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56-457: La Piedad, "north door" of the state of Michoacán, surrounding the Lerma river, has limits at the north with the municipalities of Degollado , Jalisco and Pénjamo , Guanajuato ; at the east with the municipality of Numarán , Michoacán; at the south with the municipalities of Zináparo , Churintzio , and Ecuandureo , Michoacán; and at the west with the municipality of Yurécuaro . The municipality

112-563: A bye to the Round of 16. Liga MX would implement a formula for ensuring that the Apertura and Clausura had two qualifying teams should one or more teams reach the finals of both tournaments, devised when Liga MX sent 4 teams to North America's top club competition: With Liga MX sending a minimum of six teams to the Champions Cup (Liga MX can send a maximum of nine teams if three Liga MX teams all hold

168-499: A rebranding, with the introduction of a new logo. On 20 August 2018, it was announced that Liga MX would begin testing the use of VAR technology. The initial test run will be conducted during under-20 matches played inside senior league stadiums, with live testing across senior Liga MX matches to take place during weeks 13 and 14 of the Apertura tournament . The league will, however, still need final approval from FIFA to fully implement

224-532: A team becomes the champion in both tournaments, it is automatically promoted. Prior to the start of the 2017–18 season , the rules for relegation and promotion changed: if a team wins promotion but does not meet certain Liga MX requirements (e.g. stadium infrastructure and a youth team) the relegated Liga MX team of that season will be obligated to pay the prize money to the Ascenso MX team ( MXN$ 120 million) for winning

280-722: A team was relegated, the team that was promoted could only negotiate with the company holding the television rights of the relegated team. This agreement was canceled by Liga MX in 2012 when the promotion of Club León caused a television rights dispute with Televisa. Currently, Club León matches are broadcast in Mexico by Fox Sports and other online media sites, and in the United States by Univision (Telemundo from 2013–16). Telelatino and Fox Sports World formerly hold broadcasting rights in Canada. From 2019–20 until 2021–22, OneSoccer broadcast

336-530: Is also one of the places in highlands of Jalisco where the Cristero War took place during the 1920s. The holy patroness of Degollado is Our Lady of Guadalupe and is celebrated in the town center on December 12. Degollado is famous for its cantera ( freestone masonry ). One of the best selling products are stone images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and sculptures, such as fountains, animals, and columns. The town

392-416: Is also the headquarters for veterinary pharmaceuticals company LaPisa and industrial turbine manufacturer Turbomaquinas and Famaq. Also there is an important candy factory named Cabadas and sausage factories like Nu-tres, Delta and Bafar (former Parma). Most companies are family owned and operated. These are Saldaña and García, the latter owns Turbomaquinas S.A. de C.V., FAMAQ, Turboaleaciones S.A. de C.V. and

448-504: Is connected through roads and highways with cities in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and of course, the rest of Michoacán. Distances and average driving times: In the 12th century Aztecas moved away from Aztlan looking for a new land to settle. In this travel they founded several towns. Zula (meaning quails territory) was one of this towns established on the shore of the Lerma river. In 1380, Tariácuri purepecha's king, conquered

504-544: Is known because of its colorful Rebozos , and the singer José Alfredo Jiménez made it more famous with the song "El Perro Negro" ("The Black Dog"). La Piedad is a hub for agricultural products. The town was once known as the center of the Mexican pork industry, and still plays an important part in that industry. However, La Piedad has recently moved its economy towards textiles. Major textil manufacturers include Olmeca, Marval and Manriquez. Surrounding towns are Santa Ana, Yurecuaro, Degollado, Numaran, and Ecuandureo. La Piedad

560-526: Is known for tequila production, with much of the surrounding farmland cultivated for the blue agave plant. In July 2019, the Iowa Organization of Professional Fire Chiefs donated US $ 90,000 (MXN $ 171,000) worth of firefighting equipment to the Degollado Fire Department. Primera Divisi%C3%B3n de M%C3%A9xico Liga MX , officially known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons,

