Liga MX - Apertura 1998

						

Final Tables Preliminary Round:

Group 1

 1.León          17  9  5  3 30-22 32
 2.Atlante       17  8  6  3 26-17 30
 3.Veracruz      17  5  6  6 19-25 21
 4.Celaya        17  5  5  7 21-26 20
 5.Puebla        17  5  4  8 20-27 19

Group 2

 1.Cruz Azul     17  8  7  2 29-16 31
 2.Guadalajara   17  8  5  4 28-24 29
 3.Monterrey     17  6  4  7 22-22 22
 4.Toluca        17  5  4  8 21-21 19
 5.Tigres        17  5  3  9 20-26 18  [formerly U.A.N.L.]

Group 3
 
 1.Morelia       17  7  7  3 25-19 28
 2.Neza          17  6  5  6 29-29 23  [Toros]
 3.U.N.A.M.      17  3  7  7 26-30 16  [Pumas]
 4.Santos        17  3  7  7 22-31 16

Group 4

 1.América       17  8  5  4 27-19 29
 2.Atlas         17  6  5  6 28-26 23
 3.Necaxa        17  4  6  7 26-31 18
 4.U.A.G.        17  3  7  7 19-27 16  [Tecos]


Round 1
[Jul 25]
UAG         1-1 Veracruz
  [Mauricio Gallaga 10; Silvio Rudmán 82pen]
[Jul 26]
América     2-3 León       [In Querétaro]
  [Ricardo Peláez 51, 83; Roberto Medina 42, Fabián Prátola 62, Hernán Medford 74]
Monterrey   1-0 Toluca
  [Andrés Garza 9]
Celaya      1-2 Guadalajara
  [Roberto Ruiz Esparza 52; Gustavo Nápoles 25, Joel Sánchez 50]
Atlas       2-1 Puebla
  [Daniel Guzmán 18, Darío Franco 88; Francisco Higuera 16]
[Jul 27]
Atlante     2-0 Tigres     [In Irapuato]
  [Juan Hernández 27, Luis García 57]
Morelia     3-0 Toros Neza
  [Marco Antonio Figueroa 41pen, Claudio da Silva 48, Daniel Deeke 55]
Santos      1-1 Cruz Azul
  [Sergio Verdirame 52; Carlos Hermosillo 48]
[Sep 10]
Necaxa      2-2 UNAM
  [Cuauhtemoc Blanco 27pen, Carlos Pavón 79; Joaquín Beltrán 3, Rafael García 17]       

Round 2 [Jul 30,31]
Toluca      1-3 Tigres
  [Eduardo Lillingston 88; Jorge Santillana 34, Claudio Núñez 68pen 72]
Toros Neza  2-1 Celaya
  [Germán Arangio 9, Juan Ramón Fleita 86; Adriano Fernández 44]
Puebla      1-1 UAG
  [Alberto Ramírez 63; Eustacio Rizo 9]
Veracruz    1-0 America
  [Silvio Rudmán 89pen]
Cruz Azul   1-1 Atlante
  [Juan Reynoso 68; Luis García 10]
Guadalajara 2-1 Atlas
  [Paulo César Chávez 2, Gustavo Nápoles 50; Jorge Francisco Almirón 46]
Monterrey   3-1 Necaxa
  [Marcelino Bernal 16, 63, Lorenzo Sáez 76; Carlos Pavón 22]
UNAM        1-1 Morelia
  [Israel López 54; Jafet Soto 31]
[Aug 6]
Leon        2-2 Santos
  [Sigifredo Mercado 6, 22pen; Jared Borguetti 46, 60]      

