be the seed of each group according to the order of their drawing. That is, the first club that was drawn is seed of Group 1, the second drawn is seed of Group 2 and so on and so on. The Liga MX teams in Pot 1 are the best four teams in the Aggregate table who are not participating in the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League. The Ascenso MX teams in Pot 1 are the three best teams in the Clausura 2016 classification table along with the team relegated from Liga MX (Dorados de Sinaloa).

Pot 2 contained Liga MX and Ascenso MX clubs who ended 5–8 in the Aggregate table and Clausura 2016 classification table respectively.

Pot 3 contained Liga MX and Ascenso MX clubs who ended 9–12 in the Aggregate table and Clausura 2016 classification table respectively.

Tiebreakers

If two or more clubs are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. superior goal difference;
2. higher number of goals scored;
3. scores of the group matches played among the clubs in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away in the group matches played among the clubs in question;
5. best position in the Relegation table;
6. fair play ranking;
7. drawing of lots.

Group stage

Every group is composed of three clubs, each group has at least one club from Liga MX and Ascenso MX.

All times are UTC−06:00 except for matches in Ciudad Juárez, Sinaloa, Tepic (all UTC−07:00) and Tijuana (UTC−08:00)

Group 1

León	1–1	Celaya
Burdisso 90'	Report	Alvarado 68'

Atlante	0–1	León
	Report	Boselli 43'

Celaya	1–1	Atlante
López 7'	Report	Cauich 81'

Celaya	1–1	León
Moreno 66'	Report	Hernández 73'

León	1–3	Atlante
Cano 85'	Report	Cauich 8', 51' Uscanga 49'

Atlante	2–2	Celaya
Tun 76' Uscanga 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Reyna 13' (pen.), 39' (pen.)

Group 2

Chiapas	1–1	Tapachula
Ayoví 36'	Report	Carreño 70'

Guadalajara	1–4	Chiapas
Torres 38'	Report	Ayoví 40' Villalpando 72' Zúñiga 82', 85'

Tapachula	1–1	Chiapas
Sánchez 34'	Report	Zúñiga 90+1'

Guadalajara	1–0	Tapachula
Brizuela 45'	Report

Chiapas	2–2	Guadalajara
Escoboza 19' (pen.), 74'	Report	Salcido 33' Pulido 36' (pen.)

Group 3

Cruz Azul	2–0	Coras
Rojas 61' Cristaldo 68' (pen.)	Report

UDG	2–2	Cruz Azul
Mora 7' Amador 90+1'	Report	Rojas 30', 70'

Coras	1–0	UDG
Guzmán 76' (pen.)	Report

Coras	1–4	Cruz Azul
Granados 14'	Report	Cristaldo 12', 30' Silva 90' (pen.) León 90+3' (o.g.)

Cruz Azul	3–1	UDG
Giménez 42' (pen.) Guerrón 51', 60'	Report	Vázquez 13'

UDG	5–0	Coras
Estrada 8' Valadéz 16' Villalobos 43' Vázquez 49' Becerra 86'	Report

Group 4

Morelia	3–0	Oaxaca
Cuero 25' Sansores 75' Valdés 76'	Report

Murciélagos	1–1	Morelia
Williams 44'	Report	Cabrera 50'

Oaxaca	2–1	Morelia
Fernández 6' (pen.) Calderón 42'	Report	Vilchis 62'

Morelia	4–0	Murciélagos
Sansores 21', 36' Zárate 59' Arredondo 81' (o.g.)	Report

Group 5

Venados	0–3	América
	Report	Martínez 12' Quintero 35' Rosel 87'

América	4–1	Zacatecas
Valdez 8' Ibarra 17' Sambueza 61' Romero 71'	Report	G. Ramírez 41'

Zacatecas	3–0	Venados
Gutiérrez 48', 69' Neira 90+3'	Report

América	2–0	Venados
Romero 65' Pineda 81'	Report

Zacatecas	0–2	América
	Report	Arroyo 24' Ibarra 83'

Venados	4–4	Zacatecas
Ribas 75', 90' Martín 77', 82'	Report	Partida 51' Gutiérrez 73' Ortíz 81' Madrigal 90+3'

Group 6

Tijuana	3–0	Toluca
Arriola 10' A. Moreno 13' Pérez 45+1'	Report

BUAP	4–0	Tijuana
Porozo 16' Ibarra 51' Clemens 57' Jiménez 66'	Report

BUAP	1–1	Toluca
Chaurand 21'	Report	Uribe 3'

Tijuana	1–1	BUAP
A. Moreno 15'	Report	Pérez 9'

Toluca	4–0	BUAP
Triverio 27' Sinha 78' Uribe 90', 90+2'	Report

Toluca	2–1	Tijuana
Pedroza 9' Gama 83'	Report	García 71' (o.g.)

