2009–10 Liga de Ascenso season

The 2009-2010 season was the first under the new name Liga de Ascenso, renamed from Primera A.

Also the Clausura part of the tournament was renamed Bicentenario 2010 in honor of the 200 year anniversary of the declaration for Mexican Independence.

Liga de Ascenso
Season	2009-10
Champions	Apertura: Necaxa Clausura: Necaxa
Promoted	Necaxa
Relegated	None
← 2008-09 2010–11 →

Changes

From Clausura 2009 to the new format there were many changes, the 3 group format was dropped in favor of 1 single table with the top 7 teams advancing to the playoffs, the top team over all to the semifinals and the next 6 teams to the quarterfinals.

The number of teams decreased from 27 to 17 teams

Querétaro won Promotion to Primera Division de Mexico
Necaxa finished last in Liga MX and was relegated to Liga de Ascenso
Guerreros were promoted from Segunda División de México
Salamanca moved to La Piedad and was renamed La Piedad
Potros Chetumal re-branded to Toros Neza
Tapatío re-branded to U. de G.

Dropped teams

Stadium and locations

Altamira

Locations of the Liga de Ascenso 2009–10 teams

Club	Stadium	Capacity	City
Lobos BUAP	Cuauhtémoc	46,912	Puebla
Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	10 de Diciembre	17,000	Mexico City
Durango !Durango	Francisco Zarco	18,000	Durango
Guerreros !Guerreros	Héroe de Nacozari	22,000	Hermosillo
Irapuato !Irapuato	Sergio León Chavez	33,000	Irapuato
La Piedad !La Piedad	Juan N. López	17,000	La Piedad
León !León	Nou Camp	33,943	León
Mérida !Mérida	Carlos Iturralde	21,050	Mérida
Necaxa !Necaxa	Victoria	25,000	Aguascalientes
Orizaba !Orizaba	Luis de la Fuente	30,000	Veracruz
Potros Neza !Potros Neza	Neza 86	28,500	Nezahualcóyotl
Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	Centenario	15,237	Cuernavaca
Dorados de Sinaloa	Banorte	21,000	Culiacán
Tijuana !Tijuana	Caliente	33,333	Tijuana
Correcaminos	Marte R. Gómez	19,500	Ciudad Victoria
U. de G.	Jalisco	60,000	Guadalajara
Veracruz !Veracruz	Luis de la Fuente	30,000	Veracruz

Torneo Apertura

Liga de Ascenso
Season	2009–10
Champions	Necaxa !Necaxa
Matches played	136
Goals scored	329 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ariel González (11)
Biggest home win	León 5–1 Cruz Azul Hidalgo (23 August 2009) Necaxa 5–1 Potros Neza (24 October 2009) Veracruz 4–0 Cruz Azul Hidalgo (7 November 2009)
Biggest away win	Sinaloa 0–2 Lobos BUAP (15 August 2009) Orizaba 1–3 Necaxa (26 September 2009) Durango 3–5 Pumas Morelos (4 October 2009)
Highest scoring	Durango 3–5 Pumas Morelos (4 October 2009)

The 2009 Liga de Ascenso Apertura was the first and inaugural football tournament of the 2009–10 Liga de Ascenso season. The tournament began on July 31, 2009 and ended on December 13, 2009.

