Liga MX Clausura 2022 Standings: Final Table, Repechaje and Atlas’s Title

The final Clausura 2022 table, from Pachuca to Juárez

Pachuca finished first in the Liga MX Clausura 2022 regular season with 38 points. Tigres were second on 33, while eventual champions Atlas finished third on 27. The table below records the completed 17-match league phase, not a ranking rearranged after the title playoffs.

This is the spring 2022 tournament. It should not be confused with Apertura 2022, played later that year, or with a 2022/23 season page. Liga MX's short tournaments produce separate tables and champions; combining the wrong halves changes the answer to even a simple question such as who finished first.

How to read the 18-team standings

P means played, W wins, D draws, L losses, GF goals for, GA goals against and GD goal difference. Pts is the points total. Every club completed 17 fixtures in the official standings. The final table includes the awarded 3–0 Atlas victory over Querétaro after their suspended March fixture; a listing that leaves either club on 16 matches is incomplete.

Read the upper and lower ends differently. The top clubs were competing for advantageous knockout positions, while the bottom rows describe teams whose league campaign had ended. Juárez's 11 points were the lowest total in this tournament; that is a regular-season fact, not by itself a statement about automatic relegation.

Why first-placed Pachuca and third-placed Atlas tell different stories

Pachuca were the most consistent side over the league phase: 12 wins, only three defeats and a goal difference of plus 15. Atlas trailed them by 11 points, but conceded only 15 goals, matching Pachuca for the fewest in the table. Tigres matched Pachuca's 30 goals scored. Those figures show different strengths without pretending that league position alone decided the trophy.

The title still had to be won in the Liguilla, Liga MX's championship playoffs. A final table answers who accumulated points across the regular season; the knockout results answer who became champion. Keeping both records visible makes Atlas's successful defence easier to understand and avoids incorrectly calling the club the regular-season leader.

For the later autumn-and-spring pairing, use the separate Liga MX 2022/23 standings guide. It covers a different combination of tournaments and cannot replace this Clausura 2022 table.

The top four earned a direct place in the quarterfinals

Pachuca, Tigres, Atlas and América went straight into the Clausura 2022 quarterfinals. Clubs finishing fifth to twelfth had an additional elimination match to survive. The fourth-place line therefore changed the route to the title, even when the points totals on either side looked almost identical.

For the top four, the reward was a guaranteed place among the final eight rather than a guarantee of winning a knockout tie. They could prepare for a two-legged quarterfinal while the next eight clubs faced a single-match test. That distinction is central to reading the 2022 table: “qualified” can mean a direct quarterfinal berth or merely a chance to earn one.

América took the last direct berth ahead of Puebla

América and Puebla both finished with seven wins, five draws, five defeats and 26 points. Their goal differences separated them: América's plus seven beat Puebla's plus six. One place in the table meant one fewer knockout round for the Águilas. Puebla had scored one more league goal, but that did not overturn the goal-difference comparison.

Guadalajara and Monterrey also finished on 26. Both had a goal difference of plus four, with Guadalajara above Monterrey after scoring 25 goals to Rayados' 21. This four-club cluster is a practical reminder to read the columns across the row. The points total identifies a tie; it does not tell you how the teams are ordered within it.

América's fourth place also concealed a change in momentum. As TV Azteca's contemporary quarterfinal preview explained, the club recovered from the bottom end of the table under Fernando Ortiz and finished the league phase with eight matches unbeaten. Puebla ended with three straight league defeats. Their matching final totals came from very different runs into the playoffs.

That does not make late form an alternative standings system: both clubs still had 26 points. It explains why a supporter might assess their prospects differently despite the narrow gap. Our guide to reading Liga MX standings explains the broader table concepts, but the qualification line used here belongs specifically to Clausura 2022.

The repechaje decided the other four quarterfinalists

Puebla, Guadalajara, Cruz Azul and Atlético San Luis joined the top four in the quarterfinals. They reached that stage through the repechaje, the preliminary knockout round also called reclasificación. It was a different task from finishing in the top four: one match could end the season.

