2010–11 C.F. Monterrey season

The 2010–11 Monterrey season was the 64th 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 24, 2010, against San Luis, Monterrey played their homes games on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Monterrey won their fourth title by defeating Santos Laguna 6–2 in aggregate score on December 5, 2010.

Torneo Apertura

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MEX	Jonathan Orozco
2	DF	MEX	Severo Meza
3	DF	MEX	Pierre Ibarra
4	DF	MEX	Ricardo Osorio
5	DF	MEX	Duilio Davino
8	MF	MEX	Luis Pérez (Captain)
9	FW	MEX	Aldo de Nigris
10	MF	PAR	Osvaldo Martínez
11	FW	MEX	Sergio Santana
13	FW	MEX	Darío Carreño
15	DF	ARG	José María Basanta (Vice-Captain)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	MEX	Jesús Zavala
18	MF	ARG	Neri Cardozo
19	DF	MEX	Héctor Morales
20	MF	ECU	Walter Ayoví
21	MF	MEX	Sergio Pérez
22	DF	MEX	William Paredes
23	GK	MEX	Juan de Dios Ibarra
26	FW	CHI	Humberto Suazo
28	MF	MEX	Jesús Arellano
30	GK	MEX	Mauricio Aguirre

Apertura 2010 results

Regular season

July 24, 2010 Round 1	San Luis	1 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Alfonso Lastras, San Luis Potosí
8:45pm	Aguirre 68'	Report	Suazo 63'	Referee: Paul Delgadillo

July 31, 2010 Round 2	Monterrey	3 – 2	Estudiantes Tecos	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Suazo 47' Ayoví 59' Santana 66'		Bareiro 36' Zamogilny 90'	Referee: Erim Ramírez

August 7, 2010 Round 3	Atlante	1 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancún
9:00pm	Fano 3'	Report	Basanta 13' Cardozo 52'	Referee: Román Rafael Medina

August 14, 2010 Round 4	Monterrey	5 – 2	UNAM	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Suazo 8', 50' (pen.) Santana 45' Martínez 76' de Nigris 90'	Report	Leandro 17' López 23'	Referee: Fernando Guerrero

August 21, 2010 Round 5	Pachuca	2 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca
7:00pm	Cvitanich 7' Arreola 90+1'	Report	Suazo 68' de Nigris 78'	Referee: Ricardo Arellano

August 28, 2010 Round 6	Monterrey	1 – 1	Chiapas	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Suazo 28'		Danilinho 23'	Referee: Roberto García

September 11, 2010 Round 7	UANL	0 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás
7:00pm		Report	Suazo 46'	Referee: Armando Archundia

September 18, 2010 Round 8	Monterrey	2 – 0	Atlas	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	de Nigris 52' Suazo 58'	Report		Referee: Francisco Chacón

September 25, 2010 Round 9	Querétaro	0 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio La Corregidora, Querétaro
5:00pm		Report		Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

October 2, 2010 Round 10	Monterrey	2 – 1	Necaxa	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Suazo 12' de Nigris 26'	Report	Quatrocchi 12'	Referee: Mauricio Morales

October 10, 2010 Round 11	América	0 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
4:30pm		Report		Referee: Roberto García Orozco

October 16, 2010 Round 12	Monterrey	2 – 0	Toluca	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
9:00pm	Zavala 16' Gamboa 81' (o.g.)	Report		Referee: Paul Delgadillo

October 23, 2010 Round 13	Santos Laguna	1 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Corona, Torreón
7:00pm	Benítez 33'	Report	Suazo 4' Martínez 48'	Referee: Jorge Gasso

October 27, 2010 Round 14	Monterrey	2 – 4	Cruz Azul	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
9:00pm	Castro 31' Villaluz 33', 56' Villa 44'	Report	de Nigris 40' Pineda 53' (o.g.)	Referee: Miguel Ángel Ayala

