Season trivia for Liga MX 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 Apertura Liga MX season in Mexico.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2025/2026 Apertura season were the players Emiliano Gomez - Ricardo Marín (Puebla), Armando González - Efrain Álvarez (Guadalajara), Germán Berterame - Oliver Torres (Monterrey), Lucas Ocampos - Sergio Canales (Monterrey), Paulinho - Alexis Vega (Toluca) and Juan Brunetta - Ángel Correa (Tigres UANL). Together they scored 4 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
The fastest goalscorers during the season 2025/2026 Apertura were these players, all of whom scored in minute 2 of any match of the season:
Fastest hat-trick
Juan Brunetta, playing for Tigres UANL, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 21 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Tigres UANL-Necaxa.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2025/2026 Apertura was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Sergio Canales (Monterrey) - August 2025
Paulinho (Toluca) - September 2025
Juan Brunetta (Tigres UANL) - October 2025
Armando González (Guadalajara) - October 2025
Most braces by player
João Pedro in Atlético San Luis scored (at least) two goals in a match four times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025/2026 Apertura season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025/2026 Apertura season was Óscar Estupiñán in Juárez, in total he did it seven times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were five players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, three times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Gabriel Fernández (Cruz Azul)
Ángel Correa (Tigres UANL)
Paulinho (Toluca)
Diego Lainez (Tigres UANL)
Ángel Sepúlveda (Cruz Azul)
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2025/2026 Apertura was shared between three players, all of whom scored four penalties each, and these were
Most penalty goals by team
Monterrey was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2025/2026 Apertura season, in total they scored six of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by player
two players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2025/2026 Apertura season in Liga MX. These players each scored two own goals and they were Juan Manuel Sanabria (Atlético San Luis) and Jesús Murillo (Juárez).
Most own goals by team
Atlético San Luis scored five own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025/2026 Apertura season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Paulinho in Toluca scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 Apertura season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was José Paradela in Cruz Azul 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
The players who were involved in goals in the most consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 Apertura season were Alejandro Zendejas (América) and Juan Brunetta (Tigres UANL), with a streak of 6 matches in a row with at least one goal and/or assist.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Paulinho in Toluca who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 9 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
two players were the best at scoring in the second half, something they did 8 times, and the players who did this were João Pedro (Atlético San Luis) and Ángel Correa (Tigres UANL).
Most matches in a row without losing
The longest unbeaten streak belonged to Toluca and Tigres UANL, who had 13 consecutive matches without losing.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Toluca were best at during the 2025/2026 Apertura season, they came back to win five matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Atlético San Luis have managed this in six matches during the 2025/2026 Apertura season, more than any other team in Liga MX.