Round 3 [Aug 2,3]
America     4-0 Puebla     [In Querétaro]
  [Ricardo Peláez 15, 55, 89, Duilio Davino 83]
Necaxa      1-1 Toluca     [In Estadio Azul]
  [Carlos Pavón 29; Fabián Estay 27]
Tigres      0-1 Cruz Azul 
  [Juan Francisco Palencia 55]
Celaya      2-2 UNAM
  [Roberto Ruiz Esparza 7, Luis Miguel Salvador 65; Jesús Olalde 5, 24]
Atlas       3-1 Toros Neza
  [Jorge Francisco Almirón 25, 88, Daniel Guzmán 74; Antonio Mohamed 84]
UAG         2-3 Guadalajara 
  [Mauricio Gallaga 38, David Embé 49; Gustavo Nápoles 30, Héctor Castro 70, Joel Sánchez 89pen]
Atlante     3-1 Leon      [In Irapuato]
  [Luis García 32pen, 51, 82; Carlos Turrubiates 8]
Morelia     2-1 Monterrey
  [Marco Antonio Figueroa 51, Claudio da Silva 59; Octavio Mora 89]
Santos      1-1 Veracruz
  [Jared Borguetti 49; Richard Tavares 73]

Round 4 [Aug 9,10]
Toluca      2-3 Cruz Azul
  [Juan Francisco Palencia 46og, Néstor Gutiérrez 56; Carlos Hermosillo 13, 42, Juan Francisco Palencia 69]
Necaxa      2-0 Morelia
  [Carlos Pavón 26, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 88]
Monterrey   1-1 Celaya
  [Hugo Castillo 7; Roberto Ruiz Esparza 74pen]
Veracruz    2-2 Atlante
  [Daniel Fasciolli 9, Silvio Rudmán 85; Ilie Dumitrescu 73, Martín Félix Ubaldi 75]
Puebla      1-1 Santos
  [José Soto 81pen; Francisco Gabriel de Anda 60]
Guadalajara 1-2 America
  [Ignacio Vázquez 88; Alberto García Aspe 40pen, Isaac Terrazas 60]
Leon        1-0 Tigres
  [Dejan Batrovic 74]
UNAM        1-1 Atlas
  [Jesús Olalde 90; Daniel Guzmán 22]
Toros Neza  4-1 UAG
  [Juan Ramón Fleita 11, Antonio Mohamed 41, 81, Rodrigo Ruiz 71; David Embé 42]

Round 5 [Aug 14-17]
America     1-1 Toros Neza
  [Luis Roberto Alves 48; Germán Arangio 87]
UAG         2-2 UNAM
  [Mauricio Gallaga 33pen, David Embé 39; Braulio Luna 21, Rafael García 36]
Tigres      2-1 Veracruz
  [Jorge Santillana 42, Mario Bueno 86; Daniel Fasciolli 5]
Celaya      1-3 Necaxa
  [Emilio Butragueño 34pen; Kalusha Bwalya 15, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 24, 46]
Atlas       2-1 Monterrey
  [Rodolfo García 5, 38; Marcelino Bernal 75]
Atlante     2-2 Puebla
  [Javier Flores 19, Aurelio Rivera 48og; Francisco Higuera 62, 65]
Morelia     1-0 Toluca
  [Emilio Mora 84]
[Aug 27]
Cruz Azul   2-2 Leon
  [Juan Francisco Palencia 56, 73; Christian Torres 3, Sigifredo Mercado 61pen]           
[Sep 3]
Santos      3-1 Guadalajara
  [Christian Montesinos 21, Miguel Asprilla 68, 82; Paulo César Chávez 5]    

Round 6 [Aug 19-21]
Veracruz    0-2 Cruz Azul
  [Carlos Hermosillo 17, Julio César Yegros 23]
Toluca      1-2 Leon
  [Fabián Estay 28pen; Christian Torres 26, Roberto Medina 58]
Necaxa      3-3 Atlas
  [José Manuel De la Torre 36, Carlos Pavón 79, 88; Rodolfo García 32pen, Daniel Guzmán 40, Facundo Villalba 77]
Puebla      2-1 Tigres
  [Francisco Higuera 34, Leopoldo Castañeda 46; Javier Lozano 29]
Monterrey   0-1 UAG
  [David Embé 59]
Toros Neza  2-2 Santos
  [Juan Ramón Fleita 48, Germán Arangio 50; Gabriel Caballero 28, Sergio Verdirame 65]
Morelia     3-2 Celaya
  [Marco Antonio Figueroa 29, Claudio da Silva 65, Cleomar Pires 72; Luis Miguel Salvador 19, Emilio Butragueño 78]
UNAM        1-2 America
  [Miroslav Cermelj 12; Leo Rodríguez 41, Alberto García Aspe 45pen]
[Sep 17]
Guadalajara 3-2 Atlante        
  [Ignacio Vázquez 20, Alberto Coyote 54, Gustavo Nápoles 69; Miodrag Belodedici 2, Ilie Dumitrescu 78pen]