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Irapuato (A)	16	10	2	4	28	18	+10	32	Qualification to Liga de Ascenso Apertura 2009 Liguilla Semi-finals
2	Lobos BUAP (A)	16	8	4	4	19	13	+6	28	Qualification to Liga de Ascenso Apertura 2009 Liguilla Quarter-finals
3	Necaxa (A)	16	8	4	4	23	18	+5	28
4	Veracruz (A)	16	8	4	4	18	13	+5	28
5	Dorados de Sinaloa (A)	16	8	2	6	23	22	+1	26
6	Cruz Azul Hidalgo (A)	16	7	4	5	21	22	−1	25
7	Potros Neza !Potros Neza (A)	16	6	6	4	24	21	+3	24
8	Merida	16	6	6	4	18	15	+3	24
9	Pumas Morelos	16	4	9	3	21	19	+2	21
10	Léon	16	6	3	7	27	26	+1	21
11	Tijuana	16	5	5	6	18	14	+4	20
12	Durango	16	5	5	6	23	24	−1	20
13	Correcaminos	16	6	1	9	18	22	−4	19
14	La Piedad	16	4	6	6	22	21	+1	18
15	Orizaba	16	3	4	9	12	19	−7	13
16	U. de G.	16	2	7	7	11	21	−10	13
17	Guerreros !Guerreros	16	2	4	10	6	24	−18	10

Updated to games played on 22 November 2009.
Source: FeMexFut
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Position by fixture

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Irapuato !Irapuato	1	7	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
BUAP !BUAP	15	15	10	4	9	11	13	11	11	7	9	11	6	4	3	4	2
Necaxa !Necaxa	4	5	1	5	8	8	5	4	3	2	2	3	2	3	4	3	3
Veracruz !Veracruz	13	9	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	5	3	2	3	2	2	2	4
Sinaloa !Sinaloa	2	2	9	12	6	5	9	7	4	8	4	4	8	6	7	7	5
Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	6	6	6	13	7	6	4	8	12	9	10	5	4	5	6	6	6
Potros Neza !Potros Neza	5	3	8	9	10	9	6	10	10	12	12	10	12	14	12	9	7
Mérida !Mérida	11	12	7	8	12	14	11	9	8	4	7	6	7	8	5	5	8
Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	8	11	12	11	13	13	14	15	15	14	13	13	14	12	14	13	9
León !León	12	8	13	7	5	4	8	5	7	3	6	9	10	11	11	8	10
Tijuana !Tijuana	9	4	11	10	3	7	10	12	6	11	11	12	9	9	8	10	11
Durango !Durango	14	13	15	16	15	17	15	16	16	16	17	14	13	10	9	11	12
UAT !UAT	3	10	4	2	2	1	3	3	5	10	5	7	5	7	10	12	13
La Piedad !La Piedad	10	1	5	6	11	10	7	6	9	6	8	8	11	13	13	14	14
Orizaba !Orizaba	7	14	14	15	16	15	16	13	14	15	16	17	17	15	15	15	15
U. de G. !U. de G.	16	17	17	14	14	12	12	14	13	13	14	15	15	16	16	16	16
Guerreros !Guerreros	17	16	16	17	17	16	17	17	17	17	15	16	16	17	17	17	17

Last updated: 22 November 2009
Source: (Spanish)

Results

Home ╲ Away	BUAP !BUP	Cruz Azul Hidalgo !CAH	Durango !DUR	Guerreros !GUE	Irapuato !IRA	La Piedad !LAP	León !LEÓ	Mérida !MER	Necaxa !NEC	Orizaba !ORI	Potros Neza !PTN	Pumas Morelos !PUM	Sinaloa !SIN	Tijuana !TIJ	UAT !UAT	U. de G. !UDG	Veracruz !VER
BUAP !BUAP				3–0			3–2	1–0	1–0		1–1			2–0	2–1	1–2
Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	2–0			3–0		3–0			2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1				0–0
Durango !Durango	0–0	2–2			2–3	2–0				1–0		3–5	2–2	2–2			1–2
Guerreros !Guerreros			0–1				2–1	0–2	0–0		0–2			1–0	1–2	0–1
Irapuato !Irapuato	2–1	1–2		4–0		1–0				1–0		2–1	3–1			3–1
La Piedad !La Piedad	1–2			0–0				2–2	1–1		2–2	1–2			4–1	4–0
León !León		5–1	0–2		3–2	1–3				1–0			2–2	2–1			3–0
Mérida !Mérida		1–0	2–0		1–1		2–0						2–1		0–2		0–0
Necaxa !Necaxa			2–1		3–1		2–1	1–0			5–1				2–1		1–0
Orizaba !Orizaba	0–0			1–0		1–1		3–1	1–3		2–0	1–1				1–1
Potros Neza !Potros Neza			2–1		1–2		1–1	1–1					4–1		2–1		3–0
Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	0–0			1–1			1–2	1–1	1–1		2–2			2–1	1–0	0–0
Sinaloa !Sinaloa	0–2	2–1		2–0		1–2			3–1	1–0		3–2				2–0
Tijuana !Tijuana		4–0			0–0	1–1		0–1	3–0	3–1	0–0		1–0		0–1
UAT !UAT		1–1	1–2		0–1		3–2			3–1			0–1				0–2
U. de G. !U. de G.			1–1				1–1	2–2	1–1		0–1			0–1	0–1		1–2
Veracruz !Veracruz	2–0	4–0		1–1	2–1	1–0				1–0		0–0	0–1	1–1

