Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, this professional league has 18 teams, each coinciding with a Liga MX club.

Monterrey who defeated city rivals Tigres UANL with a 2–2 aggregate score (4–3 in penalties shootout) in the Apertura 2024 final in November 2024.

In 2007, there was an attempt to professionalize women's football in Mexico via the Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil.

While the league did foster some success, it did not have major sponsorships and lacked media coverage as well as fan support.

[10][1] Before the inaugural season, the teams participated in a warm-up tournament called Copa MX Femenil.

[14] Chivas won the first Liga MX Femenil championship on 24 November 2017 by defeating Pachuca in the final.

[15][16] Commentator Glenn Moore declared Liga MX Femenil to have concluded a "very successful debut campaign.

[19] For the third season, the age limit was raised to 25, but each team was allowed to field up to 6 overage players at a time.

For the fourth season, the overage limit was removed, nonetheless the teams are still being required to allocate 1,000 minutes of play time per tournament to U-20 players to satisfy the league's minors rule.

[23] On 25 June 2021, Tigres became the first club to make use of this option by signing Brazilian player Stefany Ferrer.

[25] Beginning with the sixth season, the league began implementing VAR in the Liguilla phase of the tournament.

[27] The league set history during the Clausura 2018 tournament as the second match of the final between Monterrey and Tigres at Estadio BBVA was at the time the highest-attended club match in women's football history, with a total of 51,211 fans attending the game.

[33] In November 2022, the league's previous highest attendance record set during the Clausura 2018 final between Monterrey and Tigres (51,211 attendees) was broken as the first match of the Apertura 2022 final between Tigres and Club América at Estadio Azteca drew a crowd of approximately 52,654 fans.

[44] On 20 March 2024, the league in collaboration with the NWSL announced a new international competition named Summer Cup.

As such, Lobos BUAP and Puebla both introduced their Liga MX Femenil sides during the 2018–2019 season.

With the sponsorship, which is slated for at least three years, the league's name was changed to Liga BBVA MX Femenil in June 2019.

Many players in Liga MX Femenil previously played in either of these existing leagues, as well as in various Mexican or US college teams and the WPSL.

[56] Since 2022, Liga MX Femenil has had a youth division to develop telent in which all clubs are required to participate.

In case of draw in the aggregate score of the final after 180 minutes, the teams go directly to penalties to decide the champion.

[45] For the inaugural 2024 edition, the six teams that accumulated the most number of points across the Clausura and Apertura tournaments of the previous calendar year qualify to this competition.

Teams qualify to this championship by winning the league title of either the Apertura or Clausura tournament of the current season.

For the inaugural edition, the trophy was awarded to Tigres UANL automatically after winning the league title for both Apertura and Clausura tournaments of the 2020–21 season.

Beginning with the Clausura 2025 tournament, Liga MX Femenil began to produce the TV broadcast of the home games of América, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Necaxa, Pumas, and Toluca as well as streaming these games through YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok as part of a new initiative called “FutFem Donde Sea (women’s football everywhere)”, with the goal of reaching a wider audience and centralizing the TV rights of the league.