2024-05-22 16:25:34
The brand new map of the Second Nationwide Championship (Tremendous League 2) is now beginning to take form when it comes to the groups that can compete in it within the new season 2024-25 and the areas they signify geographically.
With the play-out matches that came about midweek, the panorama was clarified to a big extent with the relegation of Kozani to the north group and Panathinaikos B’ to the south group. It stays to be seen if Campaniakos Halastras Thessaloniki or Renaissance Karditsa can be relegated. Who will keep within the second nationwide staff and who can be relegated can be determined within the play-off video games of the final matchday that can happen subsequent Wednesday, Might 22, the place Kampaniakos, who has 26 factors, will play away from house towards Iraklis Thessaloniki and Anagennisi, who’ve 25 factors will welcome PAOK B’ in Karditsa. Each contenders for the keep will face detached groups. 20 groups will take part within the new Second Nationwide Championship. If that is executed with two teams of 10 groups every, PAS will certainly play within the northern group, since Athens, Peloponnese, Crete and Rhodes full the ten groups for the southern group. Let’s take a better take a look at the out there information.
Within the present aggressive season, which ends on Wednesday, the Second Nationwide League was divided into two teams of 13 groups, the North and 12 groups, the South. It had been agreed since final yr to scale back the group groups, to ensure that the brand new 2024-25 season championship to happen with a bunch of 20 groups. Nevertheless, based on what the president of Tremendous League 2 Petros Martsoukos not too long ago said, no choice has but been made concerning the new season and whether or not the championship can be performed with one or two teams. However this pending state of affairs shouldn’t stay for lengthy, because the preparation schedule of the groups can be decided by how the brand new championship can be performed. Staff planning can’t be executed with out figuring out how the league will play out, when the video games will begin and who every staff’s opponents can be.
Whether it is executed with a bunch of 20 groups it is going to be an actual marathon of 38 video games plus the obligations within the Cup and the groups must enrich their rosters with extra gamers whereas the earnings is minimal. On the identical time, there can be a giant drawback for the island teams of Diagoras and Chania on account of journey. But additionally the opposite case of the 2 teams of 10 groups, every group, seems to be extra like a mini-tournament than the second-tier skilled league in Greece. After all, if there are two teams, there can be additional video games with playoffs and playoffs. Whichever manner you take a look at it, no plan sits nicely and there are vulnerabilities.
Within the northern group within the 2023-24 competitors season, 13 groups participated, which grew to become 12 after the expulsion of Almopos Aridaias from the championship as a result of it didn’t get a certificates of participation from the Skilled Sports activities Committee. Within the northern group, Levadeiakos, who’s returning to the Tremendous League, was topped champion. Apollon Pontou (Kalamaria), Aeolikos of Mytilene, Kozani had been relegated and it stays to be seen who will fall and who will keep between Campaniakou Halastra and Renaissance Karditsa. Larisa, Niki Volou, AEK B’, Makedonikos, PAOK B’, Iraklis remained within the class.
There have been 12 groups within the southern group from the start. The champion was Kallithea, which returns after a few years to the Tremendous League. Telykratis Lefkada, Iuchtas Chania, Olympiacos B’, Panathinaikos B’ had been relegated. The groups Chania, Ionikos, Ilioupoli, Kalamata, Panachaiki, Diagoras, Aegaleo remained within the Second Nationwide League.
To the above remaining groups are added PAS Ioannina, Kifisia who had been relegated from the Tremendous League and the champion groups of the 4 teams of the third Nationwide League, specifically Kavala, Ethnikos Neo Keramidu Pieria, Panionios, Panargeiakos.
MOST AREAS REPRESENTED
If we unfold out the groups that can compete within the new 2024-25 championship on the map of Greece, we’ll see that almost all areas of the nation are represented within the second nationwide staff. In Jap Macedonia and Thrace is Kavala. From Thessaloniki can be PAOK B’, Iraklis, Macedonian Neapolis and Campania Chalastras in the event that they keep. From the remainder of the Central Macedonia area is Ethnikis Neo Keramidu of Pieria, a village of 500 inhabitants exterior of Katerini that put… glasses on historic groups of the area comparable to Veria, Pieriko, Edessaiko, Kilkisiako, Naoussa, that are from the third Nationwide and beneath.
After the relegation of Kozani, Western Macedonia won’t be represented within the new league. Thessaly could have Larissa, Niki Volos and probably Karditsa Renaissance in the event that they keep. Epirus and northwest Greece typically can be represented by PAS Giannina. There can be no staff from Central Greece within the Second Nationwide League. The Attica basin can be represented by AEK B’, Kifisia, Ioniko, Ilioupoli, Panionio, Aegaleo. From the Peloponnese it is going to be Panachaiki, Kalamata, Panargeiakos, from Crete Chania and from the Dodecanese Diagoras Rhodes.