Short Answer: Licensing Issues It's all about the agreements between the game makers and the league. Licensing agreements are like permission slips. If EA doesn't get permission, or the license, to use real team names, logos, and player likenesses from Liga MX, they can't include them in the game.

These 'short' regular seasons see all teams play 17 games which see the top 12 sides advance to the postseason with the top four fast tracked to the quarter final stage with 5th playing 12th, 6th vs 11th, 7th vs 10th and 8th and 9th going head to head in a one-off round of games known as el 'repechaje'.

The Liga MX ranks second in terms of television viewership in the United States, behind the English Premier League. Club América have won the league a record of 15 times, followed by Guadalajara with 12 titles. In all, twenty-four teams have won the Primera División/Liga MX title at least once.