The 2024–25 Liga de Expansión MX season is the fifth professional season of the second-tier football division in Mexico. The season is divided into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format. The Apertura tournament will begin on 25 July 2024. The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2025.
Changes from the previous season
The Liga de Expansión MX is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second-tier league in Mexico, for which there will be no promotion and relegation during the following six years.[1] The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.
The owner's assembly decided to adjust liguilla qualification, which was modified as of the Apertura 2023 season. The number of teams directly qualifying to the quarter-finals was increased from six to eight, eliminating the play-in system that had been established in the Apertura 2023 tournament.[2]
The 2023–24 Serie A champions Tampico Madero was certified for promotion to the Liga de Expansión MX. However, the team will participate as a guest team and not as a full member of the league.[3] After being promoted, the team was renamed Club Jaiba Brava.[4]
On June 18, 2024, Cimarrones de Sonora sold the franchise to businessmen from Chiapas, who formed a team called Jaguares F.C.[5] However, the new team had to be approved by the owner's assembly. On July 12, the vote was held, the project was not approved by the partners, so the franchise was put on hiatus for the 2024–25 season.[2]
Source: Liga de Expansión MX Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points (C) Champions Notes:
^The Teams ranked from 1st to 8th place qualify to the Liguilla quarter-finals.
Positions by round
Leader and qualification to Liguilla quarter-finals
Source: Liga Expansión MX Notes: Only regular season listed 1: Jaiba Brava played Liga Premier last season 2: Since Week 12 Sinaloa was relocated to Estadio Caliente, Tijuana due to security issues in Culiacán.[35] 3: Atlante played the match against Jaiba Brava behind closed doors, also this game was played on an alternative stadium.[36]
The Clausura tournament will begin on 10 January 2025.
Changes from the previous season
On December 6, 2024 Atlante was relocated from Mexico City to Zacatepec, Morelos because the team broke the contract it had with the owners of the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, following the closure of the stadium due to non-compliance with civil protection rules, which affected Atlante in the previous tournament.[37]
On December 17, 2024 Dorados de Sinaloa was established in Tijuana, the city where it had been playing since the middle of the previous tournament due to security problems that occurred in Culiacán since September 2024. The team could return to Culiacán if the security situation in the city improves.[38]
First match(es) will be played: 10 January 2025. Source: Liga de Expansión MX Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals scored away; 5) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points Notes:
^The Teams ranked from 1st to 8th place qualify to the Liguilla quarter-finals.
Positions by round
Leader and qualification to Liguilla quarter-finals
First match(es) will be played: 10 January 2025. Source: Liga de Expansión MX Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
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.[39] As of the 2023–24 season, the bottom three ranked Liga de Expansión MX teams will not pay a fine. The last ranked team can not qualify for the Clausura 2024 liguilla.
Tiebreakers: 1) 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
Source: Liga de Expansión
The Aggregate table is a sum of the Apertura 2024 and Clausura 2025 tournament standings. The aggregate table is used to determine seeding for the "Campeón de Campeones" Final.
Updated to match(es) played on 4 November 2024. Source: Liga Expansión MX Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points Notes: