What you need to know about the Coupe d’Excellence, the new LNFP competition which starts this Tuesday

In addition to the Bottle Pro You D1 and of the Throne Cupthe Moroccan public will have the opportunity to follow a new competition involving national clubs from the first and second divisions this season. Indeed, the National Professional Football League will launch, from Tuesday, the Excellence Cupan official competition which will be played according to the regulations of African interclub competitions (group stage, round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals).

Open to clubs Bottles for D1 and D2the EC aims, among other things, to integrate players under 23 into the first team squads as well as to supervise talented players likely to be called up to the national Olympic and youth teams. This competition also facilitates a gradual recovery after the summer and winter breaks and during the dates FIFAincreasing the annual number of matches and maintaining the pace of competition during periods of inactivity. Trapdoor.

Bringing together 32 clubs (D1 and D2), the Excellence Cup will be played in two rounds. In the first round, the clubs are divided into eight groups of four teams according to a distribution in accordance with the ranking of the sports season (n-1) and a replacement of the relegated D2 clubs by the newly promoted clubs, will play two-way matches. The teams ranked first and second in each group will qualify for the next round, which will play the 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 finals in two-way matches. The classification match and the final will follow. Regarding the ages of the players, the clubs are required to register at least 10 U23 players on the match sheet and a mandatory participation of at least 6 U23 players throughout the duration of the match. The programming of this competition will take place mainly during the periods of stoppage of the Botola Pro and the clubs are obliged to align the technical staff of their “Senior” team.