the cordovans Belgrano and Institute They returned to the elite and will occupy the place of the descendants Aldosivi and Board of Trusteesthat for being current champion of the Copa Argentina will play the Copa Libertadores de América.
For the second consecutive year and -in principle- for the last time, the highest category will have this number of participants, since the intention is that for the 2028 season there will be 22 teams.
The first decision in this regard was the extension of the reductions to the First Nationalwhich went from two to three and will take place at the end of the year.
The criteria was also modified since two relegations will be by averages and the other will correspond to the last one in the annual table, which will count the 41 games that the teams will play during the season: 27 dates of the tournament that begins tomorrow, and 14 of the Copa de La Liga, not counting the final stages.
Unlike 2022, the year will begin with the League tournament with the format of 27 dates all against all, while in the second semester the League Cup with two groups of fourteen teams and an interzonal date for the classics.
This rotation of the calendar generated a new change in the structure of the First divisionwhich had eleven different formats in the last nine years.
The last time the format was repeated was in the seasons of 2012/13 and 2013/14when two short tournaments (Initial and Final) were played with 20 teams.
The soccer of the world champion country will begin with a series of controversies and untidiness such as the “exceptional measure” of qualifying the players who finished last season with lesser sanctions than three suspension dates.
Furthermore, at the last meeting of Executive committeeit was decided to extend the pass market for one week until Thursday, February 2.
Although the recess began on October 22 and the draw for the championships was held on November 4, the LPF had to change the programming of the first date since the match between Vélez Sarsfield and Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata went from Friday to Monday, due to work on the stadium playing field Joseph Amalfitani.
In June it will be ten years since the decision to prohibit the attendance of the visiting public, and beyond the zero progress to reverse it, now the opening of the stadiums for local fans is also being questioned, as happens -for example – to Racing Club for the inside of his barrabrava.
Who will participate in the cups
This 2023 tournament will also coincide with the start of the international cups that will be played by eleven of the participating teams.
The champion Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing Club, Argentinos Juniors and Huracán (starts in the previous phase) will play the Copa Libertadores de América, together with the Patronato, of the First National.
The South American Cup will be played by San Lorenzo, Gimnasia, Estudiantes, Defensa y Justicia, Newell’s and Tigre.
Both tournaments organized by Conmebol will be drawn on March 22 and the start of the group stage is scheduled for the first week of April, between the 8th and 10th dates of the LPF tournament.
The pass market
The transfer market moved more in the part of casualties than of signings, and with a week to go until the closing of the book, almost 200 signings were registered.
Central Cordoba of Santiago del Estero It was the one that added the most with 18 reinforcements, followed by Barracas Central and Instituto, with 13 each.
Gymnastics and Fencing La Platainvolved in a serious economic crisis, could not add new faces and could not retain the coach Nestor Gorosito nor the figures that led the team to fight a large part of the last tournament.
Regarding quality, River appears as the team that was reinforced more and better with the returns of Matías Kranevitter (he was injured in the preseason) and Ignacio Fernandez plus E arrivalsnzo Díaz and the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón.
The “Punch”in turn, resorted to the sense of belonging and repatriated the striker Guido Carrillo and midfielder Santiago Ascacíbar.
Boca, on the other hand, added the Paraguayan defender for the moment Bruno Valdez and suffered a significant loss with the departure of one of the figures of the champion team: the goalkeeper Augustine Rossi.
Racing and Independent were active in the market but with different realities because the “Academy” bet on the experience and the weight of the names of Maximilian Moralez and the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero plus the arrival of the Chilean Oscar Opazo to replace the loss of Eugenio Mena.
The “Red”, on the other hand, had to rearm the squad before a large number of departures and closed eleven incorporations before being inhibited by an old debt with mexico americawith the goalkeeper Rodrigo Rey -the least defeated fence of the last tournament- as the most outstanding of the reinforcements.
And San Lorenzo was reinforced with two Colombians of hierarchy as Rafael Perez and Carlos Sanchezplus the goalkeeper Facundo Altamirano to replace the retired sebastian torrico.
Argentine soccer continues to be an exporter and during the break there were important departures that paid off well for the clubs.
racing sold his scorer Enzo Copetti (to the United States MLS) and the young Carlos Alcaraz (to the Premier League) in near 20 million dollars.
Velez and Rosario Central they transferred the young Máximo Perrone and Facundo Buonanotte to the Premier League in a similar amount between the two countries.
And Banfield broke away from Ramiro Enrique (also to the United States) in almost 4 million dollars for a part of the pass.
Important values from the last championship also left, such as the Colombian Juan Fernando Quintero (River), Franco Cristaldo (Huracán), the Uruguayan Renzo López (Central Córdoba), Martín Ojeda (Godoy Cruz), Leandro Fernández (Independiente), Carlos Lampe, Augusto Lotti and Ramiro Carrera (Atlético Tucumán) and Facundo Kruspzky (Arsenal).
Source: Ambito
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