Liga MX 2021 is getting to its most exciting stages. The Mexican tournament'a regular-season is over, and twelve teams are already thinking about the playoffs. After the 17th round, Cruz Azul finished at the top of the standings with 41 points, followed by Club América who ended their regular season campaign with 38.
Qualified sides will try to dethrone León at any cost, but the job won’t be easy for them. The ones who advanced to the next round will try to lift the trophy this season, and the road to achieve that goal will begin this weekend.
The new Guard1anes Tournament 2021 started on January 8, with 18 teams fighting for the most coveted trophy in Mexican soccer. It’s time to go through the schedule, the format of the competition, the matchdays and the key dates for Liga MX 2021.
Liga MX 2021 Format
The 2021 Liga MX tournament will have 17 rounds. As it happened in the 2020 tournament, 12 teams will make the playoffs, with eight teams playing to make it to the quarter-finals, where the top-4 seeded squads will be waiting.
Four play-in games will take place before we enter the last-8 round, where the real tournament will begin. Last season, these play-in games provided very good games with some surprises that lifted the level of competition.
When did the Liga MX 2021 start?
The league started on January 8, with a three-game slate. The first matchday is gone now and we're ready to continue this tournament and all the emotions it will bring to all the fans not only in México but the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Liga MX 2021 Schedule
Liga MX 2021 Results
Matchday 1:
Puebla 1 Chivas 1
Tijuana 0 Pumas 0
Mazatlán 3 Necaxa 2
Atlas 0 Monterrey 2
Tigres 2 León 0
América 2 Atlético San Luis 1
Toluca 3 Querétaro 1
Santos Laguna 1 Cruz Azul 0
Pachuca 1 Juárez 1
Matchday 2:
Necaxa 1 Atlético San Luis 0
Juárez 0 Tijuana 0
Chivas 1 Toluca 1
Cruz Azul 0 Puebla 1
Monterrey 1 América 0
Pumas 3 Mazatlán 0
Santos Laguna 2 Tigres 0
Querétaro 1 Atlas 0
León 0 Pachuca 0
Matchday 3:
Atlético San Luis 3 Chivas 1
Puebla 0 Tijuana 1
Mazatlán 0 Santos Laguna 0
Atlas 0 Tigres 2
Toluca 2 Necaxa 0
Querétaro 2 Pumas 0
Pachuca 0 Cruz Azul 1
América 1 Juárez 0
Matchday 4:
Tigres 1 Necaxa 1
Mazatlán 1 Pachuca 0
Chivas 1 Juárez 2
Cruz Azul 4 Querétaro 1
Tijuana 3 Toluca 2
Pumas 0 Atlas 0
Santos Laguna 0 América 0
León 3 Atlético San Luis 1
Puebla 0 Monterrey 0
Matchday 5:
Atlético San Luis 2-2 Tijuana
Querétaro 3-1 Pachuca
Necaxa 0-2 Cruz Azul
Atlas 1-1 Santos Laguna
América 1-0 Puebla
Monterrey 1-0 Pumas
Toluca 4-1 Mazatlán
León 1-3 Chivas
Matchday 6:
Puebla 4-0 Juárez
Tijuana 2-0 León
Mazatlán 0-3 Atlético San Luis
Chivas 2-2 Necaxa
América 2-1 Queretaro
Toluca 1-0 Pumas UNAM
Santos Laguna 1-0 Monterrey
Pachuca 0-1 Atlas
Tigres UANL 0-2 Cruz Azul
Matchday 7:
Atlético San Luis 1-0 Santos Laguna
Necaxa 1-1 Monterrey
Juárez 1-0 Mazatlán
Cruz Azul 3-2 Toluca
Atlas 3-0 América
Pumas UNAM 0-1 León
Querétaro 1-1 Puebla
Tigres UANL 3-2 Tijuana
Pachuca 1-1 Guadalajara
Matchday 8:
Atlético San Luis 2-2 Tigres UANL
Puebla 1-0 Necaxa
Mazatlán 3-0 Querétaro
