| Competition: | Liga de Expansión MX |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| Winners: | Apertura: Tapatío (2nd title) |
| League Topscorer: | Apertura 2024: Vladimir Moragrega (11 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Apertura 2024: Tapatío 6–0 Oaxaca Atlante 6–0 Oaxaca Tepatitlán 6–0 UAT |
| Biggest Away Win: | Apertura 2024: Oaxaca 1–5 Celaya |
| Highest Scoring: | Apertura 2024: Cancún 5–2 Tlaxcala La Paz 2–5 Tepatitlán |
| Longest Wins: | Apertura 2024: 6 matches UdeG |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Apertura 2024: 11 matches UdeG |
| Longest Winless: | Apertura 2024: 8 matches UAT |
| Longest Losses: | Apertura 2024: 5 matches La Paz |
| Highest Attendance: | Apertura 2024: 15,039 Jaiba Brava vs UAT |
| Lowest Attendance: | Apertura 2024: 203 Sinaloa vs Cancún |
| Attendance: | Apertura 2024: 301,048 |
| Average Attendance: | Apertura 2024: 2,895 |
| Prevseason: | 2023–24 |
| Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
| Extra Information: | Stats are from the regular season only |
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.
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.
| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlante | Mexico City | Ciudad de los Deportes | 33,000 | |
| Atlético La Paz | La Paz, Baja California Sur | Guaycura | 5,209 | |
| Atlético Morelia | Morelia, Michoacán | Morelos | 35,000 | |
| Cancún | Cancún, Quintana Roo | Andrés Quintana Roo | 18,844 | |
| Celaya | Celaya, Guanajuato | Miguel Alemán Valdés | 23,182 | |
| Jaiba Brava | Tampico and Ciudad Madero | Tamaulipas | 19,667 | |
| Oaxaca | Oaxaca City, Oaxaca | Tecnológico de Oaxaca | 14,598 | |
| Sinaloa | Culiacán, Sinaloa | Dorados | 20,108 | |
| Sonora | Hermosillo, Sonora | Héroe de Nacozari | 18,747 | |
| Tapatío | Zapopan, Jalisco | Akron | 49,850 | |
| Tepatitlán | Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco | Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez | 8,085 | |
| Tlaxcala | Tlaxcala City, Tlaxcala | Tlahuicole | 9,462 | |
| UAT | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas | Marte R. Gómez | 10,520 | |
| U. de G. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Jalisco | 55,020 | |
| Venados | Mérida, Yucatán | Carlos Iturralde | 15,087 | |
| Zacatecas | Zacatecas City, Zacatecas | Carlos Vega Villalba | 20,068 |
| Sinaloa (Apertura 2024) |
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| Estadio Caliente |
| Capacity: 27,333 |
| Team | Chairman | Head Coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor(s) front | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlante | Jorge Santillana |  Miguel Fuentes | Humberto Hernández | Joma | Caliente | |
| Atlético La Paz | Samuel Hernández | Raúl Rico | Kristian Álvarez | In–house | Baja Ferries | |
| Atlético Morelia | José Luis Higuera |  Nacho Castro | Raúl Torres | Keuka | Akron, ArcelorMittal, Harinera Monarca, Calidra, Cemex Tolteca, Michoacán, Morelia Brilla, Biocup, Electrolit, Autovías | |
| Cancún | Jeff Luhnow | Luis Arce | Benjamín Galindo Jr. | Adidas | Cancún | |
