Liga MX - Clausura 2001

						
Final Tables Preliminary Round:

Group 1

 1.Atlante           17  6  5  6 16-16 23  [Cd. de México]   Relegation Playoff
 2.León              17  6  5  6 17-22 23                    Qualified
 3.Atlético Morelia  17  6  5  6 21-27 23                    Qualifying Playoff
 4.Cruz Azul         17  6  4  7 25-27 22  [Cd. de México]
 5.Toluca            17  3  8  6 28-33 17

NB: as Atlante enter the relegation playoff, they cannot play the 
    championship playoffs

Group 2

 1.Tigres            17  7  6  4 23-13 27  [Monterrey]       Qualified
 2.Atlas             17  6  4  7 32-33 22  [Guadalajara]     Qualifying Playoff
 3.Pumas U.N.A.M.    17  5  7  5 21-24 22  [Cd. de México]
 4.Atlético Celaya   17  5  3  9 25-27 18
 5.Irapuato          17  3  4 10 27-38 13

Group 3

 1.Santos Laguna     17  8  4  5 35-27 28  [Torreón]         Qualified
 2.Monterrey         17  7  7  3 25-18 28                    Qualified
 3.Puebla            17  7  6  4 21-17 27                    Qualifying Playoff
 4.Necaxa            17  5  4  8 20-25 19  [Cd. de México]

Group 4

 1.América           17  7  7  3 25-15 28  [Cd. de México]   Qualified
 2.Pachuca           17  7  4  6 22-22 25                    Qualified
 3.Tecos U.A.G.      17  7  4  6 24-27 25  [Guadalajara]     Qualifying Playoff
 4.Guadalajara       17  5  7  5 21-17 22

Round 1
[Jan 6] 
Atlante     1-1 Tigres 
  [Carlos Casartelli 63, Claudio Suarez 4] 
Toluca      3-5 Pachuca 
  [Jose Cardozo 68, 79, Ussiel Lozano 83; Cesareo Victorino 23,
   Pedro Pineda 42, 49, 66, Andrés Chivita 71] 
Tecos       2-1 Pumas 
  [Joaquín Beltrán 45og, Reynaldo Navia 81; Julio Cesar Yegros 6] 
Monterrey   1-1 Cruz Azul 
  [Alessandro Correa 16, Angel Morales 23] 
Irapuato    0-0 Guadalajara 
Atlas       2-2 Celaya 
  [Omar Briseño 52, Nelson Esqueda 89; Armando Gonzalez 30, 54] 
[Jan 7] 
Morelia     2-0 América 
  [Alex Fernandez 3, Francisco Almirón 44] 
Santos      3-1 Puebla 
  [Luis F. Soto 37, Jared Borguetti 78, 79; Oscar Mascorro 69] 
Necaxa      0-1 León 
  [Adelino Batista 62] 

Round 2
[Jan 11 - at Ciudad Cruz Azul]
Pachuca     1-1 Necaxa
  [Pablo Hernan Gomez 10; Hernan Medford 37]
[Jan 12]
Puebla      0-0 Toluca
[Jan 13]
Cruz Azul   4-2 Irapuato
  [Juan Palencia 29, Pinheiro 35, Angel Morales 43, Juan Reynoso 74; 
   Martin Rodriguez 45, Antonio Mohamed 61] 
Celaya      0-0 Tecos
Tigres      2-0 Morelia
  [Jorge Santillana 19, David Oteo 72] 
[Jan 14]
León        1-1 Monterrey 
  [Missael Espinoza 16; Antonio De Nigris 42] 
Guadalajara 2-3 Atlas 
  [Gustavo Napoles 35, Carlos Hermosillo 45; Juan Pablo Rodriguez 5,
   Daniel Osorno 21, Miguel Zepeda 78] 
Pumas       1-1 Atlante    
  [Julio Cesar Yegros 57, José Manuel Abundis 25] 
América     5-1 Santos
  [Braulio Luna 3, Ivan Zamorano 8, 29, 33, Franki Oviedo 53; 
   Jared Borguetti 86] 