Toluca 0-0 Atlas
América 2-0 Pachuca
León 0-1 Cruz Azul
Monterrey 1-1s Tijuana
Santos 3-2 Juárez
Guadalajara 2-1 Pumas
Matchday 9:
Atlas 3-1 Atlético San Luis
Tigres 0-1 Toluca
León 1-2 Puebla
Juárez 1-6 Monterrey
Querétaro 2-2 Guadalajara
Cruz Azul 1-0 Mazatlán
Tijuana 0-2 América
Necaxa 2-2 Pachuca
Pumas 1-0 Santos
Matchday 10:
Atlético San Luis 0-0 Toluca
Puebla 1-1 Tigres
Atlas 2-0 Juárez
América 2-1 León
Monterrey 2-1 Querétaro
Mazatlán 1-1 Guadalajara
Santos 3-1 Necaxa
Pumas 0-1 Cruz Azul
Pachuca 2-1 Tijuana
Matchday 11:
Puebla 0 Altas 1
Juárez 1 Pumas 1
Tigres 1 Mazatlán 2
Cruz Azul 1 Monterrey 0
Tijuana 0 Santos Laguna 1
Toluca 0 Pachuca 2
Querétaro 2 Atlético San Luis 1
Chivas 0 Club América 3
León 3 Necaxa 1
Matchday 12:
Pachuca 1-0 Tigres
Necaxa 1-0 Juárez
Mazatlán 0-1 América
Atlético San Luis 0-1 Pumas
Cruz Azul 3-2 Atlas
Tijuana 3-1 Querétaro
Toluca 4-4 Puebla
Santos Laguna 1-2 León
Monterrey 1-2 Chivas
Matchday 13:
Puebla 3 Mazatlán 1
Juárez 0 Cruz Azul 1
Atlas 1 Tijuana 0
Club América 2 Necaxa 1
Monterrey 2 Atlético San Luis 0
Pumas 2 Pachuca 2
Chivas 1 Santos Laguna 1
Querétaro 0 Tigres 1
León 2 Toluca 1
Matchday 14:
Necaxa 0 Pumas 1
Juárez 2 Atlético San Luis 1
Atlas 1 León 3
Cruz Azul 1 Chivas 0
Tigres 1 América 3
Toluca 1 Monterrey 2
Querétaro 1 Santos Laguna 0
Tijuana 2 Mazatlán 3
Pachuca 1 Puebla 3
Matchday 15:
Necaxa 0 Querétaro 0
Mazatlán 0 Atlas 0
Atlético San Luis 1 Puebla 4
Chivas 2 Tijuana 0
Club Améria 1 Cruz Azul 1
Pumas 0 Tigres 0
Santos Laguna 3 Toluca 1
Monterrey 0 Pachuca 1
León 2 Juárez 0
Matchday 16:
Puebla 0 Pumas 0
Tijuana 1 Necaxa 0
Mazatlán 4 León 3
Cruz Azul 3 Atlético San Luis 2
Atlas 0 Chivas 1
Tigres 2 Monterrey 1
Toluca 3 Club América 1
Querétaro 1 Juárez 0
Pachuca 1 Santos Laguna 0
Matchday 17:
Atlético San Luis 1 Pachuca 5
Necaxa 1 Atlas 5
Juárez 1 Toluca 0
Chivas 0 Tigres 0
León 2 Querétaro 1
Cruz Azul 1 Tijuana 1
Monterrey 1 Mazatlán 0
Santos Laguna 0 Puebla 0
Pumas 0 América 1
Liga MX 2021 Key Dates
As it happens every single season, we’ll have a series of matches that gets more attention than the rest. Every major derby is taking part in this tournament, starting with the biggest one of all between Chivas and América.
Chivas vs Pumas: Matchday 8 (Sunday, February 28)
Chivas v America: Matchday 11 (Sunday, March 14)
Tigres v América: Matchday 14 (Saturday, April 10)
America vs Cruz Azul: Matchday 15 (Saturday, April 17)
Tigres v Monterrey: Matchday 16 (Saturday, April 24)
Atlas vs Chivas: Matchday 16 (Saturday, April 24)
Pumas vs America: Matchday 17 (Sunday, May 2)
Liga MX 2021 Playoffs
The Liga MX 2021 playoffs will take place May 8 and 9, with four matches taking place on those dates. The play-in games will be played a couple of days before the start of the last-8 round, which will be on May 12 and 13 for the first leg and May 15 and 16 for the second leg.
The semifinals will be played on May 19, 20 and May 22, 23. The first game of the final will be played on May 27 while the second game of the series will take place three days later, finishing the season on May 30.
