What was the controversial character referring to? To the decision to remove direct promotion to the first division from the Peru Cup. Perhaps with the background that of the last ten champions – not counting ADTcurrent winner who remains in the middle of the League 1- position table, only Carlos Stein (2019), binational (2017) y UTC (2012) are still in the highest category of Peruvian football.
The settings do not stop there. The federation also announced that each club that disputes the first division of the district leagues must have a maximum of four players over 25 years of age. And in Second, four over 23. “This new rule has not been well taken because it is going to take work away from many players. In addition, every year they have been changing the regulations, making readjustments, they have never had a project, a path to follow”tells us Juan Andres Fernandezjournalist and director of “From the Peru Field”the medium specialized in the tournament that is played in all corners of the country.
“I think it is good to reengineer the Peru Cup, improve it, strengthen it. But if you only give promotion to League 2 (second division), then you also have to strengthen that tournament. Today, for example, is not televised. So the businessmen who invest in the Copa Peru teams are no longer going to want to do it because to get to the First Division you have to go through a league that is not well structured, does not give you benefits and in which you have to stay. It’s very difficult like this.”Add.
The Peru Cup -that amateur tournament that brings together all the departments of Peru, of which only the bad is talked regarding and it is not highlighted that Leonardo Rugel, one of the heroes of the classico Percy Lizathe last Peruvian to play soccer abroad, took their first steps there- it will no longer be a direct route to Liga 1 starting in 2023. That is, this will be the last year they do it and the champion will surely go down in history.
For this reason, below we will tell you what is next for the championship that is in its final stretch, in the national stage. There are only 50 teams left, departmental champion and runner-up, who dream of reaching the first division.
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There are 50 teams that will fight for a ticket on the last train to the first division. Among them are four who ascended as the Colonel Bolognesi, Marshal Nieto, Atlético Torino and Defender La Bocana.
“Clearly those who have already won the championship start as favorites. Atletico Turinwho has already won the tournament five times, is one. Bocana Defender is another one. Bolognese also. And from there is the Sports Garcilaso del Cusco, which in 2019 was regarding to qualify for the national stage with Alex Valera on your team. might also be the Ecosem of Pasco because it is a mining community that solves this campaign and has good players, very adapted to the height, in addition to the fact that the coach is Robert Arrelucea who directed Unión Minas in the First Division at the time”says Juan Fernandez.
Thus, the national stage, which has five phases, will begin this weekend with the fixture already defined from here to the end. In the first phase, all the teams will face each other in six days (three at home and three away).
Once the six dates have been played, a general table of positions will be put together in which the 32 best-placed teams will go on to play phase 2. At this point, it is important to mention that the table has some new criteria such as relative points. What does it mean? It is regarding how many points a team obtains according to the point that the rival obtained.
“For example, if I beat a team that has five points in the table, then my three points are multiplied by what he got. That is, I have 15. And so I am adding according to the rivals I faced “Fernandez explains.
In the second phase they will put together 16 keys in which they will face each other, in a four-round tie. Those who were placed between the first and 16th place will be seeded and will choose the order of the localities to measure themselves once morest the representatives who were placed between boxes 17 to 32.
It should be noted that these keys will be armed according to the location they have had in the position table. That is to say, the first classified will collide once morest the one located in the 32nd position, the second place once morest the 31st, the one that was third once morest the 30th and so on.
The winners of these keys will become part of Phase 3, which is nothing more than the round of 16. It will continue to be round-trip matches and the order of the venues will continue to be chosen by the teams that have been better placed in the position table of the first phase.
The winners of these keys qualify for Phase 4 or the quarterfinals, in which the round-trip duels between two representatives are maintained. Also, the best placed in the standings will continue to choose the order of their locations.
The fifth phase is “Finally”, which is a home run that is played in Lima or Callao. The four qualified teams meet in a round robin format. The team that is first at the end of the three dates of the home run, is promoted to League 1 of 2023. The second place gets the ticket for League 2.
