1961–62 Mexican Primera División season

19th professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico

Football league season

Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1961–62 season.

Overview

Nacional was promoted to Primera División.

The season was contested by 14 teams, and Guadalajara won the championship and becomes first team to win four consecutive championships.

Zacatepec was relegated to Segunda División.

América
Atlante
Necaxa

Atlas
Guadalajara
Nacional
Oro

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Location of the 1961-62 Primera División teams

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Guadalajara	26	20	1	5	58	17	+41	41	Champions
2	América	26	14	6	6	51	31	+20	34
3	Toluca	26	15	4	7	58	37	+21	34
4	Oro	26	13	5	8	41	32	+9	31
5	León	26	5	15	6	24	30	−6	25
6	Irapuato	26	10	5	11	35	47	−12	25
7	Atlético Morelia	26	8	8	10	32	42	−10	24
8	Tampico	26	7	9	10	37	41	−4	23
9	Atlante	26	8	7	11	38	45	−7	23
10	Nacional	26	7	9	10	30	44	−14	23
11	Atlas	26	8	6	12	39	44	−5	22
12	Necaxa	26	7	8	11	47	54	−7	22
13	Monterrey	26	7	5	14	37	47	−10	19
14	Zacatepec	26	7	4	15	41	57	−16	18	Relegated

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

1961–62 winners
Guadalajara 5th title

Home \ Away	AME	ATE	ATS	GDL	IRA	LEO	MTY	MOR	NAL	NEC	ORO	TAM	TOL	ZAC
América	—	2–2	1–0	0–1	5–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	4–0	2–0	3–1
Atlante	1–3	—	4–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	4–0	0–1	1–1	3–3	2–0	2–2	0–1	4–2
Atlas	0–1	2–0	—	2–3	3–1	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	5–0	1–2	2–1
Guadalajara	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	5–0	0–0	5–0	2–1	6–1	4–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	2–0
Irapuato	4–3	0–2	0–0	0–4	—	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	0–2	1–0	3–1	0–0
León	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–3	1–2	—	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0
Monterrey	3–0	3–0	4–1	0–2	3–3	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	8–3	1–3	3–2	0–3	3–1
Morelia	2–1	2–4	3–3	0–1	4–0	3–2	2–1	—	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–2
Nacional	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	1–0	2–2	4–2	2–0	—	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–5	4–1
Necaxa	2–3	3–0	3–3	4–1	1–4	1–2	2–1	4–1	2–0	—	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–0
Oro	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	4–2	0–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	—	1–0	3–3	5–2
Tampico	2–2	4–0	3–0	0–3	2–2	4–1	2–1	0–1	4–0	2–2	2–1	—	2–2	0–3
Toluca	1–2	1–3	5–1	0–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	2–1	—	5–3
Zacatepec	2–4	4–1	2–1	1–3	0–2	2–0	1–2	5–1	1–1	2–1	2–3	2–0	1–6	—