How to watch Liga MX in Spanish in the US

TelevisaUnivision is the main home of Liga MX in Spanish across the United States, so it is the first name to get familiar with. Its broadcast networks, Univision and UniMas, air some matches for free over the air if you have an antenna, which makes them the cheapest way in for a lot of families.

On cable you have TUDN, the company's sports channel, which carries most of the matches throughout the matchday. And then there is ViX, TelevisaUnivision's streaming app, where many Liga MX games sit behind the paid ViX Premium tier.

If you want to follow one specific team week after week, you will very likely need that subscription.

Fox is the other major player in Spanish. Fox Deportes, its Spanish cable channel, shows a healthy chunk of matches, and some games also turn up on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2.

Here is a handy tip for anyone trying to save money: certain Fox matches stream free with ads on Tubi, the free streaming platform. Not every game is there, but it is worth checking the Tubi lineup each week because sometimes a meaningful match shows up at no cost.

Since the 2025 season, Telemundo and Universo also carry select Liga MX matches in Spanish, which widened the menu for fans. Alongside them, Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming service, offers certain matches live, specifically some home games for Chivas, Tigres and Juarez.

It is important not to get this wrong: Peacock does not have every club or every match, only that selection, so it cannot be your only subscription if you follow a different team. Still, for fans of those three clubs it can be a convenient way to catch their home games.

Finally, in English, CBS Sports holds a sublicense for select matches. We mention it only so it is on your radar, because it is not relevant if your goal is to watch and listen entirely in Spanish.

For the Hispanic fan, the split that truly matters is the one between TelevisaUnivision, Fox, and the newer presence of Telemundo, Universo and Peacock.

The most common question is simple: how much of this can you watch for free. The honest answer is that yes, there is free soccer, but not every match, and it depends on the week. The most reliable free route is over-the-air television.

Univision and UniMas air some matches over the air, and to catch them all you need is a digital antenna, the inexpensive kind that plugs into the antenna input on your TV. If you live somewhere with a decent signal, you pick up those channels with nothing to pay each month.

This is the foundation of any budget plan and the reason many people start here.

The second free source is Tubi, where Fox puts some of its matches with ads. Tubi is completely free and only asks you to create an account. You will not find the full matchday there, but over the course of a tournament several matches land at no cost, and occasionally a big one.

Pairing an antenna with Tubi gives you decent free coverage without reaching for your card. If you want to go deeper on this approach, we have a dedicated guide to watching soccer free in Spanish that gathers all these tricks in one place.

Paid options come into play when you want a guarantee that you will not miss your team. The centerpiece here is ViX Premium, the paid tier of TelevisaUnivision's app, where a large share of Liga MX lives. It is a monthly subscription and it gives you access to far more matches than over-the-air TV alone.

On cable, TUDN and Fox Deportes carry the bulk of the season, but they require a TV package or a live streaming service that includes them. And Peacock, also paid, works for you if your team is Chivas, Tigres or Juarez in their home games.

In short: an antenna plus Tubi covers the free side, while ViX Premium plus a service that carries TUDN and Fox Deportes covers almost everything else. Choose based on how much it matters to you not to miss a single match.

More and more fans cut the cord and still watch a full Liga MX season, and it absolutely can be done. The trick is picking the right live TV streaming service, because they do not all carry the same Spanish channels. The three names to weigh are Fubo, DirecTV Stream and Sling.

Any of them lets you stream live channels over the internet, with no cable contract and no installer coming to your home, running on your Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV or straight on a smart TV.

There is one important detail to be clear about before you pay: Fubo does not include Univision, UniMas or TUDN. That means that even though Fubo is popular with soccer fans, it is not the best pick if your priority is TelevisaUnivision programming.

On the other hand, Fubo, DirecTV Stream and Sling all do carry Fox Deportes, Telemundo and Universo, so for those channels any of the three can work.

If TUDN matters most to you, look toward DirecTV Stream or Sling and confirm that the package you choose includes it in your area, since local channel availability varies.