Round 3
[Jan 20]
Atlante     2-1 Celaya 
  [German Arangio 18, J.M.Abundis 42; Jorge Jerez 12]
Irapuato    2-2 Leon 
  [Gomez Portocarrero 10, Christian Morales 42; Leandro Augusto 12, 81]
Atlas       4-1 Tecos 
  [Mario Mendez 11, J.P.Rodriguez 15, 59, Pablo Lavallen 48; Reynaldo Navia 38]
[Jan 21] 
Guadalajara 2-1 Cruz Azul 
  [Ramon Morales 23, Gustavo Napoles 81; Angel Morales 70]
Morelia     2-1 Pumas 
  [Jorge Almiron 62, 80; Julio Cesar Yegros 35]
Toluca      1-1 America 
  [German Villa 13og; Victor Santibañez 50]
Necaxa      1-2 Puebla 
  [Agustin Delgado 38; Claudinho 64, 73]
Santos      0-0 Tigres 
[Feb 21] 
Monterrey   2-0 Pachuca 
  [Alessandro Correa 8, Juan Arango 50] 

Round 4
[Jan 27] 
Cruz Azul   2-1 Atlas 
  [Angel Morales 10, Juan F. Palencia 30; Hugo Castillo 77] 
Tecos       0-2 Atlante 
  [Noe Zarate 33, Jose Manuel Abundis 45] 
Tigres      0-0 Toluca 
Puebla      0-0 Monterrey 
Celaya      5-0 Morelia 
  [Leonardo Fabio Moreno 3, 55; Diego Latorre 14, 20, 74] 
[Jan 28]
Pachuca     2-0 Irapuato
  [Pedro Pineda 50, 62] 
Leon        1-1 Guadalajara
  [Sigifredo Mercado 53; Andres Silva 72og]  
America     2-1 Necaxa
  [Duilio Davino 39, Luis Hernandez 84; Agustin Delgado 44] 
Pumas       1-1 Santos
  [Julio Cesar Yegros 49; Jared Borguetti 67] 

Round 5
[Feb 3] 
Toluca      2-2 Pumas 
  [Jose Cardozo 19, 38; Mauricio Donoso 2, Julio Cesar Yegros 45]
Cruz Azul   1-3 Leon 
  [Juan Reynoso 27; Sigifredo Mercado 3, 58, Francisco Uribe 25] 
Monterrey   3-1 América 
  [Antonio De Nigris 44, Guillermo Chabrand 76, Paulo Cesar Chavez 89; 
   Luis Hernandez 39] 
Irapuato    2-2 Puebla 
  [Martin Rodriguez 45, 69; Adrian Sanchez 27, Alberto Garcia Aspe 53] 
Atlas       1-1 Atlante 
  [Hugo Castillo 35; Jose Manuel Abundis 70] 
[Feb 4] 
Guadalajara 0-2 Pachuca 
  [Pedro Pineda 61, 89] 
Morelia     2-3 Tecos 
  [Jorge Almiron 48, Alex Fernandez 79; Raul Mariscal 25, Reynaldo Navia 56,
   Zdenko Muff 84] 
Necaxa      1-0 Tigres 
  [Sergio Almaguer 4] 
Santos      5-2 Celaya 
  [Rodrigo Ruiz 1, Jared Borguetti 18, Carlos Gomes 65, 84, Jorge Campos 90;
    Leonardo Fabio Moreno 45, 47] 

Round 6
[Feb 10] 
Atlante     0-1 Morelia 
  [Carlos A. Morales 57] 
Tecos       2-0 Santos 
  [Humberto Gonzalez 41, Reynaldo Navia 62] 
Tigres      2-0 Monterrey 
  [Sindey Balderas 13, Eduardo Lillingston 38] 
Puebla      0-0 Guadalajara 
Celaya      2-1 Toluca 
  [Diego Latorre 25, Tiba 36; Carlos María Morales 28] 
[Feb 11] 
Pachuca     2-3 Cruz Azul 
  [Francisco Gabriel De Anda 5, Tomás Campos 33og; José Hernandez 6, 
   Juan Francisco Palencia 25, Pinheiro 77] 
Pumas       2-1 Necaxa 
  [Julio César Yegros 54, José Luis Lopez 58; Miguel Acosta 71]
Leon        1-0 Atlas 
  [Diego Cocca 66og] 
America     2-2 Irapuato 
  [Ivan Zamorano 75, 92; Isaac Terrazas 20, Manuel Ríos 95]

