2011 Primera División de México Apertura Liguilla Final

Primera División de México Apertura 2011 Liguilla Final
Event	2011 Apertura Liguilla
	On aggregate
First leg
Date	December 8, 2011 20:30 (UTC-6)
Venue	Estadio Corona, Torreón, Coahuila
Man of the Match	Damián Álvarez
Referee	Paul Delgadillo
Attendance	30,000
Second leg
Date	December 11, 2011 18:00 (UTC-6)
Venue	Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás, Nuevo León
Man of the Match	Danilinho
Referee	Marco Antonio Rodríguez
Attendance	45,531
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The 2011 Apertura Liguilla Final is a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2011 Apertura champion.

After 17 matches on the regular season, and 2 two-legged rounds of Liguilla, Tigres UANL and Santos Laguna have reached the final.

This final was the third of Santos Laguna in 4 tournaments, the other two where in the Bicentenario 2010 losing against Toluca on a penalty shoot-out and the Apertura 2010 losing against Monterrey with the score of 5 - 3.

This final was the first of Tigres UANL since 2003, when they lost 3 - 2 on aggregate against Pachuca. Also Tigres UANL hadn't won the league since the 1981–82 season when they became winners against Atlante on a penalty shoot-out.

Final rules edit

Like other match-ups in the knockout round, the teams will play two games, one at each team's home stadium. As the highest seeded team determined at the beginning of the Liguilla, will have home-field advantage for the second leg.

However, the tiebreaking criteria used in previous rounds will not be the same in the final. If the teams remained tied after 90 minutes of play during the 2nd leg, extra time will be used, followed by a penalty shootout if necessary.

Route to the final edit

Tigres UANL		Round	Santos Laguna
Opponent	Result	Regular Season	Opponent	Result
Cruz Azul	1 - 1	Match 1	Pachuca	4 - 1
Querétaro	0 - 0	Match 2	Atlante	3 - 0
Toluca	2 - 2	Match 3	Chiapas	2 - 3
Estudiantes Tecos	1 - 0	Match 4	Tijuana	1 - 3
América	2 - 2	Match 5	Pumas UNAM	1 - 1
San Luis	1 - 0	Match 6	Morelia	0 - 2
Atlas	1 - 0	Match 7	Monterrey	0 - 2
Pachuca	5 - 0	Match 8	Guadalajara	1 - 1
Atlante	0 - 1	Match 9	San Luis	1 - 0
Chiapas	1 - 1	Match 10	Puebla	2 - 1
Tijuana	1 - 1	Match 11	Cruz Azul	1 - 0
Pumas UNAM	4 - 1	Match 12	Querétaro	3 - 1
Morelia	0 - 2	Match 13	Toluca	3 - 2
Monterrey	0 - 0	Match 14	Estudiantes Tecos	2 - 5
Guadalajara	0 - 1	Match 15	América	1 - 1
Santos Laguna	2 - 1	Match 16	Tigres UANL	1 - 2
Puebla	1 - 0	Match 17	Atlas	3 - 0
Opponent	Result	Liguilla	Opponent	Result
Pachuca	1 - 0	Quarterfinals	Chiapas	2 - 2
Pachuca	3 - 0	Quarterfinals	Chiapas	2 - 1
Querétaro	0 - 0	Semifinals	Morelia	1 - 2
Querétaro	1 - 0	Semifinals	Morelia	3 - 2

Final edit

First leg edit

December 8, 2011

20:30

Santos Laguna	0 – 1	Tigres UANL
	Report	7' Álvarez

Estadio Corona
Torreón, Coahuila

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Paul Delgadillo

Santos Laguna

Tigres UANL

Santos Laguna

GK	1	Oswaldo Sánchez (c) 23'
DF	4	Jorge Iván Estrada 28' 45'
DF	18	Santiago Hoyos
DF	23	Felipe Baloy 81'
DF	14	César Ibáñez
MF	13	Christian Suárez 61'
MF	17	Rodolfo Salinas
MF	8	Juan Pablo Rodríguez 23'
MF	7	José María Cárdenas
FW	3	Carlos Darwin Quintero 45'
FW	24	Oribe Peralta
Substitutes
DF	5	Aarón Galindo
FW	9	Carlos Ochoa
MF	15	Jaime Toledo 61'
DF	20	Osmar Mares 45'
GK	25	Miguel Becerra
DF	28	Carlos Adrián Morales 45' 58'
FW	65	Alonso Escoboza
Manager
Benjamín Galindo

Tigres UANL

GK	1	Enrique Palos
DF	2	Israel Jiménez
DF	3	Juninho
DF	4	Hugo Ayala
DF	6	Jorge Torres Nilo
MF	15	Manuel Viniegra 88'
MF	30	Carlos Salcido
MF	10	Danilinho
MF	16	Lucas Lobos (c)
MF	11	Damián Álvarez
FW	9	Héctor Mancilla 72'
Substitutes
MF	18	Francisco Acuña
FW	19	Alan Pulido 72'
GK	21	Aarón Fernández
MF	22	Edgar Pacheco
DF	24	José Arturo Rivas
MF	28	Alberto Acosta
MF	29	Jesús Dueñas 88'
Manager
Ricardo Ferretti

Paul Delgadillo Man of the Match: Damián Álvarez
Assistant referees: Salvador Rodríguez
Carlos González
Fourth official: Ricardo Arellano

Second leg edit

December 11, 2011

18:00

Tigres UANL	3 – 1	Santos Laguna
Mancilla 52' Danilinho 63' Pulido 87'	Report	30' Peralta

Estadio Universitario
San Nicolás, Nuevo León

Attendance: 45,531

Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez