Optimum tournament fixture organization

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The argentine FA Major league tournament is made up of 26 teams which play in a league system facing each other only once, whether home or away, making up a 25-week-long league. Every team plays either 12 games played away and 13 home or vice-versa (decided on a draw). After this, the fixture should be organized in such a way that the travelling hours difference between teams remains as small as possible. The teams are spread around the country following way: 11 teams belong to the GBA, the urban area made up by the Buenos Aires autonomous city and its surroundings; The cities of La Plata, Santa Fe, Rosario, Córdoba, and San Miguel de Tucumán host two teams each; also one team belongs to San Juan city, one to Mendoza city, one to Mar del Plata, one to Bahía Blanca and one to Paraná. A) How can this be organized in an optimum way? B) Is it possible to build up a way to organize this systematically privileging one or many teams over the rest?