Liga de Expansión MX

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Liga de Expansión MX

Founded	24 April 2020; 22 months ago (2020-04-24)
Country	Mexico
Confederation	CONCACAF
Number of teams	17
Level on pyramid	2
Current champions	Atlante (1st title) (Grita México 2021)
Most championships	Atlante Tampico Madero Tepatitlán (1 title)
TV partners	Claro[1] ESPN[2] Fox Sports[3] Multimedios[4] Televisa[5] TVC Deportes[6]
Website	LigaBBVAExpansion.mx
Current: 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX season

The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo (Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons), is a Mexican professional 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 seasons.^[7] 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 Mexican Football Federation executives had a meeting, in which different topics were discussed with the intent of strengthening the two main leagues in the country.^[8]

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.^[9] Finally, on 17 July 2020, Tepatitlán and Tlaxcala were invited as Liga Premier expansion teams.^[10]

Clubs[]

Atlante

Atl. Morelia

Cancún

Celaya

Oaxaca

Pumas Tabasco

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tampico Madero

Tapatío
UdeG

Tepatitlán

Tlaxcala

UAT

Venados

Zacatecas

Raya2

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Location of teams in the 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX

Champions[]

Campeón de Campeones[]

Managers[]

The current managers in the Liga de Expansión MX are:

Nat.	Name	Team	Appointed	Time as manager
	Gerardo Espinoza	Tampico Madero	27 November 2019	2 years, 116 days
	Carlos Gutiérrez	Venados	10 December 2019	2 years, 103 days
	Ricardo Valiño	Atlético Morelia	26 June 2020	1 year, 270 days
	Israel Hernández	Celaya	1 July 2020	1 year, 265 days
	Omar Alexis Moreno	Zacatecas	1 July 2020	1 year, 265 days
	Gabriel Pereyra	Sonora	3 July 2020	1 year, 263 days
	Mario García Covalles	Atlante	20 July 2020	1 year, 246 days
	Rafael García	Sinaloa	21 December 2020	1 year, 92 days
	Federico Vilar	Cancún	1 June 2021	295 days
	Alfonso Sosa	U. de G.	7 September 2021	197 days
	Ricardo Cadena	Tapatío	20 September 2021	184 days
	Jorge Manrique	Oaxaca	1 October 2021	173 days
	Bruno Marioni	Tepatitlán	4 February 2022	47 days
	Héctor Altamirano	UAT	9 February 2022	42 days
	Héctor Becerra	Raya2	4 March 2022	19 days
	Raúl Alpizar (Interim)	Pumas Tabasco	18 March 2022	5 days
	Jorge Villalpando (Interim)	Tlaxcala	22 March 2022	1 day

Top scorers[]

Year	Name	Team	Goals
Guardianes 2020	Alberto Alvarado Morín Lizandro Echeverría Guillermo Martínez Gustavo Ramírez	UAT Atlante Celaya Atlético Morelia	7
Guardianes 2021	Julio Cruz	Oaxaca	10
Apertura 2021		Sinaloa	12

References[]

External links[]

• Official website