Apertura 2025 regular phase Liga MX And with this, location of play-in To complete a team that will compete for the title. Round 17 of the match between Santos and Pachuca has concluded, and the clubs that will continue on to the next round of the tournament have been decided.
Xolos de Tijuana, Bravos de Juárez, Pachuca and Pumas will aim to join Mexican soccer’s big party. These four clubs may have a chance to reach the quarter-finals, but first they have to face the next league. play-in.
Note that this classification format consists of three rounds of games that define who joins the league. The first pairing for the repechage match is Xolos vs Juarez FCThis reclassification will mark the first time that border teams will play against each other.

Another combination is Pachuca vs Pumastwo engineers emerge from a university quarry and end up confronting each other with a pass to stay in the hopes of getting the final ticket to the next stage of the championship.
The duel between Xolos and Juárez (play-in A) will give them a direct pass to the league and, as they are in seventh place in the standings, will already have a direct rival to the quarterfinals. The team that wins this match will earn the right to play against each other in the quarterfinals. tigersThe team finished in second place in the overall standings.
Meanwhile, the loser will play the second match against the winner of the Pachuca-Pumas duel.
They will face off at Play In-B. pachuca (9th place) vs. cougar (10°). The rivalry between the two teams has seen each other four times in the league, but this will be the first time they have met in this format. play-in. Records show that each team won twice in the final stages, including the quarterfinals and the final.
Once the results of these duels are determined, the winner of Play-in B will face the loser of Play-in A to determine the last classified team to advance to the quarterfinals. The club is in 8th place in the table and will be facing the leaders of the table. The schedule is as follows.
Xolos vs. Juarez: Tuesday, November 19th or Wednesday, November 20th.
Pachuca vs Pumas: Tuesday 19th November or Wednesday 20th November
Third play-in game: Saturday, November 22nd or Sunday, November 23rd.
The current system is Liga MXincludes a play-in between clubs ranked 7th through 10th, with the first six teams sorted having direct access to the league.
meanwhile Toluca (1st place) and tigers (2nd place) Wait for the winner of the play-in. Teams that finish between 3rd and 6th already know their opponents for the next round. The two defined crosses promise intensity and rivalry, with recent history and high-level teams in the final stages. on the one hand, blue cross will face sea bassthis duel refers to the last time the two met in Liguilla during the Clausura in 2011, when the light blue team emerged victorious.