The
Regional Federal Amateur Tournament
is in its definition stage, of the
376 teams that began
playing it last year with the goal set in
Federal A
, the interior prelude to the
First National
, only eight remain in competition.
This weekend they will play the four finals to determine who will jump to the next category.
Up to this point, nothing is news.
Yes, it was the
unexpected
announcement within hours of the definition with the news that there will be five promoted.
The
Federal Football Council
, the body that brings together all the leagues affiliated from the Interior to the Argentine Football Association (
AFA
), resolved to grant one more place for Federal A that will be played in a quadrangular with the four losers of the finals. Sunday.
In this way, the AFA returns with a sloppiness in the tournaments it organizes: in the same way that in 2023 and in full competition it eliminated one of the three relegations in the Professional League, now it adds a promotion for Federal A. Ah, in the middle Last December,
Liniers and Sportivo Italiano rose from Primera C to Primera B when the championship had already ended
.
Due to this modification in the First Division, Colón appealed his relegation - he played and lost a tiebreaker against Unión - and spent several weeks with the expectation placed on the Disciplinary Court, which was finally dismissed.
“Considering that for the formation of the 2024 Federal A Tournament, the Federal Council resolved to eliminate two relegations from the 2023 Federal A Tournament (…) and that, continuing with the restructuring, a fifth promotion must be granted from the 2023/24 Regional Tournament "
, is the explanation found in the same office 12,693 that bears the signatures of
Javier Treuque
and
Pablo Toviggino
, general secretary and president of the Federal Council, respectively.
In the same writing, there is a record of the elimination of
Jorge Newbery
due to the acts of violence that occurred in the first leg that
Deportivo Rincón
won 2 to 0. In this way, León will be the rival of
Colón de San Justo
on next Sunday on the Estudiantes de Río Cuarto field.
The other duels will be:
Camioneros
de April 9 -
Kimberley
de Mar del Plata (in Arsenal de Sarandí),
Altos Hornos Zapla
-
Sarmiento
de La Banda (Bicentenario de Catamarca) and
Gutiérrez de Mendoza
-
Defensores de Formosa
(San Francisco, Córdoba) .
The winners of these matches will play next season in Federal A, along with the fifth promoted team that will emerge from the home run that the losing teams will play.
They will play a semifinal round on February 18, whose winners will fight for the new place in the final on the 25th.
The matches will be a single match and in the event of equality at the end of 90 minutes - both in the semi-final and in the final - the winner will be declared whoever prevails in the kicks from the penalty spot.
It's not new
Last season the regional tournament also modified its regulations in the decisive stage: on that occasion
instead of the four planned promotions, there ended up being six
.
In this context, the unusual case was that of
San Martín
de Mendoza, which had lost its final but rose in category without winning since
Independiente de San Cayetano
, the team it had to face, was out of competition by the Disciplinary Court that punished the acts of violence of his match lost to
Germinal
de Rawson.
Also in the last Federal A, the Council reduced the relegations from four to two when the regular phase had already ended.
Liniers
from Bahía Blanca,
Juventud Antoniana
from Salta,
Sportivo Peñarol
from San Juan and
Gimnasia
de Concepción from Uruguay went from being the four relegated to the protagonists of a tiebreaker home run.
Some played it with depleted teams since the teams were licensed and there were players who signed contracts at other institutions.
Thus Juventud Antoniana retained the category by beating Peñarol and Gimnasia did the same by defeating Liniers.