Cúcuta could return to professional football, but playing in B

This Wednesday, the Colombian professional teams will meet at 2:00 p.m. in an extraordinary assembly to resolve the situation of Cucuta Deportivo, which could be re-admitted to Dimayor, after being disaffiliated due to its administrative crisis.

From the northern capital of Santander they trust that their club returned to the first division without having to fight for promotion, as the teams of the BetPlay Tournament have traditionally done. However, this situation would not be welcomed by a group of clubs that would decide in a vote for the future of the Cucuteño team.

A month ago, one of the assemblies was held to discuss the situation of the motilón squad, in which it was mentioned that the team (whose new president is Eduardo Silva,) would return to the top category of Colombian football for the following season.

At the last assembly, it was decided to postpone the determination regarding the situation of Cucuta Deportivo “due to the absence of a registered administrative body of Cucuta Deportivo FC with the respective Chamber of Commerce”, as Dimayor explained that day.

However, the decision to reinstate Cucuta into the A depends directly on the vote of the other 35 clubs that make up the organization. From the outset, Cucuta Deportivo would have 16 votes against in the decisive assemblies of Dimayor. There are historic Colombian professional football clubs that are in the second category and that do not see the return of the North Santander team to the A fair, without the sports merit.

It should be remembered that Cucuta played his last professional match on November 6, 2020 at the Alberto Grisales stadium against Rionegro Águilas on the 18th date of the BetPlay 2020 League, year in which there was only one edition of the championship.

After that, the team left the championship and Dimayor immediately disaffiliated it in the face of economic insolvency and debts for which the Superintendency of Companies referred the club from a process of corporate reorganization to a liquidation one.

The discussion of the new category of Cucuta is open and in this way everything will be resolved at the general assembly of this Wednesday, April 20, in which the decision will give a definitive answer about the future of Cucuta Deportivo, a club that ultimately did not change its record in Dimayor to that of Alianza Petrolera moving to Barrancabermeja, but will appeal to recover what it already had in the border city and without having to change its name by committing to pay its obligations and officiating as a venue at the General Santander stadium.

Finally, the team's fans, which also lost sporting recognition by the Colombian Ministry of Sport, are hoping to return to official matches regardless of category, since historically, the city has always supported its team and is one of the best football spots in the country, for example when the team won in 2006 with D.T. Jorge Luis Pinto and when it was semifinalist in the 2007 Copa Libertadores with coach Jorge Luis Bernal.

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