The other half of a cable-free plan is the direct streaming apps. ViX downloads on its own, with no TV service required, and ViX Premium gives you a huge slice of Liga MX in Spanish. Peacock works the same way, as a standalone app, for those Chivas, Tigres and Juarez home games.

And Tubi, free, rounds things out for some Fox matches. By combining an app like ViX Premium with a live service that carries Fox Deportes, plenty of fans build a no-cable setup that covers nearly the whole season for less than the old traditional package cost.

All of these apps run on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google TV and Chromecast, plus iPhone and Android phones.

Understanding the Liga MX calendar helps you plan what to subscribe to and when, because the league does not run like the European ones. Instead of one long season, Liga MX plays two tournaments each year.

The first is the Apertura, which runs roughly from July to December, and the second is the Clausura, played from around January to May. Each of those tournaments is its own competition with its own champion, which means two trophies are lifted within a single calendar year.

For the US fan this is a plus, because there is almost always Mexican soccer on screen except for the short breaks between tournaments.

Each tournament is not decided by the table alone. After the regular phase comes a knockout round called the Liguilla, the playoff where the top teams fight for the title over two-legged ties.

The Liguilla draws some of the biggest Spanish-language audiences of the year in the US, so if you only plan to subscribe to a service for a few weeks, those final dates are the juiciest. It is common for people to add a subscription just for the Liguilla and cancel it afterward.

As for structure, the league is made up of 18 clubs. For now there is no promotion or relegation by sporting result, so the same teams stay put tournament after tournament, which makes it easy to follow your favorite without worrying about which division they are in.

As for timing, matches usually play Friday through Sunday, almost always in the afternoon or evening depending on your US time zone. That makes the weekend the natural moment to catch up, though now and then there are midweek rounds.

It is worth checking the schedule a few days ahead to know which channel or app each match falls on, because the split changes from week to week.

Knowing who is playing helps you anticipate which matches will be easiest to find, because the big clubs and the rivalry games almost always go to the widest-reaching channels.

The most popular and most-watched club is Club America, and its matches are the ones that show up most often on over-the-air TV and in prime slots. If you follow the Aguilas, you have it relatively easy, since they are rarely buried.

We have a dedicated Club America guide with their schedule and where to watch each matchday.

The rivalry games are the other big audience magnet. The Clasico Nacional, America against Chivas of Guadalajara, is the biggest rivalry in Mexican soccer and pulls the highest Spanish-language audiences in the US. The Clasico Joven pits America against Cruz Azul, another fixture that always lands on a strong channel.

Up north, the Clasico Regiomontano puts Tigres and Monterrey, the Rayados, head to head, with a huge fan base spread across the whole country. And the Clasico Capitalino, which involves Pumas UNAM and America, rounds out the list of matches you will rarely struggle to find.

For each of these teams we have specific guides telling you where to watch their matches: Club America, Chivas, Cruz Azul, Pumas, Tigres and Monterrey. Keep in mind too that some Chivas and Tigres home games land on Peacock, so if you support those clubs it is worth holding onto that detail.

As a general rule, the bigger the team or the rivalry, the more likely the match is over the air or on an easy-to-get channel, while games between smaller clubs tend to live on ViX Premium or TUDN.

This guide is written for people watching Liga MX from inside the United States, and broadcast rights change from country to country, so it is worth being clear about that.

In Mexico, for example, matches are split between TelevisaUnivision and TV Azteca, which are different broadcasters from the ones we use here, so the apps and channels in this guide do not apply the same way if you are across the border.

The same goes for other countries, where Liga MX usually sits with a different local operator. If you travel, the cleanest and most legal move is to use the official service available in the country you are in.

For someone who has a US service and goes abroad temporarily, one honest option is to connect through a VPN back to your own home service, always respecting each platform's terms. We do not recommend using a VPN to dodge paying for content, only as a way to reach something you already pay for legitimately.

When in doubt, the simple rule is to look up the official Liga MX broadcaster in your country.