The 1996-97 Mexican Football League (Division 1) is split into two different tournaments (Winter 1996 and Summer 1997). In each tournament, a 17-game regular season will be followed by a playoff to determine the champion. Playoff qualification for each tournament will be determined by the following criteria: (a) The winner of every group (4 in total) goes right to the quarter-finals, that is, has a 1st-round bye. (b) The runner-up of every group goes to the playoffs as well. The top two runner-ups get a 1st-round bye. The third and fourth runner up (RU.3 & RU.4) might play in the 1st-round playoff against two wild card teams. (c) The top two teams of the remaining ten not yet considered will go to the 1st-round playoff ONLY if they have a better overall standing than that of the lowest qualified team according to (a) and (b) above. They are tagged WC.1 and WC.2 (wild cards) according to their final overall standing. (d) Every match-up is played in a home-to-home series with the following tie-breaker criteria: (i) Aggregate score. (ii) Away goals. (iii) Final overall standing. Therefore, every series (except the final) will be decided after 180 minutes of action (no extra time). Tie-breaker (ii) and (iii) are removed for the final, allowing for the typical extra-time period plus penalty shots should it be necessary. STANDINGS --------------------------------------------------- GROUP 1 G F:A PTS MN --------------------------------------------------- 1. Atlante 17 30-11 38 * 2. Puebla 17 32-22 31 * 3. Neza 17 30-36 24 * 4. Cruz_Azul 17 26-26 20 5. Veracruz 17 14-21 18 --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- GROUP 2 G F:A PTS MN --------------------------------------------------- 1. Necaxa 17 24-19 29 * 2. Leon 17 24-19 23 * 3. America 17 24-27 17 4. Pachuca 17 25-36 15 5. Morelia 17 20-31 12 --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- GROUP 3 G F:A PTS MN --------------------------------------------------- 1. Guadalajara 17 33-19 31 * 2. Toluca 17 26-15 30 * 3. Atlas 17 28-26 26 * 4. U.N.A.M. 17 23-27 18 --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- GROUP 4 G F:A PTS MN --------------------------------------------------- 1. Santos 17 21-15 34 * 2. Monterrey 17 15-21 19 * 3. U.A.G. 17 20-30 18 4. Celaya 17 19-33 17 --------------------------------------------------- MN = Magic number of points needed to clinch a play- off berth. (*) Qualified. WEEK 1 (09-11/AG/96) U.A.G. vs Atlas 0 - 1 [Rodolfo García 68] Cruz Azul vs Toros Neza 3 - 0 [Luis Carlos de Oliveira 9, Sergio Verdirame 30, Carlos