On Friday, April 17 local time, Superliga president Enrique Bonilla announced the abolition of elevation for the next five years. The Mexican Superliga and was announced to be halted last month after the outbreak of the new Champions League pneumonia epidemic. On Friday, the owners of the 18 clubs in the Mexican Superliga agreed in a videoconference that relegation would be abolished in the Superliga for the next five years, while the Superliga reached an agreement with the 12 Mexican Liga clubs to be upgraded for the next five years, and that as compensation, each Mexican Liga club would receive 2 million pesos a year from the Superliga.
Meanwhile, it was announced that the 2020 Mexican League was canceled without a champion due to the new Crown Pneumonia outbreak. The Mexican League has now finished 8 rounds of matches. However, the Mexican Premier League is not canceled for the season for the time being. Previously, the Mexican Super League produces one relegation place per season, the team with the lowest scoring average over the past three years is relegated, and the Mexican Super League champion qualifies for promotion to the Super League. Reporters analyzed that after the loss of super power, the Mexican Liga will become a "training base" for young Mexican players, and there are reports that the Mexican Liga will become a U23 league.
In fact, the elimination of relegation from the Mexican Premier League was not unexpected, considering the domestic market environment in Mexico, the Mexican Premier League has always intended to introduce a membership system similar to that of the Major League Soccer, in which only financially compliant clubs can participate. In recent years, the Mexican Liga's broadcast and box office revenues have shrunk, and the league's size has been reduced from 18 to 12 teams over the past three years, with poor finances leaving these clubs without the financial resources to participate in the Mexican Premier League.
Previously, it was reported that the Mexican Premier League would merge with Major League Soccer to form a "North American Premier League". The Mexican Premier League and the MLS already have many similarities, with the usual matches, post-season games and all-star games, and the MLS adopting a patented franchise system with relegation. It could be argued that the MLS business model has been a template for the Mexican Premier League to refer to. The merger of the Mexican Premier League and MLS will result in a high concentration of resources in North America, and the North American Premier League will become an elite club for top players. It is reported that the Mexican Premier League and MLS will merge after 2026.
