2007–08 Primera División A season

Primera División A

Season	2007–08
Champions	Apertura: Indios Clausura: León
Promoted	Indios
Relegated	Tijuana
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

Changes for the 2007–08 season

• Querétaro were demoted from Liga MX
• Puebla were promoted to Liga MX

Added Teams

• Coatzacoalcos
• Real Colima
• Tapatio
• Salamanca
• Tapachula
• Socio Aguila (Clausura 2007)

Dropped Teams

• La Piedad
• Veracruz B (Apertura 2006)
• Guerreros
• U de G
• Tabasco (Apertura 2006)
• Zacatepec (Apertura 2006)
• Celaya (Clausura 2007)
• Orizaba (Clausura 2007)

Stadium and locations

Club	Stadium	Capacity	City
Académicos	Unidad Deportiva Revolución Mexicana	5,000	Tonalá
Atlético Mexiquense	Ixtapan 90	4,000	Toluca
Coatzacoalcos	Rafael Hernández Ochoa	6,000	Coatzacoalcos
Correcaminos	Marte R. Gómez	19,500	Ciudad Victoria
Cruz Azul Hidalgo	10 de Diciembre	17,000	Mexico City
Dorados de Sinaloa	Banorte	21,000	Culiacán
Durango	Francisco Zarco	18,000	Durango
Indios	Olímpico Benito Juárez	22,000	Ciudad Juárez
Jaguares de Tapachula	Víctor Manuel Reyna	17,000	Tapachula
León	Nou Camp	33,943	León
Lobos BUAP	Cuauhtémoc	46,912	Puebla
Monarcas Morelia A	Morelos	39,000	Morelia
Pumas Morelos	Centenario	15,237	Cuernavaca
Querétaro	Corregidora	33,000	Querétaro City
Rayados A	El Barrial	1,000	Monterrey
Real Colima	Colima	12,000	Colima
Salamanca	Estadio Sección XXIV	12,000	Salamanca
Santos Laguna A	Corona	19,000	Torreón
Socio Águila	Azteca	105,000	Mexico City
Tampico Madero	Tamaulipas	20,000	Tampico - Ciudad Madero
Tapatío	Jalisco	65,000	Guadalajara
Tecos A	Tres de Marzo	25,000	Zapopan
Tigres B	Adolfo López Mateos	10,000	Reynosa
Tijuana	Caliente	33,333	Tijuana

Torneo Apertura 2007

Primera División A

Season	Apertura 2007
Champions	Indios

Tournament Format

Promotion

One team is promoted to the Primera División each year (two short tournaments). After the Clausura 2008 tournament, the champions of the Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008 tournaments will play a home and home series to determine which team will be promoted. If the same team wins both tournaments it will be promoted automatically. In order for a team to be promoted it has to obtain a certification from the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación. If the winner of the promotional final is not certified for promotion a home and home series is played between the highest placed certified team and the club being relegated to the Primera División A to determine which will be in the Primera División.

Relegation

One team is relegated to the Segunda División each year (two short tournaments). The team that has the worst points to games played ratio over the previous three years (Apertura 2005, Clausura 2006, Apertura 2006, Clausura 2007, Apertura 2007, Clausura 2008) is relegated to the Segunda División.

General league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	León	17	12	4	1	35	16	+19	40	Qualifies for the Liguilla
2	Correcaminos	17	11	3	3	24	14	+10	36
3	Dorados de Sinaloa	17	10	5	2	36	18	+18	35
4	Lobos BUAP	17	9	3	5	24	19	+5	30
5	Indios	17	9	3	5	26	22	+4	30
6	Académicos	17	8	5	4	20	14	+6	29
7	Atlético Mexiquense	17	8	3	6	29	21	+8	27
8	Monterrey A	17	6	7	4	18	16	+2	25
9	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	17	6	7	4	20	20	0	25	Last on the relegation table
10	Tijuana	17	7	3	7	22	22	0	24	Qualifies for the Liguilla
11	Tampico Madero	17	7	2	8	35	29	+6	23
12	Querétaro	17	5	8	4	32	27	+5	23
13	Coatzacoalcos	17	6	5	6	21	24	−3	23
14	Real Colima	17	6	4	7	19	26	−7	22
15	Tapatío	17	6	4	7	28	29	−1	22
16	Tigres B	17	4	7	6	16	21	−5	19
17	Tecos A	17	4	5	8	19	21	−2	17
18	Monarcas Morelia A	17	3	8	6	24	27	−3	17
19	Salamanca	17	4	5	8	22	31	−9	17
20	Durango	17	4	4	9	18	27	−9	16
21	Tapachula	17	4	4	9	17	29	−12	16
22	Santos Laguna A	17	3	6	8	21	30	−9	15
23	Pumas Morelos	17	2	8	7	16	22	−6	14
24	Socio Águila	17	1	5	11	16	35	−19	8