October 31, 2010 Round 15	Morelia	0 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Morelos, Morelia
12:00pm		Report	Carreño 32' Cardozo 89'	Referee: Ricardo Arellano

November 6, 2010 Round 16	Puebla	2 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla
12:00pm	Ayala 28' Corona 90+1'	Report		Referee: Roberto García

November 13, 2010 Round 17	Monterrey	2 – 3	Guadalajara	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	de Nigris 11' Ayoví 33'	Reporty	Arellano 55' Fabián 66', 90+1'	Referee: Miguel Ángel Flores

Final phase

November 18, 2010 Quarterfinals	Pachuca	1 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca
6:00pm	Azrizala 77'	Report	Basanta 56'	Referee: Paul Delgadillo

November 21, 2010 Quarterfinals	Monterrey	3 – 3	Pachuca	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
4:00pm	Suazo 19' de Nigris 36' Cardozo 56'	Report	Azrizala 25', 84', 89'	Referee: Armando Archundia

Monterrey advanced due to being the higher seed in the classification phase

November 25, 2010 Semifinals	UNAM	0 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City
9:00pm		Report		Referee: Roberto García

November 28, 2010 Semifinals	Monterrey	2 – 0	UNAM	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
8:00pm	Suazo 88' Cardozo 90'	Report		Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Monterrey won 2–0 on aggregate

December 2, 2010 Finals	Santos Laguna	3 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Corona, Torreón
8:00pm	Estrada 23' Quintero 41' Davino 85' (o.g.)	Report	Suazo 32' Cardozo 54'	Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

December 5, 2010 Finals	Monterrey	3 – 0	Santos Laguna	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
8:00pm	Suazo 28', 85' Basanta 72'	Report		Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Monterrey won 5–3 on aggregate

Goalscorers

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Position	Name	Goals scored
1.	Humberto Suazo	15
2.	Aldo de Nigris	6
3.	Neri Cardozo	5
4.	José María Basanta	3
5.	Walter Ayoví	2
5.	Osvaldo Martínez	2
5.	Sergio Santana	2
5.	Own Goal	2
9.	Darío Carreño	1
9.	Jesús Zavala	1
TOTAL		35

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date	Notes

Out

Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Notes

Regular season statistics

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
17	9	5	3	29	20	+9	32	5	1	2	19	13	+6	4	4	1	10	7	+3

Last updated: 15 January 2011.
Source: Apertura 2010 results

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	L	W	L	L
Position	10	5	3	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 15 January 2011. Source: Apertura 2010 results and mediotiempo.com^[1]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Torneo Clausura

Squad

For recent transfers, see List of Mexican Football Transfers Summer 2010. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MEX	Jonathan Orozco
2	DF	MEX	Severo Meza
4	DF	MEX	Ricardo Osorio
5	DF	MEX	Duilio Davino
6	DF	MEX	Héctor Morales
8	MF	MEX	Luis Ernesto Pérez (Team captain)
9	FW	MEX	Aldo de Nigris
10	MF	PAR	Osvaldo Martínez
11	FW	MEX	Sergio Santana
13	FW	MEX	Abraham Darío Carreño
14	DF	MEX	Eduardo Guevara
15	DF	ARG	José María Basanta (Team Vice-Captain)
16	MF	MEX	Luis Alfonso Rodríguez


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	MEX	Jesús Eduardo Zavala
18	MF	ARG	Neri Cardozo
20	MF	ECU	Walter Ayoví
21	DF	MEX	Hiram Mier
22	DF	MEX	William Paredes
23	GK	MEX	Juan de Dios Ibarra
24	DF	MEX	Sergio Pérez
25	DF	MEX	César Martínez
26	FW	CHI	Humberto Suazo
28	MF	MEX	Jesús Arellano (Club captain)
30	GK	MEX	Mauricio Aguirre
33	MF	MEX	Marvin Leonardo Piñón
68	MF	MEX	Jesús Manuel Corona

