Finally, the ball will get rolling again in the local tournament after seven and a half months. Is that this Wednesday the start of the Professional Football League for Friday, October 30.
“The Professional League will start its tournament on the 30th of the current month,” announced today Claudio Tapia, president of the AFA, after a meeting he held at the Casa Rosada.
The tournament will be presented next Friday from 14, in the Julio Humberto Grondona estate, in Ezeiza. There they will be made the draw to form the groups and the fixture will be made.
Also present at the meeting were Tapia, Matias Lammens, Marcelo Tinelli, VÃctor Blanco, Nicolas Russo and Sergio Rapisarda.
On the other hand, the return of the other Argentine soccer championships was agreed upon. The First National will begin on November 7 with Miter as one of the animators in search of a promotion, on November 21 it will be Güemes’ turn at the Federal Tournament, while On the 23rd of that month the Primera B, Primera C, and women’s football will do it and on December 6 the Primera D.
They had previously met on August 4 to allow training to take place, mainly for the teams that played the Libertadores Cup. Two months later, the AFA received the ok for the return of football -for now- in the First Division.
HOW THE NEW PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE TOURNAMENT WILL BE PLAYED
As soon as the return of soccer is approved, the highest category of Argentine soccer will carry out the draw for the contest that will be played during the next months and that would end in January. There will be six zones of four teams where they will play all against all back and forth. From there, the first two will go to fight for the title and the passage to the Copa Libertadores, and the last two from each group to fight for a place in the South American.
In the second instance there will be two zones of six teams (both in the fight for the Libertadores and in the South American), where they will play all against all but in a single round: the first two of the group of the best will play a final to define the champion and qualify for the next Libertadores, while the first two of the worst groups will play a final to see who plays against the loser of the final for the title to earn a ticket to the South American 2022.
THE PUMPS FOR THE NEW PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
Pot 1: Seed heads
BOCA – INDEPENDENT – RACING – RIVER – SAN LORENZO – VELEZ
Pot 2: La Plata and Santa Fe
COLÓN – STUDENTS – GYMNASTICS – NEWELL’S – CENTRAL ROSARY – UNION
Pot 3: Interior
ALDOSIVI – ATLETICO TUCUMAN – CENTRAL CORDOBA (SdE) – GODOY CRUZ – BOARD OF TRUSTEES – WORKSHOPS
Pot 4: AMBA
ARGENTINOS – ARSENAL – BANFIELD – DEFENSE AND JUSTICE – HURRICANE – LANUS.
