The 2012–13 Monterrey season was the 66th professional season of Mexico's top-flight football league. The season is split into two tournaments—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each with identical formats and each contested by the same eighteen teams. Monterrey began their season on July 21, 2012, against América, Monterrey play their homes games on Saturdays at 7:00pm local time. Monterrey reached the quarter-finals of the Final phase in the Apertura tournament and reached the semi-finals in the Clausura tournament. Monterrey won their third straight CONCACAF Champions League after defeating Santos Laguna 4–2 on aggregate and qualified to the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup. Monterrey ended up in third place at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup after defeating Al Ahly of Egypt in the third place match.
Torneo Apertura
Squad
Regular season
League table
Results
Final phase
Tijuana advanced 2–1 on aggregate
Goalscorers
Regular season PositionNationNameGoals scored 1. Humberto Suazo 6 2. Neri Cardozo 3 2. Aldo de Nigris 3 2. César Delgado 3 2. Ángel Reyna 3 6. Héctor Morales 2 6. Own Goals 2 8. Darío Carreño 1TOTAL
Source:
Final phase PositionNationNameGoals scored 1. Aldo de Nigris 1TOTAL
Results
Results summary
Results by round
Torneo Clausura
Squad
Regular season
League table
Results
Final phase
Monterrey advanced 2–1 on aggregate
América advanced 4–3 on aggregate
Goalscorers
Regular season PositionNationNameGoals scored 1. Aldo de Nigris 6 2. Jesús Zavala 3 3. Neri Cardozo 2 3. César Delgado 2 3. Leobardo López 2 3. Humberto Suazo 2 7. Omar Arellano 1 7. Walter Ayoví 1 7. Jesús Manuel Corona 1 7. Guillermo Madrigal 1 7. Own Goals 1TOTAL
Source:
Final phase PositionNationNameGoals scored 1. Aldo de Nigris 2 1. Humberto Suazo 2 1. Own Goals 1TOTAL
Results
Results summary
Results by round
CONCACAF Champions League
Group stage
Championship round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
FIFA Club World Cup
References