Marbella Ibarra was an enthusiastic women's football advocate that persuade Club Tijuana to create a professional women's team in 2014. However, in early 2016, the Mexican Football Federation announced that it would no longer continue allocating players to the NWSL due to the lack of playing time that the allocated players were receiving, foreshadowing the creation of Liga MX Femenil. From 2013 to 2016, the Mexican Football Federation allocated Mexican players to NWSL clubs in an effort to develop Mexican talent in the United States. In 2012, the United States Soccer Federation, Canadian Soccer Association, Mexican Football Federation, USL W-League, and the Women's Premier Soccer League agreed to form the National Women's Soccer League. Therefore, major clubs such as Chivas, pulled their support. While the league did foster some success, it did not have major sponsorships and lacked media coverage as well as fan support. In 2007, there was an attempt to professionalize women's football in Mexico via the Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil. The current champions are Club América who defeated Pachuca with a 4–2 aggregate score in the Clausura 2023 final in June 2023.īackground Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil In all, only these four clubs have won the Liga MX Femenil title. Monterrey, and Club América with two titles each. Tigres UANL has won the league a record five times, followed by C.D. Former Liga MX President, Enrique Bonilla, stated that the league was created in order to nurture the stars of the Mexico women's national football team and to build an infrastructure for women's football in Mexico.
The league's first official domestic cup competition took place in May 2017 via the Copa MX Femenil, a now discontinued tournament that was created with the objective of preparing the teams for the inaugural season of the league which began in July 2017. Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, this professional league has 18 teams, each coinciding with a Liga MX club.įollowing the same schedule as the men's league, each season consist of two tournaments: an Apertura tournament, which takes place from July to December, and a Clausura tournament, which takes place from January to May. The Liga MX Femenil, officially known as the Liga BBVA MX Femenil for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Mexico.
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