Racing and Estudiantes de La Plata will play the main roles in the finale of the race Final tournament 2025 next Saturday, December 13th at 9 p.m. at the Madre de Ciudades Stadium in Santiago del Estero with the appointment of a referee and the determination of the penultimate champion of the 2025 Argentine football season.
The chosen neutral scenario is the same in which the decisive game of the Apertura tournament was played. where Platense defeated Huracán 1 to 0. Fans of both clubs have to travel more than 1,000 kilometers to cheer on their team.
Whoever becomes champion will play in the Champions Trophy a week later against Platense, the winner of the Apertura, on December 20th in San Nicolás and qualify for the Copa Libertadores 2026 with the “Argentina 2” quota.
In the event that the winner of the competition is Racing, the ticket obtained for the Copa Sudamericana 2026 will be released by the Annual table and independents are preferred, overall eleventh place of the season. If the combination of Eduardo Dominguez, No club will benefit from this as the La Plata team finished 15th in the Annual and did not take part in any international tournaments.
The Academy and Pincha have faced each other twice this year, as they shared Group A in the Apertura and Clausura tournaments and the third day match was a pair. In the first game, Estudiantes won 2-0 with goals at home at the Uno Stadium Santiago Ascacibar And Gabriel Neves and in the current championship they also won, but in the Cilindro, 1 to 0 with a celebration of Guido Carrillo.
Racing was third in Zone A with 25 units, representing seven wins, four draws and five losses. In the round of 16, their victim was River Plate, whom they beat 3-2, while in the quarter-finals they beat Tigre 4-2 on penalties after a goalless draw. In the semi-finals he delivered the decisive blow in the Bombonera and eliminated the Xeneize with one goal Adrian “Maravilla” Martinez.
The team led by Eduardo Dominguez, For its part, it finished eighth in Group A and, thanks to several results at the last date, reached the playoffs. In total he scored 21 units with six wins, three losses and seven defeats. In the round of 16 they beat Rosario Central 1-0 in Gigante de Arroyito, while in the quarter-finals they beat Central Córdoba 1-0 in Santiago del Estero. In the semi-finals, thanks to a win from Tiago Palacios, they eliminated their visiting classical rival Gimnasia de La Plata for the same result.
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