Primera División de México Apertura 2005

Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2005 was the 2005 edition of the Primera Division de Mexico, crowning Mexico's fall champion in football. The season ran from August to December 2005. San Luis was promoted to the Primera División de México thus, Puebla was relegated to the Primera División A. Toluca won the championship and qualified for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2006.

Primera División de México

Season	2005−06
Champions	Toluca (8th title)
Champions' Cup	Toluca
Copa Libertadores	UNAM UANL Guadalajara (First Stage)
Copa Sudamericana	Toluca
Top goalscorer	Sebastian Abreu Kléber Boas Walter Gaitán Vicente Matías Vuoso (11 goals)
← Clausura 2005 Clausura 2006 →

Clubs

Mexico City

Atlas
Guadalajara
UAG

Toluca

Necaxa

Monterrey
UANL

Veracruz

Morelia

Chiapas

San Luis

Sinaloa

Pachuca

Santos Laguna

Greater Mexico City teams
América
Atlante
Cruz Azul
UNAM

Location of the Primera División Apertura 2005 teams

Team	City	Stadium
América	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlante	Mexico City	Azteca
Atlas	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Chiapas	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	Víctor Manuel Reyna
Cruz Azul	Mexico City	Azul
Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Jalisco
Morelia	Morelia, Michoacán	Morelos
Monterrey	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Tecnológico
Necaxa	Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes	Victoria
Pachuca	Pachuca, Hidalgo	Hidalgo
San Luis	San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.	Alfonso Lastras
Santos Laguna	Torreón, Coahuila	Corona
Sinaloa	Culiacán, Sinaloa	Banorte
Toluca	Toluca, State of Mexico	Nemesio Díez
UAG	Zapopan, Jalisco	Tres de Marzo
UANL	San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León	Universitario
UNAM	Mexico City	Olímpico Universitario
Veracruz	Veracruz, Veracruz	Luis "Pirata" Fuente

Regular phase

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América	17	12	2	3	34	22	+12	38	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Necaxa	17	9	4	4	35	31	+4	31
3	UAG	17	7	3	7	27	28	−1	24	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
4	Morelia	17	6	2	9	27	29	−2	20
5	San Luis	17	4	4	9	18	25	−7	16
6	Atlante	17	4	3	10	29	37	−8	15

Source: MedioTiempo

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Toluca	17	9	3	5	27	21	+6	30	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Pachuca	17	7	7	3	26	18	+8	28
3	Santos Laguna	17	5	5	7	31	31	0	20
4	Sinaloa	17	5	3	9	20	31	−11	18
5	UNAM	17	4	4	9	17	34	−17	16
6	Veracruz	17	3	6	8	24	34	−10	15

Source: MedioTiempo

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Monterrey	17	10	5	2	32	20	+12	35	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Cruz Azul	17	9	3	5	34	20	+14	30
3	UANL	17	6	4	7	30	25	+5	22	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
4	Atlas	17	6	3	8	22	24	−2	21
5	Chiapas	17	5	8	4	30	27	+3	20[a]
6	Guadalajara	17	4	7	6	16	22	−6	19

Source: MedioTiempo
Notes:

1. Jaguares de Chiapas deducted 3 points for insufficient use of youth team players.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América	17	12	2	3	34	22	+12	38	Automatically qualified for the Liguilla (Playoffs)
2	Monterrey	17	10	5	2	32	20	+12	35
3	Necaxa	17	9	4	4	35	31	+4	31
4	Cruz Azul	17	9	3	5	34	20	+14	30
5	Toluca	17	9	3	5	27	21	+6	30
6	Pachuca	17	7	7	3	26	18	+8	28
7	UAG	17	7	3	7	27	28	−1	24	Qualified for Liguilla (Playoffs) on a points basis
8	UANL	17	6	4	7	30	25	+5	22
9	Atlas	17	6	3	8	22	24	−2	21
10	Chiapas	17	5	8	4	30	27	+3	20[a]
11	Santos Laguna	17	5	5	7	31	31	0	20
12	Morelia	17	6	2	9	27	29	−2	20
13	Guadalajara	17	4	7	6	16	22	−6	19
14	Sinaloa	17	5	3	9	20	31	−11	18
15	San Luis	17	4	4	9	18	25	−7	16
16	UNAM	17	4	4	9	17	34	−17	16
17	Atlante	17	4	3	10	29	37	−8	15
18	Veracruz	17	3	6	8	24	34	−10	15

Source: MedioTiempo
Notes:

1. Jaguares de Chiapas deducted 3 points for insufficient use of youth team players.

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Only regular season goals listed.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sebastian Abreu	Sinaloa	11
	Kléber Boas	América
	Walter Gaitán	UANL
	Vicente Matías Vuoso	Santos Laguna
5	Salvador Cabañas	Chiapas	9
	César Delgado	Cruz Azul
	Guillermo Franco	Monterrey
	Patricio Galaz	Atlante
	Daniel Ludueña	UAG
	Carlos Ochoa	Chiapas
	Rodrigo Ruiz	Santos Laguna