Group 7

Juárez	5–0	Veracruz
Leandro Carrijó 42' Sidnei 55' Briseño 60', 67' Enríquez 90+1'	Report

Santos Laguna	1–1	Juárez
Rodríguez 19' (pen.)	Report	Leandro Carrijo 86'

Veracruz	4–1	Santos Laguna
Furch 22', 34', 52' Peñalba 45+1' (pen.)	Report	Cisneros 27'

Veracruz	1–2	Juárez
Luna 45'	Report	Mejía 10' Enríquez 18'

Juárez	3–3	Santos Laguna
Enríquez 2' Leandro Carrijo 54', 58'	Report	Bravo 4', 33' Dávila 19'

Santos Laguna	1–1	Veracruz
Izquierdoz 14'	Report	Rodríguez 90+2'

Group 8

Querétaro	1–2	Puebla
Martínez 56'	Report	Alustiza 10' Ceballos 54'

Sinaloa	1–2	Querétaro
Angulo 3'	Report	Camilo 25' Escalante 89'

Puebla	2–1	Sinaloa
Amione 65' Arizala 74'	Report	Mendívil 34'

Querétaro	2–0	Sinaloa
Rubio 22' Camilo 70'	Report

Puebla	1–1	Querétaro
Amione 21'	Report	Zamorano 53'

Sinaloa	0–1	Puebla
	Report	Bermúdez 31'

1. Match was originally scheduled to be played at 18:30 but was delayed due to inclement weather.

Knockout stage

• The clubs that advance to this stage will be ranked and seeded 1 to 16 based on performance in the group stage. In case of ties, the same tiebreakers used to rank the runners-up will be used.
• All rounds are played in a single game. If a game ends in a draw, it will proceed directly to a penalty shoot-out. The highest seeded club will host each match, regardless of which division each club belongs.
• The two best teams of each group will advance to the Knockout stage.
• This is the first time the tournament has a Round of 16.
• All match times are UTC−06:00 except for matches in Ciudad Juárez (UTC−07:00)

Qualified teams

The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage qualify for the final stages.

Seeding

Bracket

Round of 16

Puebla	3–2	UDG
Canelo 20', 74' Bermúdez 81'	Report	Valadéz 29' Romo 49'

Chiapas	2–1	Atlante
Rodríguez 19' (pen.), 21'	Report	Cauich 85'

Morelia	0–1	Guadalajara
	Report	Calderón 30' (pen.)

Cruz Azul	4–0	Zacatecas
Aldrete 17' Benítez 27' (pen.) Guerrón 63' Rojas 90+1' (pen.)	Report

Querétaro	3–1	BUAP
Camilo 24', 64' Candelo 66'	Report	Porozo 1'

Toluca	4–3	León
Uribe 52', 69' Esquivel 59' Trejo 67'	Report	Mejía 41' Cano 63' Boselli 85'

Juárez	1–1	Oaxaca
Micolta 73'	Report	Fernández 63'
Penalties
Micolta Lucas Silva Leandro Carrijó Fernández	3–5	Cortés Fernández Castellanos J. Sánchez Álvarez

América	1–0	Veracruz
Peralta 34'	Report

Quarterfinals

América	3–2	Chiapas
Arroyo 7' Sambueza 25' Goltz 72'	Report	Derley 56' (pen.) Marín 75'

Cruz Azul	1–3	Querétaro
Cota 32'	Report	Camilo 29' (pen.) Fierro 56', 57'

Puebla	0–2	Toluca
	Report	Uribe 79' Triverio 90+2'

Guadalajara	1–0	Oaxaca
Calderón 32' (o.g.)	Report

Semifinals

Toluca	0–0	Querétaro
	Report
Penalties
Ríos Barrientos Esquivel Uribe Trejo Flores González Talavera Gamboa	7–8	Camilo Benítez Candelo Volpi Villa Rentería Noriega Forlín Martínez

América	1–1	Guadalajara
Arroyo 20'	Report	Pulido 70'
Penalties
Goltz Ibarra Álvarez Sambueza Mares	3–4	Pereira Alanís Cisneros Zaldívar Pulido

Final

Querétaro	0–0	Guadalajara
	Report
Penalties
Benítez Volpi Candelo Noriega	3–2	Pereira Alanís Cisneros Pineda Pulido

Top goalscorers

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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Fernando Uribe	Toluca	6
2	Camilo Sanvezzo	Querétaro	5
3	Leandro Carrijo	Juárez	4
	Carlos Cauich	Atlante
	Joao Rojas	Cruz Azul
6	Michael Arroyo	América	3
	Jonatan Cristaldo	Cruz Azul
	Raúl Enríquez	Juárez
	Julio Furch	Veracruz
	Joffre Guerrón	Cruz Azul
	Agustín Gutiérrez	Zacatecas
	Miguel Sansores	Morelia
	Martín Zúñiga	Chiapas

Source: LaCopaMX.net

References

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External links

• Official site

• Copa MX
• 2016 in Mexican sports
• 2016 domestic association football cups