Primera División A Apertura 2008

The Primera División 'A' referred to in the Mexican club football for 15 years, the second- highest division of the country. It was first played in the 1994/95 season and replaced in its capacity as the second- highest league the previous Segunda División, which began in 1950/51 and with the introduction of La Liga 'A' de facto third division was demoted. Since the 2009/10 season the second league is named the Liga de Ascenso. This league will be the official successor to the Primera División 'A'.

  • 3.1 Group 1
  • 3.2 Group 2
  • 3.3 Group 3

History of La Liga 'A'

The Primera División 'A' was created in the summer of 1994, as an educated for this specific purpose consortium - consisting of 15 clubs and supported by the FMF, the Mexican Football Federation - acquired the license for the financially weakened first division club Universidad de Guadalajara, a new league to create between first and second league. This " shifted between " league, the name La Liga 'A' leads since its inception, should suggest the misleading naming in sporting terms that thereto participating teams were " advanced first division " are. A pure window dressing, the rather served to sell off licenses. Because this type of license transfers at that time was already in the Primera División commonplace and gave the Football Federation of Mexico a profitable source of income by creating an additional full professional league, disguised as La Liga 'A', further additional revenue guaranteed.

The founding members

The 15 founding clubs in the new league were ( in order of sporting cutting in the opening season): Atlético Celaya, CF Pachuca, Atlético San Francisco, Real San Luis, Inter de Tijuana, CD Irapuato, CD Marte, UA Querétaro, CF La Piedad, Acapulco CD, CD Zacatepec, Atlético Yucatán, CD Cora de Tepic, Gallos de Aguascalientes and Caimanes de Tabasco.

Constant sizes

In the 15 seasons of its existence under the name as La Liga 'A' (from 1994 /95 to 2008/ 09 ) had more than 80 clubs in the league. Very few of them appeared or disappeared for sporting reasons. Instead, the league was almost since the beginning dominated by innumerable and barely manageable License shifts, renames and removals. Only a few clubs could prove in this mess as fixed sizes. The longest were:

The mode

The league began in 1994/95 with 15 clubs and grew to 1997 /98 to 21 clubs. Between 1998 /99 and 2005/ 06, the league was played with 20 teams. Until then, each team played each twice (once at home and once away ) against every other team. In the seasons 2006 /07 and 2007/ 08 was the league of 24 teams were divided along regional lines into two groups. In this mode, each team played each twice (once at home and once away ) against every other team from the same group and each once ( either home and away ) against teams from the other group. The increase was due to a decision by the FMF, the Mexican Football Federation, which is required to maintain a farm team in the second division for the 2006/07 season every top-flight club.

Before the start of the 2008/09 season the league was again subjected to profound changes and increased again. It was at this time a total of 27 teams were divided into three groups and their composition changed during the winter break. This means that the groups to the apertura were not identical with the groups of Clausura. Details can be found in the below section for the 2008/09 season. The Lines in a group teams wore half per round ( Apertura and Clausura ) return games against each other. At meetings with the teams from the other two groups, there was the earliest in the Promotion Playoffs, for which qualified the best eight teams: each top two teams from the three groups and the two highest point totals behind it ( ie, either the two best third- or even a fourth group, where he was able to record more points than the other two groups third party).

Analogous to the changes in the top division two championships were held per year since the 1996/97 season. The winners of the two competitions played at the end of the season from the riser. It must be noted that last only certified clubs were entitled to promotion by the Association. If a non-certified club reached on sporting merit advancement, he should not have to perceive him and instead get a win bonus. In this case, the actual relegated from the Primera División had two play-off matches against the top ranked certified team of La Liga ' A' ( measured by the total annual table) must unsubscribe. When you win the first division, it would not have been promoted and relegated, in a victory for the second division the two clubs have changed their league affiliation.

In contrast to the regimented rules ascent, the descent, the team with the worst three-year balance struck in each case.

The previous champions of La Liga 'A'

Since 1996/97, two championships were played per season and determined two separate winners ( Apertura and Clausura ). Won a team both tournaments, it was automatically the overall winner and for promotion to the Primera División entitled. Were there two different winners, this contributed to the end of the season the final ascent in a return game.

The participants in the 2008 /09 season

In the 2008 /09 season was the league of 27 teams, which were divided into three groups. The division of the Group was changed to the winter break, ie the composition of the groups in the apertura was not identical with the composition in the Clausura.

In the Apertura, the composition on a regional basis, provided: in group 1 were the teams from the western regions of the country, Group 2 hosted the teams from the north and Socio Águila ( a farm team of the Club América ) from the capital, and group 3 comprised the teams from the south and east of the country as well as from the capital region (except the capital itself ). The below group division gives a detailed overview of the composition of the groups in the Apertura 2008.

In the second round (Clausura), the groups were comprised as follows

In contrast to the mixed group membership in the Clausura 2009, the composition of the groups in the Apertura 2008, determined according to regional criteria:

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Notes:

1 Occasionally wears Atlético Mexiquense its home games in the approximately 60 kilometers south of Toluca situated place Ixtapan de la Sal, in order to attract more viewers.

2 Ciudad Cooperativa, the former Jasso, is the original home of the Cruz Azul, who is now based in Mexico City and is one of the four most popular clubs in the country.

San Luis F.C. Irapuato FC Club Deportivo Marte Coras de Tepic Correcaminos UAT Jaibos Tampico Madero Real Sociedad de Zacatecas Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz Puebla FC Jalisco Irapuato, Guanajuato Guanajuato Salamanca F.C. Colima, Colima Zapopan Baja California Durango, Durango Chihuahua, Chihuahua Chihuahua (state) CF Monterrey Coahuila Club Santos Laguna Ciudad Victoria Hidalgo (state) Jaguares de Chiapas Reserves Chiapas Lobos de la BUAP Veracruz (Veracruz)
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