With a view to the activity that will take place this week during the quarterfinals of Apertura 2025, LigaMX will have to fourth consecutive time a Mexican league without the presence of national coacheswith the remaining eight clubs only having foreign strategists on their benches.
Mexican league without Mexicans
Since Clausura 2024, the Liguilla has been dominated by foreign strategists, a trend that continued for the Opening 2024 and that was extended in the Clausura and now in the Apertura this year, with the last tricolor helmsman being champion, Ignacio Ambriz in 2020 with León.
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For this semester, the Argentine Antonio Mohamed starts as coach of the champions Diablos de Toluca, who will face the Braves of the also albiceleste, Martín Varini. Los Tigres with Argentine Guido Pizarro They will face Tijuana of Uruguayan Sebastián Abreu.
For the series between Monterrey and América, Rayados has the Spanish Domenec Torrent on its bench, while the Águilas will do so with the Brazilian André Jardine and both Cruz Azul and Guadalajara They will face this big party with the Argentines Nicolás Larcamón and Gabriel Milito.
For this week’s life update, with matches on November 26 and 27 in the first leg and the return games on the 29th and 30th, La LigaMX will begin the final phase with a tripleheader on Wednesday and Saturday with the matches between Toluca against Juárez, Rayados against América and Tijuana against Tigres, while Guadalajara and Cruz Azul will close the game between Thursday and Sunday.
The current champion Toluca will open the activities against Juárez in the border city in the first leg on the 26th with the game starting at 7:00 p.m., to close on Saturday the 29th at the Nemesio Diez at 7:00 p.m. Rayados and América will meet on the same 26th in Sultana del Norte at 9:00 p.m. and the return leg It will be played at the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium three days later at 5:00 p.m..
Tijuana and Tigres will be the other clubs that will face each other on November 26 and 29 with the first match at the Caliente Stadium and will close at the Universitario de Nuevo León. The first match will be played at 11:00 p.m. and the second leg will begin at 9:10 p.m.
Cruz Azul and Guadalajara will be the only ones to play on November 27 and 30, with the first match at the Akron stadium at 8:00 p.m., and the second match on Sunday at the Olympic University in Mexico City at 7:00 p.m., to define the last semifinalist./24Horas
GOODBYE REPECHAGE
After five years of reclassification in the LigaMX and after the confirmation that the FMF made months ago to cancel the playoffs for 2026, the history of the Play-In came to an end.
CIPHER
4 Mexicans started the Apertura 2025 as coaches of one of the LigaMX clubs, of which only Efraín Juárez continues to lead Pumas
Failure to reclassify
Of 14 clubs that participated in one of the playoffs that were played in the Play-In in the last five years, only Guadalajara, Mazatlán and Querétaro did not win a single reclassification match