Sources: Clubs sue Liga MX for pro/rel return
- In May 2025, eleven clubs from Mexico’s second-tier Liga MX Expansion initiated legal action against the top-flight Liga MX teams and the national football governing body, seeking to have promotion and relegation between the divisions reinstated.
- The suspension began in 2020 for six seasons to protect clubs financially from COVID-19 pandemic impacts but Liga MX wants the change permanent.
- Liga MX's desire for a closed league system resembles MLS, includes multi-club ownership concerns and disputes over ignored reintegration requests.
- Lawyer Eduardo Carlezzo described the case as a landmark football conflict in Mexico, emphasizing the $1.25 billion investment risks and longstanding structural problems within the sport.
- The dispute pressures the upcoming May 26 Liga MX assembly and could determine if promotion and relegation return for 2025-26 or 2026-27 seasons.
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Mexican Second Division Teams Appeal to CAS to Reinstate Promotion and Relegation
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ten of the 16 second-division teams seeking to reinstate promotion and relegation in Mexico have filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Among the discontented is Atlante, a club founded in 1918 that has won two league titles but was relegated in 2014. Since the Mexican Football Federation ended promotion in the 2019-20 season, the Potros de Hierro have won the second division three times.
Ten Second Division Teams Demand MX League and Federation to Restore Rise and Fall in Mexican Football · Global Voices
Mexico's second division football clubs, La Liga de Expansión, have filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) and the 18 teams of the MX League, which play in the first division, before the Court of Sports Arbitration (TAS, by its acronym in French), demanding the re-establishment of the system of promotions and descents, according to the media The Athletic.
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