Hermosillo 67] Celaya vs Monterrey 0 - 0 Puebla vs Toluca 2 - 1 [Daniel Guzmán 39, Carlos Muñoz 74; José Manuel Abundis 85] Guadalajara vs U.N.A.M. 2 - 0 [Claudio Suárez 40pen, Gabriel García 49] Pachuca vs Necaxa 2 - 2 [Antonio Torres Servín 26pen, Guillermo López 28; Alberto García Aspe 5pen, Luis Hernández 36] Morelia vs Leon 1 - 1 [Marco Antonio Figueroa 41; Carlos Turrubiates 43] Atlante vs Veracruz 3 - 0 [Mario Jáuregui 7, Luis Roberto Alves 21, 63] Santos vs America 1 - 0 [Jared Borguetti 89] WEEK 2 (16-20/AG/96) Monterrey vs Santos 0 - 1 [Benjamín Galindo 25pen] Toluca vs U.A.G. 5 - 0 [Carlos María Morales 29, 53, José Cardozo 69, 89, Marcelino Bernal 73pen] Veracruz vs Celaya 1 - 1 [Daniel Fasciolli 29; Richard Zambrano 35pen] Necaxa vs Atlante 1 - 2 [Alberto García Aspe 79pen; José Damasceno 20, Martín Félix Ubaldi 45] Leon vs Guadalajara 0 - 0 Atlas vs Pachuca 5 - 1 [Gustavo Dezzoti 36, Rodolfo García 41, 57, Steve Padilla 69, 81; Antonio Torres Servín 59] U.N.A.M. vs Cruz Azul 1 - 2 [Jesús Olalde 54; Carlos Hermosillo 7, Miguel Ángel Carreón 36og] Toros Neza vs Puebla 0 - 3 [Uwe Wolf 50pen, Daniel Guzmán 64, Carlos Muñoz 87] America vs Morelia 5 - 1 [Francois Omam Biyik 8, Luis García 35pen 54, 59, 75; Marco Antonio Figueroa 28] WEEK 3 (23-25/AG/96) Monterrey vs Veracruz 2 - 1 [Luis Miguel Salvador 57, Gabriel Ruiz 76; Jair de Brito 86] U.A.G. vs Toros Neza 1 - 2 [Fabián Arias 74; Nildeson Silva 29, 40] Cruz Azul vs Leon 2 - 2 [Carlos Hermosillo 58pen, Sergio Verdirame 69pen; Milton Queiroz 53, Damián Álvarez 87] Puebla vs U.N.A.M. 2 - 1 [Gilberto Jiménez 41, Carlos Muñoz 50; Vicente Nieto 33] Celaya vs Necaxa (*) Guadalajara vs America 5 - 0 [Ramón Ramírez 4, Sergio Pacheco 28, Paulo César Chávez 54, Gabriel García 67, 78] Pachuca vs Toluca 3 - 0 [Hernán Medford 47, Gonzalo Farfán 67, Lorenzo Sáez 75] Atlante vs Atlas 1 - 1 [Miodrag Belodedici 76; Gerardo Mascareño 46] Santos vs Morelia 2 - 1 [Benjamín Galindo 24pen, Nicolás Ramírez 43; José Guadalupe Rubio 74og] (*) Rescheduled for W 04/SP/96 WEEK 4 (30/AG-01/SP/96) U.N.A.M. vs U.A.G. 1 - 2 [Israel López 76; Christian Ramírez 65og, Amarildo Soarez 84] Toluca vs Atlante (-) Veracruz vs Santos 0 - 0 Necaxa vs Monterrey 3 - 0 (*) [Alberto García Aspe 35, Sergio Zárate 56, Ricardo Peláez 65] Leon vs Puebla 1 - 1 [Carlos Turrubiates 68; Carlos Muñoz 37] Atlas vs Celaya 2 - 1 [Omar Avilán 7, Rodolfo García 8; Richard Zambrano 63pen] Morelia vs Guadalajara 1 - 4 [Jafet Soto 88; Gabriel García 58, 90, Gustavo Nápoles 84, Alberto Coyote 89] America vs Cruz Azul (+) Toros