Round 7 
[Feb 14] 
Toluca      1-3 Tecos 
  [Jose Cardozo 61; Rodolfo Navarro 65, Reynaldo Navia 84, Roberto Palacios 92] 
Santos      1-0 Atlante 
  [Jared Borguetti 82] 
Necaxa      1-1 Celaya 
  [Alfredo Moreno 32; Leonardo Fabio Moreno 57] 
Guadalajara 1-2 America 
  [Carlos Hermosillo 48; Braulio Luna 35, Duilio Davino 59] 
Leon        0-0 Pachuca 
Irapuato    4-1 Tigres 
  [Manuel Rios 10, Martin Rodriguez 47, 49, 82; Hugo Sanchez 68] 
Monterrey   3-0 Pumas 
  [Antonio  De Nigris 17, 27, Paulo Cesar Chavez 61] 
Cruz Azul   2-3 Puebla 
  [Pinheiro 32, Jaime Ruiz 82; Claudinho 49, 80, Pablo Caballero 51] 
[Feb 15] 
Atlas       3-0 Morelia 
  [Juan Pablo Rodriguez 60, 80, Daniel Osorno 68] 

Round 8
[Feb 17] 
Atlante     0-1 Toluca 
  [Carlos Maria Morales 79] 
Tecos       0-0 Necaxa 
Tigres      0-0 Guadalajara 
Puebla      1-0 Leon 
  [Claudinho 54] 
Celaya      1-3 Monterrey 
  [Diego Latorre 39; Juan Arango 44, 50, Argemiro Veiga 70] 
America     0-0 Cruz Azul 
[Feb 18] 
Pumas       3-1 Irapuato 
  [Alejandro Glaria 45,50, Jose Luis Lopez 58; Francisco Gomez Portocarrero 65] 
Pachuca     1-3 Atlas 
  [Gabriel Caballero 77; Daniel Osorno 46, 88, Juan Pablo Rodriguez 90] 
Morelia     3-3 Santos 
  [Dario Franco 20, Carlos A. Morales 36, 74; Jared Borguetti 14, 
   Joaquin Reyes 55, Mariano Trujillo 92] 

Round 9
[Feb 23]
Cruz Azul   2-1 Tigres 
  [Angel Morales 65, Emilio Mora 74; Jorge Santillana 37] 
[Feb 24]
Toluca      2-2 Morelia 
  [Carlos Maria Morales 33, Enrique Alfaro 59; Alex Fernandez 8,
   Antonio Gonzalez 90] 
Monterrey   1-0 Tecos 
  [Antonio De Nigris 69] 
Necaxa      1-2 Atlante 
  [Alfredo Moreno 29; Manuel Sol 11, Daniel Casartelli 77] 
Irapuato    2-1 Celaya 
  [Cristian Morales 9, 62; Leonardo Fabio Moreno 79] 
Atlas       2-4 Santos 
  [Walter Coyette 54, 61; Joaquin Reyes 29, Hector Altamirano 68, Guto 85, 
   Omar Briseña 90og] 
[Feb 25] 
Guadalajara 0-0 Pumas 
Pachuca     1-4 Puebla 
  [Cesareo Victorino 22; Alberto Garcia Aspe 36, 45, 61, 70] 
Leon        1-1 America 
  [Adelino Batista 47; Sigifredo Mercado 48og] 

