Valladar Liga-2
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| Founded | 1977 |
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| Country | Valladares |
| Confederation | CRF IFCF |
| Number of teams | 20 |
| Level on pyramid | 2 |
| Promotion to | Liga-1 |
| Relegation to | Liga-3 |
| Domestic cup(s) | King's Shield |
| International cup(s) | IFCF Liga B Champions Trophy IFCF Challengers Cup Cup Winners' Cup (latter two through King’s Shield) |
| Current champions | Libertad (1st title) (70) |
| TV partners | GOL |
| Website | www.lfv.vd/liga2 |
| Current: Valladar Liga-2 71 | |
The Valladar Liga-2 (League-2 in English and Ligue-2 in French), is Valladares’s second division of association football. Run by the Liga Federal de Valladares, an entity affiliated to the Valladar Football Association, it contains twenty clubs from across the country, and maintains a system of promotion and relegation of three or four clubs a year between it and the Valladar Liga-1 and Valladar Liga-3, Valladares’s first and third divisions, respectively.
The season runs from March to November, during which time 38 matches are played per team, totalling 380 matches overall. The vast majority of matches are played on Fridays, with two featured matches per round played on Monday nights and one matchday during Independence Day on October 8th. It is broadcast by GOL, who own rights to the league's featured matches every week.
The Liga-2 was set up in 1977 along with the Valladar Super League (now Liga-1) as the Valladar B-League, and has served as the second division of Valladar football ever since. For its 31st season, in 2008, it was also taken over by the Liga Federal de Valladares and rebranded as the Liga-2. The current champions of the league are AS Montreux, who will be returning to the top tier for Season 67.
Competition format
There are 20 clubs in Liga-2. During the course of a season, each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 38 games. Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then head-to-head record, goal difference, goals scored, number of wins, and fair play points. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned champion and promoted to Liga-1 along with the runner-up. The clubs that end between the third and the tenth position go on to play the final play-off series with its winner earning the last direct promotion spot, with a potential fourth promotion to be decided in a play-off between the final play-off runner-up and the Liga-1's seventeenth-placed club. As for relegation, the three lowest placed clubs are relegated to the Liga-3, with the fourth-lowest placed club playing a play-off against a Liga-3 club, and three teams from Liga-3 are promoted in their place: the top-two and the final play-off winner.
Clubs for Season 71
The following 20 clubs will be competing in the 71st Liga-2 season.
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
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| AD Cerro | Cerro, District of Metropolis | Estadio Municipal Marcus Trent | 15,000 |
| Adelaide Kickers | Adelaide, Westlands | Westlands Stadium | 17,500 |
| Ajax Carloburgo | Carloburgo, Mountbatten | Olympic Stadium | 38,755 |
| AS Lausanne | Lausanne, Foix | Stade Auguste-Mayot | 11,100 |
| AS Mont-Blanc | White Mount, Eterna | Laurent Bellerin Stadium | 12,000 |
| AS Montreux | Montreux, Foix | Stade Micoud | 15,500 |
| Atlético Nápoles | Metropolis | Estadio Andrew Chosroes | 23,000 |
| Canalave Rangers | Canalave, Canalave | Trefford Park | 10,000 |
| CAP | Los Chorros, Angostura | Municipal Stadium | 41,279 |
| Danubio FC | Metropolis | Estadio Andrew Chosroes | 23,000 |
| Dynamo Metropolis | Metropolis | Valladar Royal Air Force Stadium[a] | 14,000 |
| Eterna Celtic | Eterna City, Eterna | Venndale Stadium | 15,400 |
| Étoile Verte | Bezieres, Foix | Stade de Charmilliot | 13,000 |
| FC Fauxham | Fauxham, Eterna | Frank Clair Stadium | 17,500 |
| FC Sillimus | City of Sillimus | Moss Tower Stadium | 19,500 |
| FC Townsville | Townsville, Westlands | Townsville Municipal Stadium | 16,000 |
| Hoxford Rovers | Hoxford, Westlands | Westlands Stadium | 17,500 |
| Nord Energie FC | Toril, Eterna | Municipal Stadium | 15,000 |
| Pumas Maldonado | Maldonado, Chiquito | Estádio do Maldonado | 20,546 |
| Talleres (CP) | Ciudad Piar, District of Metropolis | Arena Bohemians[b] | 25,000 |
- ↑ Playing its home matches at Valladar Royal Air Force Stadium in Villena instead of their regular stadium Dynamo Stadium in Metropolis which did not meet LFV requirements for Liga-2 matches.
- ↑ Playing its home matches at Arena Bohemians in Metropolis instead of their regular stadium Estadio Michael Baek in Ciudad Piar which did not meet LFV requirements for Liga-2 matches.