Neza vs Pachuca 5 - 2 [Antonio Mohamed 15, Jesús López Meneses 35, Nildeson Silva 47, 56, 85; Hernán Medford 9, Lorenzo Sáez 43] (*) Played on Tu 20/AG/96 (+) Rescheduled for Tu 10/SP/96 (-) Rescheduled for W 11/SP/96 WEEK 5 (06-08/SP/96) Monterrey vs Atlas 0 - 0 Veracruz vs Necaxa 1 - 1 [José Luis González China 47; Ricardo Peláez 31] U.A.G. vs Leon 0 - 1 [Milton Queiroz 31] Cruz Azul vs Morelia 1 - 1 [Carlos Hermosillo 60; Jafet Soto 43] Puebla vs America 1 - 0 [Carlos Muñoz 86] Celaya vs Toluca 0 - 1 [Marcelino Bernal 11pen] Pachuca vs U.N.A.M. 0 - 0 Atlante vs Toros Neza 0 - 1 [Antonio Mohamed 52] *Santos vs Guadalajara 1 - 1 [Jared Borguetti 23; Gustavo Nápoles 85] *Played in Zacatecas WEEK 3 & 4 PENDING MATCHES (10-11/SP/96) Celaya vs Necaxa 1 - 2 [José Miguel González 89; Alberto García Aspe 6pen, José Enrique García 68] America vs Cruz Azul 2 - 1 [Pedro Pineda 62pen, Javier Margas 68; Carlos Hermosillo 65pen] Toluca vs Atlante 0 - 0 WEEK 6 (14-16/SP/96) Toluca vs Monterrey 1 - 0 [José Cardozo 70] Morelia vs Puebla 2 - 2 [Everaldo Bejines 30, Marcelo Carracedo 64; Leopoldo Castañeda 59, Marco dos Santos 62] Necaxa vs Santos (+) Leon vs Pachuca 2 - 2 [Roberto López Segoviano 19, Alfonso Sosa 59; Lorenzo Sáez 31, Alberto Rodríguez 90] Atlas vs Veracruz 1 - 2 [Pablo Hernán Lavallén 51; Daniel Fasciolli 21, 83] U.N.A.M. vs Atlante 1 - 3 [Jesús Olalde 33; Ignacio Ambríz 44pen, Luis Roberto Alves 59, Mario Jáuregui 89] Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul (*) Toros Neza vs Celaya 1 - 2 [Antonio Mohamed 31; José Miguel González 11, 18] America vs U.A.G. (-) (*) Rescheduled for W 02/OC/96 (+) Rescheduled for Th 24/OC/96 (-) Rescheduled for W 09/OC/96 WEEK 7 (20-25/SP/96) U.A.G. vs Morelia 1 - 0 [Gilberto Adame 53] Veracruz vs Toluca 1 - 1 [Daniel Fasciolli 90; José Cardozo 75] Puebla vs Guadalajara 1 - 1 [Carlos Muñoz 9; Gabriel García 79] Celaya vs U.N.A.M. 0 - 1 [Cristian Domizzi 68] Atlante vs Leon 1 - 0 [Luis Roberto Alves 40] Santos vs Cruz Azul 0 - 2 (*) [Jorge Santillana 56, Carlos Hermosillo 88] Necaxa vs Atlas 0 - 2 [Gerardo Mascareño 2, 30] Monterrey vs Toros Neza 5 - 1 [David Patiño 16, 65, 71, Luis Miguel Salvador 26, Ramón Morales 88; Nildeson Silva 68] Pachuca vs America 2 - 2 [Lorenzo Sáez 11, 39; Pedro Pineda 73, 77] (*) Played on Su 15/SP/96 WEEK 8 (28-30/SP/96) Toluca vs Necaxa 2 - 0 [José Manuel Abundis 51, Alberto Macías 83] Cruz Azul vs Puebla 3 - 1 [Carlos Hermosillo 39, Sergio Verdirame 49, Juan Francisco Palencia 70; Sergio Almaguer 9] Leon vs Celaya 4 - 1 [Milton Queiroz 24, 