Liga Tucumana de futbol is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 league based in Tucumán Province

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. It started in 1977 as a reorgnaised version of the Federacion Tucumana de Futbol (whose first championship was competed for in 1919) but is now effectively at the 6th level of the Argentine football league system

Argentine football league system

The Argentine football league system consists of two national divisions , and a series of regionalized lower divisions...

, although prior to 1967 it was the main tournament for Tucuman teams. Between 1967-85 local teams were also able to qualify for the Nacional championship

Nacional championship

The Nacional championship was an Argentine football tournament that existed between 1967 and 1985. The Nacional formed one half of the Argentine 1st division taking place in the second half of the year, the Metropolitano took place in the first half of the year. This arrangement lasted until 1982...

, and then in 1985 the current Argentine structure was put in place meaning the league was effectively demoted a number of levels.

The tournament runs through the spring/summer and still features teams who play in the higher levels of Argentine football.

As of 2009 there are 36 teams competing in the league playing in 6 groups of six. This includes the following teams who in 2008-09 were also competing in one of the top 5 levels of the Argentine football system:

Atletico Tucuman

Club Atlético Tucumán

Club Atlético Tucumán is a sports club from the city of San Miguel in Tucumán, Argentina. Its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional....

, San Martin, La Florida

La Florida

La Florida is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, La Florida spans an area of and has 365,674 inhabitants . Of these, 365,563 lived in urban areas and 111 in rural areas...

, Concepción Fútbol Club

Concepción Fútbol Club

Concepción Fútbol Club is an Argentine football, club based in the city of Concepción, Tucumán. The team currently plays in the Torneo Argentino B, the regionalised 4th division of the Argentine football league system.-Titles:...

, Atletico Famaillá, Atletico Concepción de Banda del Río Salí, Sportivo Guzmán

Sportivo Guzmán

Sportivo Guzman are a football team from San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. They competed in the qualifying playoff in the 1967 Nacional championship. In 2008-09 they played in the Torneo Argentino C . They also compete in the Liga Tucumana de Fútbol....

, Amalia, Unión Tranviarios Automotor, Deportivo Aguilares and Ñuñorco

Club Atlético Ñuñorco

Club Atlético Ñuñorco are an Argentine Football club, their home town is Monteros, in the Province of Tucumán in Argentina. They currently play in Zone A of the regionalised 5th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino C....

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The most successful teams have traditionally been San Martin and Atletico. The 2007 champions were San Ramon.