Primera División de México Apertura 2003

Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2003 is a Mexican football tournament - one of two short tournaments that take up the entire year to determine the champion(s) of Mexican football. It began on Saturday 2 August 2003, and ran until 22 November, when the regular season ended. Irapuato was promoted to the Primera División de México to play this tournament, and Cuernavaca was to be relegated to the Primera División A. The Cuernavaca did not get to play in Primera A, though, as the team was disbanded by FMF. On 20 December, Pachuca defeated Tigres UANL and became champions for the third time.

Clubs

• Necaxa moved from Mexico City to Aguascalientes.

Top goalscorers

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Only regular season goals listed.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Luis Gabriel Rey	Atlante	15
2	Template:Flagicon José Cardozo	Toluca	13
3	Template:Flagicon Carlos María Morales	Atlas	12
	Template:Flagicon Reinaldo Navia	Morelia
5	Template:Flagicon Alex Fernandes	Monterrey	11
	Template:Flagicon Emilio Mora	Veracruz
6	Template:Flagicon Jared Borgetti	Santos Laguna	10
	Template:Flagicon Eliomar Marcón	UAG
	Template:Flagicon Alfredo Moreno	Necaxa
9	Template:Flagicon Cuauhtémoc Blanco	América	9
	Template:Flagicon Walter Gaitán	UANL
	Template:Flagicon Luis Ignacio Quinteros	Puebla
	Template:Flagicon Andrés Silvera	UANL

Source: MedioTiempo

Final phase (Liguilla)

Repechage

Toluca won 6–4 on aggregate.

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Cruz Azul won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarterfinals

2–2 on aggregate. UANL advanced for being the higher seeded team.

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Toluca won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Pachuca won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Atlante won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semifinals

UANL won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Pachuca won 2–1 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

Monterrey: GK 1 Template:Flagicon Miguel Calero DF 2 Template:Flagicon Alberto Rodríguez DF 5 Template:Flagicon Francisco Gabriel de Anda DF 4 Template:Flagicon Joel Huiqui DF 99 Template:Flagicon Manuel Vidrio DF 7 Template:Flagicon Octavio Valdez MF 29 Template:Flagicon Jaime Correa MF 8 Template:Flagicon Gabriel Caballero downward-facing red arrow 63' MF 15 Template:Flagicon Andrés Chitiva FW 18 Template:Flagicon Sergio Santana downward-facing red arrow 69' FW 11 Template:Flagicon Claudinho downward-facing red arrow 60' Substitutions: GK 20 Template:Flagicon Melitón Hernández DF 19 Template:Flagicon Marco Sánchez MF 33 Template:Flagicon Braulio Godínez MF 10 Template:Flagicon Marco Garcés MF 19 Template:Flagicon Marinho Ledesma Template:Yel upward-facing green arrow 63' MF 58 Template:Flagicon Adolfo Bautista upward-facing green arrow 69' FW 9 Template:Flagicon Jorge Alvez upward-facing green arrow 60' Manager: Template:Flagicon Víctor Manuel Vucetich

Morelia: GK 1 Template:Flagicon Gustavo Campagnuolo DF 20 Template:Flagicon Hugo Sánchez DF 4 Template:Flagicon David Oteo DF 6 Template:Flagicon Omar Briceño DF 15 Template:Flagicon Mario Ruiz MF 5 Template:Flagicon Eduardo Rergis downward-facing red arrow 71' MF 13 Template:Flagicon Antonio Sancho Template:Yel MF 23 Template:Flagicon Javier Saavedra MF 8 Template:Flagicon Irênio FW 11 Template:Flagicon Kléber Pereira downward-facing red arrow 71' FW 22 Template:Flagicon Andrés Silvera Substitutions: GK 1 Template:Flagicon Miguel Fuentes DF 3 Template:Flagicon Sindey Balderas MF 19 Template:Flagicon Juan Montano MF 21 Template:Flagicon Marco Ruiz upward-facing green arrow 71' MF 38 Template:Flagicon Jesús Palacios| FW 9 Template:Flagicon Jesús Olalde upward-facing green arrow 71' FW 18 Template:Flagicon Aldo de Nigris Manager: Template:Flagicon Nery Pumpido

Pachuca won 3–2 on aggregate.

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External links

• Mediotiempo.com (where information was obtained)

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