COPA ECUADOR 2024-2029One of South American´s most prestigeous football competitions is back!

65 Matches per year
1^st Face – 32 matches with teams from the 1^st Division Serie B starting on May.
2^nd Face – 16 matches with teams from 1^st Division Serie A vs teams from 1^st Division Serie B, to be played on May.
3^rd Face – 8 matches on June (TBC)
Quarter finals – 4 matches on June/July (TBC)
Semifinals – 4 matches on August (TBC)
Final Match – On August (TBC)

– Matches are generally broadcasted on Wednesdays and Thursdays, with kick off between 3.00 PM local / 8.00 PM GMT to 5.00 PM local / 12.00 PM GMT
– TV production with a minimum of 5 cameras
– Delivery via SRT

Background
The Copa Ecuador is a knockout football competition in men’s domestic Ecuadorian football organized by the Ecuadorian Football Federation that started in 2018. Its creation was approved on May 2018, considering that the governing body would stop organizing the first and second tier championships starting from 2019 and that it was needed to both expand the scope of Ecuadorian football to more places within the country and generate new economic resources for the lower tiers of domestic football, represented by the provincial associations.

The winners qualify for the first stage of the following year’s Copa Libertadores and the Supercopa Ecuador against the Serie A champions.

Format
However the competition was cancelled due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be re-stablish starting 2024 with a preliminary stage involving the 10 Serie B teams and the 22 provincial champions, which would be drawn into 16 double-legged ties with the winners joining the 16 Serie A teams at the round of 32.