Regular Season Round 1 [Aug 21] Tampico 0 Oro 3 [José Naranjo 4, Juan Carlos Carrera 10, Luis Hermosillo] [Aug 22] América 1 Toluca 1 [José Santiago 78; Rubén Malanchane 32] León 3 Marte 1 [Agustín Santillán 8, Marcos Aurelio 82, Luis Leonel Bossa 87; Mario Sánchez 90] Zacatepec 5 Irapuato 4 [Pedro Arnauda 5pen, Ernesto Candia 15, Mateo Nicolau 31, Raúl Cárdenas 58, Carlos Turcato 64; Jaime Ortiz 14, 50, José Joaquín Quiroz 56, Alberto Jones 67] Guadalajara 5 Atlante 2 [Salvador Reyes 7, 11, 31, 65, Tomás Balcázar 47; Guillermo García Vélez 74. 89] Puebla 3 Necaxa 1 [Antonio Bonezzi 30, 65, Manuel del Toro 55; Julio María Palleiro 43] Round 2 [Aug 25] Necaxa 1 León 1 [Antonio Jasso 58; Julián Briseño 19] [Aug 29] Oro 1 América 5 [Juan Carlos Carrera 62pen; José Santiago 18, José González 20, Pedro Nájera 23, Emilio Fizel 52, Eduardo González Palmer 87] Atlante 1 Zacatepec 3 [Ramón Fresero Martínez 31; Mateo Nicolau 32, Ernesto Candia 35, Samuel Cuburu 77pen] Marte 1 Tampico 2 [José Cázares 73; Juan Lecca 49, Juan José Olivero 65] Toluca 1 Guadalajara 2 [Mateo de la Tijera 8; Tomás Balcázar 34, Salvador Reyes 74] Irapuato 4 Puebla 0 [Jaime Ortiz 7, Felipe Martín del Campo 30, Alberto Jones 42, 68] Round 3 [Sep 4] Tampico 2 Necaxa 1 [Juan José Olivero 20, Juan Lecca 65; Alfredo del Águila] [Sep 5] América 2 Guadalajara 0 [Manuel Cañibe 5, Emilio Fizel 83] Zacatepec 1 Toluca 0 [Samuel Cuburu 80pen] Puebla 3 Atlante 2 [Manuel del Toro 10, Vicente Laperuta 60, Ricardo Zárate 70; Carlos Calderón de la Barca 75, Luis Fernández 88] Oro 3 Marte 2 [Juan Carlos Carrera 52, Jorge Arroyo 77, Héctor Hernández 89; Roberto Zárate 21, Walter Meneses 81] León 1 Irapuato 1 [Marcos Aurelio 57; José Joaquín Quiroz 39] Round 4 [Sep 8] Atlante 1 León 0 [Luis Fernández 56] Guadalajara 3 Zacatepec 3 [Tomás Balcázar 19, Raúl Arellano 57, Adalberto López 70; Raúl Cárdenas 58, Mateo Nicolau 60, Mario Pérez 79] [Sep 12] Necaxa 3 Oro 2 [Norberto Rozas 36, 80, Julio María Palleiro 49; Juan Carlos Carrera 25, Héctor Hernández 58] Irapuato 3 Tampico 3 [Jaime Ortiz ¿?, 87, Jorge Marik; Carlos Septién 21, Grimaldo González 64, 72] Marte 0 América 2 [Emilio Fizel 29, 36pen] Toluca 2 Puebla 0 [Mateo de la Tijera 16, Carlos Blanco 17] Round 5 [Sep 18] Tampico 1 Atlante 0 [Juan José Olivero 33] [Sep 19] América 0 Zacatepec 1 [Mario Pérez 42] Oro 2 Irapuato 3 [Arnulfo Cortés 4, Juan Carlos Carrera 19; Narciso López 7og, Jaime Ortiz 10, Raúl Córdoba 59og] León 1 Toluca 1 [Marcos Aurelio 53; Wedell Jiménez 25pen] Puebla 0 Guadalajara 0 Marte 0 Necaxa 0 Round 6 [Sep 22] Necaxa 2 América 1 [José Luis Molina 17, 73; José González 82] [Sep 26] Atlante 3 Oro 1 [Horacio Casarín 10, Ligorio López 23, Guillermo García Vélez 41; Héctor Hernández 48] Guadalajara 2 León 0 [Tomás Balcázar 66, Francisco Flores 75] Irapuato 0 Marte 0 Zacatepec 0 Puebla 1 [José Francisco Rivas 61] Toluca 3 Tampico 2 [Carlos Blanco 42, 46, 68; Jorge Molina 7, Juan Lecca 15] Round 7 [Sep 29] América 0 Puebla 1 [Manuel del Toro 25] [Oct 2] Tampico 0 Guadalajara 0 [Oct 