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Liga de Expansión MX

Founded	2020; 4 years ago (2020)
Country	Mexico
Confederation	CONCACAF
Number of clubs	15
Level on pyramid	2
Current champions	Tapatío (2nd title)
Most championships	Atlante (3 titles)
TV partners	Claro ESPN Fox Sports Hi Sports Televisa TV Azteca TVC Deportes
Website	ligabbvaexpansion.mx
Current: 2024–25 Liga de Expansión MX season

Liga de Expansión MX, officially known as Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons, is the second level professional division of Mexican football. Founded in 2020 as part of the FMF's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second level league in Mexico. The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with strong administration, finances, and infrastructure.

History

On 20 February 2020, the presidents of the Liga MX clubs, the Ascenso MX clubs and the FMF executives had a meeting, in which different topics were discussed with the intent of strengthening the two main leagues in the country.

On 26 June 2020, the league was officially presented, with the participation of 16 teams: Alebrijes de Oaxaca, Atlante, Atlético Morelia, Cancún, Celaya, Cimarrones de Sonora, Correcaminos UAT, Dorados de Sinaloa, Leones Negros UdeG, Mineros de Zacatecas, Tampico Madero, and Venados F.C. as Ascenso MX teams. Pumas Tabasco and Tapatío entered to the league as Liga MX affiliates. Finally, on 17 July 2020, Tepatitlán and Tlaxcala were invited as Liga Premier expansion teams.

On 22 May 2023, the Liga MX owners assembly approved a reform for the league that should have been carried out in 2024. This reform planned that the 18 member teams of the Liga MX should have had a U-23 team in the Liga de Expansión, which would have represented a merger between the Expansión MX and the Liga MX U–23. However, in May 2024 the proposal was scrapped due to opposition from the owners of the Liga de Expansión teams, as they considered that the project represented a degradation of the participating clubs.

Participating clubs

On hiatus

Champions and runners-up

Campeón de Campeones de la Liga de Expansión MX

Managers

The current managers in the Liga de Expansión MX are:

Nat.	Name	Team	Appointed	Time as manager
	Alfonso Sosa	UdeG	7 September 2021	3 years, 103 days
	Luis Arce	Cancún	1 June 2023	1 year, 201 days
	Raúl Rico	La Paz	10 December 2023	1 year, 9 days
	Paco Ramírez	Tlaxcala	23 December 2023	362 days
	Rigoberto Esparza	Venados	16 May 2024	217 days
	Sebastián Abreu	Sinaloa	30 May 2024	203 days
	Sergio Blanco	Celaya	30 May 2024	203 days
	Jair Real	Tepatitlán	23 July 2024	149 days
	Arturo Alvarado (Interim)	Oaxaca	8 October 2024	72 days
	José Luis Meléndez (Interim)	Tapatío	10 October 2024	70 days
	Nacho Castro	Atlético Morelia	18 November 2024	31 days
	Mario García	Zacatecas	24 November 2024	25 days
	Héctor Hugo Eugui	UAT	25 November 2024	24 days
	Miguel Fuentes	Atlante	3 December 2024	16 days
	Marco Antonio Ruiz	Jaiba Brava	3 December 2024	16 days

Top scorers

Year	Name	Team	Goals
Guardianes 2020	Alberto Alvarado Morín Lizandro Echeverría Guillermo Martínez Gustavo Ramírez	UAT Atlante Celaya Morelia	7
Guardianes 2021	Julio Cruz	Oaxaca	10
Apertura 2021	Raúl Zúñiga	Sinaloa	12
Clausura 2022	David Angulo Juan Machado Óscar Villa	Tepatitlán Raya2 Sonora	8
Apertura 2022	Diego Jiménez	Sonora	12
Clausura 2023	Ricardo Marín	Celaya	10
Apertura 2023	Luis Razo	Zacatecas	10
Clausura 2024	José Rodriguez	Cancún	9
Apertura 2024	Vladimir Moragrega	Atlante	11

See also

• Football in Mexico
• Mexican football league system
• Mexican Football Federation
• Liga MX
• Ascenso MX
• Liga Premier
• Liga TDP

References

1. includes Claro Sports
2. includes ESPN 2 and ESPN 3
3. includes Fox Sports 2
4. includes TUDN
5. Includes Azteca Digital
6. includes TVC Deportes 2
7. Enrique Martínez Villar (24 April 2020). "¡Se confirma! No habrá ascenso ni descenso en 6 años; aprueban Liga de Desarrollo". Mediotiempo. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
8. "Comunicado de la LIGA MX / ASCENSO MX y la FMF". LIGA MX. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
9. "Asamblea Ordinaria de Clubes del 26 de Junio del 2020". Liga BBVA MX (in Spanish). 26 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
10. "Comunicado de la LIGA MX sobre la LIGA de Expansión". Liga BBVA MX (in Spanish). 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
11. "Por unanimidad, la Asamblea de Clubes designa a Juan Carlos Rodríguez". ligamx.net (in Spanish). 22 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
12. "Descartan fusión de la Liga de Expansión con la Sub-23". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). 22 May 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

External links

• Official website

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