The Mexican premier league in professional soccer, called Liga MX, has completed its Fall 2015 regular season, which they call "Apertura". Now it's time for the playoffs, which involve the top eight finishers out of the eighteen teams. This past 2015 Spring, or "Clausura", champions Santos Laguna narrowly avoided finishing in last place with a win in their final regular season game and won't be participating. The top finisher was UNAM, a university-based team based in Mexico City and more commonly known as "Pumas". The other Mexico City team and by far the more popular...like the Yankees over here in baseball...is Club America and, as usual, once again made the playoffs. As did UANL Tigres of Monterrey, my favorite in this league. Toluca had an unusually good season, and Puebla, Leon, Chiapas "Jaguares", and Vera Cruz round out the playoff picture. Puebla's achievement is noteworthy in that, at the close of the 2015 Clausura regular season, they barely avoided relegation (aka demotion) to the next lower league (called Ascenso)...
Here is the schedule for the opening matches in the first round. Each round consists of two games between the contending teams, with the team winning the aggregate total of goals advancing to the next round...
Wednesday, November 25
Leon @ Club America
Chiapas @ Tigres
Thursday, November 26
Toluca @ Puebla
Pumas @ Vera Cruz
I'm not sure if any English-language TV channels will be showing any of the games...probably not. And I'll have to wait until later to see how the Spanish-language channels cover them...I'm hoping that I'll get to watch at least some of them...