2018–19 Primera B Nacional

The 2018–19 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 34th season of the Argentine second division. The season began on 25 August 2018 and ended on 8 June 2019.^[1] Twenty-five teams competed in the league, seventeen returning from the 2017–18 season, four teams that were relegated from Primera División and two teams promoted from Federal A and B Metropolitana.

Primera B Nacional

Season	2018–19
Dates	25 August 2018 – 8 June 2019
Champions	Arsenal (1st title)
Promoted	Arsenal Central Córdoba (SdE)
Relegated	Los Andes Olimpo
Matches played	315
Goals scored	648 (2.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	3 players (15 goals each)
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Competition format

Twenty-five teams played each other once for a total of twenty-four matches each. The champion earns promotion to the Primera División. The teams placed from 2nd to 9th place competed in the "Torneo Reducido" for the second promotion berth after the regular season ended. Two teams were relegated at the end of the season; one with indirect affiliation with AFA was relegated to the Torneo Federal A, while one directly affiliated faced relegation to Primera B Metropolitana.

Club information

Stadia and locations

 

 

GBA

 

Agropecuario Argentino

 

Atlético de Rafaela

 

Central Córdoba (SdE)

 

Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)

 

Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)

 

Guillermo Brown

 

Independiente Rivadavia

 

Instituto

 

Mitre (SdE)

 

Olimpo

 

Santamarina

 

Sarmiento (J)

 

Villa Dálmine

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Locations of the 2018–19 Primera B Nacional teams outside Greater Buenos Aires.

 

 

Almagro

 

Arsenal

 

Brown

 

Chacarita Juniors

 

Defensores de Belgrano

 

Deportivo Morón

 

Ferro Carril Oeste

 

Los Andes

 

Nueva Chicago

 

Platense

 

Quilmes

 

Temperley

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Locations of the 2018–19 Primera B Nacional teams within Greater Buenos Aires.

Club	City	Stadium
Agropecuario Argentino	Carlos Casares	Ofelia Rosenzuaig
Almagro	José Ingenieros	Tres de Febrero
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio Humberto Grondona
Atlético de Rafaela	Rafaela	Nuevo Monumental
Brown	Adrogué	Lorenzo Arandilla
Central Córdoba	Santiago del Estero	Alfredo Terrera
Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú	Chacarita Juniors
Defensores de Belgrano	Buenos Aires	Juan Pasquale
Deportivo Morón	Morón	Nuevo Francisco Urbano
Ferro Carril Oeste	Buenos Aires	Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverry
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Mendoza	Víctor Legrotaglie
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Jujuy	23 de Agosto
Guillermo Brown	Puerto Madryn	Raúl Conti
Independiente Rivadavia	Mendoza	Bautista Gargantini
Instituto	Córdoba	Presidente Perón
Los Andes	Lomas de Zamora	Eduardo Gallardón
Mitre	Santiago del Estero	Doctores José y Antonio Castiglione
Nueva Chicago	Buenos Aires	Nueva Chicago
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca	Roberto Natalio Carminatti
Platense	Florida Este	Ciudad de Vicente López
Quilmes	Quilmes	Centenario
Santamarina	Tandil	Municipal Gral. San Martín
Sarmiento	Junín	Eva Perón
Temperley	Temperley	Alfredo Beranger
Villa Dálmine	Campana	Villa Dálmine

