1982–83 Mexican Primera División season

Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1982–83 season.

Primera División de México

Season	1982–83
Champions	Puebla (1st title)
Relegated	Zacatepec
Champions' Cup	Puebla Guadalajara
Matches played	394
Goals scored	1,029 (2.61 per match)
← 1981–82 1983–84 →

Overview

It was contested by 20 teams, and Puebla won the championship.

C.F. Oaxtepec was promoted from Segunda División.

Zacatepec was relegated to Segunda División.

Teams

Mexico City

• Atlas
• Guadalajara
• Tecos
• UdeG

León

Toluca

• Monterrey
• UANL

At. Potosino

Tampico Madero

Zacatepec

Morelia

Puebla

Oaxtepec

Greater Mexico City teams
América
Atlante
Cruz Azul
Necaxa
Neza
UNAM

Location of the 1982-83 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium
América	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlante	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlas	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Atlético Potosino	San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.	Plan de San Luis
Cruz Azul	Mexico City	Azteca
Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
León	León, Guanajuato	León
Morelia	Morelia, Michoacán	Venustiano Carranza
Monterrey	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Tecnológico
Necaxa	Mexico City	Azteca
Neza	Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico	José López Portillo
Oaxtepec	Oaxtepec, Morelos	Olímpico de Oaxtepec / Cuauhtémoc[1]
Puebla	Puebla, Puebla	Cuauhtémoc
Tampico Madero	Tampico-Madero, Tamaulipas	Tamaulipas
Tecos	Zapopan, Jalisco	Tres de Marzo
Toluca	Toluca, State of Mexico	Toluca 70
UANL	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Universitario
UdeG	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
UNAM	Mexico City	Olímpico Universitario
Zacatepec	Zacatepec, Morelos	Agustín Coruco Díaz

Moves

The owner of Atlético Español decided to sell the team to the Mexican league. This gave way for Necaxa to come back to play.

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlante	38	18	11	9	66	46	+20	47	Playoff
2	Atlético Potosino	38	13	10	15	45	60	−15	36
3	Atlas	38	10	13	15	44	58	−14	33
4	Necaxa	38	8	16	14	50	61	−11	32
5	Monterrey	38	9	13	16	33	47	−14	31

Source:

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América	38	26	9	3	69	27	+42	61	Playoff
2	Guadalajara	38	13	14	11	44	37	+7	40
3	León	38	12	13	13	52	63	−11	37
4	Deportivo Neza	38	11	13	14	47	48	−1	35
5	Tampico	38	12	9	17	49	61	−12	33

Source:

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Toluca	38	17	10	11	62	43	+19	44	Playoff
2	Tecos	38	15	11	12	55	52	+3	41
3	Cruz Azul	38	10	15	13	41	39	+2	35
4	Oaxtepec	38	12	8	18	55	63	−8	32
5	Zacatepec	38	6	18	14	30	39	−9	30	Relegated

Source:

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Puebla	38	15	15	8	53	39	+14	45	Playoff
2	UDG	38	15	13	10	53	48	+5	43
3	UNAM	38	14	10	14	53	43	+10	38
4	UANL	38	12	13	13	47	53	−6	37
5	Morelia	38	11	8	19	35	56	−21	30

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	AME	ATN	ATL	APO	CRA	GDL	LEO	MTY	MOR	NEC	NEZ	OAX	PUE	TAM	TEC	TOL	UNL	UDG	UNM	ZAC
América		1–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	5–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1
Atlante	0–1		4–2	5–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	3–2	3–1	1–1	0–2	4–3	5–0	1–0	2–0	0–0
Atlas	3–3	0–1		0–0	4–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–4	2–2	0–0
Atlético Potosino	0–2	1–3	1–0		2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–3	1–0
Cruz Azul	1–1	1–1	4–0	0–0		0–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1
Guadalajara	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0		6–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	3–3	0–1	4–3	1–0
León	0–4	1–2	2–2	3–3	3–2	1–1		1–1	1–0	3–3	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0
Monterrey	2–3	1–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–3		2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1
Morelia	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–0		2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	3–0
Necaxa	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–3	2–2	1–1		0–1	2–2	1–1	4–2	2–3	3–2	2–2	4–0	4–0	1–1
Deportivo Neza	0–2	4–1	1–3	3–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	1–1		1–2	1–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–5	1–0
Oaxtepec	0–2	1–4	4–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	4–0	1–3	2–2		1–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–2	0–3	1–2	2–1
Puebla	2–2	3–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	2–1	3–2	3–0	4–2	3–0	1–0	1–1		2–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	0–0	0–0
Tampico	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	4–3	1–0	1–1	2–3	3–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	3–1		4–3	2–3	3–2	3–2	2–0	1–2
Tecos	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	5–2	1–0		1–4	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1
Toluca	2–0	1–1	5–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	4–2	3–1	3–2	0–0	3–1	3–0		1–2	1–1	2–2	0–0
UANL	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–4	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–3		1–1	1–3	3–0
U. de G.	1–1	3–3	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	4–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–4	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–3	0–1		1–0	2–0
UNAM	1–1	1–2	5–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	5–1	0–0	1–4		0–0
Zacatepec	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	5–1	2–0

