Attention Unión: rule change to be introduced from the Clausura last 16 | OneFootball

The Professional League is changing the rules for this championship: in the event of a tie, there will no longer be a direct penalty shootout. Instead, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, and if the tie persists, then there will be penalty kicks.

AFA is once again shaking things up, as it has done many times during the current administration, and will introduce an important change to the already approved regulations of the 2025 Professional League. In this Clausura tournament, a tiebreaker stage will be added for the Playoffs.

Therefore, those matches that end in a tie after 90 minutes during the Clausura Playoffs will have a 30-minute extra time as the first tiebreaker, instead of going directly to penalties.

It is vaguely understood that the possibility of extra time would give a slight advantage to the home team, avoiding the “lottery” of penalties as the first tiebreaker criterion.

This comes after the impressive performance of the visitors in the 2025 Apertura Playoffs, where no home team advanced in the quarterfinals or semifinals.

Three of the six matches in question were decided by penalties, while the other three saw away victories in regular time. It is worth remembering that Platense, the great champion of the 2025 Apertura, played all Playoff rounds as the away team, and only beat River on penalties.

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