2021_Argentine_Primera_División

2021 Argentine Primera División

2021 Argentine Primera División

131st season of top-tier football league in Argentina


The 2021 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional (officially the Torneo Socios.com for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 131st season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The league season began on 16 July and ended on 13 December 2021.[2]

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Twenty-six teams competed in the league: the 24 teams that took part in the previous Primera División season as well as two promoted teams from the 2020 Primera Nacional (Sarmiento (J) and Platense).[3] Boca Juniors were the defending champions.

River Plate won their 37th national league championship with three matches to spare after they defeated Racing 4–0 on 25 November 2021.[4][5]

Competition format

The competition was run under a single round-robin, contested by 26 teams (24 from the previous edition plus 2 promoted from Primera Nacional). The champions qualified for the 2022 Copa Libertadores as Argentina 2. The qualification for international tournaments was determined by an aggregate table of the 2021 Primera División and 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments.[6]

Club information

Stadia and locations

Personnel

Managerial changes

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Interim managers

1.^ Argentina Pablo De Muner was interim manager in the 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 1st round.
2.^ Argentina Gabriel Rinaldi and Argentina Gastón Casas were interim managers during the remaining 18 minutes of the suspended 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 3rd round.
3.^ Argentina Leandro Romagnoli was interim manager in the 2021 Copa Sudamericana Group stage 4th–6th rounds.
4.^ Úbeda would be interim manager until the end of the tournament, but only was interim manager in the 6th–17th rounds.
5.^ Interim manager until the end of the tournament. Battaglia was promoted to manager after the tournament.
6.^ Argentina Adrián Adrover and Argentina Sebastián Scolari were interim managers in the 10th round.
7.^ Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.
8.^ Argentina Marcelo Mosset was interim manager in the 13th–14th rounds.
9.^ Argentina Facundo Oreja and Argentina Diego Villar were interim managers in the 14th round.
10.^ Argentina Martín Anastacio was interim manager in the 16th round.
11.^ Interim manager until the end of the tournament.
12.^ Argentina Hugo Donato was interim manager in the 18th round.
13.^ Interim managers until the end of the tournament.

Foreign players

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Players holding Argentinian dual nationality

They do not take foreign slot.

Source: AFA

League table

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Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) play-off (only if needed to decide championship); 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head points; 6) head-to-head goal difference; 7) head-to-head goals scored.
(C) Champions
 2021 Argentine Primera División champions 
River Plate
37th title

Results

Teams played every other team once (either at home or away) completing a total of 25 rounds.[65]

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Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

International qualification

The 2021 Argentine Primera División champions, 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional champions and 2019–20 Copa Argentina champions earned a berth to the 2022 Copa Libertadores, while the 2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional play-off winners qualified for the 2022 Copa Sudamericana. The remaining berths to the 2022 Copa Libertadores as well as the ones to the 2022 Copa Sudamericana were determined by an aggregate table of the 2021 Argentine Primera División and 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments. The top three teams in the aggregate table not already qualified for any international tournament qualified for the Copa Libertadores, while the next five teams qualified for the Copa Sudamericana.[6]

Aggregate table

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Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals scored.
Notes:
  1. River Plate, Colón and Boca Juniors qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2021 Argentine Primera División, the 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and the 2019–20 Copa Argentina, respectively.
  2. Banfield qualified for the Copa Sudamericana group stage by winning the 2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional play-off.

Relegation

Relegation at the end of the season would be based on coefficients, which take into consideration the points obtained by the clubs during the present season (aggregate table points) and the two previous seasons (only seasons at the top flight are counted). The total tally is then divided by the number of games played in the top flight over those three seasons and an average is calculated. The three teams with the worst average at the end of the season would have been relegated to Primera Nacional. Relegation was suspended by AFA at the end of the 2019–20 season until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the points earned in this season will count towards relegation in the 2022 season.

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Source: AFA


References

  1. "La competencia de la LPF se llamará Torneo Socios.com" (in Spanish). Liga Profesional de Fútbol. 15 July 2021.
  2. "La Liga Profesional tiene fecha de inicio y de sorteo" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 24 June 2021.
  3. "¡Bienvenidos a la Liga Profesional!" (in Spanish). Liga Profesional de Fútbol. 1 February 2021.
  4. "¡River campeón!" (in Spanish). Liga Profesional de Fútbol. 25 November 2021.
  5. "River se consagró campeón del Torneo Socios" (in Spanish). AFA. 25 November 2021.
  6. "Reglamento de torneos de la temporada 2021 de la Liga Profesional de Fútbol de AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). Liga Profesional de Fútbol. February 2021.
  7. "Sebastián Méndez, nuevo entrenador de Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 4 January 2021.
  8. "Sorpresa: Falcioni será el técnico de Independiente" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 19 January 2021.
  9. "Juan Antonio Pizzi, nuevo entrenador de Racing" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 14 January 2021.
  10. "Omar De Felippe firmó su contrato con Atlético Tucumán" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 4 January 2021.
  11. "Soso renunció a su cargo y San Lorenzo ya busca nuevo DT" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 11 January 2021.
  12. "Dabove, nuevo entrenador de San Lorenzo" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 19 January 2021.
  13. "Fernando Gago dirigirá a Aldosivi" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 16 January 2021.
  14. "Hernán Crespo comunicó su renuncia en Defensa y Justicia" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 7 February 2021.
  15. "Sebastián Beccacece vuelve a Defensa y Justicia" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 15 February 2021.
  16. "Paolo Montero será el nuevo entrenador de San Lorenzo" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 11 June 2021.
  17. "Newell's oficializó la salida de Germán Burgos" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 8 June 2021.
  18. "Racing decidió que Pizzi no siga como entrenador" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 9 August 2021.
  19. "Sergio Rondina renunció como entrenador de Arsenal" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 16 August 2021.
  20. "Israel Damonte es el nuevo entrenador de Arsenal" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 17 August 2021.
  21. "Miguel Angel Russo no seguirá como técnico de Boca" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 16 August 2021.
  22. "Claudio Spontón fue confirmado como DT" (in Spanish). Club Atlético Platense. 6 October 2021.
  23. "Azconzábal dejó de ser el DT de Unión" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 22 September 2021.
  24. "Gustavo Munúa es el nuevo entrenador de Unión" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 27 September 2021.
  25. "Gago renunció como director técnico de Aldosivi" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 27 September 2021.
  26. "Martín Palermo será el nuevo entrenador de Aldosivi" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 28 September 2021.
  27. "Pablo Guiñazú será el entrenador de Atlético Tucumán" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 14 October 2021.
  28. "Newell's despidió a Fernando Gamboa" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 17 October 2021.
  29. "Adrián Taffarel inició su interinato en Newell's" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 18 October 2021.
  30. "Fernando Gago será el nuevo director técnico de Racing" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 18 October 2021.
  31. "Sanguinetti dejó de ser el director técnico de Banfield" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 21 October 2021.
  32. "Diego Dabove, el nuevo entrenador de Banfield" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 25 October 2021.
  33. "Paolo Montero se fue de San Lorenzo" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 21 October 2021.
  34. "Mario Sciacqua ya no es más técnico de Sarmiento" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 8 November 2021.
  35. "Atlético Tucumán: lo de Anastacio quedará en interinato" (in Spanish). Radio LV12. 26 November 2021.
  36. "El Torneo LFP 2021 tiene fixture" (in Spanish). Liga Profesional de Fútbol. 29 June 2021.

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