Liga de Expansión MX


The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo, is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the primary objective of rescuing the financially troubled teams from the Ascenso MX and prevent the disappearance of a second-tier league in Mexico, for which there will be no promotion and relegation during the following six seasons. The project also attempts for Liga MX and former Ascenso MX teams to consolidate stable projects with solid basis, sports-wise and administrative-wise, financially wise and in infrastructure.

History

On 20 February 2020, the presidents of the Liga MX clubs, the Ascenso MX clubs and Mexican Football Federation executives had a meeting, in which different topics were discussed with the intent of strengthening the two main leagues in the country.
On 26 June 2020, the league was officially presented, with the participation of 17 teams: Alebrijes de Oaxaca, Atlante, Atlético Morelia, Cancún, Celaya, Cimarrones de Sonora, Correcaminos UAT, Dorados de Sinaloa, Leones Negros UdeG, Mineros de Zacatecas, Tampico Madero and Venados F.C. as Ascenso MX teams. Pumas Tabasco and Tapatío entered to the league as Liga MX affiliates. Finally, on 17 July 2020 Tepatitlán and Tlaxcala were invited as Liga Premier expansion teams, the seventeenth team will be the champion of the 2020-21 Liga Premier season.

Participating teams

TeamProcedenceCityStadiumCapacity
Alebrijes de OaxacaAscenso MXOaxaca City, OaxacaTecnológico de Oaxaca14,598
AtlanteAscenso MXMexico CityAzul33,000
Atlético MoreliaAscenso MXMorelia, MichoacánMorelos35,000
CancúnAscenso MXCancún, Quintana RooAndrés Quintana Roo17,289
CelayaAscenso MXCelaya, GuanajuatoMiguel Alemán Valdés23,182
Cimarrones de SonoraAscenso MXHermosillo, SonoraHéroe de Nacozari18,747
Correcaminos UATAscenso MXCiudad Victoria, TamaulipasMarte R. Gómez10,520
Dorados de SinaloaAscenso MXCuliacán, SinaloaBanorte20,108
Leones Negros UdeGAscenso MXGuadalajara, JaliscoJalisco55,020
Mineros de ZacatecasAscenso MXZacatecas City, ZacatecasCarlos Vega Villalba20,068
Pumas TabascoLiga MX AffiliateVillahermosa, TabascoOlímpico de Villahermosa10,500
Tampico MaderoAscenso MXTampico/Ciudad Madero, TamaulipasTamaulipas19,667
TapatíoLiga MX AffiliateZapopan, JaliscoAkron49,850
TepatitlánLiga Premier de MéxicoTepatitlán de Morelos, JaliscoGregorio "Tepa" Gómez10,000
TlaxcalaLiga Premier de MéxicoTlaxcala City, TlaxcalaTlahuicole12,000
VenadosAscenso MXMérida, YucatánCarlos Iturralde15,087

Managers

The current managers in the Liga de Expansión MX are:
Nat.NameTeamAppointedTime as manager
Tepatitlán05 09 2019
Leones Negros UdeG29 10 2019
Tampico Madero27 11 2019
Correcaminos UAT28 11 2019
Dorados de Sinaloa04 12 2019
Venados10 12 2019
Pumas Tabasco24 06 2020
Atlético Morelia26 06 2020
Tapatío26 06 2020
Cancún30 06 2020
Celaya01 07 2020
Mineros de Zacatecas01 07 2020
Cimarrones de Sonora03 07 2020
Alebrijes de Oaxaca10 07 2020
Tlaxcala20 07 2020
Atlante20 07 2020