Source: FMF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head; 5th away goals scored; 6th draw

Liguilla

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	1	León	1	3	4
	8	Tijuana	0	0	0
								1	León	0	1	1
								4	Indios	1	1	2
	4	Lobos BUAP	1	2	3
	5	Indios	2	2	4
															1	Dorados de Sinaloa	0	0	0
														2	Indios	3	4	7
	3	Dorados de Sinaloa	1	3	4
	6	Académicos	1	0	1
								3	Dorados de Sinaloa	1	0	1
								2	Correcaminos	0	0	0
	2	Correcaminos	0	1	1
	7	Atlético Mexiquense	0	1	1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
León	4–0	Tijuana	1–0	3–0
Lobos BUAP	3–4	Indios	1–2	2–2
Dorados de Sinaloa	4–1	Académicos	1–1	3–0
Correcaminos (s)	1–1	Atlético Mexiquense	0–0	1–1

First leg

Atlético Mexiquense v UAT

28 November 2007	Atlético Mexiquense	0–0	UAT	Ixtapan de la Sal
15:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Ixtapan 90 Referee: Ricardo Arellano Nieves

Académicos v Dorados

28 November 2007	Académicos	1–1	Dorados	Tonalá
15:00	Santos  56'	Report	Silva  85'	Stadium: Estadio Revolución Mexicana Referee: Juan Genaro Medrano Avalos

Tijuana v León

29 November 2007	Tijuana	0–1	León	Tijuana
14:00		Report	Bareiro  50'	Stadium: Estadio Caliente Referee: Hugo León Guajardo

Indios v Lobos BUAP

29 November 2007	Indios	2–1	Lobos BUAP	Ciudad Juárez
18:00	Frías  39' Orozco  43' (own)	Report	López  24'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez Referee: Román Rafael Medina Vázquez

Second leg

Dorados v Académicos

1 December 2007	Dorados	3–0 (4–1 agg.)	Académicos	Culiacán
19:00	Silva  28'  Padilla  44'  Pinto  57'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Banorte Referee: Manuel Ernesto Glower Guerra

Correcaminos v Atlético Mexiquense

1 December 2007	Correcaminos	1–1 (1–1 agg.)	Atlético Mexiquense	Ciudad Victoria
20:00	Ayala  35'	Report	García  68'	Stadium: Estadio Marte R. Gómez Referee: Miguel Ángel Ortega Rojas

León v Tijuana

2 December 2007	León	3–0 (4–0 agg.)	Tijuana	León
12:00	Torres  10' Romero  25', 61'	Report		Stadium: Estadio León Referee: José Alfredo Peñaloza Soto

Lobos BUAP v Indios

2 December 2007	Lobos BUAP	2–2 (3–4 agg.)	Indios	Puebla
12:00	Cercado  22' Hernández  59'	Report	Maz  36' Gómez  37'	Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc Referee: Jesús Fabricio Morales Bojorquez

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
León	1–2	Indios	0–1	1–1
Dorados	1–0	Correcaminos	1–0	0–0

First leg

Dorados v Correcaminos

5 December 2007	Dorados	1–0	Correcaminos	Culiacán
20:30	Gaytán  85'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Banorte Referee: Manuel Ernesto Glower Guerra

Indios v León

6 December 2007	Indios	1–0	León	Ciudad Juárez
19:00	Frías  35'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez Referee: Adolfo Aquino Benítez

Second leg

Correcaminos v Dorados

8 December 2007	Correcaminos	0–0 (0–1 agg.)	Dorados	Ciudad Victoria
20:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Marte R. Gómez Referee: Hugo León Guajardo

León v Indios

9 December 2007	León	1–1 (1–2 agg.)	Indios	León
12:00	Romero  38'	Report	Santibáñez  23'	Stadium: Estadio León Referee: José Abramo Lira

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dorados	0–7	Indios	0–3	0–4

First leg

Indios v Dorados

12 December 2007	Indios	3–0	Dorados	Ciudad Juárez
19:00	Frías  8' González  12' (own) Maz  55'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez Referee: Hugo León Guajardo

Second leg

Dorados v Indios

15 December 2007	Dorados	0–4 (0–7 agg.)	Indios	Culiacán
19:00		Report	Maz  6', 87' Martínez  61' Santibáñez  72'	Stadium: Estadio Banorte Referee: Roberto García Orozco

Apertura 2007 winner
Indios 1st title

Torneo Clausura 2008

Primera División A

Season	Clausura 2008
Champions	León
Matches played	221
Goals scored	552 (2.5 per match)
Biggest home win	Indios 5–0 Monarcas Morelia A (March 22)
Biggest away win	Tapachula 0–5 León (March 30)
Highest scoring	Socio Águila 2–6 León (April 11)
Longest winning run	León Sinaloa (3 Games)
Longest losing run	Socio Águila (5 Games)

Primera División A (Méxican First A Division) Clausura 2008 is a Méxican football tournament – one of two tournaments held in one year. It began Friday, January 11, 2008. Reigning champions Indios could not defend their title, as León won their 3rd title in Primera División A, and earned the right to battle Indios in a two-leg aggregate to try to earn promotion to the Primera División de México.

