1977–78 Mexican Primera División season

Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1977–78 season.

Primera División de México

Season	1977–78
Champions	UANL (1st title)
Relegated	Atlas
Champions' Cup	UANL
Matches played	396
Goals scored	1,109 (2.8 per match)
← 1976–77 1978–79 →

Overview

Atlante was promoted to Primera División.

This season was contested by 20 teams, and UANL won the championship.

Atlas was relegated to Segunda División.

After this season Deportivo Neza bought the Laguna franchise.

Teams

Mexico City

Atlas
Guadalajara
Jalisco
Tecos
UdeG

León
Curtidores

Toluca

Monterrey
UANL

Laguna

At. Potosino

Veracruz

Tampico

Puebla

Mexico City teams
América
Atlético Español
Atlante
Cruz Azul
UNAM

Location of the 1977-78 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium
América	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlante	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlas	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Atlético Español	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlético Potosino	San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.	Plan de San Luis
Cruz Azul	Mexico City	Azteca
Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Jalisco	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Laguna	Torreón, Coahuila	Moctezuma
León	León, Guanajuato	León
Monterrey	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Universitario
Puebla	Puebla, Puebla	Cuauhtémoc
Tampico	Tampico, Tamaulipas	Tamaulipas
Tecos	Zapopan, Jalisco	Tres de Marzo
Toluca	Toluca, State of Mexico	Toluca 70
Unión de Curtidores	León, Guanajuato	León
UANL	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Universitario
UdeG	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
UNAM	Mexico City	Olímpico Universitario
Veracruz	Veracruz, Veracruz	Veracruzano

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	UNAM	38	20	8	10	81	53	+28	48	Playoffs
2	Tecos	38	17	12	9	73	46	+27	46
3	Laguna	38	8	19	11	45	49	−4	35
4	Atlético Potosino	38	11	10	17	41	64	−23	32
5	Unión de Curtidores	38	8	10	20	42	71	−29	26	Relegation Playoff

Source:

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América	38	19	13	6	55	38	+17	51	Playoffs
2	UANL	38	18	8	12	50	40	+10	44
3	Jalisco	38	16	8	14	61	60	+1	40
4	Monterrey	38	15	8	15	63	56	+7	38
5	León	38	13	10	15	60	61	−1	36

Source:

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cruz Azul	38	14	15	9	56	44	+12	43	Playoffs
2	Tampico	38	11	13	14	53	55	−2	35
3	Guadalajara	38	12	10	16	48	56	−8	34
4	Atlante	38	11	12	15	44	55	−11	34
5	Veracruz	38	12	9	17	50	62	−12	33

Source:

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Toluca	38	20	7	11	55	37	+18	47	Playoffs
2	UDG	38	17	7	14	61	50	+11	41
3	Atlético Español	38	13	15	10	58	51	+7	41
4	Puebla	38	10	8	20	35	52	−17	28
5	Atlas	38	10	8	20	36	67	−31	28	Relegation Playoff

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	AME	ATN	ATL	ATE	APO	CRA	GDL	JAL	LAG	LEO	MTY	PUE	TAM	TEC	TOL	UDC	UNL	UDG	UNM	VER
América		2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–4	2–1	2–1	4–2	1–0
Atlante	2–3		0–2	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–3	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	3–2
Atlas	0–4	1–3		1–3	2–1	1–4	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–4	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–2	3–1
Atlético Español	1–2	1–1	5–1		3–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	5–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–2
Atlético Potosino	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0		0–3	3–2	1–2	3–3	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–2	4–0
Cruz Azul	1–1	1–2	3–0	0–0	0–2		1–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–4	3–1	1–1
Guadalajara	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	3–0	0–1		2–4	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0
Jalisco	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–3	5–0	1–1	1–0		3–2	2–1	1–1	6–3	1–0	1–2	6–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–5	4–1
Laguna	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–4	1–0		1–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0
León	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	5–2	2–1	1–1	2–2		3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	3–2	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–2
Monterrey	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–1	4–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	4–2		1–0	2–3	5–1	2–0	2–1	2–4	2–1	0–1	2–1
Puebla	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0		1–4	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–1
Tampico	1–2	2–3	2–3	5–0	0–0	3–4	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–3	1–4	1–1		2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	4–2
Tecos	2–0	2–2	1–1	3–2	6–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	3–2		2–0	7–1	3–1	3–3	2–2	4–1
Toluca	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–1	3–0	4–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	3–1		1–0	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–0
Unión de Curtidores	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–1		1–3	1–2	2–2	2–0
UANL	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	3–2	0–1		2–1	1–0	5–1
UDG	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	4–1	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–4	1–0	0–1	4–1	4–0	1–0	1–1		2–0	2–0
UNAM	2–1	3–3	4–1	1–1	2–1	3–6	5–1	6–1	3–1	3–1	4–0	4–3	3–1	3–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	4–1		1–2
Veracruz	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–3	0–2	1–1	4–0	2–2	2–0	4–0	2–1	2–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation Playoff