63pen, Christian Torres 73, 82; José Miguel González 52pen] Atlas vs Santos 1 - 1 [Darío Franco 15; Christian Montesinos 89] Guadalajara vs U.A.G. 4 - 1 [Alberto Coyote 11, Gustavo Nápoles 15, Gabriel García 41, Felipe de Jesús Robles 87; Sergio Gómez 16] Morelia vs Pachuca 3 - 0 [Marco Antonio Figueroa 20, 41, 77] America vs Atlante 1 - 2 [Luis García 27; Luis Roberto Alves 32, 50] Toros Neza vs Veracruz 2 - 0 [Javier Saavedra 22, Germán Arangio 65] U.N.A.M. vs Monterrey 1 - 1 [Marco de Almeida 10; Roberto Medina 61] WEEK 6 (02/OC/96) (Pending match) Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul 1 - 0 [Gabriel García 68] WEEK 9 (03-06/OC/96) Monterrey vs Leon 1 - 0 [David Patiño 73] U.A.G. vs Cruz Azul 1 - 1 [Duilio Davino 7; Carlos Hermosillo 6] Veracruz vs U.N.A.M. 1 - 1 [Lenin Becerra 44; Cristian Domizzi 4] Necaxa vs Toros Neza 2 - 0 [Ricardo Peláez 32, Sergio Zárate 49] Celaya vs America (*) Atlas vs Toluca 1 - 1 [Darío Franco 69; Marcelino Bernal 75] Pachuca vs Guadalajara 0 - 2 [Claudio Suárez 18pen, Gabriel García 55] Atlante vs Morelia 2 - 0 [Mario Jáuregui 72, José Luis Malibrán 80] Santos vs Puebla 1 - 0 [Jared Borguetti 35] (*) Rescheduled for W 23/OC/96 WEEK 6 (09/OC/96) America vs U.A.G. 2 - 2 [Luis García 27, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 88; David Embé 20, Ángel Monáres 66] WEEK 10 (11-13/OC/96) America vs Monterrey 2 - 0 [Pedro Pineda 78, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 84] Toluca vs Santos 0 - 2 [Pedro Muñoz 61, Jared Borguetti 88] Cruz Azul vs Pachuca 1 - 2 [Sergio Verdirame 48; Hernán Medford 50, Lorenzo Sáez 72] Puebla vs U.A.G. 5 - 2 [Sergio Almaguer 15, Carlos Muñoz 32, 79, 82, 88; Eustacio Rizo 41, David Embé 87] Leon vs Veracruz 2 - 1 [Martín Peña 8, Christian Torres 27; Jair de Brito 14] Guadalajara vs Atlante 1 - 0 [Manuel Martínez 46] U.N.A.M. vs Necaxa 0 - 1 [Edson Alvarado 56] Morelia vs Celaya 1 - 2 [Andrés Garza 34; José Miguel González 14, Richard Zambrano 65] Toros Neza vs Atlas 6 - 2 [Germán Arangio 38, Antonio Mohamed 57, 68, Guillermo Vázquez 62pen, Rodrigo Ruiz 73, Enrique Figueroa 90; Steve Padilla 49, Gerardo Mascareño 76] WEEK 11 (18-20/OC/96) Monterrey vs Morelia 0 - 3 [Jorge Chávez 42, Jafet Soto 51, Marcelo cariacedo 86] Toluca vs Toros Neza 1 - 0 [José Cardozo 82pen] Veracruz vs America 1 - 0 [Daniel Fasciolli 88] Necaxa vs Leon 0 - 0 Celaya vs Guadalajara 3 - 0 [José Miguel González 17pen, Carlos Hernández 59, 73] Atlas vs U.N.A.M. 2 - 2 [Miguel Larrosa 56, Héctor López 78; Marco de Almeida 11, 86] Pachuca vs Puebla 3 - 4 [Lorenzo