Primera División de México Apertura 2008

The Primera División Apertura 2008 is a Mexican football tournament; one of two tournaments held each year. It will begin in July 25, 2008 and will run until December of the same year. The top two teams in each group will qualify directly to the Liguilla (playoffs), the two best third place teams from each group also qualify. The “repesca” mechanisim is discontinued for this tournament. Indios de Ciudad Juárez is the promoted team to the league after beating León in the Primera División A promotion final; while CD Veracruz was relegated to the Primera “A”. This is Juárez’s first appearance ever in a Primera División tournament.

League Table (Groups)

Group 1

Team		Pts	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Santos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Atlante	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Pachuca	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Monterrey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Puebla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Juárez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pts – points earned; G – games played; W - wins; D - draws; L - losses; GF – goals for; GA – goals against; GD – goal differential

Group 2

Team		Pts	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Guadalajara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Cruz Azul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	U.N.A.M.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Morelia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	América	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	U.A.G.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pts – points earned; G – games played; W - wins; D - draws; L - losses; GF – goals for; GA – goals against; GD – goal differential

Group 3

Team		Pts	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Toluca	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	San Luis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Chiapas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Necaxa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Atlas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	U.A.N.L.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pts – points earned; G – games played; W - wins; D - draws; L - losses; GF – goals for; GA – goals against; GD – goal differential

League Table (General)

Team		Pts	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Atlante	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Cruz Azul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Guadalajara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Pachuca	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	San Luis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Santos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Toluca	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	U.N.A.M.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	América	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Atlas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Chiapas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Juárez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Monterrey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Morelia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Necaxa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	Puebla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	U.A.G.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	U.A.N.L.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pts – points earned; G – games played; W - wins; D - draws; L - losses; GF – goals for; GA – goals against; GD – goal differential

	Teams qualify for the Liguilla 2008

• The Primera División is not officially a single-table league.

Relegation Table

Team		Pts	Games	P/G
1	Guadalajara	117	68	1.7794
2	Cruz Azul	114	68	1.6765
3	Pachuca	111	68	1.6324
4	Toluca	107	68	1.5735
5	San Luis	103	68	1.5147
6	Santos Laguna	102	68	1.5000
7	América	96	68	1.4118
8	Atlante	94	68	1.3824
9	U.N.A.M.	93	68	1.3676
10	Atlas	87	68	1.2794
11	Chiapas	86	68	1.2647
12	Morelia	85	68	1.2500
13	Monterrey	84	68	1.2353
14	Necaxa	79	68	1.1618
15	Puebla	38	34	1.1176
16	U.A.G.	72	68	1.0588
17	U.A.N.L.	72	68	1.0588
18	CF Indios	0	0	0.0000
Pts – points earned; P/G – percentage

Table Results

	Team	AME	ATE	ATL	CHP	CAZ	GDL	JRZ	MON	MOR	NEC	PAC	PUE	SLP	SAN	TOL	UAG	UANL	UNAM
1.	América	XXX
2.	Atlante		XXX
3.	Atlas			XXX
4.	Chiapas				XXX
5.	Cruz Azul					XXX
6.	Guadalajara						XXX
7.	Juárez							XXX
8.	Monterrey								XXX
9.	Morelia									XXX
10.	Necaxa										XXX
11.	Pachuca											XXX
12.	Puebla												XXX
13.	San Luis													XXX
14.	Santos Laguna														XXX
15.	Toluca															XXX
16.	U.A.G.																XXX
17.	U.A.N.L.																	XXX
18.	U.N.A.M.																		XXX

Stadiums

Team		Stadium	Capacity	City	State
	América	Azteca	105,000	México	D.F.
	U.N.A.M.	Olímpico Universitario	68,954	México	D.F.
	Atlas, Guadalajara	Jalisco1	56,713	Guadalajara	Jalisco
	Guadalajara	Chivas1	45,500	Guadalajara	Jalisco
	Puebla	Cuauhtémoc	42,649	Puebla	Puebla
	Morelia	Morelos	41,500	Morelia	Michoacán
	U.A.N.L.	Universitario	41,150	Monterrey	Nuevo León
	Juárez	Arena Indios2	40,000	Ciudad Juárez	Chihuahua
	Monterrey	Tecnológico	38,000	Monterrey	Nuevo León
	Cruz Azul	Azul	35,000	México	D.F.
	UAG	3 de Marzo	30,015	Guadalajara	Jalisco
	Pachuca	Hidalgo	30,000	Pachuca	Hidalgo
	Toluca	Nemesio Díez	27,000	Toluca	México
	Necaxa	Victoria	25,000	Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes
	San Luis	Alfonso Lastras	24,000	San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí
	Chiapas	Víctor Manuel Reyna	23,208	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Chiapas
	Juárez	Olímpico Benito Juárez2	22,300	Ciudad Juárez	Chihuahua
	Atlante	Andrés Quintana Roo	20,000	Cancún	Quintana Roo
	Santos Laguna	Corona	18,050	Torreón	Coahuila
*1 Guadalajara will move from Estadio Jalisco to Estadio Chivas in November, Atlas will remain at Estadio Jalisco. *2 Ciudad Juárez will move from Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez to Arena Indios in August.

External links

• FEMEXFUT.com