The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will require not only all efforts, but also all attention. That is why the Argentine Football Association (AFA) has decided to leave the entire next season cooked before the first advance for Doha, which will leave next Sunday from Ezeiza airport. Thus, after having resolved the order and format of the tournaments that will make up the First Division season, this Thursday the matches of the Professional League, the League Cup and the Argentine Cup will be drawn, the supplementary competition that derives from being the winner from the Paraná’s descendant Board of Trustees.
The first to go on stage, starting from 13:00, will be the managers of the Professional League, which reports directly to the president of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia, as the Justice has approved it due to lack of resolution regarding the elections in place. by Marcelo Tinelli.
It is known that the whole season will be launched at the end of next year three descents, two of which will be solved as before, from the averages, and the rest from the annual table. The idea is to have 22 teams in the top category of Argentine football in five years and two promotions per season from the First National team.
As for castling in the order of the matches, it will be done in this way to make it easier for the teams that reach the advanced instances of Copa Libertadores and Sudamericana to compete with less schedule commitments.
For now it has already been decided that the Lega Professionisti championship will take place from January 27th to August 5th and the League Cup from the 20th of that month to December 16th, the day of the final. The Champions Trophy will be played on the 23rd of the last month of next year, almost on the occasion of the Holidays.
As for the formats, as far as the Professional League is concerned, there will be no variant because 28 teams will play it as happened in this 2022.
And as for the League Cup, there will also be two zones of 14 teams as in the previous one and the first four of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals, which will be a single game, in addition to the semifinals and the final.
An important fact: the classics, two a year, one for each competition, will be played in the stadiums of both teams and the location in the first will affect whoever had it to be a guest in the next.
64 teams for a champion
The main draw of the eleventh edition of the Copa Argentina foresees the participation of 64 clubs and their disposition in the 32nd. The final will be known this Thursday, October 3, but shortly after, from 17:00 in the Futsal micro-stadium of the AFA site, in Ezeiza.
The Final Phase will be composed of the 28 teams of the Professional League, the best 15 of the First National, the five of the Metropolitan First B, the four of the First C, the two of the First D and the 10 classified of the Federal Tournament.
For the second consecutive year, the competition will start directly with the dispute of the main draw.
So, in addition to the members of the Professional League, this is the list of the other participants in this edition:
First National: 15 confirmed teams (best finish at the end of the 2022 season).
Belgrano, Instituto, San Martín de Tucumán, Gimnasia de Mendoza, All Boys, Río Cuarto Students, Students, Almagro, Independiente Rivadavia, Chaco For Ever, Deportivo Riestra, Defensores de Belgrano, Deportivo Morón, San Martín de San Juan and Chacarita.
First Metropolitan B.: 5 confirmed teams (winner of the 2021 Complement Tournament, champion of the competition and the three best classified in the general classification of the 2022 season).
Communications, Villa San Carlos / Defensores Unidos, Colegiales, Deportivo Armenio and Ituzaingó.
First C: 4 confirmed teams (champion of the race and the best three classified in the general classification of the 2022 season).
Deportivo Español, Excursionistas and two odds to be confirmed (champion and third place in the standings, which so far is Claypole).
First D: 2 confirmed teams (champion of the contest and winner of the Complementary Tournament 2022).
Yupanqui and Defenders of Cambaceres / Spanish Center.
federal tournament: 10 confirmed teams (best placed at the end of the 2022 season).
Olympus, Villa Miter, City of Bolívar, Racing de Córdoba, Sarmiento de Resistencia, San Martín de Formosa, Central Norte, Gymnastics and Shooting of Salta, Sol de Mayo and Independiente de Chivilcoy.
Source: Clarin