Round 7 [Aug 23-25]
Celaya      1-0 Toluca
  [Emilio Butragueño 56pen]
Atlas       4-2 Morelia
  [Pavel Pardo 16, Daniel Guzmán 26, Gastón Obledo 38, Juan Pablo Rodríguez 85; 
  Claudio da Silva 48, Marco Antonio Figueroa 76pen]
UAG         2-3 Necaxa
  [Eustacio Rizo 23, Manuel Vidrio 44; Sergio Vázquez 35, 38, Alex Aguinaga 70]
Atlante     2-1 Toros Neza
  [Ilie Dumitrescu 34, Víctor Saavedra 66; Javier Saavedra 82]
Leon        3-1 Veracruz
  [Guillermo Hernández 20og, Sigifredo Mercado 70pen, Hernán Medford 88; Armando González 81]
Santos      4-3 UNAM
  [José Antonio Noriega 2, Jared Borguetti 54, 65pen, Nicolás Ramírez 72; Carlos Cariño 27, 
  Miguel Ángel Carreón 38, Jesús Olalde 70pen]
America     1-0 Monterrey
  [Leo Rodríguez 50]
[Aug 27]
Tigres      1-2 Guadalajara
  [Marco Antonio Ruiz 45; Ramón Ramírez 37, Gustavo Nápoles 40]
[Sep 17]
Cruz Azul   0-0 Puebla         

Round 8 [Aug 30,31]
Toluca      4-0 Veracruz
  [José Cardozo 10, 70, 76, Fabián Estay 43pen]
Necaxa      2-2 America
  [Cuauhtemoc Blanco 31pen, Sergio Vázquez 70; Ricardo Peláez 6, Luis Roberto Alves 50]
Monterrey   2-1 Santos
  [Lorenzo Sáez 31, Marcelino Bernal 44; Jared Borguetti 41]
Puebla      1-0 Leon
  [José Soto 54]
Celaya      2-1 Atlas
  [Emilio Butragueño 20, Rafael Bautista 70; Daniel Guzmán 12]
Guadalajara 1-1 Cruz Azul
  [Joel Sánchez 7; Juan Francisco Palencia 26]
Morelia     0-0 UAG
UNAM        1-0 Atlante
  [Giuliano Sabbatini 53]
Toros Neza  3-2 Tigres
  [Juan Ramón Fleita 6, Jesús López Meneses 46, Guillermo Vázquez 70; Claudio Núñez 48, 56]

Round 9 [Sep 4,6,7]
America     1-1 Morelia
  [Leo Rodríguez 19; Cleomar Pires 75]
UAG         3-4 Celaya
  [Zdenko Muf 35, Héctor Mukuoko 86, Agustín García 90; Luis Miguel Salvador 8, 
  Emilio Butragueño 34, 77, Filiberto Fulgencio 89]
Cruz Azul   2-2 Toros Neza
  [Héctor Adomaitis 28, Julio César Yegros 72; Juan Ramón Fleita 38, Guillermo Vázquez 81pen]
Veracruz    3-2 Puebla
  [Armando González 19, Francisco Uribe 52, Fernando Juárez 83; Carlos Muñoz 63, 85]
Atlas       1-1 Toluca
  [Rodolfo García 50pen; José Cardozo 36]
Tigres      2-4 UNAM
  [Javier Lozano 11, Marco Antonio Ruiz 33; Jesús Olalde 22, 29pen, 54, Roberto de Moura 77]
Leon        3-2 Guadalajara
  [Flavio Davino 7, Misael Espinosa 51, Everaldo Bejines 70; Gustavo Nápoles 10, Ignacio Vázquez 75]
Atlante     1-0 Monterrey
  [Luis García 81pen]
Santos      1-0 Necaxa
  [Nicolás Ramírez 4]