Sáez 8, 60, Hernán Medford 31; José Juan Hernández 24, Daniel Guzmán 67, Carlos Muñoz 70, Francisco Rotllán 83] Atlante vs Cruz Azul 3 - 1 [Ricardo Carvajal 15, José Damasceno 27, Luis Roberto Alves 55; Carlos Hermosillo 72pen] Santos vs U.A.G. 1 - 2 [Jared Borguetti 76; David Embé 54, Eustacio Rizo 78] WEEK 6 & 9 (23-24/OC/96) Celaya vs America 0 - 2 [Cuauhtemoc Blanco 22, Francois Omam Biyik 83] Necaxa vs Santos 0 - 1 [Jared Borguetti 66] WEEK 12 (25-27/OC/96) U.N.A.M. vs Toluca 0 - 3 [Miguel Ángel Carreón 4ag, José Cardozo 72, Enrique Alfaro 74] U.A.G. vs Pachuca 1 - 1 [David Embé 35; Lorenzo Sáez 77] Cruz Azul vs Celaya 2 - 3 [Juan Francisco Palencia 30, Julio Zamora 57; Carlos Hernández 21, Carlos López 34, 52] Puebla vs Atlante 2 - 3 [Carlos Muñoz 70, Eduardo Medina 86og; Mario Jáuregui 53, 80, Javier Flores 78] Leon vs Atlas 1 - 1 [Milton Queiroz 42pen; Rodolfo García 26pen] Guadalajara vs Monterrey 3 - 1 [Gabriel García 1, 26, Gustavo Nápoles 29; Hugo Castillo 85] Morelia vs Veracruz 0 - 2 [José Luis González China 23, 53] America vs Necaxa 1 - 1 [Pedro Pineda 44; Alberto García Aspe 24pen] Toros Neza vs Santos 2 - 3 [Pedro Pablo Osorio 70, Antonio Mohamed 74; Jared Borguetti 30, Nicolás Ramírez 72, Benjamín Galindo 79] WEEK 13 (01-03/NV/96) Monterrey vs Cruz Azul 1 - 0 [Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 35pen] Toluca vs Leon 2 - 3 [Marcelino Bernal 53pen, Fabián Estay 69; Sigifredo Mercado 17, Roberto López Segoviano 30, Sergio Martínez 80pen] Veracruz vs Guadalajara 3 - 2 [Daniel Fasciolli 15, Jair de Brito 65, José Luis González China 74; Camilo Romero 25, Ignacio Vázquez 55] Necaxa vs Morelia 2 - 1 [Octavio Becerril 15, Sergio Zárate 69; Gerardo Esquivel 83og] Celaya vs Puebla 0 - 1 [Carlos Muñoz 70] Atlas vs America 2 - 1 [Omar Avilán 38, Rodolfo García 53; Francois Omam Biyik 61] Atlante vs U.A.G. 1 - 0 [Luis Roberto Alves 90] Toros Neza vs U.N.A.M. 2 - 6 [Antonio Mohamed 44, Rodrigo Ruiz 45; Jesús Olalde 32, 57, Marco de Almeida 35, 52, 62, Cristian Domizzi 75] Santos vs Pachuca 2 - 1 [Alberto García 21, José Guadalupe Rubio 81; Salvador Aguado 42] WEEK 14 (08-11/NV/96) U.A.G. vs Celaya 5 - 2 [David Embé 11, 25, Juan Parra 25, 58, Markus López 71; Carlos Hernández 20, Salvador Luis Reyes 83] Cruz Azul vs Veracruz 0 - 0 Puebla vs Monterrey 1 - 0 [Daniel Guzmán 35] Leon vs Toros Neza 2 - 3 [Fabián Prátola 10, Roberto García Reza 72; Nildeson Silva 56, Federico Lussenhoff 83, Pedro Pablo Osorio 90] U.N.A.M. vs Santos 2 - 2 [Cristian Domizzi 30pen, 89; Benjamín Galindo 47pen, Jared Borguetti 