May 14, 1978

Unión de Curtidores	0-0	Atlas
	Report

Estadio León, León

May 18, 1978

Atlas	2-4	Unión de Curtidores
Ricardo Ferreti  25' José Delgado  70'	Report	Juan Manuel Olague  6', 68'  Juan de Díos Castillo  48' Jorge Eduardo Lizardo  62'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Unión de Curtidores won 4-2 on aggregate. Atlas was relegated to Segunda División.

Championship Playoff

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	2	UNAM	1	2	3
	7	UdeG	2	0	2
								2	UNAM	1	4	5
								13	Tampico	2	0	2
	1	América	2	1	3
	13	Tampico (pen.)	2	1	3
															2	UNAM	0	1	1
														5	UANL	2	1	3
	4	Tecos	0	2	2
	5	UANL	1	3	4
								5	UANL	0	3	3
								6	Cruz Azul	1	0	1
	3	Toluca	0	2	2
	6	Cruz Azul	2	1	3

Quarterfinal

May 11, 1978

Tampico	2-2	América
Ricardo Mendoza  75'  Francisco Bertochi  59'	Report	René Trujillo  15' José de Jesús Aceves  40'

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico

May 14, 1978

América	1-1 (a.e.t.)	Tampico
Ítalo Estupiñán  62'	Report	Carlos Arteaga  50'
Penalties
	2-4

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Aggregate tied. Tampico Madero won 4-2 on penalty shootout.

---

May 10, 1978

UdeG	2-1	UNAM
Belarmino de Almeida  66' Manuel Guillé  80'	Report	José de Jesús Ramírez  54'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 13, 1978

UNAM	2-0	UdeG
Evanivaldo Castro  47'  Washington Olivera  70'	Report

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

UNAM won 3-2 on aggregate.

---

May 11, 1977

Cruz Azul	1-0	Toluca
Horacio López Salgado  11'	Report

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

May 14, 1977

Toluca	2-2 (a.e.t.)	Cruz Azul
Fernando Garduño  69'  Héctor Hugo Eugui  90+4'	Report	Carlos Jara Saguier  85', 114'

Estadio Toluca 70, Toluca

Cruz Azul won 3-2 on aggregate.

---

May 10, 1978

UANL	1-0	Tecos
Walter Daniel Mantegazza 63  63'	Report

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

May 13, 1978

Tecos	2-3	UANL
Miguel Ángel Gamboa  37' Spencer Coelho  80'	Report	Sergio Orduña  32'  Roberto Gadea  83'  Tomás Boy  90'

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

UANL won 3-2 on aggregate.

Semifinal

May 17, 1978

Tampico	2-1	UNAM
Alejandro Ojeda  10' Francisco Bertochi  31'	Report	Genaro Bermúdez  29'

Estadio Tamaulipas, Tampico

May 20, 1978

UNAM	4-0	Tampico
José de Jesús Ramírez  40'  Mario Trejo  54' Ernesto Cervantes  59'  Evanivaldo Castro  77' (pen)	Report

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

UNAM won 5-2 on aggregate.

---

May 17, 1978

Cruz Azul	1-0	UANL
Fernando Bustos  31'	Report

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

May 20, 1978

UANL	3-0	Cruz Azul
Walter Daniel Mantegazza  17', 55'  Tomás Boy  44' (pen)	Report

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

UANL won 3-1 on aggregate.

Final

May 24, 1978

UANL	2-0	UNAM
Walter Daniel Mantegazza  20', 75'	Report

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

May 27, 1978

UNAM	1-1	UANL
Washington Olivera  78'	Report	Walter Daniel Mantegazza  54'

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

UANL won 3-1 on aggregate.

---

1977–78 winners
UANL 1st title

References

• Mexico - List of final tables (RSSSF)