Clausura 2025 Liga MX final phase

Clausura 2025 Liga MX final phase

Tournament details
Dates	26 April – 25 May 2025
Teams	10
Tournament statistics
Matches played	17
Goals scored	37 (2.18 per match)
Attendance	473,594 (27,858 per match)
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The Clausura 2025 Liga MX final phase was played between 26 April and 25 May 2025. ^[1] A total of ten teams competed in the final phase to decide the champions of the Apertura 2024 Liga MX season. ^[1]

For the fourth straight season, the number of clubs qualifying for the quarter-finals was six while the teams qualifying for the reclassification is four. ^[2] The four clubs qualified for the reclassification competed in the "play-in" round, a tournament modeled after the NBA play-in tournament. ^[2]

Toluca defeated América 2–0 on aggregate to win their eleventh title. As winners, Toluca will face América (Apertura 2024 champion) at the 2025 Campeón de Campeones.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the championship stage.

In the following tables, the number of appearances, last appearance, and previous best result count only those in the short tournament era starting from Invierno 1996 (not counting those in the long tournament era from 1943–44 to 1995–96).

Qualified directly to quarter-finals (6 teams)

Seed	Team	Points (GD)	Date of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best (last)	Ref.
1	Toluca	36	5 April 2025 (PLAY) 12 April 2025 (QF)	40th	Apertura 2024	Champions (Bic. 2010)	[3]
2	América	34	29 March 2025 (PLAY) 19 April 2025 (QF)	40th		Champions (Ap. 2024)	[4]
3	Cruz Azul	33 (+10)	5 April 2025 (PLAY) 16 April 2025 (QF)	37th		Champions (Gua. 2021)	[5]
4	UANL	33 (+10)	5 April 2025 (PLAY) 19 April 2025 (QF)	35th	Apertura 2024	Champions (Cl. 2023)	[6]
5	Necaxa	31	5 April 2025 (PLAY) 20 April 2025 (QF)	22nd	Clausura 2024	Champions (Inv. 1998)	[7]
6	León	30	5 April 2025 (PLAY) 20 April 2025 (QF)	18th	Apertura 2023	Champions (Gua. 2020)	[8]

Qualified to play-in round (4 teams)

Seed	Team	Points (GD)	Date of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best (last)	Ref
7	Monterrey	28 (+9)	16 April 2025	31st	Apertura 2024	Champions (Ap. 2019)	[9]
8	Pachuca	28 (+6)	11 April 2025	41th	Clausura 2024	Champions (Ap. 2022)	[10]
9	Juárez	24	15 April 2025	2nd	Apertura 2022	Reclassification (Ap. 2022)
10	UNAM	21	19 April 2025	28th	Apertura 2024	Champions (Cl. 2011)	[11]

Play-in round

Format

The 9th place team hosts the 10th place team in an elimination game. The 7th hosts the 8th place team in the double-chance game, with the winner advancing as the 7-seed. The loser of this game then hosts the winner of the elimination game between the 9th and 10th place teams to determine the 8-seed.

Bracket

	Play-in games					No. 8 seed game					Final seeds
	Serie A
	7	Monterrey	1								8	Pachuca	No. 7 seed
	8	Pachuca	2								7	Monterrey	No. 8 seed
						7	Monterrey	2
	Serie B					10	UNAM	0
	9	Juárez	1 (1)
	10	UNAM	1 (2)

Play-in matches

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Monterrey	1–2	Pachuca
Juárez	1–1 (1–2 p)	UNAM

Serie A

27 April 2025

19:30 CST (UTC−6)

Monterrey	1–2	Pachuca
Berterame 51'	Report	Bauermann 82' Rondón 87'

Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe

Attendance: 48,353 ^[12]

Referee: Luis Enrique Santander (Guanajuato)

Serie B

27 April 2025

16:00 MDT (UTC−7)

Juárez	1–1	UNAM
Madson 20'	Report	Martínez 16'
Penalties
Estupiñán Zaldívar Hurtado Rodríguez Valoyes	1–2	Carrasquilla Nathan Funes Mori Caicedo Ergas

Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juárez

Attendance: 11,074 ^[13]

Referee: Víctor Alfonso Cáceres (Chiapas)

No. 8 seed match

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Monterrey	2–0	UNAM

4 May 2025

19:30 CST (UTC−6)

Monterrey	2–0	UNAM
Berterame 58' Deossa 89'	Report

Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe

Attendance: 47,715 ^[14]

Referee: Adonai Escobedo (Aguascalientes)

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	1	Toluca (s)	2	2	4
	8	Monterrey	3	1	4
								1	Toluca	1	3	4
								4	UANL	1	0	1
	4	UANL (s)	0	2	2
	5	Necaxa	0	2	2
															1	Toluca	0	2	2
															2	América	0	0	0
	2	América	0	2	2
	7	Pachuca	0	0	0
								2	América (s)	0	2	2
								3	Cruz Azul	1	1	2
	3	Cruz Azul	3	2	5
	6	León	2	1	3

Quarter-finals

Summary

The first legs will be played on 7–8 May 2025, and the second legs will be played on 10–11 May 2025.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monterrey	4–4 (s)	Toluca	3–2	1–2
Pachuca	0–2	América	0–0	0–2
León	3–5	Cruz Azul	2–3	1–2
Necaxa	2–2 (s)	UANL	0–0	2–2

Matches

7 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Monterrey	3–2	Toluca
Deossa 44' Canales 50' Berterame 69'	Report	Guzmán 16' (o.g.) Luan 82'

Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe

Attendance: 38,647 ^[15]

Referee: Guillermo Pacheco Larios (Sonora)

10 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Toluca	2–1	Monterrey
Vega 30' Paulinho 68'	Report	de la Rosa 48'

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 27,273 ^[16]

Referee: Fernando Hernández Gómez (Mexico City)

4–4 on aggregate. Toluca advanced due to being the higher seeded club.

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7 May 2025

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

Pachuca	0–0	América
	Report

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca

Attendance: 13,925 ^[17]

Referee: Jesus Rafael Lopez (Sinaloa)

10 May 2025

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

América	2–0	Pachuca
Zendejas 16', 28'	Report

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 25,417 ^[18]

Referee: Daniel Quintero Huitrón (Jalisco)

América won 2–0 on aggregate.

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8 May 2025

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

León	2–3	Cruz Azul
Santos 29' Moreno 46'	Report	Rivero 14' Montaño 19', 41'

Estadio León, León

Attendance: 13,667 ^[19]

Referee: César Arturo Ramos (Sinaloa)

11 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Cruz Azul	2–1	León
Rivero 33' Echeverría 66' (o.g.)	Report	Cádiz 39'

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

Attendance: 20,577 ^[20]

Referee: Víctor Alfonso Cáceres (Chiapas)

Cruz Azul won 5–3 on aggregate.

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8 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Necaxa	0–0	UANL
	Report

Estadio Victoria, Aguascalientes

Attendance: 20,641 ^[21]

Referee: Oscar Mejía García (Mexico City)

11 May 2025

21:10 CST (UTC−6)

UANL	2–2	Necaxa
Brunetta 51' Mayorga 90+7' (o.g.)	Report	Palavecino 63' Badaloni 86'

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Attendance: 39,268 ^[22]

Referee: Marco Antonio Ortiz (Durango)

2–2 on aggregate. UANL advanced due to being the higher seeded club.

Semi-finals

Summary

The first legs will be played on 14–15 May 2025, and the second legs will be played on 17–18 May 2025.

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

Matches

14 May 2025

21:00 CST (UTC−6)

UANL	1–1	Toluca
Ibáñez 19'	Report	Paulinho 45+1'

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Attendance: 41,615 ^[23]

Referee: Adonai Escobedo (Aguascalientes)

17 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Toluca	3–0	UANL
Vega 18' (pen.), 82' I. López 79'	Report

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 27,273 ^[24]

Referee: Fernando Hernández Gómez (Mexico City)

Toluca won 4–1 on aggregate.

