Apertura 2017 Copa MX
| Apertura 2017 Copa Corona MX | |||
| Country | Mexico | ||
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| Teams | 27 | ||
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The Apertura 2017 Copa MX (officially the Apertura 2017 Copa Corona MX for sponsorship reasons) will be the 78th staging of the Copa MX, the 50th staging in the professional era and is the eleventh tournament played since the 1996–97 edition.
This tournament will begin on 25 July 2017 and will end in November 2017. The winner will face the Clausura 2018 winner in the 2018 Supercopa MX.
Guadalajara are the defending champions after defeating Morelia in the Clausura 2017 Final.
The tournament will feature all Liga MX clubs (excluding recently promoted Lobos BUAP) as well as ten Ascenso MX clubs.
Due to the new format of the CONCACAF Champions League, Mexican clubs do not begin their participation until February, thus the teams qualified to 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League (América, Guadalajara, Tijuana, UANL) will participate in this season's Copa MX.
The draw for the tournament took place on June 6, 2017 in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. 27 teams were drawn into nine groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots.
Clubs in Pot 1 were drawn to be the seed of each group according to the order of their drawing. That is, the first club that was drawn is seed of Group 1, the second drawn is seed of Group 2 and so on and so on. The Liga MX teams in Pot 1 are the teams who ended 1–5 in the 2016–17 Liga MX Aggregate table The Ascenso MX teams in Pot 1 are the four best possible teams in the 2016–17 Ascenso MX Aggregate table.Zacatepec Siglo XXI who ended fourth, were replaced by Oaxaca, who ended fifth, due to the club's disappearance.
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