Liga Campiontia

Liga Campiontia Calcitro

Founded	1892 1904 (in current form)
Country	Latium
Confederation	UBCS
Number of teams	20
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Liga 2
Domestic cup(s)	Copa de Imperator Copa Liga Imperial Champions Cup
League cup(s)	Copa LPA
International cup(s)	UBCS Champions League UBCS International League UBCS Continental League Belisarian Victory Cup
Current champions	Imperialis Ianiculum (28th title)
Most championships	MCS Ascanium (30 titles)
TV partners	LTC Canalis 4 ALTN RALudi [streamer] International: Broadcasters
Website	www.ligacamp.la
2023–24 Liga Campiontia season

Liga Campiontia, officially Imperialis Campiontia Calcitro (Latin: Imperial Football Championship), is the top flight professional association football league in Latium. Consisting of 20 clubs, it operates a promotion and relegation system with it's immediate lower-level league, Liga Calcitro 2.

The Liga Campiontia acts as a corporation of 20 football clubs, who act as shareholders. Seasons run from early August to May, with teams playing a total of 38 games, not including domestic cup games or confederation league games. Each team plays each other in the league twice, once home and once away. The majority of games are played on Saturday and Sunday, but with no more than two games a week being played on either Tuesday or Thursday.

Liga Campiontia holds the largest television contract of any Latin professional sport, valued at over $15 billion a year. The league also has various television contracts abroad, including the nations of x, y, and z. Liga Campiontia boasts an average attendance of 48,239, one of the highest of any football league. The league currently ranks X in UBCS coefficient and X in the FCI worldwide in the UBCS coefficient ranking.

Of the 92 clubs to have competed since the inception of the Liga Campiontia in 1892, seventeen have won the title. The teams with the most championships are: MCS Ascanium (30), Imperialis Ianiculum (28), Athletica Adrianopolis (17), Honoria Ancia (14) and Internationalis Utica (8). Historically, MCS Ascanium, Imperialis Ianiculum, Athletica Adrianopolis, Honoria Ancia, and ASIL Ascanium have been considered the big five, with Arminium Flaminiana and Internationalis Utica occasionally competing for top honors. The current champions are Imperialis Ianiculum.

Format

Fixtures

There are 20 clubs in Liga Campiontia. Clubs participate in a season that begins in August and runs until May, in a double round-robin format, 38 fixture season, playing each club at home and on the road. Teams are awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss. The league champion is the team that holds the most overall points at the end of the season. Table placement tie-breakers are decided based on goal differential, goals scored, and head-to-head record. Should no tie-breaker resolve the placement tie, a neutral site game is held between the tied teams to determine placement.

Liga Campiontia remains the only of the major leagues in Latium that does not features a post season playoff.

Promotion and relegation

As with all professional sports leagues in Latium, Liga Campiontia operates under a system of promotion and relegation. Due to the league's placement at the top of the Latin football pyramid, this promotion and relegation relationship only exists between Liga Campiontia and Liga 2. The three lowest placed teams in Liga Campiontia are relegated to Liga 2, and the top 2 teams in Liga 2 are promoted to Liga Campiontia, with the final promotion slot determined through a promotion playoff between the teams that finish third through sixth in Liga 2.

Prior to 1986, Liga Campiontia featured 22 teams, and four teams were promoted or relegated at the end of the season.

Clubs

Team	City	Founded	Championships	Stadium	Capacity
Rubra MCS	Modicia	1941		Stadium	33,000
Athletica Adrianopolis	Adrianople	1896		Stadium	44,813
Imperialis Adrianopolis	Adrianople	1929		Transanio	50,388
Arminium Flaminiana	Arminium	1908		Stadium	26,971
ASIL Ascanium	Ascanium	1850	12	Stadia Ager	62,405
MCS Ascanium	Ascanium	1899	30	Stadium	45,001
SU Ascanium	Ascanium	1911	5	Stadia Ager	62,405
Imperialis Ianiculum	Castellum ab Alba	1879		Ianiculum Colosseum	59,062
BSMO Leones	Castellum ab Alba	1929		National Stadium	85,000
Alba Athletica	Castellum ab Alba	1879		Stadium	55,723
Cularo Carda	Cularo	1932		Stadium	35,400
Honoria Ancia	Entella	1889	16	Stadia Anicia	32,702
Florentia Catilina	Florentia	1889		Stadium	32,500
Haenna Rupilia	Haenna	1901		Stadium	22,400
Libarna	Libarna	1959		Stadium	19,147
Mediolanum Metallarii	Mediolanum	1899		Stadium	22,900
Ostia AUM	Ostia	1932		Stadia Ostia	29,710
Ravenna Auxillia	Ravenna	1900		Ostia Stadium	35,400
Internationalis Utica	Utica	1899		Delpha Stadium	44,813
1912 Vindobona	Vindobona	1912		Stadia UGL	26,186

See also

• Latin football league system