Updated to games played on 22 November 2009.
Source: FeMexFut
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Final Phase

Main article: Liga de Ascenso Apertura 2009 Liguilla

Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals

4	Veracruz !Veracruz	0	1
5	Dorados de Sinaloa	1	0
				1	Irapuato !Irapuato	0	3
				4	Veracruz !Veracruz	1	0

								1	Irapuato !Irapuato	0	3
2	Lobos BUAP	2	1					3	Necaxa !Necaxa	1	3
7	Potros Neza !Potros Neza	1	0
				2	Lobos BUAP	0	0
				3	Necaxa !Necaxa	2	0
3	Necaxa !Necaxa	1	2
6	Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	1	0

If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
The winner will qualify to the playoff match vs the Clausura 2010 winner

Apertura 2009 winner:
Necaxa 1st Title

Top-ten goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ariel González	Irapuato	11
2	Fausto David Ruiz	Potros Neza	10
3	Bosco Frontán	La Piedad	8
4	Nelson Sebastián Maz	Necaxa	8
5	Raúl Enríquez	Tijuana	8
6	Luis Orozco	León	7
7	Pedro Solís	Correcaminos	7
8	Francisco Bravo	Veracruz	7
9	Dany González	Durango	7
10	Álvaro González	Lobos BUAP	7
Source: FeMexFut

2010 Liga de Ascenso Bicentenario Clausura 2010

Liga de Ascenso
Season	2009–10
Champions	Necaxa !Necaxa
Top goalscorer	Ariel González (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Necaxa !Necaxa 4–0 Guerreros !Guerreros (16 January 2010) Irapuato !Irapuato 4–0 Veracruz !Veracruz (17 January 2010) Mérida !Mérida 4–0 La Piedad !La Piedad (30 January 2010)
Biggest away win	Orizaba !Orizaba 1–4 Tijuana !Tijuana (6 February 2010)
Highest scoring	Potros Neza !Potros Neza 3–4 Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos (31 January 2010) Durango !Durango 4–3 Guerreros !Guerreros (20 February 2010)

The 2010 Liga de Ascenso Bicentenario is the second football tournament of the 2009–10 Liga de Ascenso season.

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Léon	16	10	4	2	25	13	+12	34	Advance to the semifinal
2	Necaxa	16	8	8	0	25	13	+12	32	Advance to quarterfinal
3	Tijuana	16	8	3	5	24	15	+9	27
4	Pumas Morelos	16	8	2	6	21	16	+5	26
5	La Piedad	16	8	1	7	16	18	−2	25
6	Correcaminos	16	7	3	6	22	17	+5	24
7	Lobos BUAP	16	7	3	6	17	22	−5	24
8	Irapuato	16	6	5	5	21	18	+3	23
9	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	16	6	5	5	17	14	+3	23
10	Merida	16	5	7	4	21	13	+8	22
11	Orizaba	16	4	10	2	19	17	+2	22
12	Dorados de Sinaloa	16	5	4	7	18	20	−2	19
13	Potros Neza !Potros Neza	16	4	5	7	24	26	−2	17
14	Durango	16	4	3	9	20	28	−8	15
15	Veracruz	16	4	3	9	18	26	−8	15
16	U. de G.	16	3	4	9	15	28	−13	13
17	Guerreros !Guerreros	16	2	4	10	11	28	−17	10

