1986–87 Mexican Segunda División season

The 1986–87 Segunda División was the 38th season of the Mexican Segunda División. The season started on 18 July 1986 and concluded on 23 June 1987. It was won by UAT.[1]

Segunda División de México

Season	1986–87
Champions	UAT (1st Title)
Promoted	Tapatío Orizaba Progreso Cocula
Relegated	Zacatecas Pachuca Nuevo Necaxa
Matches played	381
Goals scored	1,037 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jaime Ríos (26 goals)
← 1985–86 1987–88 →

Changes

• Cobras was promoted to Primera División.[2]
• No team was relegated from the Primera División due to the celebration of the Prode 85 and Mexico 86 tournaments held in a special way as part of the preparation of the national team for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, held in Mexico.[3]
• Tapatío and Orizaba were promoted from Segunda División B.[3]
• Progreso Cocula was promoted from Tercera División.[3]
• Poza Rica, Córdoba and San Mateo Atenco were relegated to Segunda División B.[3]
• Búfalos Curtidores sold its franchise to the Government of Zacatecas, a new team named Mineros de Zacatecas was created.[4] This team was not related with the current team.
• Salamanca sold its franchise to Pioneros de Cancún.[3]
• Atlacomulco returned to Texcoco.[3]

During the season

• After Week 6, Jaguares de Colima sold its franchise to the University of Colima, the team was renamed Loros UdeC.[5]

Teams

Tepic

N. Necaxa

Colima/UdeC

UAQ

Pachuca

Jalisco

Santos Laguna

Orizaba

La Piedad

Tecomán

UAT

Chetumal

Pioneros

Zacatecas

Texcoco

Progreso

Tapatío

Oaxaca

Zacatepec

1986–87 season Teams

Club	City	Stadium
Chetumal	Chetumal	Estadio José López Portillo
Colima U. de C.	Colima City	Estadio Colima
Jalisco	Guadalajara	Estadio Jalisco
La Piedad	La Piedad	Estadio Juan N. López
Nuevo Necaxa	Tulancingo	Estadio Primero de Mayo
Oaxaca	Oaxaca City	Estadio Gral. Manuel Cabrera Carrasquedo
Orizaba	Orizaba	Estadio Moctezuma
Pachuca	Pachuca	Estadio Revolución Mexicana
Pioneros Cancún	Cancún	Estadio Cancún 86
Progreso Cocula	Cocula	Estadio Hércules 77
Santos Laguna	Torreón	Estadio Corona
Tapatío	Aguascalientes City	Estadio Alberto Romo Chávez
Tecomán	Tecomán	Estadio IAETAC
Tepic	Tepic	Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega
Texcoco	Texcoco	Estadio Municipal de Texcoco
UAQ	Querétaro City	Estadio Corregidora
UAT	Ciudad Victoria	Estadio Marte R. Gómez
Zacatepec	Zacatepec	Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz
Zacatecas	Zacatecas City	Estadio Francisco Villa

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Texcoco (Q)	36	14	10	12	46	48	−2	48	Qualified to Playoffs
2	UAT (Q)	36	12	13	11	43	42	+1	45
3	Pachuca	36	13	9	14	56	48	+8	41	Relegation Group
4	Chetumal	36	12	8	16	47	62	−15	39
5	Zacatecas (R)	36	8	7	21	34	67	−33	27	Relegated

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Santos Laguna (Q)	36	21	7	8	63	34	+29	66	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Tecomán (Q)	36	18	7	11	66	55	+11	57
3	Jalisco	36	16	9	11	48	33	+15	54
4	Orizaba	36	15	9	12	51	57	−6	50
5	Nuevo Necaxa	36	6	12	18	31	59	−28	28	Relegation Group

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pioneros Cancún (Q)	36	16	9	11	51	45	+6	51	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Colima/U. de C. (Q)	36	14	10	12	59	52	+7	47
3	Tepic	36	13	10	13	51	48	+3	46
4	Tapatío	36	12	10	14	43	42	+1	44
5	Progreso Cocula	36	8	7	21	41	71	−30	27	Relegation Group

