2013 Liga MX

Tournament details
Country	Mexico
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	América (11th title)
Runner-up	Cruz Azul
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	35 (2.5 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Christian Benítez (5 goals)
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The Liguilla (English: Mini League) of the 2013 Liga MX Clausura is the final knockout tournament involving eight teams of Liga MX. The tournament began on 8 May 2013 and will end on 26 May 2013. The winners and runners-up of the competition will qualify for the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League.

Teams[edit]

The eight best teams in the general table qualified for the competition.

S	Team	Manager	Captain	Performance at the 2013 Clausura
				Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	UANL	Ricardo Ferretti	Lucas Lobos	17	10	5	2	30	14	+16	35
2	América	Miguel Herrera	Aquivaldo Mosquera	17	9	5	3	41	9	+15	32
3	Atlas	Tomas Boy	Leandro Cufre	17	9	5	3	20	13	+7	32
4	Morelia	Carlos Bustos	Federico Vilar	17	8	6	3	25	18	+7	30
5	Cruz Azul	Guillermo Vázquez	Gerardo Torrado	17	8	5	4	35	19	+16	29
6	Santos Laguna	Pedro Caixinha	Oswaldo Sánchez	17	8	5	4	20	13	+7	29
7	UNAM	Antonio Torres Servín	Darío Verón	17	8	5	4	19	14	+5	29
8	Querétaro	Ignacio Ambríz	Marco Jiménez	17	6	6	5	18	20	-2	241
9	Monterrey	Victor Manuel Vucetich	José María Basanta	17	7	2	8	22	22	0	23

Source: www.ligamx.net

1.^ Querétaro may remain in the top 8, but they can no longer qualify to the liguilla as they have been relegated to Ascenso MX next season. If they at least place 8th, then the team placing 9th will qualify to the liguilla^[1]

Bracket[edit]

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	UANL	0	1	1
	9	Monterrey	1	1	2
								2	América	2	2	4
								9	Monterrey	2	1	3
	2	América	1	2	3
	7	UNAM	0	1	1
															2	América	0	2	2 (4)
															5	Cruz Azul	1	1	2 (2)
	3	Atlas	0	1	1
	6	Santos Laguna	0	3	3
								5	Cruz Azul	3	2	5
								6	Santos Laguna	0	1	1
	4	Morelia	2	1	3
	5	Cruz Azul	4	0	4

• Away goals rule is applied in the play-off round.
• If the two teams are tied after both legs and away goal rule applied, the higher seeded team advances.
• Both finalist qualify to the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage.

Quarter-finals[edit]

The first legs of the quarterfinals were played on May 8 and 9. The second legs were played on May 11 and 12.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monterrey (8)	2 – 1	(1) UANL	1 – 0	1 – 1
UNAM (7)	1 – 3	(2) América	0 – 1	1 – 2
Santos Laguna (6)	3 – 1	(3) Atlas	0 – 0	3 – 1
Cruz Azul (5)	4 – 3	(4) Morelia	4 – 2	0 – 1

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

First leg[edit]

Second leg[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

The first legs of the semifinals will be played on May 15 and May 16. The second legs will be played on May 18 and 19.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monterrey (4)	3 – 4	(1) América	2 – 2	1 – 2
Santos Laguna (3)	1 – 5	(2) Cruz Azul	0 – 3	1 – 2

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

First leg[edit]

Second leg[edit]

Final[edit]

The first leg of the final will be played on May 23, the second leg on May 26.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cruz Azul (2)	2 (2) – 2 (4)	(1) América	1 – 0	1 – 2

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

First leg[edit]

Second leg[edit]

Clausura 2013 winners:
Club América 11th Title

References[edit]