3] Necaxa 3 Irapuato 0 [Antonio Jasso 4, Alfredo del Águila 27, Julio María Palleiro 48] Oro 3 Toluca 1 [Héctor Hernández 16, José Naranjo 26, Juan Carlos Carrera 69; Rubén Pichardo 11] León 1 Zacatepec 1 [Marcos Aurelio 55; Carlos Turcato 53] Marte 2 Atlante 2 [Walter Meneses 11, 29; Guillermo García Vélez 7, Héctor Gandini 70] Round 8 [Oct 10] Atlante 1 Necaxa 2 [Luis Fernández 34; Antonio Jasso 25, Julio María Palleiro 28] Guadalajara 2 Oro 2 [Tomás Balcázar 20, Francisco Flores 65; Juan Carlos Carrera 14, Héctor Hernández 54] Puebla 1 León 2 [José Antonio Juárez 8; Pascual Miranda 2, 25] Irapuato 1 América 1 [Alberto Jones 25; Raúl Salamanca 60] Zacatepec 6 Tampico 0 [Francisco Hernández 7, Carlos Turcato 10, 20, Mario Pérez 18, 23, 70] Toluca 4 Marte 1 [Carlos Lázcares 25, 40, 71pen, Carlos Blanco 51; Walter Meneses] Round 9 [Oct 13] América 2 León 0 [Manuel Cañibe 16, 25] [Oct 14] Oro 3 Zacatepec 0 [Héctor Hernández 8, 49, 84] [Oct 16] Tampico 1 Puebla 0 [Guadalupe Díaz 59] [Oct 17] Necaxa 4 Toluca 1 [Julio María Palleiro 4, 68, 80, Norberto Rozas 48; Carlos Lázcares 60] Irapuato 0 Atlante 0 Marte 0 Guadalajara 4 [Raúl Arellano 21, Crescencio Gutiérrez 39, Adalberto López 48, 75] Round 10 [Oct 24] Atlante 0 América 1 [Emilio Fizel 54] Guadalajara 0 Necaxa 2 [Julio María Palleiro 15, 87] León 3 Tampico 1 [Marcos Aurelio 34, Mauro Franco 35, 37; Juan José Olivero 55] Puebla 3 Oro 2 [Vicente Laperuta 12, Edmundo Manzotti 70, Manuel del Toro 80; José Naranjo 18, 74] Zacatepec 4 Marte 1 [Ernesto Candia 11, Mateo Nicolau 13, Carlos Turcato 25, Mario Pérez 61; Mario Ochoa 69pen] Toluca 3 Irapuato 1 [Mateo de la Tijera 48, Carlos Blanco 64, Enrique Sesma 90; Jaime Ortiz 85] Round 11 [Oct 27] Necaxa 4 Zacatepec 1 [Julio María Palleiro 71, José Luis Molina ¿?, 87, Alfredo del Águila 89; Mario Pérez 35] [Oct 30] Tampico 1 América 1 [Salvador Ayala 7; José Luis Lamadrid 78] [Oct 31] Atlante 0 Toluca 1 [Humberto Pérez 84pen] Oro 5 León 1 [Héctor Hernández 3, 87, 90, Jorge Arroyo 20, Juan Carlos Carrera 77; Luis Leonel Bossa 22] Irapuato 0 Guadalajara 1 [Tomás Balcázar 80] Marte 2 Puebla 2 [Mario Ochoa 48pen, 60pen; Manuel del Toro 26, Antonio Bonezzi 43] Round 12 [Nov 4] Atlante 2 Guadalajara 2 [Héctor Gandini 73pen, Horacio Casarín 87; Crescencio Gutiérrez 5, Raúl Arellano 59] [Nov 7] Necaxa 1 Puebla 1 [José Luis Molina 57pen; Manuel del Toro 6] Oro 1 Tampico 1 [Juan Carlos Carrera 77; Guadalupe Díaz 5] Irapuato 0 Zacatepec 1 [Mario Pérez 82] Marte 0 León 2 [Pascual Miranda 83, Luis Leonel Bossa 87] Toluca 2 América 1 [Carlos Carús 60, Rubén Malanchane 80; José González 62] Round 13 [Nov 13] Tampico 5 Marte 1 [Guadalupe Díaz (3), Juan José Olivero (2); Walter Meneses] [Nov 14] América 2 Oro 1 [Manuel Cañibe 47, Emilio Fizel 81; Héctor Hernández 38] Guadalajara 3 Toluca 1 [Crescencio Gutiérrez 25, Tomás Balcázar 53, Raúl Arellano 65; Rubén Malanchane 77] Puebla 3 Irapuato 0 [Vicente Laperuta 12, Antonio Bonezzi 35, Manuel del Toro 48] León 1 Necaxa 0 [Luis Leonel Bossa 50pen] Zacatepec 3 Atlante 0 [Mateo