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zacatepec (Q)	36	16	10	10	61	44	+17	53	Qualified to Playoffs
2	UAQ (Q)	36	14	9	13	52	44	+8	50
3	Oaxaca	36	15	5	16	58	53	+5	46
4	La Piedad	36	12	13	11	51	48	+3	44

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Results

Home \ Away	CHE	CUC	JAL	LPD	NEC	OAX	ORI	PAC	PIO	PRO	SAN	TAP	TEC	TEP	TEX	UAQ	UAT	ZAC	ZAS
Chetumal	—	3–0	0–3	0–1	2–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	6–2	2–1	3–3	1–3	2–1	4–4	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0
Colima-U. de C.	4–1	—	1–0	5–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	4–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	3–2	4–0	2–3	5–3	2–2	2–1
Jalisco	2–0	0–1	—	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–3	3–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–0
La Piedad	0–1	2–1	0–1	—	3–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	3–3	6–1	1–0	2–3	2–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–0
Nuevo Necaxa	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	—	4–2	0–1	0–3	0–1	4–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–4
Oaxaca	0–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	4–0	—	1–0	2–2	6–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	4–1	3–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	3–0
Orizaba	4–1	0–1	0–3	2–1	2–0	3–0	—	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–2	3–0	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–3	1–1	1–1
Pachuca	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	5–1	1–2	—	2–2	4–3	2–1	4–0	4–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–2
Pioneros Cancún	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	4–1
Progreso Cocula	4–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	5–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–0	2–3
Santos Laguna	1–0	2–0	0–3	1–2	3–1	2–0	6–1	0–0	3–1	2–0	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	6–0
Tapatío	4–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	—	2–3	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–1
Tecomán	3–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	3–3	1–0	5–1	3–1	2–1	4–0	1–0	2–0	—	4–2	0–2	1–1	4–2	1–0	3–3
Tepic	3–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	—	4–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–0
Texcoco	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–3	1–0	1–1	5–2	3–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	—	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0
UAQ	1–2	5–3	3–0	0–1	0–0	4–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	4–1	3–1	—	2–0	0–2	2–0
UAT	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	3–0	—	3–2	1–1
Zacatepec	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	5–2	4–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	4–3	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	—	3–0
Zacatecas	1–0	4–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–3	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion		UAQ	PIO	TEC	TEX
1	UAQ (Q)	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	10	Qualified to Final			2–0	3–1	1–0
2	Pioneros Cancún	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	8			1–1		2–1	2–1
3	Tecomán	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	6			2–0	2–1		1–1
4	Texcoco	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	4			1–1	1–2	1–0

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion		UAT	SAN	ZAC	UDC
1	UAT (Q)	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	11	Qualified to Final			2–0	2–0	1–0
2	Santos Laguna	6	2	2	2	9	10	−1	7			2–1		1–1	2–0
3	Zacatepec	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	6			1–0	3–1		0–1
4	U. de C.	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	6			0–2	3–3	2–1

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Final

May 10, 1987	UAT	0–0	UAQ	Ciudad Victoria
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Marte R. Gómez

June 20, 1987	UAQ	1–1	UAT	Querétaro City
	Laguna  83'	Report	Serratos  79'	Stadium: Estadio Corregidora

June 23, 1987	UAQ	0–0 (1–1 agg.) (2–4 p)	UAT	Mexico City
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Azteca

Relegation Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion		CHE	PRO	PAC	NEC
1	Chetumal	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	9				4–0	1–0	2–0
2	Progreso Cocula	6	3	1	2	6	8	−2	8			1–0		2–2	1–0
3	Pachuca (R)	6	1	3	2	7	6	+1	6	Relegated		3–0	1–2		0–0
4	Nuevo Necaxa (R)	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	5			2–2	1–0	1–1

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored
(R) Relegated.

References

1. "Momentos del "Corre" en la historia: El ascenso de 1987". CF Correcaminos UAT. Official Site (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 September 2020.
2. "Cobras, el primer equipo que fue idea original de Televisa". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). 1 May 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
3. Lugo, Erick Francisco; Toscano, Martín. "Mexico 1985/1986". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
4. Ordaz, Roberto (2 July 2020). "Del Francisco Villa al Carlos Vega Villalba; el futbol zacatecano". El Sol de Zacatecas (in Spanish). Organización Editorial Mexicana. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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