616-494: Is located close to the border of three states, Michoacán, Guanajuato and Jalisco. There are three highways entering this city: Mexico highways 110, 39, and 90. Highway 110 goes west and takes you to the towns of Yurécuaro , Tanhuato, Vista Hermosa, Briseñas y La Barca, and the free-toll route to Guadalajara. Highway 37 runs south of La Piedad to Zamora, this highway goes to the toll highway 15, which goes north-south, from Nogales to Mexico City . Highway 90 runs north of La Piedad to

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672-509: Is the top professional football division of the Mexican football league system . Formerly called Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and then Primera División de México (1949–2012), it has 18 clubs and the season is divided into two short tournaments, Apertura from July to December and Clausura from January to May. The champions of each tournament is decided by a final phase called "liguilla" . Since 2020, promotion and relegation has been suspended, which

728-686: Is to last until 2026. The league currently ranks first in CONCACAF's league ranking index. According to the IFFHS , Liga MX was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century. According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during the 2014–15 season – draws the largest crowds on average of any football league in the Americas and the third largest crowds of any professional sports league in North America, behind only

784-413: The 2018–19 season , only six teams met the full requirements to be promoted to Liga MX, those teams being Atlético San Luis , Atlante , Celaya , Juárez , Sinaloa , and UdeG . On April 16, 2020, the Ascenso MX was folded due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic as well as the lack of financial resources. Liga MX President Enrique Bonilla later announced during a video meeting with the club owners of

840-604: The Liga Amateur de Veracruz , Liga Amateur de Puebla, Liga Occidental De Jalisco and the Liga Amateur del Bajío that had talented clubs. In 1922, after the foundation of the first football federation in Mexico, they created the Campeonato de Primera Fuerza , which was the first amateur league organized by a national football federation. It was held from 1922 to 1943, although most of the participating teams were from Mexico City and

896-567: The NFL and MLB . It is also the fourth most attended football league in the world behind Germany's Bundesliga , England's Premier League and Spain's La Liga . Liga MX ranks second in terms of television viewership in the United States, behind the English Premier League. América have won the league a record of 15 times, followed by Guadalajara with 12 titles, Toluca 10 titles and Cruz Azul 9 titles. In all, twenty-four teams have won

952-533: The Christ image was called "Señor de La Piedad" (Lord of Mercy) where Templo del Senor de La Piedad was built in its honor, which also has the biggest dome in the country. The political affair was the movement of political offices from Tlazazalca to San Sebastian de Aramutarillo. This causes that many people came to offer merchandise, crafts, etc. In this way the town was officially founded in 1692, when Juan López de Aguirre named it as La Piedad. Places of interest include

1008-447: The FMF changed the league format and established a final phase to determine the national champion. This was done to regenerate interest and reward teams that placed fairly high in the standings. The final phase, called Liguilla , was played using various formats to determine the champions. The most common format was a straight knock-out between the top eight teams in the table. At other times

1064-553: The Juan N. Lopez stadium, and several taekwondo schools from different institutions. Outside the city are the Alianza, Mercantil and Azteca clubs, where there are football fields and swimming pools. La Piedad had a football team in Mexico's First Division in 1952-53 season, and again in 2001 Winter and 2002 Summer seasons. Previously, C.F. La Piedad played in Ascenso MX . La Piedad

1120-490: The Liga MX during the 2024–25 season. 87,523 All Liga MX clubs have the right to sell their own broadcast rights . Televisa , TV Azteca , Imagen Televisión , Claro Sports, Fox Sports , and ESPN have broadcasting rights in México, while ESPN Deportes , Fox Deportes , Univision , and Telemundo have the rights in the United States, with FS1 / FS2 airing select matches with English commentary. In previous years, when

1176-410: The Liga MX trophy, and the runners-up is awarded a smaller version of the trophy. The start of La liguilla in 1970 modernized the league despite the disagreements between the traditionalists and the modernists. Clubs that were near bankruptcy were now better able to compete and generate profits. Originally at the end of a season, after the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, one team is relegated to

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1232-584: The Liga Mayor/Primera División/Liga MX title at least once. Prior to the Liga Mayor , there was no national football league in Mexico, and football competitions were held within relatively small geographical regions. The Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association , a local league consisting of teams near and around Mexico City , was the first amateur football league created in Mexico, and also other regional leagues were created, which were

