🚨Breaking news: FMF responds, insists promotion is still in place | OneFootball

🚨Breaking news: FMF responds, insists promotion is still in place | OneFootball

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·22 May 2025

🚨Breaking news: FMF responds, insists promotion is still in place

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The Mexican Football Federation has already made its stance known after denying an appeal against it before the TAS by 10 clubs in the Expansion League in favor of the return of promotion and relegation.


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Through an infographic, the FMF assures the existence of promotion in Mexican football, through a certification process that so far, no team has fully met.

"It is in effect via certification. A club will be promoted when there are at least four certified teams at the start of the season and one becomes Champion of Champions," it specifies.

For his part, Íñigo Riestra, Secretary General and Legal Director of the FMF, appeared before the cameras to "tell his version," because "half-truths have been told":

What they haven't mentioned is that a fund for improvements was also authorized, with significant sums of money to support all these clubs, with the sole intention that they could focus on making infrastructure investments and strategy for the growth of their League. Large amounts of money have been delivered to the expansion clubs and that's not being told," he pointed out


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