Mexico City / 06/04/2020 12:09:34
The economic crisis in which the clubs of the Liga MX and the television stations that the games transmit, makes the Development Committee contemplate playing more Liguilla games, adding a Repechage prior to the quarterfinal round during Opening 2020 and Closing 2021, as was done until Closing 2011, where that system existed.
May 27 Channel 6 uncovered this possibility and Halftime confirmed that the proposal is on the table of the Development Committee to present it in the next Owners Assembly, where the future of the next regular season will be defined and you will be welcomed to Mazatlan FC.
The Liga MX plan
A source confessed to Halftime that the idea is that the teams that at the end of the regular tournament are in places 9 and 10, have the possibility of fighting for a place in the Liguilla, so they would play a round prior to Round Trip against clubs that finish in positions 7 and 8.
With this idea, it is intended that the television stations have four more parties to market and thus recover a little of the money that was lost with the cancellation of the Closing 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The possibility of having more games is opened thanks to the fact that in the next semester of 2020 there will be no Leagues Cup games, Champions Cup, MX Cup and the FIFA Dates for the months of September and October are very likely to be canceled, so the calendar has more dates to do double dates and end the tournament in early December.
The problem they would encounter would be for the Clausura 2021 calendar, a tournament in which the calendar would be tightened a little more with the participation of Aztec clubs in the Concachampions, with the dates FIFA and with the culmination of the tournaments in the month of May because during the summer the Gold Cup, America’s Cup and Olympic Games will be played.
This system was in use until before 2011 when the format of the Liga MX He was satisfied with groups and in order to do sports justice there was a playoff to classify the Liguilla, although this sometimes was not necessary to play it.
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