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Nueva Chicago vice-president says board will stay after relegation
Nueva Chicago was relegated to Argentina’s Primera B after losing to Chacarita.
Vice-president Roberto Vila said the club’s board will stay until its mandate ends in 2028, when elections are scheduled.
Vila said the club is institutionally stable and blamed missed chances and bad luck for the relegation.
The club expects most of its players to leave as it rebuilds for next season.
Players are due back at training on November 24, and the club plans to decide its football leadership by December 1.
Vila also said Chicago will seek to take its fans to away matches, and he described a return to the Primera Nacional in 2027 as the goal.
Nueva Chicago vice-president Roberto Vila said the club’s board would remain in office after the team was relegated to Primera B.
Vila said the board’s mandate runs until 2028, when elections will be held.
He said the club would review its playing squad when players return to training on November 24.
Vila said the club expects to decide on its football leadership by December 1.
He said the club would seek permission for its supporters to attend away matches in Primera B.
- Who
- Roberto Vila, vice-president of Nueva Chicago.
- What
- He said the club’s board would stay after the team’s relegation to Primera B.
- When
- He made the comments in an interview reported on November 5, 2026.
- Where
- Nueva Chicago, based in Mataderos, Buenos Aires.
- Why
- The team was relegated after losing to Chacarita; Vila said the club would now rebuild its football operation.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Nueva Chicago was relegated to Primera B.
Players are expected to return to training, when the club will begin deciding who stays.
Vila said the club would have determined its football leadership.
Nueva Chicago is scheduled to hold elections, when the board’s mandate ends.
- Vice-president
- Roberto Vila
- Relegation
- Primera B, after a defeat to Chacarita
- Board mandate ends
- 2028
- Players return to training
- November 24
- Football leadership decision
- December 1
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What people are saying
There is no chance that this board will leave.
We have a mandate until 2028. That year there will be elections; they can put together a list and run.
We went down by one point.
We will try to take away supporters so there are no infiltrators or problems.