2011 Mexican Primera División Championship Round (Apertura)

2011 Primera División de México
Tournament details
Country	Mexico
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	UANL
Runner-up	Santos Laguna
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	34 (2.43 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Oribe Peralta (3)
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The Liguilla (English: Little League) of the 2011 Primera División de México Apertura is a final knockout tournament involving eight teams of the Primera División de México. The tournament will begin on November 19, 2011, and will end on December 11, 2011. The winners and runners-up of the competition will qualify for the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

Teams

In a change from previous seasons, the 18 teams in the 2011 Apertura were not divided into three groups of six teams each. Instead, the eight best teams in the general table qualified for the competition.

S	Team	Manager	Captain	Performance at the 2011 Apertura
S	Team	Manager	Captain	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Guadalajara	Fernando Quirarte	Héctor Reynoso	17	8	6	3	24	18	+6	30
2	Cruz Azul	Enrique Meza	Gerardo Torrado	17	8	5	4	21	14	+7	29
3	UANL	Ricardo Ferretti	Lucas Lobos	17	7	7	3	22	13	+9	28
4	Santos Laguna	Benjamín Galindo	Oswaldo Sánchez	17	8	3	6	29	25	+4	27
5	Chiapas	José Guadalupe Cruz	Ismael Fuentes	17	7	5	5	28	23	+5	26
6	Pachuca	Efraín Flores	Leobardo López	17	7	5	5	28	25	+3	26
7	Morelia	Tomás Boy	Federico Vilar	17	7	5	5	25	22	+3	26
8	Querétaro	José Cardozo	Carlos Bueno	17	8	2	7	23	21	+2	26

Bracket

The eight qualified teams play two games against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each match up is determined by aggregate score.

The teams were seeded one to eight in quarterfinals, and will be re-seeded one to four in semifinals, depending on their position in the general table. The higher seeded teams play on their home field during the second leg.

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

1	Guadalajara	1	0	1

8	Querétaro	2	0	2
					8	Querétaro	0	0	0

					3	UANL	0	1	1
3	UANL	1	3	4

6	Pachuca	0	0	0
										3	UANL	1	3	4

										4	Santos Laguna	0	1	1
2	Cruz Azul	1	1	2

7	Morelia	2	2	4
					7	Morelia	2	2	4

					4	Santos Laguna	1	3	4
4	Santos Laguna	2	2	4

5	Chiapas	2	1	3

If the two teams are tied after both legs, the higher seeded team advances.
Both finalist qualify to the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage.

Quarter-finals

The first legs of the quarterfinals were played on November 19 and 20. The second legs were played on November 26 and 27.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Querétaro (8)	2 – 1	(1) Guadalajara	2 – 1	0 – 0
Morelia (7)	4 – 2	(2) Cruz Azul	2 – 1	2 – 1
Pachuca (6)	0 – 4	(3) UANL	0 – 1	0 – 3
Chiapas (5)	3 – 4	(4) Santos Laguna	2 – 2	1 – 2

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-6 unless stated otherwise).

First leg

November 19, 2011	Morelia	2 – 1	Cruz Azul	Estadio Morelos, Morelia
19:00	Márquez 78', 85'	Report	32' Orozco 70' Pinto	Referee: Erim Ramírez

November 19, 2011	Querétaro	2 – 1	Guadalajara	Estadio Corregidora, Querétaro
17:00	Bueno 9', 70'	Report	90+2' Enríquez	Referee: Fernando Guerrero

November 20, 2011	Chiapas	2 – 2	Santos Laguna	Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
16:00	J. Martínez 84' Arizala 92'	Report	4' Baloy 32' Peralta 71' Cárdenas	Referee: Ricardo Arellano

November 20, 2011	Pachuca	0 – 1	UANL	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca
18:00		Report	26' Mancilla 62' Salcido	Referee: Paul Delgadillo

Second leg

November 26, 2011	Cruz Azul	1 – 2	Morelia	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
17:00	Vela 37' Torrado 71'	Report	17' Sabah 22' Lugo	Referee: Marco Antonio Rodriguez

November 26, 2011	Guadalajara	0 – 0	Querétaro	Estadio Omnilife, Zapopan
19:00		Report		Referee: Mauricio Morales

November 27, 2011	Santos Laguna	2 – 1	Chiapas	Estadio Corona, Torreón
17:00	Quintero 41' Ludueña 73'	Report	66' J. Martínez	Referee: Roberto García Orozco

November 27, 2011	UANL	3 – 0	Pachuca	Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás
19:00	Viniegra 11' Lobos 26' Álvarez 36'	Report	28' 61' Herrera	Referee: Francisco Chacón

Semi-finals

The first legs of the semifinals were played on November 30 and December 1. The second legs were played on December 3 and 4.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Querétaro (8)	0 – 1	(3) UANL	0 – 0	0 – 1
Morelia (7)	4 – 4	(4) Santos Laguna	2 – 1	2 – 3

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-6 unless stated otherwise).

First leg

November 30, 2011	Morelia	2 – 1	Santos Laguna	Estadio Morelos, Morelia
20:30	Lozano 13' Lugo 25'	Report	83' Peralta 57' 87' Mares	Referee: Paul Delgadillo

December 1, 2011	Querétaro	0 – 0	UANL	Estadio Corregidora, Querétaro
19:00		Report		Referee: Roberto García Orozco

Second leg

December 3, 2011	Santos Laguna	3 – 2	Morelia	Estadio Corona, Torreón
19:00	Rodríguez 34' (pen.) Suárez 52', 64'	Report	33' Huiqui 74', 87' Sepúlveda 90+1' Leão	Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno

December 4, 2011	UANL	1 – 0	Querétaro	Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás
18:00	López Mondragón 44' (o.g.)	Report	90+3' Vázquez	Referee: Francisco Chacón

Final

The first leg of the final will be played on December 8, the second leg on December 11.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UANL (3)	4 – 1	(4) Santos Laguna	1 – 0	3 – 1

Kickoffs are given in local time (UTC-6 unless stated otherwise).

First leg

December 8, 2011	Santos Laguna	0 – 1	UANL	Estadio Corona, Torreón
20:30	Sánchez 23' Rodríguez 23' Estrada 29' Morales 59' Baloy 81'	Report	7' Álvarez	Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Paul Delgadillo

Second leg

December 11, 2011	UANL	3 – 1	Santos Laguna	Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás
18:00	Torres 36' Lobos 38' Mancilla 52' Mancilla 56' Danilinho 63' Jiménez 69' Pulido 87'	Report	12' Sánchez 19' Salinas 30' Peralta 66' Morales 69' Baloy 70' Quintero	Attendance: 43,000^[1] Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Apertura 2011 winners:

Tigres UANL 3rd Title

References

^ "Campeones Otra Vez" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

[1] "Campeones Otra Vez" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

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