Personnel

Club	Manager
Agropecuario Argentino	Felipe De la Riva
Almagro	Sergio Gómez - Favio Orsi
Arsenal	Sergio Rondina
Atlético de Rafaela	Juan Manuel Llop
Brown	Pablo Vicó
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Gustavo Coleoni
Chacarita Juniors	Patricio Pisano
Defensores de Belgrano	Fabián Nardozza
Deportivo Morón	Alejandro Méndez - Walter Pico
Ferro Carril Oeste	Alejandro Orfila
Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	Carlos Morales Santos
Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	José María Blanco
Guillermo Brown	Luciano Theiler
Independiente Rivadavia	Nicolás Medina
Instituto	Diego Cagna
Los Andes	Aníbal Biggeri
Mitre (SdE)	Alfredo Grelak
Nueva Chicago	Wálter Perazzo
Olimpo	Darío Bonjour
Platense	Fernando Ruíz
Quilmes	Diego Colotto
Santamarina	Guillermo Pereyra
Sarmiento (J)	Iván Delfino
Temperley	Cristián Aldirico
Villa Dálmine	Walter Otta

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Qualification
1	Sarmiento (J)	24	12	10	2	32	14	+18	46	Championship play-off for promotion to Primera División
2	Arsenal (C, P)	24	13	7	4	36	19	+17	46
3	Nueva Chicago	24	12	6	6	32	25	+7	42	Qualification to Torneo Reducido
4	Almagro	24	11	7	6	26	21	+5	40
5	Platense	24	11	6	7	30	18	+12	39
6	Central Córdoba (SdE) (P)	24	9	10	5	27	24	+3	37
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	24	10	7	7	28	31	−3	37
8	Independiente Rivadavia	24	9	9	6	25	19	+6	36
9	Brown	24	9	9	6	20	17	+3	36
10	Ferro Carril Oeste	24	10	5	9	33	32	+1	35
11	Mitre (SdE)	24	10	5	9	27	30	−3	35
12	Agropecuario Argentino	24	8	10	6	16	13	+3	34
13	Villa Dálmine	24	8	9	7	30	25	+5	33
14	Temperley	24	8	7	9	26	27	−1	31
15	Deportivo Morón	24	7	9	8	21	25	−4	30
16	Defensores de Belgrano	24	7	8	9	20	24	−4	29
17	Atlético de Rafaela	24	7	5	12	23	25	−2	26
18	Quilmes	24	5	11	8	24	27	−3	26
19	Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	24	5	10	9	22	27	−5	25
20	Guillermo Brown	24	6	7	11	19	24	−5	25
21	Olimpo	24	7	4	13	24	36	−12	25
22	Instituto	24	6	6	12	26	32	−6	24
23	Santamarina	24	5	9	10	21	29	−8	24
24	Chacarita Juniors	24	6	6	12	17	30	−13	24
25	Los Andes	24	4	8	12	13	24	−11	20

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) play-off (only for deciding promotion or relegation); 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head points; 6) head-to-head goal difference; 7) head-to-head goals scored.^[1][2]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Championship play-off

Sarmiento (J) and Arsenal ended up tied in points at the end of the 24 weeks of regular season. Tournament rules establish that, unlike any other position on the table, if two or more teams are equal in points at the end of play, goal difference does not count and a playoff game is required. The winner of this match achieved promotion to the Primera División as champions, while the loser qualified to the Torneo Reducido as runners-up.

28 April 2019

15:00

Arsenal	1–0	Sarmiento (J)
Garate   17' (p)	Report 1 Report 2

Estadio Florencio Sola, Banfield

Referee: Néstor Pitana

Team details

Arsenal                     Sarmiento (J) GK 1   Maximiliano Gagliardo DF 4   Fernando Torrent DF 2   Fabio Pereyra DF 6   Rubén Zamponi DF 3   Emiliano Papa MF 8   Jesús Soraire   MF 5   Emiliano Méndez   MF 10   Lucas Necul   a' MF 11   Gastón Álvarez FW 7   Ezequiel Cérica   b' FW 9   Leandro Garate     c' Substitutions: MF 14   Alejo Antilef   a' FW 15   Facundo Pons   b' MF 16   Ramiro López   c' Manager:   Sergio Rondina GK 1   Manuel Vicentini (c) DF 4   Yamil Garnier DF 2   Wilfredo Olivera DF 6   Lucas Landa DF 3   Facundo Castet     a' MF 8   Franco Leys MF 5   Guillermo Farré     b' MF 10   Leonardo Villalba   c' MF 11   Nicolás Castro FW 7   Nicolás Miracco FW 9   Nicolás Orsini Substitutions: FW 18   Sebastián Penco   a' MF 17   Matías Garrido   b' FW 14   Sergio Quiroga   c' Manager:   Iván Delfino