Updated to games played on 18 April 2010.
Source: FeMexFut
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Position by fixture

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
BUAP !BUAP	15	9	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	6	6	8	7	5	6	7
Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	3	6	11	11	7	6	7	8	9	9	8	9	7	9	6	7	9
Durango !Durango	11	7	9	13	11	12	10	10	12	14	14	14	12	13	13	15	14
Guerreros !Guerreros	8	15	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Irapuato !Irapuato	9	2	2	1	1	4	6	7	7	8	9	8	10	8	9	10	8
La Piedad !La Piedad	4	10	5	9	13	7	5	6	6	3	2	5	5	5	7	5	5
León !León	1	3	3	3	2	1	2	3	3	4	3	1	1	1	1	2	1
Mérida !Mérida	12	4	10	6	6	8	11	9	8	11	11	12	13	12	11	11	10
Necaxa !Necaxa	2	1	1	2	3	2	1	1	2	2	4	3	3	4	2	1	2
Orizaba !Orizaba	6	11	13	10	14	14	12	12	11	10	10	11	9	10	10	8	11
Potros Neza !Potros Neza	13	16	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	13
Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	5	14	7	4	8	9	8	5	5	6	5	4	4	3	4	4	4
Sinaloa !Sinaloa	10	12	14	15	15	15	15	14	13	12	12	13	14	14	14	12	12
Tijuana !Tijuana	16	5	8	7	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	3
UAT !UAT	17	8	4	8	9	10	9	11	10	7	7	7	6	6	8	9	6
U. de G. !U. de G.	7	13	15	12	10	11	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16
Veracruz !Veracruz	14	17	12	14	12	13	13	13	14	13	13	10	11	11	12	13	15

Last updated: 18 April 2010
Source: (Spanish)

Results

Home ╲ Away	BUAP !BUP	Cruz Azul Hidalgo !CAH	Durango !DUR	Guerreros !GUE	Irapuato !IRA	La Piedad !LAP	León !LEÓ	Mérida !MER	Necaxa !NEC	Orizaba !ORI	Potros Neza !PTN	Pumas Morelos !PUM	Sinaloa !SIN	Tijuana !TIJ	UAT !UAT	U. de G. !UDG	Veracruz !VER
BUAP !BUAP		0–1	1–0		2–2	2–1				0–3		1–3	1–0				2–2
Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo			1–1		2–0		1–1	0–0					2–1	1–2	1–0		3–1
Durango !Durango				4–3			1–3	1–2	2–3		1–0				1–3	1–2
Guerreros !Guerreros	0–1	1–0			1–3	2–0				0–0		0–0	0–0				1–2
Irapuato !Irapuato			2–0				0–0	2–1	0–1		2–1			1–0	1–3		4–0
La Piedad !La Piedad		0–2	0–2		3–1		0–2			2–0			2–1	1–0			2–0
León !León	2–0			2–0				2–0	1–3		2–1	2–1			2–0	2–0
Mérida !Mérida	2–0			3–0		4–0			0–0	1–1	2–2	2–0		0–0		0–1
Necaxa !Necaxa	2–2	1–0		4–0		0–0				0–0		2–1	2–2	3–2		1–1
Orizaba !Orizaba		2–1	1–1		1–1		1–1						1–1	1–4	2–1		3–1
Potros Neza !Potros Neza	1–2	1–1		2–1		0–2			1–1	2–2		3–4		1–1		3–2
Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos		2–0	2–0		1–0	0–1				1–1			0–1				1–0
Sinaloa !Sinaloa			0–1		2–2		1–2	2–1			1–4			0–1	2–0		1–0
Tijuana !Tijuana	2–0		3–2	3–0			1–1					0–1				4–2	1–0
UAT !UAT	1–2			1–1		3–1		1–1	0–0		2–1	2–1		1–0		4–0
U. de G. !U. de G.	0–1	1–1		3–1	0–0	0–1				0–0		1–3	1–3
Veracruz !Veracruz			2–2				3–0	2–2	1–2		0–1				1–0	3–1

