The new role of the AFA: five days before the final of the Regional Tournament, another promotion to Federal A was announced

He Federal Regional Amateur Tournament is in the process of being defined, 376 teams that started play it last year with the set goal Federal Athe internal antechamber for the First Nationalonly eight remain in competition.

The final four will be played this weekend to determine who will advance to the next category. Up to this point there is nothing new. Yes it was unexpected announcement a few hours after the definition with the news that five will be promoted.

He Federal Football Councilthe body that brings together all the affiliated leagues from the Interior to the Argentine Football Federation (AFA), has decided to grant one more place to Federal A, which will be played in a quadrilateral with the four losers of Sunday’s final.

So the AFA returns with a sloppiness in the tournaments it organizes: just as 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 of last December, Liniers and Sportivo Italiano were promoted from Primera C to Primera B when the championship had already ended.

Due to this change in the First Division, Colón appealed against his demotion – he played and lost a tie-break against Unión – and spent several weeks with the expectation placed on the disciplinary tribunal, which was ultimately rejected.

“Considering that for the formation of the 2024 Federal A Tournament, the Federal Council has decided to eliminate two relegations from the 2023 Federal A Tournament (…) and that, continuing with the restructuring, a fifth promotion will have to be granted from the 2023/24 Regional Tournament ”it is the motivation found in the same office 12,693 that bears the signatures of the art Javier Treque AND Pablo Tovigginosecretary general and president of the Federal Council respectively.

In the same writing the elimination of the is verbal Jorge Newbery due to the acts of violence that occurred in the first leg Deportivo Rincón won 2 to 0. In this way, León will be the rival of Columbus of San Justo next Sunday on the Estudiantes de Río Cuarto pitch.

The other duels will be: truck drivers April 9 – Kimberley from Mar del Plata (in the Arsenal de Sarandí), Zapla blast furnaces – Sarmiento of La Banda (Bicentenary of Catamarca) e Gutierrez de Mendoza – Defenders of Formosa (San Francisco, Cordoba).

The winners of these matches will play next season in Federal A, together with the fifth promoted team that will emerge from the home run that the losing teams will play. On February 18th they will play a semi-final, the winners of which will fight for the new place in the final on the 25th.

The matches will be a single match and in the event of a draw at the end of 90 minutes – both in the semi-final and in the final – the winner will be the one who wins the penalty shoot-out.

It’s not new

Last season the regional tournament also changed its rules in the decisive phase: on that occasion Instead of the four promotions expected, in the end there were six.

In this context, the unusual case was that of Saint martin from Mendoza, who had lost the final but moved up the category without winning since then Independent from San Cayetanothe team he had to face was put out of the competition by the Disciplinary Tribunal which punished the acts of violence in the match lost against Germinal by Rawson.

Even in the last Federal A the Board reduced the relegations from four to two when the regular phase had already ended. Liners from Bahia Blanca, Antonian Youth from Salta, Peñarol sportsman of San Juan and Gym of Concepción del Uruguay went from being the four relegated to protagonists of a tie-break home run.

Some played with decimated teams since the teams were licensed and there were players signing contracts at other institutions. Thus Juventud Antoniana maintained the category by beating Peñarol and Gimnasia did the same by beating Liniers.