1288-523: The Saturday afternoon and evening matches broadcast by Televisa are shown primarily on Gala TV , though Saturday games played by Televisa's club America, are broadcast on Televisa's flagship network, Canal de las Estrellas . However, a blackout policy is usually applied in selected markets where affiliates are forced to air alternate programming during the matches, Sunday noon and afternoon games broadcast by Televisa are shown on Canal de las Estrellas . All of

1344-752: The United States. After the Clausura 2017 season, Azteca América sold the rights of the Atlas, Morelia, Tijuana, and Veracruz matches to Univision. The network then held the rights of 17 of the 18 clubs, only missing recently promoted Lobos BUAP . In September 2017, Univision began airing Lobos BUAP's home matches, thus holding the rights to all 18 Liga MX teams through the end of the Clausura 2018 season. In July 2017, Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) announced it would show Liga MX matches involving Chilean players in Chile. In October 2017, Fox Sports announced that it acquired

1400-506: The United States. The network also airs at least one home match of nine other clubs. Televisa also sublicenses one match per week to ESPN in Mexico and Central America. In Brazil, DAZN broadcast the league for two seasons 2019–20 and 2020–21. On 15 July 2021, OneFootball announced it would broadcast between two and five live matches as part of a deal covering the 2021/22 Liga MX season in selected international markets. On 16 August 2021, Eleven Sports announced it would broadcast

1456-405: The final game of every season on Sunday during prime time , regardless of whether the team used to play local games in another timeslot, in order to capture more television audience during the game. This also prevents most playoff collusion, where one or both teams already in the liguilla put in lesser effort to lose or draw, in order to draw a more favorable opponent. For the Apertura 2016, and

1512-435: The first matches held outside the country's capital were played until the 1940–41 season. Many club owners were keen to remain amateur although they paid players under the table. The increasing interest in football would not thwart a unified professional football system in the country. The first true national and professional league in Mexico was established in 1943. The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF) announcement of

1568-526: The following 6 colleges: Additionally there is a House of Culture, the cultural center piedadense and the Higher School of Music. Arts / Shows Sports In the city there are basketball and soccer (male and female) leagues, there are wrestling exhibitions, and the city has been the finish of the Ruta Mexico (cycling). There are two public sport centers, clubs with tennis courts, a lienzo charro, and

1624-455: The former owns Grupo Kasto. There are 569 companies registered in the municipality, which puts La Piedad in the top four cities in the state with the greatest number of companies, after Morelia , Uruapan , and Zamora . Ferromex Railway and Kansas City Southern de México crosses La Piedad allowing other companies to settle around in the future. Currently the municipality has pre-school institutions, elementary, middle and high school, and

1680-415: The games broadcast by TV Azteca on Saturday and Sunday are shown on Azteca 13 ; Friday's matches however are shown on Azteca 7 . Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (known in Mexico as Fecha Doble or Double Date ) matches picked by the national networks are shown on Canal 5 and Azteca 7 and the rest of the matches air on Sky Sports and TDN . A recent rule, in effect since 2011, requires teams to play

1736-407: The home Liga MX matches of C.D. Guadalajara for the 2021-22 season in more than 100 countries. Up until its rebranding in 2012, Liga MX did not have a title sponsor. In July 2013, league president Decio de María announced BBVA Bancomer as the official sponsor, with the goal of modernizing the league's image. De María also stated that the money generated from the sponsorship would be divided among

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1792-519: The lack of international competition by Mexico's clubs and an unrewarding league format. Consequently, teams from Mexico that placed high in the league standings could not afford to participate in the overarching continental competitions, such as the Copa Libertadores . The 1970 World Cup held in Mexico was the first World Cup televised on a grand scale. The season following the FIFA World Cup,

1848-466: The league for Canada viewers. Fox Sports is the only network that holds rights to broadcast selected matches in United States and South America. Additionally, Televisa-owned networks Sky Sports and TUDN hold exclusive broadcasting rights over selected matches throughout the regular season, although the majority of the most important ones are broadcast live on the national networks. The coverage also available for Central America viewers. Most of