Places five to twelve faced one-match eliminators

The pairings were fifth against twelfth, sixth against eleventh, seventh against tenth and eighth against ninth, with the higher-ranked team at home. A draw went directly to a penalty shootout. There was no extra-time period, and the home club did not advance simply because it had finished higher in the table.

That last distinction matters when comparing this round with later knockout ties. A superior league position brought the repechaje host a familiar ground and its home crowd, but not protection from penalties. Calling every preliminary format “Play-In” can hide those details; the contemporary 2022 rules are the ones that explain these results.

Puebla, Guadalajara, Cruz Azul and Atlético San Luis advanced

Three of the four matches needed shootouts. Guadalajara were the exception, beating Pumas 4–1 at the Akron. The club's own retrospective of that game describes a 1–1 halftime score before Fernando Beltrán restored the lead and late goals from José Juan Macías and Alexis Vega completed the win.

Read the penalty column separately from the match score. Puebla's result remains a 2–2 draw followed by a 3–1 shootout win, rather than a 5–3 football score. None of the shootout kicks adds a league point or a goal to the regular-season table above. Those columns had already closed.

A higher league finish helped, but did not guarantee survival

Monterrey finished seventh with 26 points and hosted tenth-placed San Luis, who had 23. Rayados led, fell behind and found an injury-time equalizer to make it 2–2. Their official match report records the subsequent shootout defeat, with Marcelo Barovero saving efforts from Vincent Janssen and Maxi Meza.

The late goal bought Monterrey another chance; it did not buy passage through the round. San Luis took that chance away in the shootout. This is why a standings archive needs the qualification format beside the table: seventh place and home advantage described the opportunity, while the single-match result decided who remained in the championship.

Atlas built a title defence from third place

Atlas turned third place into a place in the final by eliminating Guadalajara and Tigres. Their league finish gave them a direct quarterfinal start, but the two ties were won through results on the pitch. The semifinal also produced a later disciplinary ruling that must be kept separate from the drama supporters watched that night.

The Guadalajara derby put Atlas into the semifinals

The quarterfinal was a Clásico Tapatío, the Guadalajara city rivalry between Atlas and Chivas. Atlas won the first leg 2–1 at the Akron, with Jeremy Márquez scoring twice. Winning away meant the defending champions returned to the Jalisco with a lead rather than needing to overturn a deficit.

The second leg finished 1–1. Aníbal Chalá scored for Atlas before José Juan Macías equalized late for Guadalajara, leaving Atlas ahead 3–2 across the two matches. Aggregate score means the combined goals from both legs: the draw on the night did not erase the first-leg victory.

This was a useful example of why league and knockout records must be read together. Sixth-placed Chivas had just put four past Pumas in the repechaje, but that emphatic win did not carry goals into the derby. Atlas began a new tie, established an away lead and preserved the overall advantage at home. Their progression was based on scoring more across the two legs, not simply on having finished third.

The Tigres semifinal needs both the scoreline and the sanction

Against Tigres, Atlas won the first leg 3–0 at the Jalisco. The return at the Universitario finished 4–2 to Tigres on the field, with Aldo Rocha's stoppage-time penalty sending Atlas through 5–4 on aggregate. That is the sporting sequence behind the famous comeback attempt and the late change in the tie's balance.

The official record subsequently changed. On May 26, the FMF's Disciplinary Commission ruled that Tigres had used an ineligible lineup and assigned the return leg a 0–2 defeat in Atlas's favour. Combined with the first leg, the official semifinal aggregate became 5–0 to Atlas. Contemporary reporting reproducing the ruling confirms the precise 0–2 decision; it was not a generic 0–3 forfeit.

Both figures therefore have a place in an accurate account: 5–4 describes the aggregate at the final whistle, while 5–0 describes the official tie after the sanction. Atlas had already qualified on the field. Saying that the administrative decision alone put them into the final would misrepresent what had happened before the ruling.