Source: MedioTiempo

Results

Home \ Away	AME	ATE	ATS	CHI	CAZ	GDL	MTY	MOR	NEC	PAC	SNL	SAN	SIN	TOL	UAG	UNL	UNM	VER
América	—	4–3	–	–	1–0	0–0	–	–	4–1	–	3–1	2–1	2–1	–	–	3–1	–	1–2
Atlante	–	—	–	1–1	–	–	0–2	4–3	2–1	–	–	0–0	–	–	0–1	2–0	–	4–5
Atlas	1–3	1–0	—	0–0	0–1	2–2	–	–	–	3–2	1–0	–	1–2	–	2–1	–	–	–
Chiapas	4–3	–	–	—	–	–	1–2	1–0	1–1	–	–	5–1	–	–	3–3	1–1	5–1	2–2
Cruz Azul	–	5–3	–	3–1	—	0–0	1–2	2–1	–	–	3–0	–	2–2	–	5–1	–	–	–
Guadalajara	–	3–2	–	1–1	–	—	2–3	1–2	1–2	–	–	–	1–0	–	1–0	–	–	1–1
Monterrey	4–1	–	1–0	–	–	–	—	–	1–1	1–2	–	2–2	–	2–1	–	2–1	1–1	1–1
Morelia	1–2	–	1–0	–	–	–	2–2	—	3–4	–	–	1–0	–	3–1	–	0–2	2–2	2–1
Necaxa	–	–	3–5	–	3–1	–	–	–	—	2–1	2–1	4–3	–	0–0	–	3–2	2–0	–
Pachuca	0–0	3–2	–	5–1	0–0	0–0	–	1–3	–	—	0–0	–	2–1	–	1–0	–	–	–
San Luis	–	2–2	–	1–1	–	1–2	1–2	2–1	–	–	—	–	4–1	–	2–1	–	–	1–0
Santos Laguna	–	–	2–2	–	3–2	3–0	–	–	–	0–0	3–1	—	–	4–1	–	1–4	1–2	–
Sinaloa	–	3–1	–	2–1	–	–	1–3	2–1	1–1	–	–	0–3	—	–	0–2	–	-	1–0
Toluca	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	–	–	–	1–1	2–1	–	2–2	—	–	–	–	–
UAG	1–2	–	–	–	–	–	2–1	2–1	3–2	–	–	3–2	–	1–2	—	1–1	3–1	2–2
UANL	–	–	1–2	–	1–2	1–1	–	–	–	2–2	1–0	–	3–1	1–3		—	3–1	–
UNAM	1–2	2–3	1–0	–	0–5	1–0	–	–	–	1–3	0–0	–	2–0	0–3	–	–	—	–
Veracruz	–	–	2–1	–	0–1	–	–	–	2–3	1–3	–	2–2	–	2–3		0–5	1–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 26 November 2005. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final phase (Liguilla)

Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	2	Monterrey	3	4	7
	7	UAG	0	0	0
								2	Monterrey (s)	0	2	2
								9	UANL	1	1	2
	1	América	3	1	4
	9	UANL	1	4	5
															2	Monterrey	3	0	3
															5	Toluca	3	3	6
	4	Cruz Azul	0	0	0
	5	Toluca	1	0	1
								5	Toluca	0	2	2
								6	Pachuca	0	1	1
	3	Necaxa	0	0	0
	6	Pachuca	2	2	4

Quarterfinals

November 30, 2005

19:00

UAG	0–3	Monterrey
	Report	Franco  6', 54' Casartelli  88' (pen.)

Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan

Referee: Hugo León Guajardo (Mexico City)

December 3, 2005

17:00

Monterrey	4–0	UAG
Franco  2' Casartelli 73' Pérez  75', 81'	Report

Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey

Referee: Jorge Eduardo Gasso (Mexico City)

Monterrey won 7–0 on aggregate.

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December 1, 2005

20:45

UANL	1–3	América
Júlio César  76'	Report	Kléber  40' Pardo  62' Blanco  70'

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Referee: Mauricio Morales (Mexico City)

December 4, 2005

17:00

América	1–4	UANL
Kléber 53'	Report	Peralta 18' Gaitán  22', 35' Júlio César 90'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

UANL won 5–4 on aggregate.

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December 1, 2005

15:00

Toluca	1–0	Cruz Azul
Esquivel  62'	Report

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Referee: Gilberto Alcalá Pineda (Mexico City)

December 4, 2005

20:00

Cruz Azul	0–0	Toluca
	Report

Estadio Azul, Mexico City

Referee: Manuel Ernesto Glower (Mexico City)

Toluca won 1–0 on aggregate.

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November 30, 2005

21:00

Pachuca	2–0	Necaxa
Landín  16' Cacho  33'	Report

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca

Referee: Armando Archundia (Estado de México)

December 3, 2005

20:30

Necaxa	0–2	Pachuca
	Report	Landín  27' Caballero  47'

Estadio Victoria, Aguascalientes

Referee: Germán Arredondo Ramírez (Guanajuato)

Pachuca won 4–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

December 7, 2005

20:45

UANL	1–0	Monterrey
Peralta  54'	Report

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza

Referee: Armando Archundia (Estado de México)

December 10, 2005

17:00

Monterrey	2–1	UANL
Pérez  57' (pen.) Franco  85'	Report	Gaitán  73'

Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey

Referee: Germán Arredondo Ramírez (Guanajuato)

2–2 on aggregate. Monterrey advanced for being the higher seeded team.

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December 8, 2005

20:45

Pachuca	0–0	Toluca
	Report

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca

Referee: Jorge Eduardo Gasso (Mexico City)

December 11, 2005

15:00

Toluca	2–1	Pachuca
da Silva  10' Esquivel  43'	Report	Santana  33'

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

Toluca won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

December 15, 2005

15:00

Toluca	3–3	Monterrey
Sánchez  32' Abundis  45' Díaz  87'	Report	Pérez  3' (pen.) Casartelli  8' da Silva 61' (o.g.)

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Referee: Gilberto Alcalá Pineda (Mexico City)

December 18, 2005

17:00

Monterrey	0–3	Toluca
	Report	Sánchez 50', 90+1' Díaz 90+3'

Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico City)

Toluca won 6–3 on aggregate.

Champions
Toluca 8th title

External links

• Mediotiempo.com (where information was obtained)