# 2011–12 C.F. Pachuca season

The 2011–12 Pachuca season was the 65th 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. Pachuca began their season on July 23, 2011 against Santos Laguna, Pachuca play their homes games on Saturdays at 7:00pm local time.

## 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 | COL | Miguel Calero (Captain) * |
| 2 | DF | MEX | Leobardo López |
| 3 | DF | MEX | Dionicio Escalante |
| 4 | DF | MEX | Marco Pérez |
| 5 | DF | MEX | Horacio Cervantes |
| 7 | MF | MEX | Elías Hernández |
| 9 | FW | MEX | Enrique Esqueda |
| 10 | MF | ARG | Mauro Cejas |
| 11 | FW | ECU | Félix Borja |
| 12 | MF | MEX | Juan Carlos Rojas |
| 14 | MF | ECU | Segundo Castillo |
| 15 | MF | MEX | Juan Carlos Silva |
| 16 | MF | MEX | Carlos Rodríguez |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | USA | José Francisco Torres * |
| 19 | FW | MEX | Edy Brambila |
| 21 | MF | MEX | Héctor Herrera |
| 22 | GK | MEX | Carlos Fernández |
| 23 | FW | ECU | Jaime Ayoví |
| 24 | MF | MEX | Raúl Martínez |
| 26 | DF | ARG | Javier Muñoz |
| 28 | DF | MEX | Rogelio Chávez |
| 29 | FW | MEX | Luis Arcadio García |
| 30 | GK | MEX | Rodolfo Cota |
| 33 | DF | MEX | Francisco Santillán |
| 110 | MF | COL | Andrés Chitiva * |

### Final phase

UANL advanced 4–0 on aggregate

### Goalscorers

| Position | Name | Goals scored |
| 1. | Enrique Esqueda | 8 |
| 2. | Jaime Ayoví | 4 |
| 2. | Félix Borja | 4 |
| 2. | Elías Hernández | 4 |
| 5. | Mauro Cejas | 2 |
| 5. | Leobardo López | 2 |
| 5. | Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez | 2 |
| 7. | Segundo Castillo | 1 |
| 7. | Own Goals | 1 |
| TOTAL | | 28 |

### Results
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 6 November 2011. Source: Apertura 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | L | W | L | W | L | W | D | W | W | L | D | D | W | D |
| Position | 17 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 |

## Transfers
### In

| # | Pos | Nat | Player | Age | From | Date | Notes |
| | DF | | Néstor Vidrio | 22 | Atlas | December 7, 2011 | |
| | DF | | Arturo Ledesma | 23 | Guadalajara | December 8, 2011 | Loan |

### Out

| # | Pos | Player | Age | To | Date |
| 1 | GK | Miguel Calero | 40 | Retired | October 22, 2011 |
| 28 | DF | Rogelio Chávez | 27 | Atlas | December 6, 2011 |
| 3 | DF | Dionicio Escalante | 21 | Guadalajara | December 8, 2011 |
| 110 | MF | Andrés Chitiva | 32 | Retired | December 14, 2011 |
| 7 | MF | Elías Hernández | 23 | UANL | December 21, 2011 |

## Torneo Clausura
### 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 |
| 2 | DF | MEX | Leobardo López (Captain) |
| 3 | DF | MEX | Néstor Vidrio |
| 4 | DF | MEX | Arturo Ledesma |
| 5 | DF | MEX | Horacio Cervantes |
| 7 | DF | MEX | Daniel Arreola |
| 9 | FW | MEX | Enrique Esqueda |
| 10 | MF | ARG | Mauro Cejas |
| 11 | FW | ECU | Félix Borja |
| 12 | MF | MEX | Juan Carlos Rojas |
| 13 | GK | MEX | Alfonso Blanco |
| 14 | MF | ECU | Segundo Castillo |
| 16 | MF | MEX | Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | USA | José Francisco Torres |
| 19 | MF | MEX | Edy Germán Brambila |
| 21 | MF | MEX | Héctor Herrera |
| 22 | GK | MEX | Carlos Velázquez |
| 23 | FW | ECU | Jaime Ayoví |
| 26 | DF | ARG | Javier Muñoz Mustafá (Vice-Captain) |
| 28 | FW | MEX | Guillermo Franco |
| 30 | GK | MEX | Rodolfo Cota |
| 34 | DF | MEX | Abraham Torres Nilo |
| 69 | FW | MEX | Steven Almeida |
| 84 | FW | MEX | Marco Bueno |

### Final phase

América advanced 3–2 on aggregate

### Results
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 28 April 2012. Source: Clausura 2012 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | D | D | W | W | L | D | D | D | W | L | W | W | L | D | W |
| Position | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 |