Clausura 2011 results

Regular season

January 8, 2011 Round 1	Monterrey	0 – 2	San Luis	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm		Report	Mares 73' Medina 90+3'	Referee: Jorge Isaac Rojas

January 14, 2011 Round 2	Estudiantes Tecos	3 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Tres de Marzo, Zapopan
8:10pm	Cejas 24', 45' (pen.) Cabral 28'	Report	Santana 22', 58'	Referee: Miguel Ángel Chacón

January 22, 2011 Round 3	Monterrey	1 – 0	Atlante	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	Suazo 2'	Report		Referee: Miguel Ángel Flores

January 30, 2011 Round 4	UNAM	3 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City
5:00pm	Cacho 26' Bravo 40' Cortés 54'	Report	Suazo 28' (pen.) Martínez 87'	Referee: Mauricio Morales

February 5, 2011 Round 5	Monterrey	2 – 0	Pachuca	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	de Nigris 26' Cardozo 49'	Report		Referee: Erim Ramírez

February 12, 2011 Round 6	Chiapas	1 – 4	Monterrey	Estadio Victor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutierrez
7:00pm	Valdés 36'	Report	Suazo 9', 31' (pen.), 78' de Nigris 81'	Referee: Roberto García

February 19, 2011 Round 7	Monterrey	0 – 0	UANL	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm		Report		Referee: Miguel Ángel Ortega

February 26, 2011 Round 8	Atlas	1 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara
8:45pm	Espinoza 45+2'	Report		Referee: Paul Delgadillo

March 5, 2011 Round 9	Monterrey	2 – 0	Querétaro	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	Carreño 48' Pérez 74'	Report		Referee: Mauricio Morales

March 11, 2011 Round 10	Necaxa	0 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Victoria, Aguascalientes
8:10pm		Report	de Nigris 46'	Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

March 19, 2011 Round 11	Monterrey	2 – 1	América	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	Ayoví 47' Carreño 69'	Report	Reyna 89' (pen.)	Referee: Francisco Chacón

April 3, 2011 Round 12	Toluca	1 − 1	Monterrey	Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca
12:00pm	Ayoví 73'	Report	de Nigris 4'	Referee: Miguel Ángel Chacón

April 9, 2011 Round 13	Monterrey	1 − 1	Santos Laguna	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
5:00pm	Arellano 23'	Report	Peralta 9'	Referee: Mauricio Rafael Morales

April 13, 2011 Round 14	Cruz Azul	3 − 0	Monterrey	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
8:30pm	Giménez 27', 68' Villa 71'			Referee: Jorge Eduardo Gasso

April 16, 2011 Round 15	Monterrey	1 − 1	Morelia	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Cardozo 28'	Report	Rey 90+3' (pen.)	Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

April 23, 2011 Round 16	Monterrey	1 − 1	Puebla	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Zavala 23'	Report	Borja 7'	Referee: Erim Ramírez

April 30, 2011 Round 17	Guadalajara	2 – 3	Monterrey	Estadio Omnilife, Zapopan
7:00pm	Fabián 3', 82'	Report	Osorio 45' Zavala 72' Ayoví 89'	Referee: Miguel Ángel Ortega

Final phase

May 5, 2011 Quarterfinals	Monterrey	3 − 1	UNAM	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
7:00pm	Martínez 11' Ayoví 21' Suazo 47'	Report	Bravo 69'	Referee: Juan Genaro Medrano

May 8, 2011 Quarterfinals	UNAM	2 – 0	Monterrey	Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City
12:00pm	Velarde 6' Fuentes 73'	Report		Referee: Francisco Chacón

UNAM advanced due to being the higher seed in the classification phase

CONCACAF Champions League

Group stage

August 17, 2010 1	Monterrey	1 – 0	Saprissa	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
22:00	de Nigris 25'	Report		Attendance: 12,042 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (United States)

