2013 Liga MX Clausura Liguilla

Main article: 2012–13 Liga MX season

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)

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

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	24^1
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

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

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

Monterrey v UANL

May 8, 2013	Monterrey	1 – 0	UANL	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
19:00	H. Suazo 18'	Report		Attendance: 33,026 Referee: José Alfredo Peñaloza

UNAM v América

May 8, 2013	UNAM	0 – 1	América	Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City
21:00		Report	28' R. Jiménez	Attendance: 44,927 Referee: Fernando Guerrero

Santos Laguna v Atlas

May 9, 2013	Santos Laguna	0 – 0	Atlas	Estadio Corona, Torreón
19:00		Report		Attendance: 19,856 Referee: César Arturo Ramos

Cruz Azul v Morelia

May 9, 2013	Cruz Azul	4 – 2	Morelia	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
21:00	M. Pavone 23', 90+7' T Gutiérrez 52' Chaco G. 58'	Report	1' H. Mancilla 90+17' C. Ochoa	Attendance: 25,570 Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas

Second leg

América v UNAM

May 11, 2013	América	2 – 1	UNAM	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
17:00	C. Benítez 56', 90+4'	Report	21' R. Ramírez	Attendance: 49,132 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

UANL v Monterrey

May 11, 2013	UANL	1 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Universitario, Monterrey
19:00	Danilinho 12'	Report	33' (o.g.) Israel Jiménez	Attendance: 40,435 Referee: Roberto García

Morelia v Cruz Azul

May 12, 2013	Morelia	1 – 0	Cruz Azul	Estadio Morelos, Morelia
18:00	R. Salinas 44'	Report		Attendance: 28,048 Referee: Paul Delgadillo

Atlas v Santos Laguna

May 12, 2013	Atlas	1 – 3	Santos Laguna	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara
20:00	O. Bravo 5'	Report	15' A. Rentería 62', 89' C. Quintero	Attendance: 43,250 Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez

Semi-finals

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

Monterrey v América

May 15, 2013	Monterrey	2 – 2	América	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
21:00	H. Suazo 29' A. de Nigris 73'	Report	50', 69' C. Benítez	Attendance: 33,240 Referee: Jorge Pérez Durán

Santos Laguna v Cruz Azul

May 16, 2013	Santos Laguna	0 – 3	Cruz Azul	Estadio Corona, Torreón
21:00		Report	2' G. Flores 24' P. Barrera 88' (o.g.) R. Figueroa	Attendance: 28,957 Referee: César Arturo Ramos Palazuelos

Second leg

América v Monterrey

May 18, 2013	América	2 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
17:00	R. Jiménez 64' (pen.) C. Benítez 82'	Report	90+2' A. de Nigris	Attendance: 71,236 Referee: Paul Delgadillo

Cruz Azul v Santos Laguna

May 19, 2013	Cruz Azul	2 – 1	Santos Laguna	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
20:00	J. Orozco 7', 24'	Report	36' A. Rentería	Attendance: 31,875 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Final

Main article: 2013 Liga MX Clausura Liguilla Final

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

Cruz Azul v América

May 23, 2013	Cruz Azul	1 – 0	América	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
21:00	Chaco G. 19'	Report		Attendance: 30,203 Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez Durán

Second leg

América v Cruz Azul

May 26, 2013	América	2 – 1 (4 - 2 p)	Cruz Azul	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
20:00	A. Mosquera 88' M. Muñoz 90+2'[2]	Report	20' T. Gutiérrez	Attendance: 124,459 Referee: Paul Enrique Delgadillo
	Penalties
	Jiménez Benítez Martínez Layún		Orozco Castro Chávez Flores

Clausura 2013 winners:
Club América 11th Title

References

1. Liga MX. "Página Principal de la Liga MX". Archived from the original on 2013-05-26. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
2. Official, Match Report. "Liga MX". Official match report. Liga MX. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.