Liga MX Futures

Liga MX Futures

Mexico’s top-tier professional soccer division, Liga MX MX, is also known as the Liga BBVA MX, Mexico Liga or simply the Mexican League. It’s known as the strongest North American soccer league and holds two yearly international competitions where national teams compete to face off in the final champions league match, where winning the championship is the ultimate dream for the teams. Liga MX’s competition format is based on knockout rounds.

Liga MX boasts a solid fan base and draws the third largest crowds of any professional sports league in North America. As the NFL and MLB are the only big-time sports leagues that can exceed Liga MX’s popularity, it naturally attracts waves of sports bettors. It has specifically drawn considerable interest in the futures betting market where bettors enjoy placing wagers on the Mexican teams or on some of the league’s biggest stars such as Julio Furch, Julian Andres Quinones, Luis Romo and Roberto Alvarado, all of whom have solid competitive strength.

Today we’ll cover the basics of Liga MX futures wagers and the range of available options. Placing bets on games during the regular season is unquestionably popular, but have you dabbled in the futures bets that involve outright/title winner, top goalscorer, top-4 finish, and relegation?

Liga MX Winner Odds

Liga MX allows bettors to wager on two champions league title winners per season and the Liga MX playoff winners. The season begins with the Apertura tournament between July and December, followed by the Clausura from January to May. While you can place future bets on the title winners of Apertura and Clausura, the top twelve teams from each regular season advance to the ultimate Liga MX playoff phase, known as the Liguilla.

The outright options for the top Mexican clubs are vast, but the league’s cup – the winner of the Liguilla playoffs – is the ultimate prize that the most prominent club usually obtains.

The outright/title winner, Liga MX betting market, requires you to predict which team will win the playoffs, Apertura or Clausura. Alternatively, you place future wagers on all three, but these odds will change during the course of a season based on each team’s performance levels.

Liga MX Top Goalscorer Odds

In addition to predicting which team will become the Liga MX title winners, bettors can also wager on the top goalscorer market. Whichever player you believe will score the most goals during the entirety of a season is the player you’ll want to bet on. As the odds for this market can be very well priced with significant potential profits, you can wager on one or two players to expand your probability of success.

Mexican club soccer has a high talent level, and its top goalscorers often vary from season to season. Understanding how the top goalscorer odds can be affected during the lengthy Liga MX season, including regular-season performance, injuries, and fatigue, is essential. These can all cause the available betting lines to shift.

Nicolas Lopez of Tigres UNAL is the current top goalscorer of the Apertura league in 2022. You’ll be able to wager on his goalscoring efforts once the Clausura has concluded and the top teams compete in the Liguilla.

Liga MX Top 4 Finish Odds

The aforementioned leagues (Apertura, Clausura) will also be aligned with a top 4 finish futures betting market at the top online sportsbooks. This is where bettors can wager on which team/teams they expect to place in the top 4 of each respective Mexican soccer league.

Predicting the lone winner of a Liga MX regular season can be challenging; however, wagering on which teams will place in the top 4 of the standings heightens a bettor’s probability and gives a more straightforward path to cashing a ticket at the end of the season. You will cash if the team you bet on in the futures market finishes in:

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 4th

Liga MX Relegation Odds

After completing the Apertura and Clausura regular season league format, one team is relegated to Mexico’s lower division, Ascenso MX. The best performing team of the Ascenso MX is promoted to Liga MX.

However, as of 2020, and due to the clubs affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Mexican Football Federation has postponed the relegation/promotion rule until 2026 for the South American league. As of now, no team from Liga MX can be relegated, and no team from Ascenso MX can be promoted. Currently, Liga MX doesn’t have any future relegation markets.

How to Bet on Liga MX Futures

With two league-based formats and a playoff, there’s an abundance of options in the Liga MX futures markets, and bettors will never run short of betting options.

When approaching the outright winner/title odds markets, you must consider which format you’re betting on. Whether it’s the Apertura, Clausura, or Liguilla. However, the approach of betting on future title winners doesn’t alter from any other league. It would be best if you did your due diligence on the teams involved, found the best-priced odds, and wager on the club you expect to succeed in its respected league or Liga MX cup-winning efforts.

The top goalscorer market applies an alternative approach, where you aren’t forced to predict which team will own the most success. Instead, you can bank on a lone player’s season performance. Wagering on the top goalscorer doesn’t reflect a team’s success, as you’re only relying on the player you bet on to score the most goals in a season. With that said, you need to consider factors such as injuries and whether or not the player’s team is expected to reach the Liguilla stage of the Liga MX season, as this could affect your selected top goalscorer’s playtime.