2019–20 Copa MX


The 2019–20 Copa MX will be the 82nd staging of the Copa MX, the 54th staging in the professional era and the fifteenth tournament played since the 1996–97 edition. The tournament started on 30 July 2019 and will end on 23 September 2020.
This marks the first year since it was restored in 2012 that only one tournament will be played in the Mexican football year. In previous years, two tournaments were played throughout the year.
América are the defending champions after they defeated Juárez 0–1 in the Clausura 2019 final.
The winners will qualify to the 2020 Leagues Cup.

Participants

This tournament will feature the 15 clubs from Liga MX who will not participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League.
The tournament will also feature the top 12 Ascenso MX teams of the 2018–19 aggregate table not promoted to Liga MX.

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 12 June 2019 in Cancún. 27 teams were drawn into nine groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots.
Clubs in Pot [|1] were drawn to be the seed of each group according to the order of their drawing. That is, the first club that was drawn is seed of Group 1, the second drawn is seed of Group [|2] and so on and so on. The Liga MX teams in Pot 1 are the five best teams in the not participating in the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League. Pot 1 also contains the top four Ascenso MX teams in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table.
Pot 2 contains the next five best placed Liga MX clubs in the and Ascenso MX clubs who ended 7–11 in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table. Pot 2 also contains Juárez who replaced Lobos BUAP in Liga MX.
Pot [|3] contains the next five Liga MX clubs in the and the Ascenso MX clubs who ended 12–14 in the 2018–19 Ascenso MX aggregate table.. Pot 3 also contains recently promoted Atlético San Luis.

Teams

Tiebreakers

If two or more clubs are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:
  1. scores of the group matches played among the clubs in question;
  2. superior goal difference;
  3. higher number of goals scored;
  4. higher number of goals scored away in the group matches played among the clubs in question;
  5. fair play ranking;
  6. drawing of lots.

    Group stage

Every group is composed of three clubs, each group has at least one club from Liga MX and Ascenso MX.
All match times listed are, except for matches in Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Hermosillo and Tijuana.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group [|4]

Group [|5]

Group [|6]

Group [|7]

Group [|8]

Group [|9]

Ranking of second-placed teams

Knockout stage

The nine group winners and the seven best runners-up from the group stage qualify for the final stage.
GroupWinnersRunners-up
1Morelia
2MonterreyChiapas
3JuárezVenados
4Toluca
5TijuanaQuerétaro
6SinaloaCelaya
7Santos LagunaGuadalajara
8UNAMAtlético San Luis
9PachucaAtlas

Seeding

Bracket

Round of 16

Summary

The first legs were played on 21–22 January, and the second legs were played on 28–29 January.

Matches

Monterrey won 7–3 on aggregate
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4–4 on aggregate. Toluca won 5–3 on penalty kicks.
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4–4 on aggregate. Morelia won 3–2 on penalty kicks.
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Juárez won 5–4 on aggregate
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2–2 on aggregate. Sinaloa won 6–5 on penalty kicks.
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Tijuana won 2–0 on aggregate
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Pachuca won 4–2 on aggregate
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Santos Laguna won 5–4 on aggregate

Quarterfinals

Summary

The first legs were played on 11–12 February 2020, and the second legs were played on 18–19 February 2020.

Matches

Monterrey won 1–0 on aggregate
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Toluca won 7–3 on aggregate
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Tijuana won 3–1 on aggregate
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Juárez won 3–0 on aggregate

Semifinals

Summary

The first legs were played on 3–4 March 2020, and the second legs were played on 10–11 March 2020.

Matches

2–2 on aggregate. Monterrey won 6–5 on penalty kicks.
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Tijuana won 7–3 on aggregate

Finals

Summary

The first and second legs were scheduled to be played on 8 April 2020 and 22 April 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico to 16 and 23 September 2020.

Matches

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.
Players and teams in bold are still active in the competition.
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Kevin CastañedaToluca7
2 Vincent JanssenMonterrey6
3 Octavio RiveroSantos Laguna5
4 Eduardo AguirreSantos Laguna4
4 Camilo SanvezzoTijuana4
6 Brayan AnguloTijuana3
6 Leandro CarrijóJuárez3
6 Amaury EscotoSinaloa3
6 Michael EstradaToluca3
6 Rogelio Funes MoriMonterrey3
6 Colin Kazim-RichardsPachuca3
6 Diego ValdezAtlético San Luis3

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