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

Relegation Playoff

May 15, 1983

Atlético Morelia	2–0	Zacatepec
Luis Jaime  66' Jaime Salgado  69'	Report

Estadio Venustiano Carranza, Morelia

May 22, 1983

Zacatepec	4–2	Atlético Morelia
Francisco Fernández  26' Marlon Dávila  44', 62' Arturo Magaña  79' (pen)	Report	Horacio Rocha  15' Jacinto Ambríz  76'

Estadio Agustín Coruco Díaz, Zacatepec

May 25, 1983

Atlético Morelia	1–0	Zacatepec
Jacinto Ambríz  81'	Report

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Atlético Morelia won 5-4 on aggregate. Zacatepec was relegated to Segunda División

Playoff

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	1	América	2	4	6
	8	Atlético Potosino	0	0	0
								1	América	2	0	2
								7	Guadalajara	1	3	4
	2	Atlante	1	0	1
	7	Guadalajara	3	3	6
															7	Guadalajara	2	0	2 (6)
														3	Puebla (p)	1	1	2 (7)
	3	Puebla	1	5	6
	6	UAG	2	1	3
								3	Puebla	0	4	4
								5	UdeG	1	2	3
	4	Toluca	0	3	3
	5	UdeG	2	2	4

Puebla won the championship.

Quarterfinal

May 12, 1983

Atlético Potosino	0–2	América
	Report	Norberto Outes  48' Nilton Pinheiro Batata  75'

Estadio Plan de San Luis, San Luis Potosí

May 15, 1983

América	4–0	Atlético Potosino
Norberto Outes  12', 30' Alfredo Tena  35' Javier Aguirre  62'	Report

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

América won 6-0 on aggregate.

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May 11, 1983

Guadalajara	3–1	Atlante
Ricardo Pérez  1' Sergio Lugo  80' Fernando Dávalos  84'	Report	Eduardo Rergis  25'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 14, 1983

Atlante	0–3	Guadalajara
	Report	Fernando Dávalos  15' Jaime Pajarito  70', 80'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Guadalajara won 1-6 on aggregate.

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May 12, 1983

UAG	2–1	Puebla
Javier Hernández  28'  Edmur Lucas  64'	Report	Muricy Ramalho  68'

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

May 15, 1983

Puebla	5–1	UAG
José Luis Ceballos  30' Muricy Ramalho  34', 58', 72' René Paúl Moreno  64'	Report	Nelson Sanhueza  70' (own)

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

Puebla won 6-3 on aggregate.

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May 12, 1983

UdeG	2–0	Toluca
Víctor Rodríguez  15' Jorge Correa  22'	Report

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 15, 1983

Toluca	3–2	UdeG
Juan Carlos Paz  48', 80', 83'	Report	Reynaldo Guëldini  26' Jorge Dávalos  52' (pen)

Estadio Toluca 70, Toluca

UdeG won 2-4 on aggregate.

Semi-Finals

May 18, 1983

UdeG	1–0	Puebla
Jorge Correa  35'	Report

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 22, 1983

Puebla	4–2	UdeG
Muricy Ramalho  45', 69' Ítalo Estupiñán  49' René Paúl Moreno  81'	Report	Luis Plascencia  27' Jorge Dávalos  83' (pen)

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

Puebla won 4-3 on aggregate.

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May 19, 1983

Guadalajara	1–2	América
Roberto Gómez Junco  57'	Report	Norberto Outes  11' (pen) Nilton Pinheiro Batata  53'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 22, 1983

América	0–3	Guadalajara
	Report	Ricardo Pérez  45' Demetrio Madero  45' Samuel Rivas  88'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Guadalajara 2-4 on aggregate.

Final

May 26, 1983

Guadalajara	2–1	Puebla
Samuel Rivas  13' Demetrio Madero  74'	Report

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

May 29, 1983

Puebla	1–0	Guadalajara
Demetrio Madero  44' (own)	Report
Penalties
	7–6

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

Aggregate tied. Puebla won 7–6 on penalty shootout.

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1982-83 winners
Puebla 1st title

References

1. "Los Halcones de Oaxtepec". Fútbol Sin Compromisos (in Spanish). 15 January 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

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