Round 10 
[Mar 3] 
Atlante     1-1 Monterrey 
  [Paulo Serafin 31; Antonio De Nigris 75] 
Tigres      2-0 Leon 
  [Jesus Olalde 67, Carlos Ochoa 69] 
Tecos       4-3 Irapuato 
  [Reynaldo Navia 36, 56, Jafet Soto 58, Reynaldo Parks 72;
   Cristian Morales 78, Martin Rodriguez 83, Antonio Huerta 85og]
Puebla      2-0 Atlas 
  [Claudinho 2, Alberto Garcia Aspe 12] 
Celaya      3-2 Guadalajara 
  [Eduardo Medina 33og, Ricardo Gonzalez Bango 41, Tiba 82; Johny Garcia 63, 
   Carlos Hermosillo 94] 
[Mar 4] 
America     0-1 Pachuca 
  [Marco Garces 46]
Morelia     1-1 Necaxa 
  [Antonio Gonzalez 21; Alex Aguinaga 16]
Santos      2-2 Toluca 
  [Guto 56, Johan Rodriguez 66; Jose Cardozo 51, 53] 
[Mar 14] 
Pumas       0-0 Cruz Azul 

Round 11
[Mar 10] 
Monterrey   2-2 Morelia
  [Antonio De Nigris 30, Jesus Arellano 62; Alex Fernandez 4, J.Antonio Noriega 36] 
Cruz Azul   2-0 Celaya
  [Melvin Brown 66, Hector Adomaitis 69]  
Puebla      0-0 America 
Irapuato    1-2 Atlante 
  [Marcelo De Faria 85; Salvador Cabrera 74, Jose Manuel Abundis 91] 
Atlas       4-4 Toluca 
  [J.P.Rodriguez 11, Hugo Castillo 51, Daniel Osorno 79, Omar Briseño 82; 
   Victor Ruiz 50, Jose Cardozo 68, Omar Blanco 73, Omar Briseño 92og] 
[Mar 11] 
Guadalajara 1-1 Tecos 
  [Jair Garcia 83; Zdenko Muff 42] 
Pachuca     1-1 Tigres 
  [Gabriel Caballero 71, Jesus Olalde 25] 
Leon        1-2 Pumas 
  [Missael Espinoza 68; Alejandro Glaria 44, Mauricio Donoso 76] 
Necaxa      1-4 Santos
  [Agustin Delgado 45; Guto 54, Luis Romero 63, Jared Borguetti 67, 90] 

Round 12
[Mar 17] 
Atlante     0-1 Guadalajara 
  [Joel Sanchez 36] 
Toluca      1-2 Necaxa  
  [Jose Cardozo 36; Alex Aguinaga 30, Fabian Peña 50] 
Tigres      1-2 Puebla 
  [Joaquin Del Olmo 67; Claudinho 16, Oscar Mascorro 35] 
Tecos       2-0 Cruz Azul 
  [David Mendoza 65og, Adolfo Bautista 85] 
Celaya      4-1 Leon 
  [Leonardo Fabio Moreno 42, 64, Diego Latorre 75, 77; Leandro Augusto 60] 
[Mar 18] 
Pumas       2-2 Pachuca 
  [Alejandro Glaria 58, Mauricio Donoso 60; Gabriel Caballero 4, 
   Cesareo Victorino 75] 
Morelia     3-2 Irapuato 
  [Alex Fernandez 11, 19, Flavio Davino 28; Martin Rodriguez 45, 
   Cristian Morales 60] 
Santos      0-1 Monterrey 
  [Paulo Cesar Chavez 4] 
America     3-0 Atlas 
  [Braulio Luna 13, Luis Hernandez 19, Ivan Zamorano 75] 

Round 13
[Mar 27] 
Pachuca     1-0 Celaya 
  [Marco Garces 61] 
[Mar 28] 
America     0-0 Tigres 
Puebla      1-2 Pumas 
  [Pablo Caballero 78; Jose Luis Lopez 16, Alejandro Glaria 76] 
Leon        2-1 Tecos 
  [Sigifredo Mercado 45, Adelino Batista 87; Zdenko Muff 75] 
Irapuato    1-4 Santos 
  [Cristian Morales 49; Jared Borguetti 18,51, 58, Mariano Trujillo 77] 
Cruz Azul   1-1 Atlante 
  [Juan Francisco Palencia 64; Aaron Padilla 2] 
Atlas       2-3 Necaxa 
  [Daniel Osorno 24, Juan Pablo Rodriguez 84; Alfredo Moreno 82, 88, Zague 90] 
Monterrey   1-1 Toluca 
  [Hector Castro 21; Carlos Maria Morales 25] 
[Mar 29]
Guadalajara 1-1 Morelia
  [Marco Antonio Ruiz 70; Carlos Pavón 89]