Results

Home \ Away	AGA	ALM	ARS	ATR	BRO	CCO	CHA	DBE	DMO	FCO	GEJ	GEM	GBR	IND	INS	LAN	MIT	NCH	OLI	PLA	QUI	SAN	SAR	TEM	VDA
Agropecuario Argentino				2–0		1–1	0–0	1–0		2–1			0–0	0–0						2–0		2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0
Almagro	1–1			1–0		1–3	1–0	3–0		1–2		0–0	1–1	1–0								2–0	0–2	2–1
Arsenal	2–0	0–0			2–1				1–0		1–1	3–1			1–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0		4–1
Atlético de Rafaela			0–0		3–1	2–2			0–1		2–1				1–0		0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–1				0–1
Brown	0–0	1–1					3–0	1–1				1–0		1–0		0–0		2–1	3–0			1–1	0–3	0–1
Central Córdoba (SdE)			1–1		1–1				1–1		2–0				1–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0				1–0
Chacarita Juniors			0–2	1–0		0–0				0–1	1–0		3–1	0–2	2–2		0–2			0–2			1–3		2–1
Defensores de Belgrano			0–1	0–3		2–0	1–2			2–0			1–0	1–1						1–2		1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1
Deportivo Morón	1–0	0–2			0–1		0–0	1–1				0–0				3–0		1–1	1–0		1–0	2–0		1–3
Ferro Carril Oeste			2–1	2–1	1–0	1–3			5–1		1–2		2–0		1–1		2–0			0–2	1–1				2–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	0–0	0–1			2–0			0–0	1–1			1–2			1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1		0–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	1–0			2–1		2–0	2–1	1–0		3–1			2–1	1–0						0–3		3–3	0–2	2–1
Guillermo Brown			0–2	2–0	0–1	0–0			3–1		0–1				1–0		3–0	0–1		0–0	2–1				2–2
Independiente Rivadavia			1–1	1–1		2–0			1–1	0–1	3–1		1–0		2–0		0–1			1–0			0–0		2–1
Instituto	0–1	1–1			0–1			4–3	0–2			1–1				0–1	1–0	2–3	4–0		1–1	1–2
Los Andes	0–1	0–1		0–2			0–1	1–1		1–1		2–2	0–0	0–1								2–0	0–1	1–0
Mitre (SdE)	2–1	2–4			0–1			1–0	1–0			2–0				2–1		1–1	3–4		1–1	2–2		2–1
Nueva Chicago	1–0	0–0					1–1	0–0		2–0		4–1		2–2		1–0			1–0			0–1	1–0	4–1
Olimpo	1–0	2–0					2–1	0–1		2–1		1–1	2–0	2–3		1–1						3–1	0–1	0–2
Platense		3–1	3–0		0–0				2–0		1–0				2–1	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–1		1–2				0–0
Quilmes	0–1	0–1			0–0		2–1	1–2				1–1		2–2		2–0		3–2	3–1			0–0		1–1
Santamarina			0–0	1–0		1–2	2–0			3–1	2–2		0–2	0–0						1–1			0–1	0–1	0–0
Sarmiento (J)			2–0	1–1		1–1			1–1	2–2	1–1		3–1		1–1		1–0			3–1	0–0				2–1
Temperley			2–3	2–1		1–2	0–0			2–2	1–0		0–0	2–0	0–1					1–1			2–1		0–2
Villa Dálmine		2–0	1–3		0–0				1–1		4–4	2–0			3–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–0		1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 22 April 2019. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Reducido

Teams ending between second and ninth place played the Torneo Reducido for the second promotion berth to Primera División. Quarterfinals and semi-finals were played over two legs, and in case of a tie the best-placed team advanced. The finals were played over two legs, and a penalty shootout occurred in case of a tie.