Keep the same care when comparing a match report with a later results archive. A live report may preserve the goals and emotions of the evening, while the final competition record reflects the sanction. Neither number should be presented without its context. Atlas's place in the complete list of Liga MX champions rests on the final they then had to win.

The final made Atlas champions again

Atlas beat Pachuca 3–2 on aggregate to win Clausura 2022 and complete consecutive league championships. The regular-season leader won the second match, but Atlas's first-leg advantage survived. That is why the final table names Pachuca first while the champions list names Atlas.

A two-goal lead at the Jalisco changed the tie

Atlas won the first leg 2–0 on May 26 at the Estadio Jalisco. Luis Reyes opened the scoring with a header in the 26th minute, and Julián Quiñones added the second in stoppage time. The late goal doubled the lead before the return in Pachuca.

That second goal mattered beyond the night's scoreline. A one-goal lead and a two-goal lead give the trailing side different margins for error. Pachuca could not wipe out the advantage merely by scoring once at home; Atlas had created room to absorb an early setback without immediately losing control of the aggregate.

The first leg also changed how to read the league table's 11-point gap. Pachuca's 38 points were already secured as a record of the regular season. They could not be carried into the final as extra goals. Atlas had to outperform the leader over this particular tie, and a clean sheet plus two goals supplied a concrete advantage for the return.

Pachuca won the return, but Atlas won on aggregate

Pachuca won 2–1 at the Estadio Hidalgo on May 29. Romario Ibarra scored early, Julio Furch equalized from the penalty spot for Atlas, and Nicolás Ibáñez put Pachuca back in front before halftime. With no further goals, the match ended with Pachuca ahead on the night and Atlas ahead across the final.

Furch's penalty was especially important to the arithmetic. Add Atlas's two home goals to their one away goal and the total is three; Pachuca's two goals in the return make two overall. There was no need to invoke a league-position tiebreaker to decide the champion. Atlas won the final by an actual aggregate-goal margin.

The result followed their Apertura 2021 title, making the club champions of both short tournaments in the 2021/22 cycle. An official May 30 competition announcement confirmed the back-to-back championships and the 3–2 final aggregate.

For supporters revisiting the season, keep those records alongside each other: Pachuca led the league phase, Atlas won the championship, and Pachuca won the final's return match. All three statements are true. The recent Liga MX champions guide places that spring title beside the winners of the tournaments that followed.

Keep this table separate from other Liga MX seasons

Use this table for Clausura 2022 alone. The 2021/22 cycle pairs Apertura 2021 with Clausura 2022, while the calendar year 2022 contains Clausura 2022 followed by Apertura 2022. Those labels describe different groupings, even though the number 2022 appears in all of them.

This distinction matters when comparing a club's points or defensive record across seasons. Atlas's 27 points and 15 goals conceded belong to this particular 17-match league phase. They are not a combined annual total, and the championship matches have not been added to them. A table using a different number of played matches may be answering a different question.

If you are tracing the preceding year, our 2021 Liga MX standings guide keeps that year's two tournaments separate. Choose the relevant tournament before comparing a club's league position, rather than treating a year label as a single continuous championship.

Regular-season position, the championship and relegation measures are different records

Ask which outcome a ranking actually determines. The spring points table established the knockout entry positions, including the narrow final repechaje place. Mazatlán and León both collected 21 points, but Mazatlán's minus-four goal difference put them twelfth, ahead of León on minus five. The same points total therefore produced a continued title opportunity for one club and elimination for the other.

The bottom of this table should not be treated as an automatic relegation list. In 2022, financial penalties were attached to a separate coefficient table. Contemporary reporting at the end of the regular season identified Juárez, Tijuana and Toluca as the clubs facing those penalties. Toluca were fifteenth in the Clausura table, while Querétaro were sixteenth, demonstrating why the two rankings cannot simply be substituted for one another.

For a present-day comparison, open the current Liga MX standings and check that tournament's qualification explanation. Preserve the 2022 numbers and format when discussing this season. That lets the historical record explain what supporters were competing for at the time, rather than rewriting the campaign around a later version of the league.