2012 Primera División de México Clausura Liguilla

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2012 Mexican Primera División

Country	Mexico
Teams	8
Champions	Santos
Runners-up	Monterrey
Matches played	14
Goals scored	41 (2.93 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Oribe Peralta (6 goals)
← 2011 Apertura 2012 Apertura →

The Liguilla (English: Little League) of the 2012 Mexican Primera División Clausura season is a final knockout tournament involving eight teams of the Mexican Primera División. The tournament began on May 2, 2012 with the first matches of the quarterfinals and ended on May 20, 2012 with the second leg of the final. The winners and runners-up of the competition will qualify for the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

Teams[]

In a change from previous seasons, the 18 teams in the 2012 Clausura were not divided into three groups of six teams each. Instead, the eight best teams in the general table qualified for the competition.

S	Team	Manager	Captain	Performance at the 2012 Clausura
				Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Santos Laguna	Benjamín Galindo	Oswaldo Sánchez	17	11	3	3	33	18	+15	36
2	Monterrey	Víctor Manuel Vucetich	Luis Ernesto Pérez	17	9	5	3	32	15	+17	32
3	América	Miguel Herrera	Daniel Montenegro	17	9	5	3	30	26	+4	32
4	Morelia	Tomás Boy	Federico Vilar	17	9	4	4	25	18	+7	31
5	UANL	Ricardo Ferretti	Lucas Lobos	17	9	4	4	22	16	+6	31
6	Pachuca	Efraín Flores	Leobardo López	17	7	7	3	24	17	+7	28
7	Tijuana	Antonio Mohamed	Javier Gandolfi	17	7	7	3	18	11	+7	28
8	Chiapas	José Guadalupe Cruz	Jackson Martínez	17	8	3	6	26	20	+6	27

Bracket[]

The eight qualified teams play two games against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each match up is determined by aggregate score.

The teams were seeded one to eight in quarterfinals, and will be re-seeded one to four in semifinals, depending on their position in the general table. The higher seeded teams play on their home field during the second leg.

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	1	Santos Laguna	4	2	6
	8	Chiapas	3	1	4
								1	Santos Laguna	1	2	3
								5	UANL	1	2	3
	4	Morelia	0	1	1
	5	UANL	1	4	5
															1	Santos Laguna	1	2	3
														2	Monterrey	1	1	2
	2	Monterrey	2	2	4
	7	Tijuana	1	2	3
								2	Monterrey	0	2	2
								3	América	0	0	0
	3	América	3	0	3
	6	Pachuca	1	1	2

• If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
• Both finalists qualify to the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage. Note that Santos are already qualified to 2012-13 Champions League as the runners-up of the Apertura, and as they win the Clausura final, they earn the spot given to the Clausura Champion and relinquish the spot for the Apertura Runner-up to Guadalajara, the best record of the 2011 Apertura not already qualified.

Quarterfinals[]

The first legs of the quarterfinals were played on May 2 and 3. The second legs were played on May 5 and 6.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chiapas (8)	4 – 6	(1) Santos Laguna	3 – 4	1 – 2
Tijuana (7)	3 – 4	(2) Monterrey	1 – 2	2 – 2
Pachuca (6)	2 – 3	(3) América	1 – 3	1 – 0
UANL (5)	5 – 1	(4) Morelia	1 – 0	4 – 1

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-5 unless stated otherwise).

First leg[]

Second leg[]

Semi-finals[]

The first legs of the semifinals were played on May 9 and 10. The second legs were played on May 12 and 13.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UANL (5)	3 – 3	(1) Santos Laguna	1 – 1	2 – 2
América (3)	0 – 2	(2) Monterrey	0 – 0	0 – 2

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-5 unless stated otherwise).

First leg[]

Second leg[]

Final[]

The first leg of the final was played on May 17. The second leg was played on May 20.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
(2) Monterrey	2 - 3	(1) Santos Laguna	1 - 1	1 - 2

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-5 unless stated otherwise).

First leg[]

Second leg[]

2012 Clausura winners:
Santos Laguna 4th Title

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