The AFA gave details this Friday about the First Division tournaments of the season 2025. The most resonant, which there will not be a League like the one that will be defined this Sunday – all against all and the one who finishes first is champion – and Two Cups will be played like the one in the first semesterwhich consecrated Estudiantes after a final with Vélez.
After an Executive Committee meeting it was reported that there will be one League Cup per semester. The 30 clubs will be divided into two zones of 15 each with a fixture of 14 games and an interzonal crossing (they will not be classics, according to what was reported) to total 15 games per team in the first round. The best eight from each group will advance to the second phase, which will consist of round of 16, quarterfinals, semis and final.
The direct elimination instances will be a single match, with locality for the best placed in the first phase, with the exception of the final, which will be in a neutral stadium. According to what is stipulated, the first tournament will start between January 23 and 24 and the second, between July 10 and 11.
The Association also determined that there will be two relegations at the end of the seasonone by average and another by general (or annual) table, and two promotions from the First National. Of course, this, as happened in 2024 with the elimination of relegations, remains to be seen.
Thus, for the first time in the history of Argentine football there will be a season without a League championship, neither short nor long. Furthermore, and although details are still lacking, there could be an all-time low for classicsdepending on the distribution of the zones and without a date that confronts them.
It is worth remembering that League championships and National Cups have different weighting when counting titles between clubsthe first being those with the “best” rating among historians. In any case, Argentine soccer has a rich history of National Cups that, after falling into disuse at the end of the 1950s, resurfaced in 2011 with the reimplementation of the Argentine Cup.
While starting in 2019, a semi-annual Cup was established as a regular event that has been held with different formats and had quite varied clubs as winners: Tigre (2019), Boca (2020-21), Colón (2021), Boca (2022), Rosario Central (2023) and Estudiantes de La Plata (2024).