Group league tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dorados de Sinaloa	17	10	5	2	31	14	+17	35	Qualifies for the Liguilla
2	León	17	9	6	2	45	23	+22	33
3	Durango	17	9	4	4	28	23	+5	31
4	Tijuana	17	8	3	6	23	16	+7	27	Last on the relegation table
5	Salamanca	17	7	3	7	21	23	−2	24	Qualifies for the Liguilla
6	Tecos	17	6	4	7	17	21	−4	22
7	Tapatío	17	6	3	8	14	21	−7	21
8	Monarcas Morelia A	17	4	6	7	21	25	−4	18
9	Querétaro	17	4	6	7	23	30	−7	18
10	Real Colima	17	4	5	8	19	26	−7	17
11	Académicos	17	4	4	9	18	27	−9	16
12	Santos Laguna A	17	3	3	11	16	31	−15	12

Source: FMF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head; 5th away goals scored; 6th draw

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Coatzacoalcos	17	8	6	3	21	18	+3	30	Qualifies for the Liguilla
2	Tampico Madero	17	8	5	4	23	23	0	29
3	Tigres B	17	7	7	3	22	15	+7	28
4	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	17	8	4	5	21	15	+6	28
5	Indios	17	6	8	3	27	14	+13	26
6	Lobos BUAP	17	7	4	6	22	16	+6	25
7	Pumas Morelos	17	7	4	6	23	26	−3	25
8	Atlético Mexiquense	17	6	5	6	17	16	+1	23
9	Correcaminos	17	5	6	6	23	17	+6	21
10	Monterrey A	17	4	6	7	23	28	−5	18
11	Socio Águila	17	5	2	10	14	26	−12	17
12	Tapachula	17	3	3	11	14	32	−18	12

Source: FMF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head; 5th away goals scored; 6th draw

General league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dorados de Sinaloa	17	10	5	2	31	14	+17	35	Qualifies for the Liguilla
2	León	17	9	6	2	45	23	+22	33
3	Durango	17	9	4	4	28	23	+5	31
4	Coatzacoalcos	17	8	6	3	21	18	+3	30
5	Tampico Madero	17	8	5	4	23	23	0	29
6	Tigres B	17	7	7	3	22	15	+7	28
7	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	17	8	4	5	21	15	+6	28
8	Tijuana	17	8	3	6	23	16	+7	27	Last on the relegation table
9	Indios	17	6	8	3	27	14	+13	26
10	Lobos BUAP	17	7	4	6	22	16	+6	25
11	Pumas Morelos	17	7	4	6	23	26	−3	25
12	Salamanca	17	7	3	7	21	23	−2	24	Qualifies for the Liguilla
13	Atlético Mexiquense	17	6	5	6	17	16	+1	23
14	Tecos A	17	6	4	7	17	21	−4	22
15	Correcaminos	17	5	6	6	23	17	+6	21
16	Tapatío	17	6	3	8	14	21	−7	21
17	Monarcas Morelia A	17	4	6	7	21	25	−4	18
18	Monterrey A	17	4	6	7	23	28	−5	18
19	Querétaro	17	4	6	7	23	30	−7	18
20	Real Colima	17	4	5	8	19	26	−7	17
21	Socio Águila	17	5	2	10	14	26	−12	17
22	Académicos	17	4	4	9	18	27	−9	16
23	Santos Laguna A	17	3	3	11	16	31	−15	12
24	Tapachula	17	3	3	11	14	32	−18	12

Source: FMF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head; 5th away goals scored; 6th draw

Liguilla

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	1	Dorados de Sinaloa	0	1	1
	8	Salamanca	0	1	1
								1	Dorados de Sinaloa	0	1	1
								4	Coatzacoalcos	0	0	0
	4	Coatzacoalcos	1	4	5
	5	Tampico Madero	0	2	2
															1	Dorados de Sinaloa	2	0	2
														2	León	2	1	3
	3	Durango	0	0	0
	6	Tigres B	0	0	0
								3	Durango	0	2	2
								2	León	0	3	3
	2	León	2	1	3
	7	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	0	1	1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dorados (s.)	1–1	Salamanca	0–0	1–1
Coatzacoalcos	5–2	Tampico Madero	1–0	4–2
León	3–1	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	2–0	1–1
Durango (s.)	0–0	Tigres B	0–0	0–0