	Quarterfinals							Semi-finals							Final
	2	Sarmiento (J) (bsr)	1	0	1
	9	Brown	0	1	1
								2	Sarmiento (J)	1	2	3
								8	Independiente Rivadavia	0	0	0
	5	Platense	0	0	0
	6	Central Córdoba (SdE)	0	1	1
															2	Sarmiento (J)	1	0	1 (3)
	(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
															6	Central Córdoba (SdE)	1	0	1 (5)
	3	Nueva Chicago	1	2	3
	8	Independiente Rivadavia	4	2	6
								4	Almagro	1	1	2
								6	Central Córdoba (SdE)	2	2	4
	4	Almagro (bsr)	1	2	3
	7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	1	2	3

Relegation

Clubs with indirect affiliation with AFA are relegated to the Torneo Federal A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana. The bottom team of each table was relegated.

Direct Affiliation

Pos	Team	2016–17 Pts	2017–18 Pts	2018–19 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Arsenal	—	—	46	46	24	1.917
2	Sarmiento (J)	—	37	46	83	48	1.729
3	Platense	—	—	39	39	24	1.625
4	Almagro	60	41	40	141	92	1.533
5	Brown	65	37	36	138	92	1.5
6	Chacarita Juniors	77	—	24	101	68	1.485
7	Nueva Chicago	60	25	42	127	92	1.38
8	Ferro Carril Oeste	60	26	35	121	92	1.315
9	Deportivo Morón	—	33	30	63	48	1.313
10	Temperley	—	—	31	31	24	1.292
11	Villa Dálmine	47	36	33	116	92	1.261
12	Defensores de Belgrano	—	—	29	29	24	1.208
13	Quilmes	—	32	26	58	48	1.208
14	Los Andes (R)	59	27	20	106	92	1.152	Primera B Metropolitana

Indirect Affiliation

Pos	Team	2016–17 Pts	2017–18 Pts	2018–19 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Central Córdoba (SdE)	—	—	37	37	24	1.542
2	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	—	—	37	37	24	1.542
3	Independiente Rivadavia	67	31	36	134	92	1.457
4	Agropecuario Argentino	—	35	34	69	48	1.438
5	Mitre (SdE)	—	32	35	67	48	1.396
6	Guillermo Brown	75	28	25	128	92	1.391
7	Instituto	63	37	24	124	92	1.348
8	Atlético de Rafaela	—	36	26	62	48	1.292
9	Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	52	34	25	111	92	1.207
10	Santamarina	61	24	24	109	92	1.185
11	Olimpo (R)	—	—	25	25	24	1.042	Torneo Federal A

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[3]
1	Enzo Díaz	Ferro Carril Oeste	15
	Patricio Cucchi	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)
	Pablo Vegetti	Instituto
4	Nicolás Orsini	Sarmiento (J)	12
5	Javier Rossi	Central Córdoba (SdE)	10
	Nicolás Miracco	Sarmiento (J)
7	Nicolás Franco	Nueva Chicago	9
	Juan Sánchez Sotelo	Nueva Chicago
	Cristian Tarragona	Platense
	Federico Anselmo	Quilmes
	Ijiel Protti	Villa Dálmine

See also

• 2018–19 Argentine Primera División
• 2018–19 Torneo Federal A
• 2018–19 Copa Argentina

References

1. "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera B Nacional 2018–19" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.
2. "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.
3. "Goleadores de Primera B Nacional Campeonato 2018–19".

External links

• soccerway.com
• Ascenso del Interior (in Spanish)
• Interior Futbolero (in Spanish)
• Promiedos (in Spanish)