81] Guadalajara vs Necaxa 2 - 3 [Ignacio Vázquez 33, Gabriel García 77; Sergio Zárate 15, Jesús Eduardo Córdova 26, Ricardo Peláez 83] Pachuca vs Atlante 1 - 2 [Lorenzo Sáez 89; Ricardo Carvajal 3, José Damasceno 90] Morelia vs Atlas 1 - 2 [Marco Antonio Figueroa 57pen; Pedro Duana 44pen, Omar Avilán 65] America vs Toluca 1 - 2 [Alberto Macías 56og; Enrique Alfaro 14, Salvador Carmona 75] WEEK 15 (13-14/NV/96) Santos vs Atlante 1 - 0 [Jared Borguetti 9] Veracruz vs Puebla 0 - 3 [Daniel Guzmán 51, 60, 80] Necaxa vs Cruz Azul 3 - 3 [Ricardo Peláez 2, Luis Hernández 82, Alex Aguinaga 90pen; Carlos Hermosillo 42pen, 57pen, Marco Garcés 85] Atlas vs Guadalajara 2 - 2 [Gerardo Mascareño 11, Pedro Duana 19pen; Gustavo Nápoles 43, Gabriel García 53] Monterrey vs U.A.G. 2 - 1 [David Patiño 50, Eber Moas 81; Eustacio Rizo 64] U.N.A.M. vs Leon 1 - 0 [Cristian Domizzi 82] Toluca vs Morelia 1 - 0 [Juan Carlos Chávez 14og] Toros Neza vs America 2 - 1 [Germán Arangio 50, Nildeson Silva 78; Luis García 32pen] Celaya vs Pachuca 3 - 2 [Luis Fernando Soto 49, Juvenal Patiño 75, Richard Zambrano 78; Hernán Medford 41, Lorenzo Sáez 43] WEEK 16 (16-18/NV/96) Cruz Azul vs Atlas 4 - 1 [Carlos Barra 44, Carlos Hermosillo 52, 64, Joahan Rodríguez 74; Pedro Duana 48] U.A.G. vs Veracruz 1 - 0 [Eustacio Rizo 55] Puebla vs Necaxa 1 - 2 [Carlos Muñoz 70; Alberto García Aspe 34pen, Felipe del Ángel Malibrán 80] Leon vs Santos 3 - 0 [Milton Queiroz 18pen, Damián Álvarez 46, Christian Torres 85] Guadalajara vs Toluca 2 - 1 [Claudio Suárez 50, 64pen; José Manuel Abundis 10] Pachuca vs Monterrey 2 - 2 [Lorenzo Sáez 37pen, 77pen; Roberto Medina 16pen, Rafael Gutiérrez Aldaco 47pen] America vs U.N.A.M. 2 - 2 [Luis García 20, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 44; Cristian Domizzi 54pen, 57] Morelia vs Toros Neza 2 - 1 [Marco Antonio Figueroa 44pen, Emilio Mora 70; Nildeson Silva 24] Atlante vs Celaya 6 - 0 [Mario Jáuregui 10, José Damasceno 42, Juan Hernández 44, Ricardo Carvajal 50, Luis Roberto Alves 66, 84] WEEK 17 (22-24/NV/96) Monterrey vs Atlante 0 - 1 [Mario Jáuregui 23] Toluca vs Cruz Azul 4 - 0 [José Cardozo 12, Marcelino Bernal 31pen, Carlos María Morales 65, 78] Veracruz vs Pachuca 0 - 1 [Roy Myers 30] Necaxa vs U.A.G. 1 - 0 [Sergio Zárate 60] Celaya vs Santos 0 - 2 [Christian Montesinos 64, Pedro Muñoz 74] Leon vs America 2 - 2 [Milton Queiroz 45pen, Christian Torres 81; Isaac Terrazas 55, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 60] Atlas vs Puebla 2 - 2 [Darío Franco 19, Pedro Duana 70; Francisco Rotllán 59, Carlos Muñoz 