Liga MX Femenil
Top level of the Mexican association football league system for women
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2025 | Liga MX Femenil initiates a new broadcasting initiative called 'FutFem Donde Sea', producing TV broadcasts for home games of América, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Necaxa, Pumas, and Toluca, and streaming these games through YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok to reach a wider audience and centralize league TV rights. |
2024 | Charlyn Corral wins top scorer title in Apertura 2024 for Pachuca with 18 goals. |
2024 | Charlyn Corral of Pachuca becomes top scorer in Clausura 2024 with 19 goals. |
2024 | Monterrey wins the Clausura 2024 tournament, defeating América 0-1 and 2-1, winning 4-3 in penalties. |
2024 | Monterrey wins the Apertura 2024 tournament, defeating UANL 0-1 and 3-2, winning 4-3 in penalties. |
November 2024 | C.F. Monterrey defeats Tigres UANL in the Apertura 2024 final with a 2-2 aggregate score, winning 4-3 in a penalty shootout to become the current league champions. |
October 8 2024 | First season of Liga TDP Femenil officially began, positioned as the third division of women's football in Mexico. |
September 25 2024 | Liga TDP Femenil was publicly announced with support from the Mexican Football Federation, Liga TDP, and Liga Premier clubs, aiming to develop players for Liga MX Femenil clubs. |
September 12 2024 | Club América completed the largest incoming transfer in league history by signing 20-year-old Brazilian international forward Priscila from SC Internacional for $497,403 plus incentives, marking the largest transfer between Latin American women's football clubs. |
March 20 2024 | Liga MX Femenil and the NWSL jointly announced the inaugural NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup, with qualification based on points accumulated across the previous year's Clausura and Apertura tournaments. |
March 20 2024 | Liga MX Femenil and NWSL announced a new international competition called Summer Cup, featuring six teams from each league, with the inaugural edition starting on 19 July 2024. |
March 12 2024 | CONCACAF announced the CONCACAF W Champions Cup, allocating three spots for Liga MX Femenil teams in the group stage. Qualification is based on Apertura champion, Clausura champion, and the best runner-up from both tournaments. |
2023 | Tigres UANL wins their third Campeón de Campeonas title in the 2023–24 season. |
2023 | Eighth season saw the league increase non-Mexican player spots to five per team and modified the minors rule regarding U-20 and U-17 players' national team play time requirements. |
2023 | The Clausura 2023 tournament final broke the previous attendance record, with approximately 58,156 fans attending the second leg at Estadio Azteca, where Club América won its second title in history. |
2023 | Alicia Cervantes wins top scorer title again for Guadalajara in Apertura 2023 with 15 goals. |
2023 | Club América transferred Mexican forward Scarlett Camberos to Angel City FC in the fifth most expensive women's football transfer of 2023, becoming the largest outgoing transfer in league history. |
2023 | UANL wins the Apertura 2023 tournament, defeating América 3-0 and 0-0. |
2023 | Charlyn Corral of Pachuca wins top scorer title in Clausura 2023 with 20 goals. |
2023 | América wins the Clausura 2023 tournament, defeating Pachuca 2-1 and 2-1. |
2023 | Liga MX Femenil youth division expanded to a U-19 division, incrementing the allowed player age from the previous U-17 category. |
2023 | The first transfer fee paid between two Liga MX Femenil clubs occurred when Miah Zuazua transferred from FC Juárez to Club América. |
March 29 2023 | Nike became an official sponsor of Liga MX Femenil, providing exclusive sponsorship that includes match balls, equipment for league and youth division players, and investment in development programs. The sponsorship is set to last three years, starting with the 2023–24 season. |
2022 | Sixth season began implementing VAR in the Liguilla phase and increased non-Mexican player spots from two to four per team. |
2022 | Mia Fishel of UANL becomes top scorer in Apertura 2022 with 17 goals. |
2022 | Liga MX Femenil established a youth division starting with U-17 players to develop talent, requiring all clubs to participate. |
2022 | Alicia Cervantes wins top scorer title for Guadalajara in Clausura 2022 with 14 goals. |
2022 | Guadalajara wins the Clausura 2022 tournament, defeating Pachuca 4-2 and 0-1. |
2022 | Tigres UANL wins their second Campeón de Campeonas title in the 2022–23 season. |
2022 | UANL wins the Apertura 2022 tournament, defeating América 1-0 and 2-0. |
November 2022 | The league's attendance record was broken during the Apertura 2022 final between Tigres and Club América, with approximately 52,654 fans attending at Estadio Azteca. This final also set a TV viewership record with over 5.3 million viewers. |
July 5 2022 | Club América played its first match against a European team (Bayer 04 Leverkusen from Frauen-Bundesliga), winning 1-0 at Estadio Azteca. |
2021 | UANL wins the Guardianes 2021 tournament, defeating Guadalajara 2-1 and 5-3. |
2021 | Alicia Cervantes of Guadalajara becomes top scorer in Grita México 2021 with 17 goals. |
2021 | Alison González of Atlas wins top scorer title in Guardianes 2021 with 18 goals. |
2021 | Monterrey wins the Grita México 2021 tournament, defeating UANL 2-2 and 0-0, winning 3-1 in penalties. |
2021 | Guadalajara wins their first Campeón de Campeonas title in the 2021–22 season. |
June 25 2021 | League began allowing two non-Mexican players per team. Tigres became the first club to use this option by signing Brazilian player Stefany Ferrer. The league also inaugurated its youth division, with Club América winning the initial tournament. |
2020 | Mazatlán FC becomes the latest team to join Liga MX Femenil, bringing the total number of teams to 18. |
2020 | Fourth season removed overage player limits while maintaining a requirement for teams to allocate 1,000 minutes of play time to U-20 players. The Campeón de Campeonas championship was introduced, with Tigres winning the first edition. |
2020 | Katty Martínez of UANL becomes top scorer in the Guardianes 2020 tournament with 18 goals. |
2020 | UANL wins the Guardianes 2020 tournament, defeating Monterrey 1-0 and 0-1, winning 3-2 in penalties. |
2020 | Tigres UANL automatically awarded the inaugural Campeón de Campeonas trophy after winning both Apertura and Clausura tournaments of the 2020–21 season. |
2020 | Liga MX Femenil introduced the Campeón de Campeonas championship, a new annual tournament where teams qualify by winning either the Apertura or Clausura tournament. |
June 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Monarcas Morelia franchise is relocated to Mazatlán, ending Morelia Femenil's three-year trajectory in the top flight and creating Mazatlán F.C. as the newest league member. |
2019 | After the Apertura 2019, Veracruz folds in Liga MX, causing Veracruz Femenil to become a defunct club, reducing the league back to 18 teams. |
2019 | Atlético San Luis and Juárez FC entered Liga MX Femenil, further growing the league's team composition. |
2019 | League implemented a new single table format with 18 teams, where each team plays against all other 17 teams, with top eight teams advancing to Liguilla quarter-finals. |
2019 | Desirée Monsiváis wins top scorer title again in Apertura 2019 for Monterrey with 17 goals. |
2019 | League expands to 19 teams with the introduction of Atlético San Luis Femenil. Lobos BUAP franchise is acquired by FC Juárez, moving the Femenil team from Puebla to Juárez. |
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