1904-516: The league that promotion and relegation would be suspended for six years. During the suspension, the Ascenso MX was replaced with the Liga de Expansión MX although no club from that league will be promoted to Liga MX nor any Liga MX team that performs poorly will be relegated from the Liga MX for the time being. Each year, at least six teams from Liga MX qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup ,

1960-425: The league was divided into groups with the top two in each group, often as well as the best 3rd placed teams, qualifying for the liguilla and in some seasons the playoff matches themselves involved teams playing in groups with the group winners playing off for the title. The format was changed from season to season to accommodate international club commitments and the schedule of the Mexico national team. The change in

2016-496: The long-term exclusive Spanish-language rights to Tijuana and Santos Laguna home matches in the United States, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America starting in the Apertura 2018 and Apertura 2019 respectively, thus ending Univision's monopoly. The matches air on Fox Sports in the United States (via Fox Deportes ) and the rest of Latin America (including Mexico and excluding Brazil). On May 26, 2018, Fox Sports announced it acquired

2072-466: The losing team has another chance facing the winning team between the 9th and 10th-placed. The winner of that match advances to complete the 8 teams for the quarterfinals. After this round, the team that advanced between 7th and 8th-placed then faces the winners of the last play-in match then faces the best team in the regular phase, while the 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play in two more matchups, with the winner on aggregate score progressing. The champions were awarded

2128-517: The majority of the Clausura 2017, Guadalajara home matches in Mexico were not shown on over-the-air television or cable and satellite operators. Instead, they were exclusively shown on an internet streaming service called Chivas TV . As of April 8, 2017, the matches are shown on both Televisa's Televisa Deportes Network (TDN) and Chivas TV . On February 13, 2017, it was announced Univision Deportes would live stream 46 games in English on Facebook in

2184-508: The municipality encompasses several concentrated residential areas, such as Huascato, Los Ranchitos, La Vibora, Buenos Aires, Las Limas, Altamira, La Chancla and El Corral de Piedra. The town is named after Mexican general Santos Degollado . A statue of him is in the Jardin de Niños which was made from coins from the townspeople during the early 1960s. The town dates back to the 19th century to land east of Ayotlán known as Los Encinos. A chapel

2240-643: The nation's first professional league brought interest from many clubs to join. The FMF announced that 10 clubs would form the Liga Mayor. The league was founded by six clubs from the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, two clubs from the Liga Occidental, and two from the Liga Veracruzana. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, many small clubs faced economic difficulties which were attributed to

2296-416: The next lower division, Ascenso MX , and one team from that division is promoted and takes the place left open by the relegated team. Currently, the relegated team is determined by computing the points-per-game-played ratio for each team, considering all the games played by the team during the last three seasons (six tournaments). The team with the lowest ratio is relegated; if the team that is in last place in

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2352-399: The next year. The top 10 teams advance to the final phase for each tournament, with the top 6 teams in the table at the end of the regular phase of the tournament qualifying directly to the liguilla , and the next 4 teams qualifying for the play-in round that determines the next 2 liguilla spots. If one team is in last place in the league's relegation table (see below), that team is replaced by

2408-465: The premier North American club competition; Liga MX itself is guaranteed six spots while teams from the league can earn three more spots via the Leagues Cup with MLS for a maximum of nine spots. Generally, the Apertura and Clausura winners and runners-up, as well as the next best two teams in the aggregate table, qualify, with the higher ranking champion from the Apertura and Clausura tournaments earning

2464-429: The promotion playoff, which should be utilized to fulfill necessary requirements for promotion within the next season, and remain in Ascenso MX, and the relegated Liga MX team will remain in the first division. However, if the relegated Liga MX team cannot distribute the prize money to the promoted Ascenso MX team, both teams will lose their right to play in Liga MX and must play in Ascenso MX the following season. As of

2520-540: The relegation table is among the 12 teams qualifying for the Liguilla at the end of the Clausura tournament, the 13th place team qualifies for the liguilla instead. For teams recently promoted, only the games played since their promotion are considered (two or four tournaments). The team promoted from Ascenso MX is the winner of a two-leg match between the champions of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments of that division. If