74pen] U.N.A.M. vs Morelia 3 - 2 [Braulio Luna 45, Jesús Olalde 53, 90; Marco Antonio Figueroa 20, Andrés Garza 69] Toros Neza vs Guadalajara 2 - 1 [Rodrigo Ruiz 59, Nildeson Silva 61; Ignacio Vázquez 27] --------------------------------------------------------- OVERALL STANDING G W D L F A PTS --------------------------------------------------------- 1. Atlante 17 12 2 3 30 11 38 2. Santos 17 10 4 3 21 15 34 3. Guadalajara 17 9 4 4 33 19 31 4. Puebla 17 9 4 4 32 22 31 5. Toluca 17 9 3 5 26 15 30 6. Necaxa 17 8 5 4 24 19 29 7. Atlas 17 6 8 3 28 26 26 8. Neza 17 8 0 9 30 36 24 9. Leon 17 5 8 4 24 19 23 10. Cruz_Azul 17 5 5 7 26 26 20 11. Monterrey 17 5 4 8 15 21 19 12. U.N.A.M. 17 4 6 7 23 27 18 13. Veracruz 17 4 6 7 14 21 18 14. U.A.G. 17 5 3 9 20 30 18 15. America 17 4 5 8 24 27 17 16. Celaya 17 5 2 10 19 33 17 17. Pachuca 17 3 6 8 25 36 15 18. Morelia 17 3 3 11 20 31 12 --------------------------------------------------------- Topscorers (thanks to Emmanuel Jose Castro Serna (al591557@campus.cegs.itesm.mx)): Carlos Muñoz 15 Puebla Spain Carlos Hermosillo 13 Cruz Azul Gabriel Garcia 13 Guadalajara Oscar Lorenzo Saez 13 Pachuca Argentina Luis Alves 'Zague' 10 America WINTER 96 PLAYOFF SCHEDULE 1st ROUND PLAYOFF (27/NV-01/DC/96) - 1st leg: Leon vs Neza 1 - 2 0-1 '62 German Arangio (NEZ) 1-1 '64 Milton Queiroz 'Tita' (LEO) 1-2 '90 Jesus Lopez (NEZ) Monterrey vs Atlas 1 - 5 0-1 '19 Rafael Marquez (ATS) 0-2 '28 Gerardo Mascare~o (ATS) 0-3 '44 Esteve Padilla (ATS) 0-4 '61 Gerardo Mascare~o (ATS) '75 Ruben Ruiz (MTY) ejected 1-4 '88 Hugo Castillo (MTY) 1-5 '90 Rafael Marquez (ATS) - 2nd leg: Atlas vs Monterrey 1 - 2 ==> Atlas 6-3 (aggregate) 0-1 '47 Ramon Morales (MTY) 1-1 '58 Pedro Duana (ATS), p.k. 1-2 '59 Luis M. Salvador (MTY) '76 Steve Padilla (ATS) ejected '82 Carlos Gonzalez (MTY) ejected Neza vs Leon 2 - 1 ==> Neza 4-2 (aggregate) 1-0 '01 Antonio Mohamed (NEZ) 1-1 '19 Christian Torres (LEO) 2-1 '58 Guillermo Vazquez (NEZ), p.k. '82 Nildeson Silva (NEZ) misses p.k. QUARTER-FINALS (03-07/DC/96) - 1st leg: 03.Dc.96 Toluca, State of Mexico 15:30 Toluca vs Puebla 1 - 2 1-0 '44 David Rangel (TOL) 1-1 '46 Omar Blanco (TOL), o.g. 1-2 '66 Marco dos Santos (PUE) 03.Dc.96 Cd. Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico 16:00 Neza vs Atlante 4 - 0 1-0 '08 'Pony' Ruiz (NEZ) 2-0 '22 Nildeson Silva (NEZ) 3-0 '31 Nildeson Silva (NEZ) '65 Luis Alves 'Zaguinho' (ATN) ejected '65 Federico Lussenhoff (NEZ) ejected 4-0 '71 Guillermo Vazquez (NEZ), p.k. 03.Dc.96 Mexico City 20:30 Necaxa vs Guadalajara 2 - 0 1-0 '16 Alberto Garcia Aspe (NEC) 2-0 '25 Luis Hernandez (NEC) '66 Gabriel Garcia (GUA) ejected '78 Alberto Garcia Aspe (NEC) ejected 03.Dc.96 Guadalajara, Jalisco 20:45 Atlas vs Santos 1 - 1 0-1 '26 Jared Borguetti (SAN) 1-1 '87 Miguel Larrosa (ATS) - 2nd leg: 07.Dc.96 Mexico City 17:00 Atlante vs Neza 2 - 5 ==> Neza 9-2 (aggregate) 0-1 '28 Nildeson Silva (NEZ) 0-2 '41 Rodrigo 'Pony' Ruiz (NEZ) 0-3 '43 Arangio (NEZ) 0-4 '47 Javier Saavedra (NEZ) 1-4 '53 Jose Luis Malibran (ATN) 1-5 '74 Miguel Herrera (NEZ) 2-5 '82 Ricardo Carbajal (ATN), p.k. 07.Dc.96 Puebla, Puebla 20:00 Puebla vs Toluca 0 - 0 ==> Puebla 2-1 (aggregate) 08.Dc.96 Guadalajara, Jalisco 12:00 Guadalajara vs Necaxa 2 - 1 ==> Necaxa 3-2 (aggregate) 1-0 '27 Joel Sanchez (GUA) 2-0 '58 Claudio Suarez (GUA), p.k. '62 Garcia (NEC) ejected 2-1 '76 Alex Aguinaga (NEC), p.k. 08.Dc.96 Torreon, Coahuila 16:00 Santos vs Atlas 3 - 1 ==> Santos 4-2 (aggregate) 1-0 '36 Benjamin Galindo (SAN), p.k. 1-1 '39 Pedro Duana (ATS) 2-1 '59 Jared Borguetti (SAN) Gerardo Mascare~o (ATS) ejected 3-1 '87 Jared Borguetti (SAN) SEMI-FINALS (11-15/DC/96) - 1st leg: 11.Dc.96 Nezahualcoyotl City, State of Mexico 15:30 Neza vs Santos 0 - 2 0-1 '58 Hector Adomaitis (SAN) 0-2 '59 Gabriel Caballero (SAN) '62 Benjamin Galindo (SAN) ejected '88 Guillermo Vazquez (NEZ) ejected '89 Federico Lusennholf (NEZ) ejected 11.Dc.96 Mexico City 20:30 Necaxa vs Puebla 3 - 2 1-0 '21 Luis Hernandez (NEC) 2-0 '30 Sergio Zarate (NEC) 2-1 '37 Marco dos Santos (PUE) 2-2 '51 Daniel Guzman (PUE) 3-2 '70 Alberto Garcia Aspe (NEC) - 2nd leg: 15.Dc.96 Puebla, Puebla 12:00 Puebla vs Necaxa 1 - 4 ==> Necaxa 7-3 (aggregate) 0-1 '04 Alberto Garcia Aspe (NEC), p.k. 1-1 '12 Daniel Guzman (PUE) 1-2 '25 Alex Aguinaga (NEC) 1-3 '69 Ricardo Pelaez (NEC) 1-4 '85 Edson Alvarado (NEC) 15.Dc.96 Torreon, Coahuila 16:00 Santos vs Neza 3 - 1 ==> Santos 5-1 (aggregate) 1-0 '31 Jared Borguetti (SAN) 1-1 '54 Manuel Virchis (NEZ) 2-1 '57 Jared Borguetti (SAN) 3-1 '79 Jared Borguetti (SAN) FINAL (19-22/DC/96) - 1st leg: 19.Dc.96 Mexico City 20:30 CDT Necaxa vs Santos 1 - 0 1-0 '77 Alberto Garcia Aspe (NEC) - 2nd leg: 22.Dc.96 Torreon, Coahuila 15:00 Santos vs Necaxa 4 - 2 ==> SANTOS 4-3 (aggregate) 1-0 '35 Francisco de Anda (SAN) 2-0 '38 Gabriel Caballero (SAN) 2-1 '41 Ricardo Pelaez (NEC) 2-2 '60 Luis Hernandez (NEC) 3-2 '62 Gabriel Caballero (SAN) 4-2 '83 Jared Borguetti (SAN) '84 Sergio 'Raton' Zarate (NEC) ejected Authors: Roger Z. Rios-Mercado and Erik Francisco Lugo Last updated: 6 Feb 2014 (C) Copyright Roger Z. Rios-Mercado, Erik Francisco Lugo and RSSSF 1998/2014