Mazatlan, Puebla and Atlas Face Financial Penalties as Liga MX Relegation Table Tightens

As the Clausura 2025 enters its final stretch, pressure mounts at the bottom of Liga MX’s coefficient table. While traditional promotion and relegation have been suspended since 2020, the league still enforces a financial punishment for the lowest-performing clubs across recent tournaments.

The bottom three teams on the coefficient table must pay steep fines instead of facing relegation. The 16th-placed team will pay 33 million Mexican pesos, the 17th will owe 47 million, and the last-placed club must cover a staggering 80 million pesos.

With just five matchdays remaining, Mazatlán sits at the bottom with a coefficient of 0.9175, followed by Puebla (0.9691) and Atlas (1.0309), all currently within the sanction zone. FC Juárez (1.0619), Querétaro (1.0794), and Santos Laguna (1.1030) are also under threat and must improve to avoid slipping into dangerous territory.

Although there is no direct relegation, the financial burden and reputational damage of finishing among the bottom three are substantial. Clubs have 15 points left to fight for, and each fixture now carries extra weight. The coefficient table may not relegate teams, but it certainly punishes underperformance.