Apertura 2017 Liga MX final phase

Last updated September 27, 2025

The Apertura 2017 Liga MX championship stage commonly known as Liguilla (mini league) was played from 22 November to 10 December 2017.^[1] A total of eight teams competed in the championship stage to decide the champions of the Apertura 2017 Liga MX season. Both finalists qualified to the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League.

Qualified teams

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Monterrey	17	11	4	2	29	12	+17	37	Advance to Liguilla
2	UANL	17	9	5	3	28	16	+12	32
3	América	17	9	3	5	23	18	+5	30
4	Morelia	17	8	5	4	25	17	+8	29
5	Toluca	17	8	5	4	24	21	+3	29
6	Cruz Azul	17	7	6	4	22	22	0	27
7	León	17	8	2	7	27	23	+4	26
8	Atlas	17	7	4	6	23	19	+4	25

Source: Liga MX
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results between tied teams; 5) Number of goals scored away; 6) Highest relegation coefficient; 7) Fair Play points

Format

Teams are re-seeded each round.
Team with more goals on aggregate after two matches advances.
Away goals rule is applied in the quarterfinals and semifinals, but not the final.
In the quarterfinals and semifinals, if the two teams are tied on aggregate and away goals, the higher seeded team advances.
In the final, if the two teams are tied after both legs, the match goes to extra time and, if necessary, a shoot-out.
Both finalists qualify to the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League (in Pot 3).

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Bracket

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

1	Monterrey	2	4	6

8	Atlas	1	1	2
					1	Monterrey	1	4	5

					4	Morelia	0	0	0
4	Morelia (s)	1	2	3

5	Toluca	2	1	3
										1	Monterrey	1	1	2

										2	UANL	1	2	3
2	UANL (s)	1	1	2

7	León	1	1	2
					2	UANL	1	3	4

					3	América	0	0	0
3	América (s)	0	0	0

6	Cruz Azul	0	0	0

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlas	2–6	Monterrey	1–2	1–4
León	2–2	UANL (s)	1–1	1–1
Cruz Azul	0–0	América (s)	0–0	0–0
Toluca	3–3	Morelia (s)	2–1	1–2

All times are UTC−6

First leg

22 November 2017

19:30

Toluca	2–1	Morelia
Uribe 90+1' Barrientos 90+4'	Report	Ruidíaz 66' (pen.)

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 15,799

Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez (Veracruz)

22 November 2017

21:36

León	1–1	UANL
Boselli 59'	Report	Vargas 76'

Estadio León, León

Attendance: 15,005

Referee: Diego Montaño (Jalisco)

23 November 2017

19:30

Cruz Azul	0–0	América
	Report

Estadio Azul, Mexico City

Attendance: 22,889

Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas (Mexico City)

23 November 2017

21:30

Atlas	1–2	Monterrey
Tabó 35'	Report	Funes Mori 5', 17'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Attendance: 36,334

Referee: Luis Enrique Santander (Guanajuato)

Second leg

25 November 2017

19:00

UANL	1–1	León
Gignac 20'	Report	Mosquera 25'

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Attendance: 41,159

Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez (Veracruz)

2–2 on aggregate and tied on away goals. UANL advanced for being the higher seed in the classification table.

25 November 2017

21:00

Morelia	2–1	Toluca
Ruidíaz 6' Sepúlveda 15'	Report	Uribe 4'

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 26,094

Referee: Oscar Macías Romo (Aguascalientes)

3–3 on aggregate and tied on away goals. Morelia advanced for being the higher seed in the classification table.

26 November 2017

18:00

Monterrey	4–1	Atlas
Funes Mori 15' C. Sánchez 26' Hurtado 29', 40'	Report	Caraglio 34' (pen.)

Estadio BBVA Bancomer, Guadalupe

Attendance: 45,253

Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas (Mexico City)

Monterrey won 6–2 on aggregate

26 November 2017

20:00

América	0–0	Cruz Azul
	Report

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Attendance: 48,391

Referee: Fernando Guerrero (Mexico City)

0–0 on aggregate and tied on away goals. América advanced for being the higher seed in the classification table.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morelia	0–5	Monterrey	0–1	0–4
América	0–4	UANL	0–1	0–3

All times are UTC−6

First leg

29 November 2017

21:00

América	0–1	UANL
	Report	Juninho 49' (pen.)

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Attendance: 31,566

Referee: Oscar Macías Romo (Aguascalientes)

30 November 2017

19:30

Morelia	0–1	Monterrey
	Report	Hurtado 38' (pen.)