Updated to games played on 18 April 2010.
Source: FeMexFut
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Final Phase

Main article: Liga de Ascenso Bicentenario 2010 Liguilla

Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals

4	Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	0	1
5	La Piedad !La Piedad	0	2
				1	León !León	2	5
				5	La Piedad !La Piedad	0	0

								1	León !León	0	2
2	Necaxa !Necaxa	0	2					2	Necaxa !Necaxa	3	1
7	BUAP !BUAP	0	0
				2	Necaxa !Necaxa	0	5
				3	Tijuana !Tijuana	0	2
3	Tijuana !Tijuana	2	1
6	Correcaminos	1	1

If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
The winner will qualify to the playoff match vs the Clausura 2010 winner

Bicentenario 2010 winner:
Necaxa 2nd Title

Awards

Award	Player	Team
MVP
Best Manager
Best Goalkeeper
Best Wingback
Best Centre back
Best Defensive Midfielder
Best Offensive Midfielder
Best Forward
Best Rookie
Golden Boot
Source:Medio Tiempo

Top-ten goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Carlos Casartelli	León	8
2	Raúl Enríquez	Tijuana	7
3	Ariel González	Irapuato	6
3	Mauro Gerk	Tijuana	6
5	Nelson Maz	Necaxa	5
	Pablo Bonells	Pumas Morelos	5
	Luis Orozco	León	5
	Rafael Murguía	La Piedad	5
Source: FeMexFut

Relegation table

Relegation is determined by a quotient of the total points earned in the Liga de Ascenso divided by the total amount of games played over the past three seasons of the Liga de Ascenso (for clubs that have not been the Liga de Ascenso all three season, the last consecutive seasons of participation are taken into account). The club with the lowest quotient is relegated to the Segunda División Profesional for the next season.

P	Club	Total Points	Total Games	Quotient
1	Necaxa !Necaxa	47	25	1.8800
2	León !León	170	92	1.8478
3	Tijuana !Tijuana	107	58	1.8448
4	Veracruz !Veracruz	97	57	1.7018
5	Dorados de Sinaloa	153	91	1.6813
6	Irapuato !Irapuato	94	57	1.6491
7	Lobos BUAP	147	92	1.5978
8	Cruz Azul Hidalgo !Cruz Azul Hidalgo	141	91	1.5495
9	Correcaminos	144	93	1.5484
10	Pumas Morelos !Pumas Morelos	136	92	1.4783
11	Mérida !Mérida	132	91	1.4505
12	Durango !Durango	122	91	1.3407
13	Orizaba !Orizaba	117	92	1.2717
13	La Piedad !La Piedad	117	92	1.2717
15	Potros Neza !Potros Neza	59	57	1.0351
16	U. de G.	94	92	1.0217
17	Guerreros !Guerreros	81	91	0.8901 *
Source: FeMexFut; Updated as of: 12 March 2010

	Relegated to Segunda División Profesional

There was no relegation after the 2009-10 season.

References

External links

Ascenso MX seasons

Primera A	Primera División A 1994-1995 Invierno 1996 Clausura 2008 Apertura 2008 Clausura 2009

Liga de Ascenso	Apertura 2009 Bicentenario 2010 2010–11 A C 2011–12 A C

Ascenso MX	2012–13 A C 2013–14 A C 2014–15

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