First leg

Salamanca v Dorados

30 April 2008	Salamanca	0–0	Dorados	Salamanca
17:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Sección XXIV Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Miguel Angel Solano González

Tigres B v Durango

30 April 2008	Tigres B	0–0	Durango	Reynosa
17:45		Report		Stadium: Estadio Adolfo López Mateos Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Antonio Guillermo Ojeda Moreno

Tampico Madero v Coatzacoalcos

30 April 2008	Tampico Madero	0–1	Coatzacoalcos	Tampico - Ciudad Madero
21:00		Report	Domínguez  29'	Stadium: Estadio Tamaulipas Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Jorge Macías Romo

Cruz Azul Hidalgo v León

1 May 2008	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	0–2	León	Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul
17:00		Report	Bareiro  77'  Romero  89'	Stadium: Estadio 10 de Diciembre Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Julio David Escobar Barba

Second leg

Durango v Tigres B

3 May 2008	Durango	0–0 (0–0 agg.)	Tigres B	Durango City
15:30		Report		Stadium: Estadio Francisco Zarco Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Román Rafael Medina Vázquez

Coatzacoalcos v Tampico Madero

3 May 2008	Coatzacoalcos	4–2 (5–2 agg.)	Tampico Madero	Coatzacoalcos
17:00	Mancilla  5', 17' Arvizu  74'  Flores  85'	Report	Pardini  24', 52'	Stadium: Estadio Rafael Hernández Ochoa Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Ricardo Arellano Nieves

Dorados v Salamanca

3 May 2008	Dorados	1–1 (1–1 agg.)	Salamanca	Culiacán
19:00	Padilla  25'	Report	Manrique  54'	Stadium: Estadio Banorte Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Miguel Ángel Ortega Rojas

León v Cruz Azul Hidalgo

4 May 2008	León	1–1 (3–1 agg.)	Cruz Azul Hidalgo	León3
12:00	Almirón  66'	Report	Orozco  23'	Stadium: Estadio León Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Miguel Ángel Chacón Viveros

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dorados	1–0	Coatzacoalcos	0–0	1–0
León	3–2	Durango	0–0	3–2

First leg

Coatzacoalcos v Dorados

7 May 2008	Coatzacoalcos	0–0	Dorados	Coatzacoalcos
17:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Rafael Hernández Ochoa Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Julio David Escobar Barba

Durango v León

8 May 2008	Durango	0–0	León	Durango City
15:30		Report		Stadium: Estadio Francisco Zarco Attendance: 13,250 Referee: Jorge Macías Romo

Second leg

Dorados v Coatzacoalcos

10 May 2008	Dorados	1–0 (1–0 agg.)	Coatzacoalcos	Culiacán
19:00	Gerk  73'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Banorte Attendance: 12,000 Referee: José Alfredo Peñaloza Soto

León v Durango

11 May 2008	León	3–2 (3–2 agg.)	Durango	León
12:00	Borboa  12' Rojas  14'  Almirón  41'	Report	Calderón  15' Silva  46'	Stadium: Estadio León Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Jaime Herrera Garduño

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dorados	2–3	León	2–2	0–1

First leg

León v Dorados

14 May 2008	León	2–2	Dorados	León
20:00	Bareiro  49'  Romero  50'	Report	Polo  25'  Henríquez  29'	Stadium: Estadio León Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Roberto García Orozco

Second leg

Dorados v León

17 May 2008	Dorados	0–1 (2–3 agg.)	León	Culiacán
19:00		Report	Bareiro  74'	Stadium: Estadio Banorte Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Clausura 2008 winner
León 3rd title

Promotional final

First Leg

May 22, 2008

19:00

Indios	1–0	León
Carlos Casartelli  76'

Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juárez

Referee: Hugo León Guajardo [1]

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Second leg

May 25, 2008

12:00

León	2-2	Indios
David Quiñones  21' Héctor Gómez  84'		David Stringel  59' Nelson Sebastián Maz  73'

Estadio León, León, Guanajuato

Referee: [2]

Top scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Fredy Bareiro	17	León
Víctor Lojero	15	Tampico Madero
Martín Calderón	12	Durango
Julio Frías	8	Indios
Pedro Solís		Correcaminos
Alejandro Molina		Monterrey A
Javier Orozco		Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Nelson Maz		Indios
Miguel Casanova	7	Tapachula
Mauricio Romero		León
Bardo Fierros		Dorados de Sinaloa
Roberto Nurse		Querétaro
Samuel Ochoa		Tecos A
Eduardo García		Académicos
Jair García	6	Cruz Azul Hidalgo

Last updated: May 3, 2008
Source: FMF

References

1. http://www.lasnoticiasmexico.com/150916.html
2. http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2008/05/25/Uhora/depor_2008052515062073.shtml

External links

• Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación, A. C.