Round 14
[Mar 31] 
Atlante     1-0 Leon  
  [Salvador Cabrera 12]
  [protest concerning eligibility of Atlante player Roberto Trotta rejected]
Toluca      4-2 Irapuato 
  [Victor Ruiz 45, Carlos Ma Morales 74, Jose Cardozo 78, 84;
   Alan Guadarrama 8, Marcelo de Faria 80] 
Tigres      3-0 Atlas 
  [Mauricio Gallaga 50, Jorge Santillana 81, Eduardo Lillingston 91] 
Tecos       1-0 Pachuca 
  [Gilberto Adame 2] 
Celaya      1-0 Puebla 
  [Diego Latorre 52] 
[Apr 1] 
Morelia     1-0 Cruz Azul 
  [Carlos Pavon 33] 
Pumas       1-1 America 
  [Alejandro Glaria 12; Ricardo Rojas 99] 
Santos      1-0 Guadalajara 
  [Jared Borguetti 60] 
Necaxa      1-0 Monterrey 
  [Zague 20] 

Round 15
[Apr 7] 
Tigres      2-0 Pumas 
  [Carlos Ochoa 8, Sergio Vazquez 60] 
Cruz Azul   4-0 Santos 
  [Pinheiro 9, 30, Tomas Campos 41, Juan Francisco Palencia 58] 
Puebla      2-2 Tecos 
  [Pablo Caballero 7, 41; Eyssy Valdez 34, Said Godinez 64] 
America     1-0 Celaya 
  [Frankie Oviedo 25] 
Irapuato    1-0 Necaxa 
  [Martin Rodriguez 2] 
Atlas       3-3 Monterrey 
  [Hugo Castillo  13, 81 Daniel Osorno 52; Jesus Arellano 26,
   Antonio De Nigris 80, 90] 
[Apr 8] 
Guadalajara 4-0 Toluca 
  [Carlos Hermosillo 38, Eduardo Medina 48, Ramon Morales 57, 
   Marco Antonio Ruiz 58] 
Pachuca     1-0 Atlante 
  [Gabriel Caballero 73] 
Leon        1-0 Morelia 
  [Jaime Ordiales 90] 

Round 16
[Apr 14] 
Atlante     2-0 Puebla 
  [Jose Manuel Abundis 8, Alejandro Nava 91] 
Pumas       1-3 Atlas                [in Toluca]
  [Julio Cesar Yegros 7; Daniel Osorno 24, Nelson Esqueda 62, 72] 
Tecos       1-3 America 
  [Reynaldo Navia 68; Braulio Luna 26, Ivan Zamorano 62, Frankie Oviedo 93] 
Monterrey   3-2 Irapuato 
  [Juan Arango 7, Argemino Veiga 12, Francisco Aguilera 59; 
   Antonio Mohamed 19, Victor Saavedra 55] 
Celaya      1-2 Tigres 
  [Leonardo Fabio Moreno 28; Jorge Santillana 48, 49] 
[Apr 15] 
Morelia     1-0 Pachuca 
  [Carlos Pavon 86] 
Toluca      5-1 Cruz Azul 
  [Victor Ruiz 1, 68, Carlos Maria Morales 47,74, 78; Angel Morales 73] 
Santos      5-0 Leon 
  [Rodrigo Ruiz 23, Johan Rodriguez 31, 45, Luis Fernando Soto 52, 
   Carlos Augusto Gomez 80] 
Necaxa      2-4 Guadalajara 
  [Ghandi Vega 48, Alfredo Moreno 93; Ramon Morales 51, Jair Garcia 62, 80,
   Carlos Hermosillo 72] 