Round 10 [Sep 13,14]
Toluca      1-0 Puebla
  [José Manuel Abundis 1]
Necaxa      2-2 Atlante
  [Alex Aguinaga 72, Carlos Pavón 84; Juan Hernández 49, Luis García 81]
Monterrey   2-3 Tigres
  [Lorenzo Sáez 69, Andrés Garza 75; Emil Kostadinov 21, 41, Claudio Núñez 25pen]
Celaya      1-1 America
  [Julio César Pinheiro 72; Luis Roberto Alves 4]
Atlas       1-1 UAG
  [Rodolfo García 32, David Embé 20]
Guadalajara 1-1 Veracruz
  [Ramón Ramírez 30; Francisco Uribe 13]
Morelia     6-3 Santos
  [Emilio Mora 10, Marco Antonio Figueroa 37, 41pen, José Antonio Noriega 38og, 
  Claudio da Silva 70, Cleomar Pires 82; Sergio Verdirame 29, 33, 68]
UNAM        2-2 Cruz Azul
  [Roberto de Moura 49, Cristian Domizzi 85; Héctor Altamirano 72, Carlos Hermosillo 75]
Toros Neza  1-1 Leon
  [Sigifredo Mercado 30og; Sigifredo Mercado 20pen]

Round 11 [Sep 18-21]
America     0-2 Atlas
  [Rodolfo García 35, Jorge Francisco Almirón 59]
UAG         1-2 Toluca
  [Zdenko Muf 65; José Manuel Abundis 9, Zé Carlos 61]
Tigres      2-0 Necaxa
  [Claudio Núñez 49, 58]
Cruz Azul   3-1 Monterrey
  [Juan Reynoso 34, Benjamín Galindo 47, Carlos Hermosillo 71; Jesús Arellano 88]
Veracruz    1-0 Toros Neza
  [Armando González 67]
Puebla      3-2 Guadalajara
  [Jesús Eduardo Córdova 63, José Soto 72pen, Alberto Ramírez 85; Gustavo Nápoles 18, 
  Ramón Ramírez 67]
Atlante     1-1 Morelia
  [Luis García 18pen; Claudio da Silva 68]
Leon        2-0 UNAM
  [Alberto García 32, Sigifredo Mercado 78pen]
Santos      0-0 Celaya

Round 12 [Sep 24,25]
Toluca      0-0 Guadalajara
Morelia     0-0 Tigres
Toros Neza  3-1 Puebla
  [Antonio Mohamed 42, Juan Ramón Fleita 44, 52; Alberto Ramírez 38]
Necaxa      1-3 Cruz Azul
  [Pedro Pineda 68pen; Julio César Yegros 18, Carlos Hermosillo 54, Juan Reynoso 60]
Celaya      0-1 Atlante
  [Alberto de Souza 69]
UAG         0-0 America
*Monterrey   0-0 Leon     [In Estadio Universitario (Tigres)]
UNAM        1-1 Veracruz
  [Jesús Olalde 70; Francisco Uribe 18]
Atlas       1-1 Santos
  [Daniel Guzmán 4; Jared Borguetti 30]

Round 13 [Sep 27-29]
Tigres      1-1 Celaya
  [Arnulfo Tinoco 51; Rafael Paz 24]
Cruz Azul   0-1 Morelia
  [Daniel Deeke 68]
Puebla      3-2 UNAM
  [Carlos Muñoz 26, Manuel Sol 43, José Soto 76pen; Cristian Domizzi 18, 62]
Guadalajara 3-1 Toros Neza
  [Ignacio Vázquez 17, Gustavo Nápoles 34, Paulo César Chávez 82; Germán Arangio 62]
Atlante     2-0 Atlas
  [Luis García 5, José Damasceno 75]
Leon        3-2 Necaxa
  [Sigifredo Mercado 56pen, Martín Peña 63, José Luis González China 87; 
  José Milián 16, Sergio Vázquez 43]
Veracruz    1-2 Monterrey
  [Francisco Uribe 51; Marcelino Bernal 12, Andrés Garza 33]
Santos      1-2 UAG
  [José Antonio Noriega 69; Gilberto Adame 34, Eustacio Rizo 57]
America     4-2 Toluca
  [Ricardo Peláez 27, Andrés Silva 63, Sergio Zárate 66, Carlos Alfaro Moreno 90; 
  Alberto Macías 12, José Cardozo 78]

