Cancelled games included the seventh round of the Clausura tournament in Mexico’s premier MX professional league.
Top-flight football club Queretaro and Santiago Homenchenko, right, were unable to host Juarez and Angel Saldivar in a Liga MX Clausura Round 7 match on February 22, 2026, after the fixture was postponed due to security concerns at Corregidora Stadium in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico [File: Francisco Alvarez/Jam Media via Getty Images
Four high-level football matches were postponed on Sunday after the Mexican army killed the leader of a powerful drug cartel in a town close to the FIFA World Cup 2026 host city of Guadalajara.
Two top-tier competition fixtures – Queretaro vs Juarez in the men’s tournament and Chivas vs America in the women’s league – were postponed, and two in the second division were called off.
