1980–81 Mexican Segunda División season

Football league season

Segunda División de México
Season	1980–81
Champions	Atlético Morelia (1st Title)
Promoted	Oaxtepec
Relegated	Cachorros León
Matches played	578
Goals scored	1,588 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ricardo Márquez (28 goals)
← 1979–80 1981–82 →

The 1980–81 Segunda División was the 32nd season of the Mexican Segunda División. The season started on 19 July 1980 and concluded on 26 July 1981. It was won by Atlético Morelia.

Changes

Atletas Campesinos was promoted to Primera División.
Jalisco was relegated from Primera División.
Oaxtepec was promoted from Tercera División.
UV Coatzacoalcos was relegated from Segunda División.

Teams

N. Necaxa

Colima

EdoMex

Tuberos
Veracruz

SUOO

Cachorrosclass=notpageimage| 1980–81 season Teams

Club	City	Stadium
Atletas Industriales	Querétaro City	Estadio Municipal de Querétaro
Atlético Morelia	Morelia	Estadio Venustiano Carranza
Bachilleres	Guadalajara	Estadio Tecnológico U. de G.
Cachorros León	León	Estadio Nou Camp
Colima	Colima City	Estadio Colima
Coyotes Neza	Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl	Estadio Metropolitano
Cuautla	Cuautla	Estadio Isidro Gil Tapia
Estado de México	Toluca	Estadio Toluca 70
Irapuato	Irapuato	Estadio Irapuato
Jalisco	Guadalajara	Estadio Jalisco
La Piedad	La Piedad	Estadio Juan N. López
Lobos de Tlaxcala	Tlaxcala City	Estadio Tlahuicole
Nuevo Necaxa	Juan Galindo	Estadio 14 de Diciembre
Oaxtepec	Oaxtepec	Estadio Olímpico Centro Vacacional IMSS
Pachuca	Pachuca	Estadio Revolución Mexicana
Salamanca	Salamanca	Estadio El Molinito
SUOO	Cuautitlán	Estadio Los Pinos
Tapatío	Guadalajara	Casa Club Guadalajara
Tepic	Tepic	Estadio Nicolás Álvarez Ortega
Tuberos de Veracruz	Veracruz City	Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente
Tulancingo	Tulancingo	Estadio Primero de Mayo
UV	Xalapa	Estadio Antonio M. Quirasco
Veracruz	Veracruz City	Estadio Luis "Pirata" Fuente
Zamora	Zamora	Estadio 20 de Noviembre

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Estado de México (Q)	46	23	11	12	72	47	+25	71	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Oaxtepec (Q)	46	16	15	15	69	54	+15	58	Qualified to Playoffs
3	Nuevo Necaxa	46	15	17	14	80	72	+8	54
4	Tulancingo	46	15	18	13	68	67	+1	54
5	Tuberos de Veracruz	46	17	9	20	52	64	−12	48
6	La Piedad	46	12	16	18	58	67	−9	46

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Coyotes Neza (Q)	46	22	16	8	82	45	+37	74	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Veracruz (Q)	46	23	11	12	77	55	+22	69	Qualified to Playoffs
3	Salamanca	46	19	11	16	82	69	+13	60
4	Zamora	46	11	20	15	44	44	0	50
5	Atletas Industriales	46	10	12	24	42	75	−33	36
6	Lobos de Tlaxcala	46	10	13	23	46	80	−34	35

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Jalisco (Q)	46	22	14	10	85	54	+31	76	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Atlético Morelia (Q)	46	21	13	12	79	62	+17	67	Qualified to Playoffs
3	Colima	46	16	13	17	72	77	−5	53
4	Pachuca	46	14	13	19	55	67	−12	48
5	Bachilleres	46	16	9	21	58	72	−14	48
6	Irapuato	46	12	16	18	55	69	−14	45

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tepic (Q)	46	23	12	11	63	57	+6	66	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Tapatío (Q)	46	18	15	13	72	58	+14	62	Qualified to Playoffs
3	SUOO	46	18	13	15	61	54	+7	61
4	Universidad Veracruzana	46	15	15	16	58	54	+4	51
5	Cuautla	46	11	18	17	43	61	−18	46
6	Cachorros León	46	6	14	26	47	96	−49	28	Relegated

