{"id":83114,"date":"2026-04-24T03:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/atlante-returning-to-liga-mx-after-12-years-in-2nd-tier\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:20:29","slug":"atlante-returning-to-liga-mx-after-12-years-in-2nd-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/atlante-returning-to-liga-mx-after-12-years-in-2nd-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlante returning to Liga MX after 12 years in 2nd tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mexican second-division side Atlante will return to Liga MX for the first time in over a decade after the league&#8217;s owners approved the purchase of franchise rights from Mazatlan FC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assembly welcomed the owner of Club Atlante, Emilio Escalante, who expressed his gratitude for the trust placed in him,&#8221; read a press release following a biannual meeting between league stakeholders on Thursday. &#8220;Likewise, it bade farewell &#8212; with affection and recognition &#8212; to the representative of Mazatl\u00e1n FC, Gustavo Guzm\u00e1n, for his contributions to soccer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2024\/0820\/r1375614_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0305\/r1623677_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Initially relegated from Liga MX after the 2013-14 season and currently playing in the Mexico&#8217;s second tier, Atlante will now replace Mazaltan starting from the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Atlante &#8212; a team with a rich history and a three-time league champion &#8212; will play its games in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>Mazatlan&#8217;s exit follows a brief stint in Liga MX after replacing Monarcas and relocating the team from Morelia in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s meeting also saw the sale of Atlas to Grupo PRODI approved, thereby ending the multiownership of Grupo Orlegi, which also owns Liga MX side Santos Laguna. The last remaining multi-ownership collective in Liga MX is that of Grupo Pachuca, which owns Leon and Pachuca.<\/p>\n<p>The league also made a change in governance with the creation of four committees: Sporting, Commercial, Investment and Certification, and Ethics and Good Governance. All 18 teams will take part in the committees that were inspired by best practices from European leagues.<\/p>\n<p>There were no updates on the status of promotion and relegation for to and from Liga MX, despite reports of reinstating it or ending it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) paved the way for the expected return of pro\/rel for the 2026-27 season. Initially paused by Mexican soccer in 2020 due to the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the absence of pro\/rel drove 10 second-tier sides sue Liga MX for its reinstatement, leading to last year&#8217;s decision from CAS.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen what system will be in place for next season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican second-division side Atlante will return to Liga MX for the first time in over a decade after the league&#8217;s owners approved the purchase of franchise rights from Mazatlan FC. &#8220;The assembly welcomed the owner of Club Atlante, Emilio Escalante, who expressed his gratitude for the trust placed in him,&#8221; read a press release following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1648211_1296x729_16-9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}