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Professional League defined format for 2023

Professional League defined format for 2023

The exception and the difference is that there will be three declines: two of them by average and the rest by general table, with the purpose of gradually reducing the teams in the First Division and by the end of 2028 there will be 22 participating casts in the local soccer elite . For the 2024 season, on the other hand, there will be two descents by general table and the rest, by average. Next year’s championship will kick off on the weekend of January 27th and end around August 5th. Meanwhile, the League Cup will start in the week of August 20; the playoffs will be played on December 3 and 10, while the final will take place on December 16.

The end of the season will take place on Saturday, December 23, 2023, with the so-called Champions Trophy, which will face the two winners of both contests. In the event that a previous playoff match is needed, meanwhile, it will be held on Wednesday 20. Throughout the season there will be two classics for the teams, in which the local condition in the contest will be reversed in the Cup.

Meanwhile, the so-called Argentine Super Cup that will be played in January 2023 by the Boca teams (winner of the tournament and the Cup) and Patronato (champion last Sunday of the Argentine Cup) would be played in the city of Abu Dhabi, in the Emirates United Arab Emirates, as signed by the Professional League. The leaders agreed to evaluate, in addition, the possibility of playing the Super Cup of the previous edition (2021), which Boca and River should star in, also in the Emirati country.

The draws for the fixtures of both championships will take place this Thursday from 1:00 p.m., at the AFA site, in Ezeiza. That same Thursday, in addition to and after the preparation of the match programs, the draw for the 2023 edition of the Copa Argentina will take place.

River, the great absentee

The statement from the Professional League reported: “All the leaders agreed and promoted repeating the format of the tournament and, especially, all agreed to apply the system of three relegations (two by averages and one by general table), in order that the The reduction is gradual and with a view to having 22 teams in the First Division in the 2028 season. The only absent club was River Plate. In that sense, for the 2024 season there will be two declines per general table and one per average.

In any case, from the “millionaire” club they affirmed that the absence was due to logistical and organizational problems because, according to leadership sources from the Núñez entity, the meeting was ratified at the last minute. However, from the board of directors headed by Jorge Brito they would have had a previous talk with the president of the AFA, Claudio Tapia, in which they expressed their position, which Tapia would have expressed at yesterday’s meeting.

Source: Ambito

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