Mexican Senate moves to restore soccer promotion and relegation, reigniting Liga MX fight
The proposal would enshrine sporting merit in law after owners scrapped the system in 2020 and triggered protests from second-division clubs and investors.
- On Monday, the Senate debated the absence of promotion and relegation in Mexican soccer, where Sen. Clemente Castañeda of Movimiento Ciudadano announced a legislative reform to restore the system will be proposed on Tuesday.
- Mexican Football Federation owners eliminated promotion and relegation in April 2020, citing pandemic-related financial difficulties among second-division clubs. The original plan set a five-year suspension, yet the system failed to return last year as scheduled.
- Protests intensified as Spanish goalkeeper Roberto Galán stated, "That's why we protested and the clubs were sanctioned, but the protests will continue because we have the right to make our voices heard." Restrictive venue requirements of 30,000 seats stifled growth.
- Last week, Mexico's National Antitrust Commission launched an investigation into potential monopolistic practices centering on the absence of promotion and relegation. The probe examines how the system restricts opportunities for players and sports projects.
- Sen. Castañeda seeks to enshrine promotion and relegation in Mexican law by "expressly incorporating sporting merit among the obligations that national sports associations must observe." Liga MX president Francisco Iturbide and commissioner Mikel Arriola declined invitations to discuss the proposal.
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Mexican senators proposed, on Monday, to establish in the sports legislation the access and the reduction in professional football, an extinct practice since 2020. In the midst of the pandemic of Covid-19, the Mexican Football Federation suspended promotion and demotion in the first division of local football. The entity justified the measure as a way to protect the economy of clubs that lost sponsorships and ticketing revenues.
Mexican Senate moves to restore soccer promotion and relegation, reign
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The debate over the absence of promotion and relegation in Mexican soccer reached the floor of the Senate on Monday, where officials announced that a legislative reform to restore the system will be proposed on Tuesday. Sen. Clemente Castañeda of the Movimiento Ciudadano party put forward the proposal, backed by representatives from other party leaderships, including Ignacio Mier of the ruling Morena party . Castañeda stated t…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The discussion on the lack of promotion and decline in Mexican football reached the Mexican Senate rostrum on Monday, where it was announced that a law reform will be proposed on Tuesday that will...
The debate over promotion and delegation in Mexican soccer has completed the Senate
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Mexican Senate moves to restore soccer promotion and relegation, reigniting Liga MX fight
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The debate over the absence of promotion and relegation in Mexican soccer reached the floor of the Senate on Monday, where officials announced that a legislative reform to restore the system will be proposed on Tuesday.
Speakers agreed that football should be seen as a matter of "public interest"
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