1970 Mexican Primera División season

Primera División de México
Season	Mexico 70
Champions	Cruz Azul (2nd Title)
Champions' Cup	Cruz Azul
Matches played	480
Goals scored	550 (1.15 per match)
← 1969-70 1970-71 →

México 1970
In celebration of the 1970 World Cup (Mexico '70) the Mexican Football Federation held a tournament in two phases, before the world cup (Feb. 4 - May 10) and after the world cup (July 8 - Oct. 11).

Sixteen teams were seeded in two groups of eight teams, first four places of each group advanced to the "Championship Group" and the last four teams of each group played in a "Consolation Group".

Laguna last place of the 1969-70 season, was scheduled to play against the last place of the Consolation Group in a playoff relegation series, but due to expansion to 18 teams for the 1970-71 season this series was cancelled, there was no relegation.

Overview

This tournament was contested by 16 teams, and Cruz Azul won the championship.

After this tournament Oro changed its name to Jalisco.

First stage

Group 1

Top four teams from each group advance to Championship Group.
The bottom four plays in Consolation Group.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Torreón	14	5	7	2	22	16	17
2	Monterrey	14	5	6	3	16	21	16
3	Guadalajara	14	7	1	6	27	18	15
4	León	14	5	5	4	25	20	15
5	UNAM	14	4	6	4	20	21	14
6	Oro	14	6	2	6	15	18	14
7	Veracruz	14	5	3	6	25	23	13
8	Necaxa	14	1	6	7	11	24	8

Group 2

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Toluca	14	7	3	4	21	12	17
2	Pachuca	14	6	4	4	15	9	16
3	Cruz Azul	14	7	2	5	13	13	16
4	Atlas	14	6	4	4	17	19	16
5	América	14	6	2	6	16	15	14
6	Laguna	14	4	4	6	13	19	12
7	Atlante	14	2	7	5	12	17	11
8	Irapuato	14	4	2	8	15	18	10

Second stage

Championship group

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Cruz Azul	14	10	1	3	26	15	21	Champions
2	Guadalajara	14	7	5	2	21	11	19
3	León	14	7	4	3	22	15	18
4	Toluca	14	7	3	4	26	15	17
5	Pachuca	14	6	1	7	21	24	13
6	Atlas	14	3	4	7	13	23	10
7	Monterrey	14	2	5	7	13	20	9
8	Torreón	14	2	1	11	12	31	5

Consolation group

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
9	UNAM	14	7	3	4	14	8	17
10	Laguna	14	6	5	3	17	12	17
11	Veracruz	14	6	4	4	16	13	16
12	Atlante	14	4	7	3	16	13	15
13	Irapuato	14	5	5	4	15	17	15
14	América	14	4	6	4	13	12	14
15	Necaxa	14	3	5	6	12	17	11
16	Oro	14	2	3	9	10	21	7

1970 winners:
Cruz Azul 2nd Title

References

Mexico - List of final tables (RSSSF)

Liga MX

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