Season trivia for Liga MX 2022/2023 Apertura
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2022/2023 Apertura Liga MX season in Mexico.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Emilio Lara and Henry Martín. Together they were behind 4 goals for América in the 2022/2023 Apertura season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2022/2023 Apertura season:
Fastest hat-trick
Abel Hernandez, playing for Atlético San Luis, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 28 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Atlético San Luis-Pumas UNAM.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In August 2022, Henry Martín (América) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2022/2023 Apertura season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored three times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Henry Martín (América)
Nicolás Ibáñez (Pachuca)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2022/2023 Apertura season was Nicolás Ibáñez in Pachuca, in total he did it six times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were two players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, five times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Camilo Sanvezzo (Toluca)
Nicolás Ibáñez (Pachuca)
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2022/2023 Apertura was shared between two players, all of whom scored four penalties each, and these were Camilo Sanvezzo (Toluca) and Fernando Gorriarán (Santos Laguna).
Most penalty goals by team
Toluca was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, in total they scored eight of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Nicolás Ibáñez was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, in total he scored three stoppage time goals for his Pachuca.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was five goals, which four teams managed to do, and these were Toluca, Santos Laguna, León and Pachuca.
Most own goals by player
two players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2022/2023 Apertura season in Liga MX. These players each scored two own goals and they were Nicolás Freire (Pumas UNAM) and Milton Giménez (Necaxa).
Most own goals by team
two teams each scored three own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were León and Pumas UNAM.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Nicolás Ibáñez in Pachuca scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Henry Martín in América who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Henry Martín in América scored or assisted in 7 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 6 goals, and the players who did this were Leonardo Fernández (Toluca) and Henry Martín (América).
Players with most goals in the second half
Nicolás Ibáñez in Pachuca scored a total of 12 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Liga MX during the 2022/2023 Apertura season.
Most consecutive wins
América was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, with a total of 9 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
América were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, playing 14 straight matches without losing.
Most matches in a row without a win
Puebla managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something América were best at during the 2022/2023 Apertura season, they came back to win three matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Necaxa, Pumas UNAM, Cruz Azul, León and Atlas were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in two different matches during the 2022/2023 Apertura season.