The Liga Pro has played 20 of its 30 dates of the regular calendar. In the cumulative table there are five teams that are close to relegation and in danger of losing the category.
The Pro League regulations establish that the last two teams with the lowest score Throughout the season, they will be the ones who will lose the category and play the following year in the Liga Pro Serie B.
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The following 10 dates will mark the path of these five groups in the Pro League, either to be saved and continue in Serie A, or to return to Serie B, and take the place of the two promoted teams.
In the second stage of the Pro League, five dates have been played and Aucas (1 point), and Deportivo Cuenca (0 points) They are the two teams that remain in the last two places in the standings, but the real fight is in the cumulative score.
For Imbabura, Deportivo Cuenca, Delfín, Cumbayá and Libertad are the five teams that have the alarm bells ringing and must show a radical change to avoid losing their category.
Imbabura and the descent
Imbabura is one of the newly promoted teams. He returned to Serie A after 13 years of absenceHis last experience was in the 2011 national championship, a year in which Deportivo Quito was crowned champion.
Imbabura is in the 12th place with 17 points and a negative goal difference of -15. That is another factor that must be taken into account in order not to be relegated to the B division in the same year of his return.
Deportivo Cuenca and its instability
One of the signs of the instability of Deportivo Cuenca are the three coaches with whom it faces the current championship.
It started with the Argentine Luis García, Then came the Spaniard Igor Oca and finally the Mexican Andrés Carevic. On Monday, September 2, he announced the dismissal of the latter.
The fourth to take command was the Argentine-Ecuadorian Norberto Araujo, with a recent past in Cumbayá.
In the accumulated the Cuenca has 16 points and occupies position 13but with the risk of losing three more due to a sanction due to non-payment to its creditors. Its goal difference is negative -3.
Dolphin is becoming more and more complicated
In 2019, Delfín surprised the country with its intention of winning the Liga Pro title and being runner-up in the Copa Ecuador, always with Liga de Quito as its rival in the finals.
In it 2024 the story is different and it is positioned in 14th place with 16 units and a negative goal difference of -16.
The Colombian Juan Pablo Buch, former Technical University of Ambatohas the task of keeping the Manabitas in Serie A and not losing one of the most football-loving places in the country.
Cumbayá can’t find its way
The Cumbayá players have had to survive in the middle of a season in which managerial and economic problems have been the order of the day.
In sports they are second to last in the standings with 15 points and a negative goal difference of -16. If the tournament were to end, it would be one of the relegated teams.
The last time that Cumbayá was in Serie B in 2021.
If everything continues as it is, in 2025 he will return to that category in which he only played for one season.
Freedom, the most committed
Libertad is in its second year in Serie A. In 2024, poor results have been the order of the day and they are still in last place in the standings.
Con 11 points, a negative goal difference of -18and the latent possibility of losing points for being sanctioned since the beginning of the year, has the Loja team with a more than uncertain present and future.
Geovanny Cumbicus, freshman, and Juan Carlos León, at present, are the coaches with which those in the south of the country are trying to find safety. Time will tell if this objective will be achieved.
