Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba
| Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba | |
| Full name | Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba |
| abbreviation | CNF |
| Association | Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba |
| First edition | 1912 |
| hierarchy | 1st League |
| Teams | 12 |
| master | FC Santiago de Cuba |
| Record champions | FC Villa Clara (14 ×) |
| Qualification for |
CFU Club Championship CONCACAF Champions League |
The Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba (National Football Championship of Cuba) is the highest league in Cuban football, was founded in 1912 and held for the first time.
history
The CNF was first held in 1912, making it the oldest soccer championship in the Caribbean and the second oldest in Latin America after the Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol . The first Cuban champion was the club Rovers AC from Havana in 1912 . After the revolution of 1959 , all Cuban sports were placed under state order, with no priority given to football, unlike other popular sports. Instead of the previous clubs, selected teams from different cities took part in the championship round. After the state was divided into 14 provinces and a special administrative area with the administrative reform of 1976 , these now also form the basic structure for the state-internal competitions of all team sports, including from 1978 football - with the national championship in the national sport of baseball by far the greatest public interest pulls.
The Cuban soccer champion is entitled to participate in the CFU Club Championship , the qualifying competition for the CONCACAF Champions League that has been held since 1997 . However, Cuba has only exercised this right once: In November 2007, the then champion Pinar del Río took part in the Caribbean championship of the club teams, but could not make it to the later Champions League in the three group games played in Trinidad and Tobago to qualify.
The Cuban football championship was held for the hundredth time in 2015, the main round games were scheduled from January 31 to May 9. After a record run of eleven victories in a row, the Camagüey provincial team as champions of the anniversary season was already determined in April with four game days remaining . Villa Clara has been the record champion with 13 titles so far since the start of the current mode of competition with provincial national teams .
Competition mode
The Cuban football championship is currently held in the first half of the year through a league system with ten participating teams. Each team plays twice against each opposing team, one game in their own stadium and one in the opponent's stadium. This results in a total of 18 game days. The first in the table at the end of the season wins the championship title, the first eight teams are automatically qualified for the next season. The two bottom of the table take part in the relegation tournament ("Torneo de Ascenso") a few weeks before the start of the new season, in which they meet the six provincial selections that were not qualified for league operations in the previous year. The relegation tournament starts with two groups of four, before the first and second places in the first round compete against each other in the second round. The two most successful teams of the second round then achieve the ninth and tenth starting place in the national championship league. Before the start of the season, the ten qualified teams can take on up to three players from the six teams eliminated in the relegation tournament for the duration of the season in their own squad, whereby the size of each individual squad is limited to 30 players.
Participants 2018
- FC Camagüey (Minas)
- FC Ciego de Ávila (Morón)
- Cienfuegos FC
- CF Granma (Bayamo)
- Guantánamo FC
- FC Isla de La Juventud (Nueva Gerona)
- FC La Habana (Guanajay)
- Las Tunas FC (Manati)
- FC Pinar del Río
- FC Sancti Spíritus
- FC Santiago de Cuba
- FC Villa Clara (Zulueta)
League champions
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Web links
- Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol on the website of FIFA (English)
- Reglamento de Competencia: Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol 2015 , complete set of rules, via El Blog de los Socitos of January 17, 2015 (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fixtures unveiled for Caribbean Qualification to 2008 Champions' Cup. ( Memento of December 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) CONCACAF announcement of October 30, 2007 (English)
- ↑ CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2007/08 on the website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on May 6, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Primer toque hacia la Copa de Oro. In: Granma, January 23, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015
- ↑ Una corona temprana para un Camagüey de récord. In: Granma from April 20, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Reglamento de Competencia: Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol 2015 , complete set of rules, via El Blog de los Socitos of January 17, 2015, accessed on May 5, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/cubachamp.html
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1 At the Major League Soccer participate both Canadian and US teams. The Canadian champions will be played in the Canadian Championship between the Canadian clubs of the MLS and the NASL in cup mode.