🗞️ The Final Stage of the Apertura kicked off last night & saw 2024’s season Champions & Runners-Up come from behind away from home to secure victory. Carabobo added a third in second half stoppage time to beat Metro 1-3, whereas Castillo’s strike was Tachira’s winner over APC.

⚔️ UCV Shock Anzoategui ⚔️ A night full of goals and controversy saw Anzoategui and UCV draw 4-4 to open their second phase campaigns. Anzoategui took a 3-0 lead with goals for Marín, Silgado, and Rojas. UCV brought on Charlis Ortiz at half time and it worked. He scored a

Oliver Cawthorne has been promoted to the National League North with AFC Telford, starting and playing the full 90 in today’s Playoff Final win over Kettering Town (4-2). The Caracas born defender joined on a short term deal after 52 games in Panama’s top division.

Spot Oliver Cawthorne screaming “we’re going up” into the AFC Telford end today! Presumably the first Venezuelan to win promotion to the National League North! 🇻🇪🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📹: ຮς๏ŧŧ

Caracas continue to give the most minutes to young players in Liga FUTVE, according to CIES Football Obs’s latest report: 39.7% of minutes to ≤21s. On the other end of the scale, Portuguesa are at 0% & Puerto Cabello have given a league high 44.5% of mins to players 30 or over.

Remember Philippe Coutinho? You know, the two-time Liverpool Player of the Year, with 2 La Liga titles at Barcelona and a Champions League title with Bayern? Yeah him. Well he played in Venezuela tonight but was on the end of a 4-1 loss as Puerto Cabello defeated Vasco da Gama!

Caracas Futbol Club wrap up Venezuela’s participation in CONMEBOL competition this week, hosted by Cienciano of Peru in the Copa Sudamericana. Already this week, we’ve had: Carabobo 1-2 Botafogo 🇧🇷 Tachira 2-3 LDU Quito 🇪🇨 (Libertadores) Puerto Cabello 4-1 Vasco da Gama 🇧🇷

Caracas’ Copa Sudamericana qualification hopes hang in the balance after their first loss of the campaign. Falling 3-1 to Cienciano coincided with Deportes Iquique beating Atletico Mineiro to condense top to bottom into - 2-point gap. Next up: 🛩️ Atletico Mineiro 🏠 Iquique

Edson Castillo adds Fourth Cup Title! 🏆 Three-time Copa Venezuela winner Edson Castillo became a South African Cup Champion today as Kaizer Chiefs triumphed 2-1 over Orlando Pirates in the Nedbank Cup Final. The Venezuelan midfielder is set to extend his contract soon. 🇻🇪🏆

Saúl Guarirapa scores his fourth goal of the RPL season, giving CSKA Moscow a 1-0 lead over league leaders Krasnodar. ⚽️

Carabobo 0-0 Academia Puerto Cabello | #LigaFutVe The second round of group B play began with a scoreless draw between the two teams from Carabobo state. The result keeps Carabobo top of the group for now.

Deportivo Táchira took advantage of Carabobo and Puerto Cabello’s stalemate yesterday to go two points clear with a 1-0 win over Metropolitanos. Bryan Castillo is in fine scoring form with 3 in his last 3 across all competitions. 🇻🇪

A double header at El Olimpico saw 8 goals across two games today: ⏰ UCV 2-2 Portuguesa ⏰ La Guaira 3-1 Anzoategui It leaves La Guaira with an early 4-point lead in Group A as the only team within it to pick up victory in the Final Stage so far.

Some late drama tonight was not quite enough to earn Deportivo Táchira their first Copa Libertadores point of the campaign. 🇻🇪 Bryan Castillo made it 1-1 for Táchira, down to 10 men, in the 75th minute, but visiting Cordoba retook the lead minutes later. It ended 2-1. 🟡⚫️

Both Academia Puerto Cabello and Carabobo FC fell in continental play on Tuesday, losing 1-0 and 4-0 respectively in the Sudamerciana and Libertadores. 🏆 APC’s loss leaves them a slim hope of qualifying for the next stage if they win their last game, while Carabobo cannot move

UCV 3-2 Deportivo La Guaira | #LigaFutVe We’ve had an instant classic in the capital as UCV emerge with all three points. 🟡🔵🔴 Simara, Cumana, and Ortiz scored for UCV, while Lamadrid and Castillo scored for La Guaira, who had a last minute equalizer ruled out.

Portuguesa 0-0 Anzoategui | #LigaFutVe A scoreless draw between Portuguesa and Anzoategui leaves both well behind UCV and Deportivo La Guaira with three matches played in the second phase. 🇻🇪

Deportivo Táchira’s 1-0 win over Carabobo leaves them heavy-favorites to win group B of the second phase. They lead Carabobo on points, 9 to 4. 🟡⚫️

🏆 UCV TAKE POLE POSITION 🏆 UCV were the big winners yesterday, beating Deportivo La Guaira 1-0 to move into first place in their group thanks to a Juan Zapata goal. Portuguesa and Anzoategui, meanwhile, tied 1-1. 🟡🔵🔴

It was goals galore in Group B last night as Tachira put 4 past Carabobo to secure a 2-4 away win and confirm their place in the Apertura Final as APC and Metro drew 1-1. Group A played Wednesday night and UCV’s 1-0 win puts them marginally ahead of La Guaira with 2 games left.