2576-533: The rights of C.F. Monterrey 's home matches in the United States and Latin America. The network announced the matches would be shown in the United States on Fox Deportes in Spanish as well as the Fox Sports family of networks in English. As of the Apertura 2019 season, via a sublicense agreement with Univision, ESPN Deportes airs the majority of León, Necaxa, Pachuca, Querétaro, and UANL regular season home matches in

2632-440: The rules affected teams that traditionally dominated the table, as talented teams that had not performed well in the regular season were able to perform successfully in the final phase (Cruz Azul in the 1970s, América in the 1980s, and Toluca in the 2000s). Prior to the start of the 2012–13 season , the organization Liga MX/Ascenso MX was created to replace the FMF as the organizing body of the competition. The league also announced

2688-433: The team that finished 11th in the tournament. From 1996 to 2002, the league followed a two short tournaments in the season, schedule with Invierno and Verano tournaments. From 2002 to 2011 the 18 teams were divided into three groups of six with the top two teams from each group and the two best third place teams qualified for the liguilla . The teams played in the same group for each tournament. The qualification phase of

2744-583: The technology. Liga MX uses a single table of 18 teams that play two short tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) resulting in two champions per season. The season opens with the Apertura from July to December, followed by the Clausura from January to May. This format matches other Latin American schedules and corresponds with FIFA's world footballing calendar, which "opens" in July/August and "closes" in April/May of

2800-542: The top three spots in Leagues Cup), these rules still generally apply, although if a team qualifies for the Champions Cup via Liga MX and the Leagues Cup, the spot is given to the next best team in the aggregate table. If a team is the highest ranked tournament champions and also wins the Leagues Cup for that same cycle, both the Apertura and Clausura champions qualify for the round of 16. The following 18 clubs will compete in

2856-410: The tournament lasted 17 weeks, with all teams playing each other once per tournament in a home and away series over both tournaments. The liguilla is the final phase of the tournament, consisting of 10 teams. This phase starts with the play-in round, with teams ranked 7-10 playing a single match hosted by the higher seed, the winning team between the 7th and 8th-placed advances to the quarterfinals and

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2912-666: The town center with its kiosco (bandstand) built with quarried stone, the gateways, and the Señor de La Piedad church, which boasts perhaps the biggest dome in the country. Also of note are the Cabadas Bridge and the 30-metre-high El Salto waterfall. The local zoo and "La Torre de la Gaviota" located at the Ciudad del Sol neighborhood, are also places of interest in La Piedad. There are also urban parks such as Morelos Park and La Placa park. The city

2968-405: The town of Degollado and states of Guanajuato and Jalisco . La Piedad has one sister cities , as designated by Sister Cities International : Degollado Degollado ( Spanish: [deɣoˈʝaðo] ) is a small town and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco , in the cultural region of Ciénega, just south of Los Altos . The town is mainly rural in nature, but

3024-496: The town of Zula and named it Aramutaro, which means place with caves. Almost two centuries later, Antonio de Villarroel serving Nuño de Guzmán took control of the town on the San Sebastian's day of 1530 (January 20), so renaming the town as "San Sebastián de Aramutarillo". From 1530 to 1687, San Sebastian was in total oblivion, victim of slavery and ignorance; nevertheless there were two historic facts, which changed course for

3080-518: The town, one political affair and another religious matter. The religious matter refers to a finding of a branch from a tree resembling Jesus Christ on the Cross. This happened the midnight of Christmas Eve on a place called Buena Huerta. The towns in its surrounding asked for the Jesus Christ image to be taken to their churches. San Sebastián de Aramutarillo was selected to keep the Christ image. After that,

3136-436: Was erected and blessed by the priest of Ayotlán Clemente Pérez in 1856, whose patron saint is San Ignacio de Loyola . For this reason, the growing village was given the name of San Ignacio de Morelos in 1857, also commonly referred to as San Ignacio de los Encinos. The town was renamed after general Santos Degollado in 1861. On December 24, 1917, the town was under siege by bandit leader J. Inés García Chávez . Degollado

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