Round 14 [Oct 2-6]
Necaxa      1-1 Veracruz
  [Alex Aguinaga 55; Richard Tavares 80]
UAG         1-0 Atlante
  [Gilberto Adame 48]
UNAM        0-1 Guadalajara
  [Ignacio Vázquez 85]
Atlas       2-0 Tigres
  [Miguel Zepeda 27, Facundo Villalba 32]
Celaya      0-3 Cruz Azul
  [Julio César Yegros 14, 84, Juan Francisco Palencia 57]
Morelia     1-1 León
  [Claudio da Silva 88; Christian Torres 12]
Monterrey   2-1 Puebla
  [Ramón Morales 60, Carlos González 82pen; Carlos Muñoz 71]
Toros Neza  2-0 Toluca
  [Germán Arangio 41, Antonio Mohamed 86]
America     2-1 Santos
  [Carlos Alfaro Moreno 55, Isaac Terrazas 68; Bulmaro González 61]

Round 15 [Oct 15,16]
Toluca      4-0 Santos
  [José Cardozo 3, Fabián Estay 32pen, José Manuel Abundis 69, Salvador Carmona 74]
Toros Neza  1-3 UNAM
  [Antonio Mohamed 57; Christian Ramírez 1, Jesús Olalde 9, Roberto de Moura 46]
Puebla      0-1 Necaxa
  [Cuauhtemoc Blanco 58]
Veracruz    2-1 Morelia
  [Daniel Fasciolli 40, Guillermo Hernández 78pen; Daniel Deeke 29]
Leon        1-2 Celaya
  [Carlos Turrubiates 79; Adriano Fernández 2, Filiberto Fulgencio 65]
Tigres      1-1 UAG
  [Mario Bueno 79; Omar Darío Gómez 74]
Cruz Azul   3-1 Atlas
  [Carlos Hermosillo 54pen, 90, Julio César Yegros 56; Daniel Guzmán 77]
Guadalajara 2-2 Monterrey
  [Ramón Ramírez 4, Joel Sánchez 60; Marcelino Bernal 87, Carlos Bianchezi 90]
Atlante     2-1 America
  [Jesús Estrada 28, Martín Félix Ubaldi 74; Isaac Terrazas 60]

Round 16 [Oct 18,20]
Necaxa      0-1 Guadalajara
  [Joel Sánchez 41]
Monterrey   1-1 Toros Neza
  [Hugo Castillo 28; Antonio Mohamed 62]
Celaya      1-0 Veracruz
  [Adriano Fernández 3]
UAG         0-2 Cruz Azul
  [Carlos Hermosillo 48pen, Benjamín Galindo 62]
Atlas       2-3 Leon
  [Miguel Zepeda 70, Darío Franco 88; Alberto García 38, Christian Torres 51, Hernán Medford 53]
Morelia     1-0 Puebla
  [Daniel Deeke 28]
UNAM        0-1 Toluca
  [José Manuel Abundis 20]
Santos      0-2 Atlante
  [Luis García 89, 91]
America     3-1 Tigres
  [Alberto García Aspe 33, Isaac Terrazas 61, Leo Rodríguez 76pen; Mario Bueno 85]

Round 17 [Oct 26]
Toluca      1-1 Atlante
  [José Cardozo 4; Luis García 44]
Toros Neza  4-2 Necaxa
  [Germán Arangio 6, 49, 71, Carlos Díaz 87; Sergio Vázquez 40, Gerardo Esquivel 63]
Cruz Azul   0-1 America
  [Leo Rodríguez 64]
Puebla      2-1 Celaya
  [José Soto 40pen, Carlos Muñoz 86; Luis Miguel Salvador 65]
Veracruz    2-1 Atlas
  [Guillermo Hernández 59, Narciso Cuevas 67; Daniel Guzmán 41]
UNAM        1-3 Monterrey
  [Jesús Olalde 39pen; Hugo Castillo 27, 51, Jesús Arellano 55]
Guadalajara 1-1 Morelia
  [Ignacio Vázquez 80; Jesús Gómez 82]
Leon        2-0 UAG
  [Carlos López 80, Roberto Medina 85]
Tigres      1-0 Santos
  [Marco Antonio Ruiz 37]