Nicolau 31, Mario Pérez 51, Ernesto Candia 79] Round 14 [Nov 18] Atlante 1 Puebla 1 [Héctor Gandini 8; Manuel del Toro 12] Guadalajara 2 América 0 [Francisco Flores 10, 30] [Nov 21] Necaxa 2 Tampico 0 [Norberto Rozas 68, Julio María Palleiro 70] Irapuato 0 León 2 [Luis Leonel Bossa, Pascual Miranda 83] Marte 1 Oro 1 [Higinio Palos 82; Héctor Hernández 66] Toluca 1 Zacatepec 1 [Wedell Jiménez 28; Mario Pérez 45] Round 15 [Nov 27] Tampico 2 Irapuato 0 [Grimaldo González 36, Guadalupe Díaz 46] [Nov 28] América 5 Marte 0 [Manuel Cañibe 4, José González 6, 58, Héctor Ferrari 81pen, Víctor Malpica 89] Oro 3 Necaxa 3 [Juan Carlos Carrera 27, 83, Bolas Vázquez 90; Julio María Palleiro 4pen, 42, 62] Puebla 2 Toluca 3 [Manuel del Toro 57, José Francisco Rivas 89; Carlos Lázcares 20, Carlos Blanco 40, 75] León 3 Atlante 0 [Carlos Uñate 32, Marcos Aurelio 57, Mauro Franco 77] Zacatepec 1 Guadalajara 1 [Mario Pérez 53; Juan Jasso 89] Round 16 [Dec 2] Necaxa 6 Marte 1 [Norberto Rozas (4), José Luis Molina, Julio María Palleiro; Mario Sánchez] [Dec 5] Atlante 1 Tampico 2 [Horacio Casarín 14; Juan José Olivero 21, Grimaldo González 87] Guadalajara 4 Puebla 0 [Salvador Reyes 26, 50, Tomás Balcázar 48, 56] Zacatepec 1 América 0 [Carlos Turcato 30pen} Toluca 1 León 2 [Enrique Sesma 42; Pascual Miranda 23, Carlos Uñate 77] Irapuato 3 Oro 2 [Jaime Ortiz 19, 23, 77; Juan Carlos Carrera 30, Héctor Hernández 89pen] Round 17 [Dec 11] Tampico 0 Toluca 0 [Dec 12] América 1 Necaxa 0 [Emilio Fizel 75] Oro 3 Atlante 0 [Ramón Fresero Martínez 18og, 71og, José Naranjo 66] Puebla 0 Zacatepec 3 [Ernesto Candia 10, Mario Pérez 52, 62] León 0 Guadalajara 1 [Crescencio Gutiérrez 23] Marte 1 Irapuato 0 [Roberto Zárate 57] Round 18 [Dec 19] Atlante 1 Marte 1 [Salvador Farfán 8; Roberto Zárate 32] Guadalajara 4 Tampico 1 [Rafael Rivera 12, Francisco Flores 40, Crescencio Gutiérrez 61, 77; Guadalupe Díaz 72] Puebla 2 América 3 [Manuel del Toro 30, 87; Emilio Fizel 15, 60, Eduardo González Palmer 75] Zacatepec 1 León 0 [Mateo Nicolau 6] Toluca 0 Oro 1 [Juan Carlos Carrera 87] Irapuato 3 Necaxa 2 [Jorge Marik 33pen, 56, Jaime Ortiz 78; Julio María Palleiro 40pen, 85] Round 19 [Dec 23] América 0 Irapuato 0 [Jan 1] Tampico 0 Zacatepec 0 [Jan 2] Oro 0 Guadalajara 1 [Tomás Balcázar 3] Necaxa 0 Atlante 2 [Salvador Farfán 33, Carlos Calderón de la Barca 35] León 1 Puebla 1 [Luis Leonel Bossa 77; Vicente Laperuta 20] Marte 0 Toluca 4 [Carlos Lázcares 50, Rubén Malanchane 54, Carlos Blanco 65, 67] Round 20 [Jan 9] Atlante 3 Irapuato 0 [Rafael Ávalos 39, Alcides Zamaro 52, 59] Guadalajara 0 Marte 1 [Roberto Zárate 42] León 1 América 0 [Mauro Franco 14] Puebla 3 Tampico 1 [Manuel del Toro 35, 44, Edmundo Manzotti 60; Grimaldo González 30] Zacatepec 3 Oro 0 [Mario Pérez 29, Ernesto Candia 31, Mateo Nicolau 51] Toluca 3 Necaxa 1 [Gonzalo Iturbe 28, Carlos Lázcares 68, Enrique Sesma 84; Julio María Palleiro 63] Round 21 [Jan 13] Necaxa 3 Guadalajara 2 [Julio María Palleiro 42, Norberto Rozas 73, Antonio Jasso 86; Juan Jasso 43, Pedro Arnauda 49og] [Jan 