August 25, 2010 2	Seattle Sounders FC	0 – 2	Monterrey	Qwest Field, Seattle
22:00		Report	Cardozo 41' de Nigris 58'	Attendance: 22,513 Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)

September 14, 2010 3	Monterrey	2 – 0	Marathón	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
20:00	de Nigris 23' Paredes 55'	Report		Attendance: 9,628 Referee: Raymond Bogle (Jamaica)

September 22, 2010 4	Monterrey	3 – 2	Seattle Sounders FC	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
20:00	de Nigris 74' Suazo 75' Pérez 78' (pen.)	Report	Pérez 28' (o.g.) Fucito 44'	Attendance: 19,697 Referee: Marlon Mejia (Honduras)

September 28, 2010 5	Saprissa	2 – 2	Monterrey	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, San José
22:00	Meza 16' (o.g.) Mena 65'	Report	Rodríguez 5' Carreño 31'	Attendance: 1,635 Referee: Terry Vaughn (United States)

October 20, 2010 6	Marathón	0 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula
22:00		Report	Santana 69'	Attendance: 500 Referee: Walter Lopez (Guatemala)

Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Monterrey	6	5	1	0	11	4	+7	16
Saprissa	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10
Marathón	6	2	0	4	5	11	−6	6
Seattle Sounders FC	6	1	0	5	6	11	−5	3

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	A
Result	W	W	W	W	D	W
Position	2	1	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 2 March 2011. Source: 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Knockout stage

February 23, 2011 QF	Toluca	0 – 1	Monterrey	Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca
20:00		Report	Martínez 82'	Attendance: 11,236 Referee: Francisco Chacón

March 2, 2011 QF	Monterrey	1 – 0 (2 – 0 agg.)	Toluca	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
20:00	Cardozo 88'	Report		Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

March 16, 2011 SF	Monterrey	2 − 1	Cruz Azul	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
22:00	Cardozo 9' Santana 55'	Report	Cortés 48'	Referee: Paul Delgadillo

April 6, 2011 SF	Cruz Azul	1 − 1 (3 – 2 agg.)	Monterrey	Estadio Azul, Mexico City
20:00	Villaluz 23'	Report	Suazo 81' (pen.)	Referee: Francisco Chacón

April 20, 2011 F	Monterrey	2 – 2	Real Salt Lake	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
21:00	de Negris 18' Suazo 63' (pen.)	Report	Borchers 35' Morales 89'	Attendance: 30,327 Referee: Joel Aguilar

April 27, 2011 F	Real Salt Lake	0 – 1 (2 – 3 agg.)	Monterrey	Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy
20:00		Report	Suazo 44'	Attendance: 20,378 Referee: Roberto Moreno

Goalscorers

Clausura 2011 and Champions League Knockout Stage^[1]

Position	Name	Goals scored
1.	Humberto Suazo	8
2.	Aldo de Nigris	5
3.	Neri Cardozo	4
4.	Sergio Santana	3
4.	Walter Ayoví	3
4.	Osvaldo Martínez	3
7.	Darío Carreño	2
7.	Jesús Zavala	2
9.	Jesús Arellano	1
9.	Ricardo Osorio	1
9.	Luis Ernesto Pérez	1
TOTAL		33

Regular season statistics

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
17	7	5	5	23	20	+3	26	4	4	1	10	5	+5	3	1	4	13	15	−2

Last updated: 6 May 2011.
Source: Clausura 2011 results

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	D	L	D	D	W
Position	15	18	14	17	11	9	10	10	7	5	5	5	4	7	7	8	7

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2011. Source: Clausura 2011 results and mediotiempo.com^[2]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Monterrey stats". ESPN Deportes. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^ "League Table". Medio Tiempo. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2010.

[dep-1] "Monterrey stats". ESPN Deportes. Retrieved 26 July 2010.

[2] "League Table". Medio Tiempo. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2010.

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