The president of the Argentine Football Federation (AFA), Claudius Tapia, presided over the Annual Ordinary Meeting this Wednesday at Ezeiza’s property, 72 hours after winning the World Cup in Qatar. Before the shareholders’ meeting voted on the budget for the last period with the surplus of 145.6 million pesos and after the agenda was approved, he moved forward a restructuring in the lower divisions of the Ascent for 2023.

“We are committed to making the Primera C and Primera D categories more attractive. We have to work to make them much more attractive. We can’t have a category with so few teams like D. We will work so that next year between (First) B, C and D, we have two more attractive categories and all categories of the Promotion professionalized“, he stressed.

The last of the divisions with clubs directly affiliated to the AFA, Primera D, counted in the last tournament with just 11 participants, without professional footballers and completely amateurish. The Primera C (Fourth Division) has 19 teams and receives a percentage of the television rights, for the screen of sportv, the public sports channel. Primera B, the third metropolitan category, with 17, is the one with the most screens, with TyC Sport.

What emerges from Tapia’s idea is that the 47 clubs which are currently spread across the three categories, switch to two with television and film revenues for the dissemination of their championships. Chiqui’s announcement came after another equally informal one, as no one was on the agenda.

“Only one of the TV rights companies bought the period 2027 to 2030. TNT didn’t buy them, ESPN bought them. The AFA will use this (unacquired) right together with the Professional Soccer League,” he said.

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