Round 17 [Apr 19]
Guadalajara 2-0 Monterrey
  [Jair Garcia 33, Ramon Morales 86]
Pumas       2-1 Celaya
  [Alejandro Glaria 33, 55; Tiba 44]
Puebla      1-0 Morelia
  [Pablo Caballero 13]
America     3-0 Atlante
  [Frankie Oviedo 5, Ivan Zamorano 69, 77] 
Pachuca     2-1 Santos
  [Francisco Gabriel de Anda 63, Cesareo Victorino 77; Rodrigo Ruiz 78]
Atlas       1-0 Irapuato 
  [Daniel Osorno 36] 
Cruz Azul   1-3 Necaxa
  [Juan Francisco Palencia 50; Alfredo Moreno 23, Zague 71, Alvaro Ortiz 87]
Tigres      5-1 Tecos
  [Jorge Santillana 20, 23, Javier Saavedra 52, Antonio Huerta 69og, 
   Valtencir Gomes 86; Raul Mariscal 24] 
Leon        2-0 Toluca      
  [Sigifredo Mercado 13, Nicolas Ramirez 41] 

Final Tables Preliminary Round:

Group 1

 1.Atlante           17  6  5  6 16-16 23  [Cd. de México]   Relegation Playoff
 2.León              17  6  5  6 17-22 23                    Qualified
 3.Atlético Morelia  17  6  5  6 21-27 23                    Qualifying Playoff
 4.Cruz Azul         17  6  4  7 25-27 22  [Cd. de México]
 5.Toluca            17  3  8  6 28-33 17

NB: as Atlante enter the relegation playoff, they cannot play the 
    championship playoffs

Group 2

 1.Tigres            17  7  6  4 23-13 27  [Monterrey]       Qualified
 2.Atlas             17  6  4  7 32-33 22  [Guadalajara]     Qualifying Playoff
 3.Pumas U.N.A.M.    17  5  7  5 21-24 22  [Cd. de México]
 4.Atlético Celaya   17  5  3  9 25-27 18
 5.Irapuato          17  3  4 10 27-38 13

Group 3

 1.Santos Laguna     17  8  4  5 35-27 28  [Torreón]         Qualified
 2.Monterrey         17  7  7  3 25-18 28                    Qualified
 3.Puebla            17  7  6  4 21-17 27                    Qualifying Playoff
 4.Necaxa            17  5  4  8 20-25 19  [Cd. de México]

Group 4

 1.América           17  7  7  3 25-15 28  [Cd. de México]   Qualified
 2.Pachuca           17  7  4  6 22-22 25                    Qualified
 3.Tecos U.A.G.      17  7  4  6 24-27 25  [Guadalajara]     Qualifying Playoff
 4.Guadalajara       17  5  7  5 21-17 22

Topscorers: 

1.-Jared Borguetti           Santos     Mexico    13  Champion 
2.-Jose Saturnino Cardozo    Toluca     Paraguay  11 
3.-Leonardo Fabio Moreno     Celaya     Colombia  10 
4.-Ivan Zamorano             America    Chile      9 
   Daniel Osorno             Atlas      Mexico     9 
   Antonio De Nigris         Monterrey  Mexico     9 
   Martin Rodriguez          Irapuato   Uruguay    9 
8.-Juan Pablo Rodriguez      Atlas      Mexico     8 
   Diego Latorre             Celaya     Argentina  8 
   Carlos Maria Morales      Toluca     Uruguay    8 
   Alejandro Glaria          Pumas      Argentina  8 

Relegation:

17.León       106/102  1.04 
---------------------------
18.Atlante    104/102  1.02  Relegation Playoff

NB: Atlante to play a relegation match against the 2nd level runners-up;
    league extended to 19 teams 2001/02.

Promotion Playoff
(between winter (Aguascalientes) and summer (La Piedad) champions 2nd level)
[May 31] 
Aguascalientes   1-0 La Piedad 
[Jun 3] 
La Piedad        4-1 Aguascalientes 

La Piedad promoted

Promotion/Relegation Playoff
(between worst team 1st level and financially strong (5 million USD) team 2nd level)


Fist Leg [Jun 6] 
Veracruz         0-0 Atlante 

Second Leg [Jun 9] 
Atlante          4-1 Veracruz 
  [Paulo Serafin 16, Manuel Sol 30, Jose Manuel Abundis 57, 62; 
   Guillermo Hernandez 51] 

Atlante remain at 1st level


NB: following the playoff, Irapuato's franchise was moved to Veracruz,
    so Veracruz will play instead of Irapuato in 2001/02.