Estadio Morelos, Morelia

Attendance: 30,473

Referee: Jorge Antonio Pérez (Veracruz)

Second leg

2 December 2017

19:00

UANL	3–0	América
Valencia 56', 72' Gignac 76' (pen.)	Report

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Attendance: 41,580

Referee: Fernando Guerrero (Mexico City)

UANL won 4–0 on aggregate

3 December 2017

18:00

Monterrey	4–0	Morelia
Funes Mori 10', 29', 53' C. Sánchez 22' (pen.)	Report

Estadio BBVA Bancomer, Guadalupe

Attendance: 50,544

Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas (Mexico City)

Monterrey won 5–0 on aggregate

Finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UANL	3–2	Monterrey	1–1	2–1

All times are UTC−6

First leg

7 December 2017

20:00

UANL	1–1	Monterrey
Valencia 26' (pen.)	Report	N. Sánchez 9'

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Attendance: 41,602

Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas (Mexico City)

UANL^[3]^[4]

Monterrey^[3]^[4]


GK	1	Nahuel Guzmán	43'
DF	6	Jorge Torres Nilo
DF	3	Juninho (c)
DF	4	Hugo Ayala	85' 90+1'
DF	28	Luis Rodríguez	36'
MF	29	Jesús Dueñas	65'
MF	5	Rafael Carioca
MF	20	Javier Aquino
FW	9	Eduardo Vargas		80'
FW	10	André-Pierre Gignac
FW	13	Enner Valencia
Substitutions:
GK	36	Lalo Fernández
DF	21	Francisco Meza
MF	17	Jose Francisco Torres
MF	19	Larry Vásquez
MF	25	Jürgen Damm
MF	27	Alberto Acosta
FW	18	Ismael Sosa		80'
Manager:
Ricardo Ferretti


GK	1	Hugo González
DF	11	Leonel Vangioni	74' 88'
DF	15	José María Basanta (c)	31'
DF	4	Nicolás Sánchez		46'
DF	33	Stefan Medina	81'
MF	25	Jonathan González
MF	13	Carlos Sánchez	58'
MF	16	Celso Ortiz		86'
FW	8	Dorlan Pabón
FW	18	Avilés Hurtado		69'
FW	7	Rogelio Funes Mori	26'
Substitutions:
GK	24	Édson Reséndez
DF	3	César Montes		46'
DF	5	Luis Fuentes
DF	6	Efraín Juárez
MF	14	Alfonso González		86'
MF	21	Jesús Molina	90+3'	69'
FW	29	Marco Bueno
Manager:
Antonio Mohamed

Assistant referees:
José Luis Camargo (State of Mexico)
Christian Kiabek Espinosa (Mexico City)
Fourth official:
Oscar Macías Romo (Aguascalientes)

Second leg

10 December 2017

18:00

Monterrey	1–2	UANL
Pabón 2'	Report	Vargas 30' Meza 35'

Estadio BBVA Bancomer, Guadalupe

Attendance: 52,067

Referee: Fernando Guerrero (Mexico City)

UANL won 3–2 on aggregate

Monterrey^[5]^[6]

UANL^[5]^[6]


GK	1	Hugo González
DF	15	José María Basanta (c)		46'
DF	3	César Montes
DF	4	Nicolás Sánchez
DF	33	Stefan Medina
MF	25	Jonathan González		80'
MF	19	Neri Cardozo	90+6'
MF	13	Carlos Sánchez		87'
FW	18	Avilés Hurtado
FW	8	Dorlan Pabón
FW	7	Rogelio Funes Mori
Substitutions:
GK	24	Édson Reséndez
DF	5	Luis Fuentes		46'
DF	6	Efraín Juárez
MF	14	Alfonso González
MF	17	Jesús Zavala		87'
MF	21	Jesús Molina
FW	27	Jorge Benítez		80'
Manager:
Antonio Mohamed


GK	1	Nahuel Guzmán
DF	6	Jorge Torres Nilo
DF	21	Francisco Meza
DF	3	Juninho (c)
DF	28	Luis Rodríguez
MF	29	Jesús Dueñas	81'
MF	5	Rafael Carioca
MF	20	Javier Aquino
FW	9	Eduardo Vargas	61'
FW	10	André-Pierre Gignac
FW	13	Enner Valencia	76'
Substitutions:
GK	36	Lalo Fernández
DF	14	Jorge Iván Estrada
DF	15	Timothée Kolodziejczak
MF	17	Jose Francisco Torres
MF	25	Jürgen Damm	61'
MF	27	Alberto Acosta	81'
FW	18	Ismael Sosa	76'
Manager:
Ricardo Ferretti

Assistant referees:
Marcos Quintero (Jalisco)
Pablo Israel Hernández (Mexico City)
Fourth official:
Jorge Antonio Pérez (Veracruz)

Goalscorers

6 goals

Rogelio Funes Mori (Monterrey)

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

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Apertura 2017 Liga MX final phase

Contents

Qualified teams

Format

Bracket

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Goalscorers

References