Set rules for C and D Playoffs and Playouts

IVREA

In recent days, the Piedmontese regional Fipav has made official the regulation governing promotions and relegations both in C and D.

There will be no more comfort zones, or the mathematical certainty of maintaining the category already after the regular season. Starting from the women’s Serie C, the first four teams of each group will play the playoffs to move up to B2 for a total of twelve teams involved, with one-way matches at the best of three out of five sets. Two groups will be formed. The races will be held from Saturday 9 April to Saturday 14 May. The first two classified will play the playoff semifinals (Saturday 21 May first leg and Wednesday 25 the return match, with eventual beautiful Saturday 28 May) and the winners, both already promoted to B2, will play the regional title on Saturday 28 May (if not there will be the beautiful) or Thursday 2 June. The losers of the semifinals remain in C. As for the playouts, from the fifth to the eleventh of the regular season they will all be involved: three groups of seven teams will be formed, with one-way matches also in this case. The second phase will start on Saturday 2 April and will end on Saturday 21 May. Depending on the relegations of Piedmontese teams from B2, eight, nine or ten teams will drop to D: in the first case the last two and the two worst thirds, in the second the last three and in the third the last three and the worst quart ‘ last.

In Serie D at the playoffs the first six teams of each group: same dates as the Serie C playoffs. The twenty-four teams will be divided into four groups and only the first classified will go up to C, while for the playout twenty-one teams will be involved, divided into three groups of seven, with the last three relegating to the First Division. It will start on Saturday 2nd April and will end on Saturday 21st May. The regulation for the men’s D series is still different: the first five classified in each group will make the playoffs and will be divided into two groups, with only the newly promoted winners in C. As for the playouts, there will be eight teams that will be divided into two groups, with home and away matches and relegations in the First Division only for the last classified. The dates always from Saturday 9 April to Saturday 14 May for the playoffs and from Saturday 2 April for the playouts. –

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