Qualifying Playoffs

First Legs 
[Apr 25]
Atlas       1-2 Puebla
  [Juan Pablo Rodriguez 40; Pablo Caballero 13, Alberto Garcia Aspe 34] 
[Apr 26]
Morelia     3-3 Tecos
  [Flavio Davino 13, 14, Jose A. Noriega 55; Flavio Davino 5og, 
   Reynaldo Navia 41, Adolfo Bautista 66] 

Second Legs 
[Apr 28]
Puebla      3-3 Atlas 
  [Alberto Garcia Aspe 33, Gilberto Jimenez 72, Marco Capetillo 78; 
   Pablo Caballero 16og, Walter Coyette 64, Miguel Zepeda 86] 
[Apr 29]
Tecos       1-1 Morelia
  [Adolfo Bautista 79; Alex Fernandez 72] [Tecos on better record]

Quarterfinals

First Legs
[May 2] 
Leon        1-1 America 
  [Francisco Uribe 7; Alfredo Murguia 88og] 
Puebla      3-1 Tigres 
  [Sergio Zárate 66, Alberto Garcia Aspe 71, Pablo Caballero 82; Sergio Vázquez 31] 
Pachuca     4-0 Monterrey 
  [Cesareo Victorino 33, Manuel Vidrio 66, 70, Isaac Morales 90] 
[May 3] 
Tecos       2-3 Santos 
  [Zdenko Muff 20, Roberto Palacios 86; Jared Borguetti 36, 65, Mariano Trujillo 61] 

Second Legs
[May 5]
Monterrey   2-2 Pachuca
  [Antonio De Nigris 32, Omar Avilan 61; Cesareo Victorino 52, 68] 
America     4-1 Leon
  [Ivan Zamorano 31, 61; Frankie Oviedo 51, 69; Sigifredo Mercado 77] 
Tigres      2-2 Puebla
  [Jesus Olalde 57, Oscar Mascorro 86og; Roberto Ruiz Esparza 48, 
   Marco A. Capetillo 54] 
[May 6] 
Santos      4-0 Tecos 
  [Jared Borguetti 38, 76, Hector Altamirano 59, Johan Rodriguez 83] 


Semifinals

First Legs
[May 9] 
Pachuca     2-0 America 
  [Andres Chitiva 33, Sergio Santana 79] 
[May 10] 
Puebla      5-4 Santos 
  [Pablo Caballero 2, Claudinho 4, 51, Alberto Garcia Aspe 51, 87;
   Jared Borguetti 21, 24, 59, Hector Altamirano 37]

Second Legs [May 12] 
America     1-1 Pachuca 
  [Braulio Luna 4; Cesareo Victorino 90] 
Santos      2-1 Puebla 
  [Rodrigo Ruiz 13, Johan Rodriguez 45; Claudinho 41] 


Final

First Leg [May 17] 
Pachuca     2-1 Santos 
  [Sergio Santana 4, Pedro Pineda 85; Jared Borguetti 5]

Second Leg [May 20]
Santos      3-1 Pachuca
  [Jared Borguetti 25, Mariano Trujillo 64, Robson Luiz 79; Andres Chitiva 38] 

Santos Laguna champion 

Squad Santos Laguna: 
Adrian Martinez      Mexico 
Hector Altamirano    Mexico 
Hector Lopez         Mexico 
Luis Romero          Paraguay 
Miguel Angel Carreon Mexico 
Carlos Cariño        Mexico 
Johan Rodriguez      Mexico 
Mariano Trujillo     Mexico 
Joaquin Reyes        Mexico 
Rodrigo Ruiz         Chile 
Jared Borguetti      Mexico 
Robson Luis          Brazil 
Carlos A. Gomez Guto Brazil 
Jorge Campos         Mexico 

Coach: Fernando Quirarte    Mexico 


Qualified for Pre-Libertadores 2001:
América 
Atlas 
Cruz Azul 
Morelia 
Toluca 


Authors: José de Jesus Mora Rivera
and Erik Francisco Lugo

Last updated: 6 Feb 2009

(C) Copyright José de Jesus Mora Rivera,
Erik Francisco Lugo and RSSSF 2000/09