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15 May 2025

20:00 CST (UTC−6)

Cruz Azul	1–0	América
Rivero 59'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

Attendance: 34,951 ^[25]

Referee: Luis Enrique Santander (Guanajuato)

18 May 2025

19:15 CST (UTC−6)

América	2–1	Cruz Azul
Martín 66' (pen.) Borja 79'	Report	Faravelli 57'

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 30,872 ^[26]

Referee: Víctor Alfonso Cáceres (Chiapas)

2–2 on aggregate. América advanced due to being the higher seeded club.

Finals

Summary

The first leg will be played on 22 May 2025, and the second leg will be played on 25 May 2025.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
América	0–2	Toluca	0–0	0–2

First leg

22 May 2025

20:00 CST (UTC−6)

América	0–0	Toluca
	Report

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Attendance: 30,406

Referee: Daniel Quintero Huitrón (Jalisco)

Details

América [27] [28]

Toluca [27] [28]

GK 1 Luis Malagón DF 5 Kevin Álvarez  82' DF 3 Israel Reyes DF 4 Sebastián Cáceres  29' DF 26 Cristian Borja MF 28 Érick Sánchez  83' MF 6 Jonathan dos Santos  72' MF 8 Álvaro Fidalgo MF 17 Alejandro Zendejas MF 11 Víctor Dávila  48'  61' FW 21 Henry Martín (c)  72' Substitutions: GK 30 Rodolfo Cota DF 14 Néstor Araujo DF 18 Cristian Calderón DF 29 Ramón Juárez DF 32 Miguel Vázquez MF 10 Diego Valdés  61' MF 13 Alan Cervantes  72' MF 34 Dagoberto Espinoza FW 24 Javairô Dilrosun  83' FW 27 Rodrigo Aguirre  72' Manager: André Jardine

GK 22 Luis García DF 2 Diego Barbosa DF 4 Bruno Méndez  88' DF 13 Luan  11' DF 6 Federico Pereira  55' DF 20 Jesús Gallardo MF 5 Franco Romero MF 10 Jesús Angulo  79' MF 14 Marcel Ruiz FW 31 Robert Morales FW 9 Alexis Vega (c)  86' Substitutions: GK 181 Ronaldo Beltrán DF 3 Antonio Briseño  88' DF 17 Brian García MF 25 Everardo del Villar MF 7 Juan Pablo Domínguez  79' MF 16 Héctor Herrera MF 198 Víctor Arteaga MF 11 Helinho FW 12 Isaías Violante  86' FW 187 Oswaldo Virgen Manager: Antonio Mohamed

Assistant referees: [29] Marco Antonio Bisguerra (Guanajuato) Jorge Antonio Sánchez (Estado de México) Fourth official: [29] Adonai Escobedo (Aguascalientes) Video assistant referee: [29] Erick Yair Miranda (Guanajuato) Assistant video assistant referee: [29] Jorge Abraham Camacho (Jalisco)

Statistics

Statistic [30]	América	Toluca
Goals scored	0	0
Total shots	7	8
Shots on target	1	3
Saves	3	1
Ball possession	60%	40%
Corner kicks	2	2
Fouls committed	10	19
Offsides	2	1
Yellow cards	2	2
Red cards	0	0

Second leg

25 May 2025

19:00 CST (UTC−6)

Toluca	2–0	América
Luan 65' Vega 82' (pen.)	Report

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 27,273

Referee: César Arturo Ramos (Sinaloa)

Toluca won 2–0 on aggregate.