15] Tampico 3 León 2 [Guadalupe Díaz 46, 52, 79; Carlos Uñate 39, Pascual Miranda 60] [Jan 16] América 0 Atlante 0 Oro 3 Puebla 1 [Héctor Hernández 17pen, José Naranjo 25, Carrasco 87; José Antonio Juárez 15] Irapuato 2 Toluca 1 [Maceda 24, Jaime Ortiz 78; Gonzalo Iturbe 53] Marte 0 Zacatepec 1 [Pedro Arnauda 85] Round 22 [Jan 23] América 0 Tampico 0 Guadalajara 2 Irapuato 1 [Juan Jasso 61pen, Jesús Ponce 65; Samiro Soto 56] León 3 Oro 0 [Luis Leonel Bossa 4, Marcos Aurelio 75, Luis Luna 85] Puebla 1 Marte 1 [Ricardo Zárate 15; Roberto Zárate 85] Zacatepec 1 Necaxa 1 [Mario Pérez 45; Norberto Rozas 26] Toluca 1 Atlante 1 [Carlos Lázcares 35pen; Thelmo García 10] FINAL TABLE Zacatepec 22 13 6 3 41:21 +20 32 (champion) Guadalajara 22 12 6 4 41:22 +19 30 Necaxa 22 10 5 7 42:30 +12 25 [Mexico City] León 22 10 5 7 30:24 +6 25 América 22 9 6 7 28:17 +11 24 [Mexico City] Toluca 22 9 5 8 35:30 +5 23 Tampico 22 8 7 7 28:35 -7 23 Oro 22 8 4 10 42:41 +1 20 [Guadalajara] Puebla 22 7 6 9 29:37 -8 20 Irapuato 22 5 6 11 26:38 -12 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlante 22 4 7 11 23:35 -12 15 (relegation playoff) [Mexico City] Marte 22 2 7 13 17:52 -35 11 (relegation playoff) [Cuernavaca] To increase the number of teams to 14 at first level, a promotion tournament was played between Atlante and Marte (lasts in 1954-55 in 'primera división' season) and Cuautla, Zamora and Querétaro (2nd, 3rd and 4th in 'segunda división' 1954-55 season) Promotional Tournament All the matches played in Estadio Olímpico Ciudad de los Deportes (Mexico City) Round 1 [Mar 27] Atlante 3 Cuautla 0 [Carlos Calderón de la Barca 15, 87, Jesús Rico 80] Round 2 [Mar 31] Zamora 0 Querétaro 2 [Martín del Campo 85pen, 87] Round 3 [Apr 3] Marte 3 Cuautla 4 [Walter Meneses 45+, 69, Higinio Palos 71pen; Leyva 15, Carrillo 30, 84, Antonio García 67] Round 4 [Apr 10] Atlante 6 Querétaro 1 [Carlos Calderón de la Barca 17, Sámano 30og, Guillermo García Vélez 42, Alcides Zamaro 67, 77, Ligorio López 72; Becerra 89] Round 5 [Apr 14] Marte 1 Zamora 3 [Enrique González López 70; Torres 22, Guzmán 75, Fuentes 82] Round 6 [Apr 17] Atlante 2 Zamora 1 [Ligorio López 53, Alcides Zamaro 68; Antonio Flores 28] Round 5 [Apr 21] Cuautla 1 Querétaro 0 [Antonio García 30] Round 6 [Apr 24] Marte 3 Querétaro 0 [Walter Meneses 15, 44, 60] Round 7 [Apr 28] Zamora 4 Cuautla 3 [Trinidad Morales 27, 54, Torres 63, Patiño 90+; Jaime Belmonte 40, Leyva 46, ¿? 70pen] Round 8 [May 8] Atlante 2 Marte 2 [Carlos Calderón de la Barca 1, Ligorio López; Walter Meneses 15, Roberto Zárate 75] FINAL TABLE Atlante 4 3 1 0 13: 4 +9 7 (remains at first level) [Mexico City] Zamora 4 2 0 2 8: 8 0 4 (promoted) Cuautla 4 2 0 2 8:10 -2 4 (promoted) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marte 4 1 1 2 9: 9 0 3 (relegated) [Cuernavaca] Querétaro 4 1 0 3 3:10 -7 2 (stayed at second level) Promoted: Atlas, Zamora and Cuautla Relegated: Marte Author: Erik Francisco Lugo (eaglelugo@yahoo.com.mx) Last updated: 14 Apr 2016 (C) Copyright Erik Francisco Lugo and RSSSF 2016