| Celaya | Carlos Benavides Escardó | Sergio Blanco | Keuka | ICEMéxico, TV4, Mariscos Chava | ||
| Jaiba Brava | Álvaro de la Torre | Marco Antonio Ruiz | Benjamín Muñoz | Pirma | Nexum, GDL Transportes, Grupo Velas, Holding Industrial, Mega, Bricer Logistics, Grúas Arias | |
| Oaxaca | Juan Carlos Jones | Arturo Alvarado (Interim) | Octavio Paz | Svedda | Baby Sky, Optixala, Solux, G+, Oaxaca Rosa, PlayCell, Fiestamas App, San Francisco Laboratorios | |
| Sinaloa | José Antonio Núñez | Sebastián Abreu | Oswaldo León | Charly | Coppel, Caliente, SuKarne | |
| Tapatío | Amaury Vergara | José Luis Meléndez (Interim) | Juan Aguayo | Puma | ||
| Tepatitlán | Brando Garrido | Héctor Jair Real | Carlos Villanueva López | Sporelli | Pacífica | |
| Tlaxcala | Rafael Torre Mendoza | Paco Ramírez | Gerardo Ruíz | Keuka | Tlaxcala, Pronto, Providencia | |
| UAT | Javier Garibaldi | Héctor Hugo Eugui | Iván Pineda | Sliver Sport | ||
| U. de G. | Alfonso Sosa | Arturo Ledesma | Sporelli | Electrolit | ||
| Venados | Rodolfo Rosas Cantillo | Rigoberto Esparza | Alfonso Luna | Joma | Yucatán, Nus-káh | |
| Zacatecas | Eduardo López Muñoz | Mario García | José Plascencia | Spiro | Fresnillo plc, Mifel, Vazlo, Mobil |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Apertura changes | |||||||
| Atlético Morelia |  Norberto Scoponi | Sacked | 16 April 2024 | Mario García | 17 April 2024 | Pre–season | [6] [7] |
| Venados | Rafael Fernández | Mutual agreement | 4 May 2024 | Rigoberto Esparza | 16 May 2024 | [8] [9] | |
| UAT | Raúl Gutiérrez | Sacked | 19 May 2024 | Francisco Cortéz | 22 May 2024 | [10] [11] | |
| Sinaloa | Rafael García | 26 May 2024 | Sebastián Abreu | 30 May 2024 | [12] [13] | ||
| Celaya | Cristian Paulucci | 27 May 2024 | Sergio Blanco | 30 May 2024 | [14] [15] | ||
| Tepatitlán | Fernando Pérez (Interim) | End of tenure as caretaker | 23 July 2024 | Héctor Jair Real | 23 July 2024 | [16] | |
| Apertura changes | |||||||
| UAT | Francisco Cortéz | Francisco Cortéz | 23 September 2024 | 15th | [17] [18] | ||
| Oaxaca | Carlos Gutiérrez | Sacked | 7 October 2024 | Arturo Alvarado (Interim) | 8 October 2024 | 12th | [19] [20] |
| Tapatío | Arturo Ortega | Appointed as Guadalajara interim manager | 10 October 2024 | José Luis Meléndez (Interim) | 10 October 2024 | 2nd | [21] |
| Pre–Clausura changes | |||||||
| UAT | Francisco Cortéz | Sacked | 31 October 2024 | Héctor Hugo Eugui | 25 November 2024 | Pre–season | [22] [23] |
| Zacatecas | Nacho Castro | Mutual agreement | 12 November 2024 | Mario García | 24 November 2024 | [24] [25] | |
| Atlético Morelia | Mario García | Sacked | 12 November 2024 | Nacho Castro | 18 November 2024 | [26] [27] | |
| Atlante | Daniel Alcántar | 19 November 2024 | Miguel Fuentes | 3 December 2024 | [28] [29] | ||
| Jaiba Brava | Gastón Obledo | 22 November 2024 | Marco Antonio Ruiz | 3 December 2024 | [30] [31] | ||
The defending champions are Atlante. The regular tournament began on 25 July and will end on 3 November.
Each team plays once all other teams in 15 rounds regardless of it being a home or away match.
Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=1 | 1 | Vladimir Moragrega | Atlante | align=center rowspan=1 | 11 |
| align=center rowspan=1 | 2 |  Jose Rodríguez | Cancún | align=center rowspan=1 | 8 |
| align=center rowspan=4 | 3 | Martín Barragán | Celaya | align=center rowspan=4 | 7 |
| Alberto Ocejo | UdeG | ||||
| Alfonso Tamay | Tepatitlán | ||||
| Teun Wilke | Tapatío | ||||
| align=center rowspan=3 | 7 | Adolfo Domínguez | Celaya | align=center rowspan=3 | 6 |
| Fernando González | Sinaloa | ||||
| Daniel López | Sinaloa | ||||
| align=center rowspan=5 | 10 | Luis Calzadilla | Venados | align=center rowspan=5 | 5 |
| Gael García | Tapatío | ||||
| Sleyther Lora | Venados | ||||
| Benjamín Sánchez | Tapatío | ||||
| Christopher Trejo | Atlético Morelia |
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Round | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Moragrega | Atlante | Oaxaca | 6 – 0 (H) | 30 August 2024 | 6 | |
| Alfonso Tamay4 | Tepatitlán | UAT | 6 – 0 (H) | 20 September 2024 | 9 | |
| Joaquín Fernández | Sinaloa | La Paz | 4 – 0 (H) | 26 October 2024 | 14 |
Brandon Rodríguez for Tepatitlán against Venados (26 July 2024) Ángel Sayago for Atlante against Jaiba Brava (4 November 2024)Source Liga de Expansión MX
| Highest attended | Lowest attended | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Home | Score | Away | Attendance | Home | Score | Away | Attendance | |
| 1 | Jaiba Brava | 1–1 | Atlético Morelia | 11,780 | Tlaxcala | 0–2 | La Paz | 1,726 | |
| 2 | Jaiba Brava | 0–0 | Venados | 7,128 | Tlaxcala | 3–2 | UAT | 1,260 | |
| 3 | Atlante | 3–1 | Atlético Morelia | 2,992 | Tapatío | 2–0 | Jaiba Brava | 690 | |
| 4 | Jaiba Brava | 0–0 | UAT | 15,039 | Tapatío | 6–0 | Oaxaca | 765 | |
| 5 | La Paz | 1–1 | Venados | 4,318 | Oaxaca | 1–1 | Atlético Morelia | 1,546 | |
| 6 | Jaiba Brava | 1–0 | Zacatecas | 7,352 | Tapatío | 2–0 | Tepatitlán | 824 | |
| 7 | La Paz | 2–1 | Jaiba Brava | 3,384 | Oaxaca | 1–0 | Venados | 1,034 | |
| 8 | Jaiba Brava | 0–1 | Tlaxcala | 7,130 | Tapatío | 1–0 | La Paz | 764 | |
| 9 | UdeG | 3–3 | Atlante | 5,105 | Sinaloa | 4–1 | Cancún | 203 | |
| 10 | La Paz | 0–1 | Atlético Morelia | 3,278 | Tapatío | 2–2 | Venados | 533 | |
| 11 | Jaiba Brava | 4–3 | Sinaloa | 6,382 | Tlaxcala | 2–1 | Oaxaca | 1,111 | |
| 12 | Cancún | 1–1 | Atlante | 5,900 | Sinaloa | 1–0 | Tlaxcala | 433 | |
| 13 | Jaiba Brava | 3–2 | UdeG | 6,227 | Tapatío | 2–0 | Cancún | 960 | |
| 14 | UdeG | 1–1 | Celaya | 3,625 | Sinaloa | 4–0 | La Paz | 233 | |
| 15 | Atlético Morelia | 2–1 | Tlaxcala | 7,368 | Sinaloa | 2–0 | Oaxaca | 233 | |
Source: Liga de Expansión MX
The first legs will be played between 6–7 November, and the second legs will be played between 9–10 November.|}
Atlante won 4–3 on aggregate.----
2–2 on aggregate. Tapatío advanced due to being the higher seeded team.
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UdeG won 5–3 on aggregate.----
Celaya won 8–4 on aggregate.
The first legs will be played between 14 November, and the second legs will be played between 17 November.|}
Celaya won 4–1 on aggregate.
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4–4 on aggregate. Tapatío advanced due to being the higher seeded team.
The first leg was played on 20 November, and the second leg was played on 23 November.|}
Tapatío won 5–3 on aggregate.
The Clausura tournament will begin in January 2025.
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.[32] 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.
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| 1 | Atlante | 34 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 0 | 143 | 76 | +71 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Celaya | 38 | 37 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 0 | 137 | 76 | +44 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | UdeG | 31 | 21 | 27 | 29 | 28 | 0 | 136 | 76 | +50 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Venados | 25 | 22 | 21 | 32 | 22 | 0 | 122 | 76 | +32 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Tapatío | 22 | 31 | 14 | 22 | 29 | 0 | 119 | 76 | +31 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Zacatecas | 23 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 20 | 0 | 103 | 76 | +4 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Atlético Morelia | 26 | 30 | 21 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 103 | 76 | –1 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Cancún | 14 | 19 | 28 | 22 | 18 | 0 | 101 | 76 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Jaiba Brava | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 14 | –4 | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Tepatitlán | 21 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 95 | 76 | 00 | –3 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Atlético La Paz | 17 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 92 | 76 | –40 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | UAT | 19 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 86 | 76 | –21 | |||||||||||||
| 13 | Oaxaca | 20 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 83 | 76 | –40 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Sinaloa | 27 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 77 | 76 | –55 | |||||||||||||
| 15 | Tlaxcala | 19 | 23 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 75 | 76 | –50 |
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.