Source: RSSSF
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Results

Home \ Away	ATI	ATM	BAC	CAL	COL	COY	CUA	EDM	IRA	JAL	LPD	LBT	NEC	OAX	PAC	SAL	SUO	TAP	TEP	TUB	TUL	UV	VER	ZAM
Atletas Industriales	—	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–4	2–1	2–3	1–1	3–2	0–3	0–3	2–2	2–2	0–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–0
Atlético Morelia	2–0	—	2–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–0	1–3	5–0	3–1	3–2	3–1	0–2	1–0
Bachilleres	3–1	0–0	—	3–1	1–4	0–3	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–1
Cachorros León	2–1	2–4	0–2	—	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–3	0–3	0–0	3–3	1–1	1–4	1–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	2–2
Colima	4–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	—	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–3	0–3	0–0	3–3	1–1	1–4	1–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	2–2
Coyotes Neza	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–3	—	3–0	3–2	3–0	4–1	3–2	4–1	3–3	1–1	4–0	1–3	6–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	4–1	0–0
Cuautla	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	—	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–5	1–1	1–0
Estado de México	4–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–2	0–3	1–2	4–3	2–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	3–4	2–3	2–0	1–1
Irapuato	0–1	4–1	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	—	1–3	0–0	0–1	4–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1
Jalisco	1–1	1–1	1–3	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	4–2	—	2–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	5–2	3–1	4–1	0–1	4–1	3–0	5–5	2–1	2–1
La Piedad	1–3	1–2	5–2	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	—	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–3	6–4	1–2	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	1–1
Lobos Tlaxcala	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–3	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	—	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–1	2–3	0–0
Nuevo Necaxa	4–0	2–0	2–4	3–1	6–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	5–0	3–3	—	2–2	2–3	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
Oaxtepec	1–2	0–3	2–1	4–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	7–1	6–1	1–1	—	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	5–2	0–0	1–1	2–0
Pachuca	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–4	5–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–1	—	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–3	1–3	2–2	0–0
Salamanca	2–0	2–3	3–1	7–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	—	0–0	1–3	0–1	3–0	3–2	0–1	3–0	1–1
SUOO	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–3	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	—	0–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0
Tapatío	1–1	2–3	2–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	—	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–1	4–1
Tepic	3–2	3–1	3–1	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	—	0–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–3
Tuberos	1–0	2–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–3	3–4	2–2	2–0	—	3–0	2–0	3–2	1–0
Tulancingo	0–0	2–2	4–4	4–2	3–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	—	1–0	2–1	0–0
UV	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	—	2–2	0–0
Veracruz	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	4–0	1–1	0–1	4–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	—	2–1
Zamora	2–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	3–2	4–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	—

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	TAP	JAL	VER	EDM
1	Tapatío (Q)	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	12	Qualified to Final		1–1	1–0	2–0
2	Jalisco	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	10		0–2		2–0	3–0
3	Veracruz	6	1	1	4	8	11	−3	4		2–2	0–1		5–3
4	Estado de México	6	1	1	4	8	15	−7	3		2–3	1–1	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 for the phase indicated

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion	ATM	COY	OAX	TEP
1	Atlético Morelia (Q)	6	2	3	1	8	4	+4	9	Qualified to Final		3–1	0–0	4–1
2	Coyotes Neza	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	8		1–1		2–1	4–0
3	Oaxtepec	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	8		1–0	2–1		2–1
4	Tepic	6	0	2	4	4	13	−9	2		0–0	0–1	2–2

Final

July 19, 198112:00

Tapatío	1–1	Atlético Morelia
Eduardo Vázquez 45'	Report	Horacio Rocha 5' (pen.)

Unidad Deportiva Hermanos López Rayón, Uruapan

July 26, 198112:00

Atlético Morelia	1–0	Tapatío
Horacio Rocha 28' (pen.)	Report

Estadio Venustiano Carranza, Morelia

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