Final Tables Preliminary Round:

Group 1

 1.León          17  9  5  3 30-22 32
 2.Atlante       17  8  6  3 26-17 30
 3.Veracruz      17  5  6  6 19-25 21
 4.Celaya        17  5  5  7 21-26 20
 5.Puebla        17  5  4  8 20-27 19

Group 2

 1.Cruz Azul     17  8  7  2 29-16 31
 2.Guadalajara   17  8  5  4 28-24 29
 3.Monterrey     17  6  4  7 22-22 22
 4.Toluca        17  5  4  8 21-21 19
 5.Tigres        17  5  3  9 20-26 18  [formerly U.A.N.L.]

Group 3
 
 1.Morelia       17  7  7  3 25-19 28
 2.Neza          17  6  5  6 29-29 23  [Toros]
 3.U.N.A.M.      17  3  7  7 26-30 16  [Pumas]
 4.Santos        17  3  7  7 22-31 16

Group 4

 1.América       17  8  5  4 27-19 29
 2.Atlas         17  6  5  6 28-26 23
 3.Necaxa        17  4  6  7 26-31 18
 4.U.A.G.        17  3  7  7 19-27 16  [Tecos]

Quarterfinals:

First Legs 
[Nov 18]
Guadalajara 1-3 America
  [Claudio Suárez 15; Ricardo Peláez 40, 57, Alberto García Aspe 82pen]
[Nov 19]
Atlas       0-1 Cruz Azul
  [Carlos Hermosillo 62]  
Morelia     0-0 Atlante   
[Nov 20]
Toros Neza  1-0 Leon  
  [Rodrigo Ruiz 24]

Second Legs 
[Nov 21]
America     1-0 Guadalajara
  [Isaac Terrazas 74]
[Nov 22]
Cruz Azul   4-1 Atlas
  [Julio César Yegros 17, Carlos Hermosillo 21, 80, Héctor López 75og; Pavel Pardo 22]
Atlante     1-0 Morelia
  [Luis García 49]
[Nov 23]
Leon        6-3 Toros Neza
  [Misael Espinosa 3, 76, Fabián Prátola 40, Carlos Turrubiates 47, Martín Peña 55, Flavio Davino 84; 
  Guillermo Vázquez 26pen, Rodrigo Ruiz 43, Antonio Mohamed 90]

Semifinals:

First Legs [Nov 26,27]
Atlante     1-1 Cruz Azul
  [Martín Félix Ubaldi 53; Benjamín Galindo 59pen]
America     1-0 Leon
  [Ricardo Peláez 53]

Second Legs [Nov 29,30]
Cruz Azul   1-0 Atlante
  [Julio César Yegros 63]
Leon        3-1 America
  [Misael Espinosa 13, Everaldo Bejines 19, 22; Sergio Zárate 3]


Final:

   - 1st leg:
   04.Dec.97  Mexico City  17:00
   Cruz Azul        vs Leon  1 - 0
          '43  Fabian Pratola (Leon) ejected
                  '52  Alberto Garcia (Leon) ejected
      1-0 '53  Benjamin Galindo (Cruz Azul) penalty kick
   
   - 2nd leg:
   07.Dec.97  Leon, Guanajuato  12:00
      Leon vs Cruz Azul         1 - 1  ==> Cruz Azul 2-1
      1-0 '53  Missael Espinoza (Leon)
      1-1 '101 Carlos Hermosillo (Cruz Azul) penalty kick


Cruz Azul Apertura Champions 1997/98.



Authors: Roger Z. Rios-Mercado and Erik Francisco Lugo

Last updated: 29 Jan 2009

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