Details

Toluca [31] [32]

América [31] [32]

GK 22 Luis García  90' DF 2 Diego Barbosa DF 4 Bruno Méndez DF 13 Luan DF 6 Federico Pereira DF 20 Jesús Gallardo MF 5 Franco Romero MF 10 Jesús Angulo  76' MF 14 Marcel Ruiz FW 26 Paulinho  72' FW 9 Alexis Vega (c)  90+3'  90+4' Substitutions: GK 181 Ronaldo Beltrán DF 3 Antonio Briseño DF 17 Brian García DF 25 Everardo del Villar MF 7 Juan Pablo Domínguez MF 16 Héctor Herrera  76' MF 198 Víctor Arteaga FW 11 Helinho FW 12 Isaías Violante  90+4' FW 31 Robert Morales  72' Manager: Antonio Mohamed

GK 1 Luis Malagón DF 5 Kevin Álvarez  83' DF 3 Israel Reyes DF 29 Ramón Juárez  72' DF 4 Sebastián Cáceres  78' DF 26 Cristian Borja  83' MF 28 Érick Sánchez MF 6 Jonathan dos Santos  72' MF 8 Álvaro Fidalgo MF 17 Alejandro Zendejas FW 21 Henry Martín (c)  49' Substitutions: GK 30 Rodolfo Cota DF 14 Néstor Araujo DF 18 Cristian Calderón MF 10 Diego Valdés  72' MF 13 Alan Cervantes MF 34 Dagoberto Espinoza FW 7 Brian Rodríguez  83' FW 11 Víctor Dávila  72' FW 24 Javairô Dilrosun  83' FW 27 Rodrigo Aguirre  49' Manager: André Jardine

Assistant referees: [33] Alberto Morín Méndez (Chihuahua) Karen Janett Díaz (Aguascalientes) Fourth official: [33] Víctor Alfonso Cáceres (Chiapas) Video assistant referee: [33] Guillermo Pacheco Larios (Sonora) Assistant video assistant referee: [33] Diana Stephanía Pérez (Guanajuato)

Statistics

Statistic [34]	Toluca	América
Goals scored	2	0
Total shots	15	4
Shots on target	3	0
Saves	0	1
Ball possession	37%	63%
Corner kicks	2	2
Fouls committed	13	10
Offsides	2	1
Yellow cards	2	1
Red cards	0	0

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 40 goals scored in 17 matches, for an average of 2.35 goals per match.

4 goals

• Alexis Vega (Toluca)

3 goals

• Germán Berterame (Monterrey)
• Ignacio Rivero (Cruz Azul)

2 goals

• Nelson Deossa (Monterrey)
• Paulinho (Toluca)
• Luan Garcia (Toluca)
• Andrés Montaño (Cruz Azul)
• Alejandro Zendejas (América)

1 goal

• Tomás Badaloni (Necaxa)
• Eduardo Bauermann (Pachuca)
• Cristian Borja (América)
• Juan Brunetta (UANL)
• Jhonder Cádiz (León)
• Sergio Canales (Monterrey)
• Madson (Juárez)
• Roberto de la Rosa (Monterrey)
• Lorenzo Faravelli (Cruz Azul)
• Nicolás Ibáñez (UANL)
• Iván López (Toluca)
• Henry Martín (América)
• Guillermo Martínez (UNAM)
• Iván Moreno (León)
• Agustín Palavecino (Necaxa)
• Salomón Rondón (Pachuca)
• Sebastián Santos (León)

1 own goal

• Rodrigo Echeverría (against Cruz Azul)
• Víctor Guzmán (against Toluca )
• Alejandro Mayorga (against UANL)

Assists

3 assists

• Marcel Ruiz (Toluca)
• Alexis Vega (Toluca)

2 assists

• Stefan Medina (Monterrey)
• Carlos Rotondi (Cruz Azul)

1 assist

• Kevin Álvarez (América)
• Germán Berterame (Monterrey)
• Alfonso Blanco (León)
• Jesús Corona (Monterrey)
• Iker Fimbres (Monterrey)
• Ozziel Herrera (UANL)
• John Kennedy (Pachuca)
• Diego Lainez (UANL)
• Emilio Lara (Necaxa)
• Stiven Mendoza (León)
• Lucas Ocampos (Monterrey)
• José Paradela (Necaxa)
• Carlos Rodríguez (Cruz Azul)
• José Luis Rodríguez (Juárez)
• Jorge Sánchez (Cruz Azul)
• Ángel Sepúlveda (Cruz Azul)
• Santiago Trigos (UNAM)

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