Mexican Primera

when I was down there they started late July. Playoffs or La Liguilla, last about 3 weeks?
Every round is over 2 legs, with the higher position being the tiebreaker (I can't remember if there are away goals or not). Except in the final where it would go to penalties (and I can't remember if there's extra time, though I think I remember Toluca winning a title on penalties).

So as roue mentioned, 2 half seasons, 2 champions a year. Generally there's a bit of a break for Christmas and early January, though they weather is pretty much perfect to play at that time.

Relegation however is based on a 3-year points average. If you haven't been in the Primera for 3 years, only your current run since promotion is counted.

While promotion from Liga de Ascenso is based on the 2 half-season champions facing off in a promotion 2-leg playoff at the end of the season (May). Though if it's the same champion, they get promoted automatically.


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Edit: The Groups that roue mentions are sort of like divisions, in that as he mentioned the top 2 within it are into the playoffs and then the next best 2 teams are essentially "wildcards". THough the playoff ranking gets reshuffled based on overall points.

How those groups are determined isn't geographical, but rather just random as far as I can tell, maybe there's a couple of seeding methods or something.

The Apertura schedule is half the calendar, while the clausura schedule is the mirror of those apertura fixtures, not even sure they restructure the fixture list, so you could be ending against the same team for both tournaments on the last day.

This post has been edited by morrison on Nov 16 2010, 02:44 PM

San Luis / Club America 0-0

Unam Pumas up 1-0 on Cruz Azul 25'
1-1 33' Free kick , Cruz Azul
Cruz Azul 2-1 @ 76'

This post has been edited by roue on Nov 17 2010, 11:39 PM

golazo del Chaco Gimenez to give Cruz Azul essentially a 2-goal cushion for the 2nd leg on Saturday

Monterrey leading Pachuca 1-0 well into the second half 65'

Pachuca tie !! 67'
Final 1-1

Good action in Game 2 tonite , Jaguares tie it up 34' 1-1 with Santos Laguna
Final 1-1

B-)

This post has been edited by roue on Nov 19 2010, 08:19 AM

oh shit, 2 minutes in... 1-0 Pumas (2-2 aggregate with Cruz Azul with the higher seed)

and here come the truck horns!

This post has been edited by morrison on Nov 20 2010, 06:06 PM

Yup that's a shocker , I got money on Cruz too , hopefully they pull it out like the first game too :P

Not likely, a whole mess of cards late in the half including red for Cruz Azul :ph43r:

This post has been edited by roue on Nov 20 2010, 06:49 PM

Semifinales: all times Toronto times.

Ida: en D.F.
Jueves 25 Noviembre:
8pm - 4) Club América vs. 3) Santos Laguna
10pm - 8) Pumas UNAM vs. 2) Monterrey

Vuelta: en el Norte
Domingo 28 Noviembre:
7pm - Santos Laguna vs. Club América
9pm - Monterrey vs. Pumas UNAM

Santos Laguna up on Club America early 1-0 @10'

Club Am tie up 20' :o

Santos Laguna score late 89' for the victory !

Unam Pumas / MOnterrey 0-0

This post has been edited by roue on Nov 26 2010, 07:25 PM

Santos fired up 1-0 @ 2' , :o

Cracking game in the second half , CA with a free kick ties at 62' ,
Santos scores a few seconds later 2-1 @ 65'

CA ties again 67'!!!! :o

3-3 tie final B-)

This post has been edited by roue on Nov 29 2010, 08:21 PM

the Final is a northern affair, between CF Monterrey (Los rayados) and Santos Laguna (Beach) of Torreón.

Toronto times

Ida:
Thu Dec 2 - 9pm - Santos Laguna vs. Monterrey

Vuelta:
Sun Dec 5 - 7pm - Monterrey vs. Santos Laguna

Santos Laguna strikes first 1-0 @ 24'

Monterrey ties up 1-1 @ 38'

Santos off a header before the half 2-1 :o

Monterrey ties again 2-2 @ 55'


Santos an own goal before the end 3-2 :o :blink:

This post has been edited by roue on Dec 2 2010, 10:53 PM

Monterrey strikes first 1-0 , 29' , aggregate is 3-3 :o ....

1-0 at the half .

2-0 at 76' , :ph43r:

It's all over , baby blue for Santos Laguna , 3-0 Monterrey @ 88' , and hits the 2.5 over :wub:
Monterrey wins the 2010-11 Apertura .

This post has been edited by roue on Dec 5 2010, 08:53 PM

2 good goals by Humberto "el Chupete" Suazo. to tie the aggregate at 2-2 and to seal the title at 3-0 on the night (4-2 agg.)


also, this was Benito Archundia's last match. He's retired!
In the highlights I heard them refer to him as Armando Archundia, so I had to wikipedia doublecheck it...

The 2011 Clausura starts on Thurs Jan 6 with one night game , Necaxa at home to Jaguares . B-)

seems an early start, but I think you're a day early on that one.
not any huge match-ups this first weekend though. America/Pachuca could be interesting on Sunday.