2015 Argentine Primera División

Primera División
Season	2015
Champions	Boca Juniors (31st title)
Relegated	Nueva Chicago; Crucero del Norte
2016 Copa Libertadores	Boca Juniors; San Lorenzo; Racing; Rosario Central (via 2014–15 Copa Argentina); River Plate (via 2015 Copa Libertadores); Huracán (via 2015 Copa Sudamericana)
2016 Copa Sudamericana	Independiente; Belgrano; Banfield; Estudiantes (LP); Lanús
Matches played	468
Goals scored	1,045 (2.23 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco Ruben; (21 goals)
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The 2015 Argentine Primera División or Torneo de Primera División 2015 "Julio H. Grondona"^[1] was the 125th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on February 13 and ended on December 6.^[2] Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty returning from the 2014 Torneo de Transición and ten promoted from the 2014 Primera B Nacional (Aldosivi, Argentinos Juniors, Colón, Crucero del Norte, Huracán, Nueva Chicago, San Martín (SJ), Sarmiento, Temperley and Unión). No teams were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship in the previous tournament.

Competition format

Each of the 30 teams plays the other sides once, along with an extra derby game, for a total of 30 matches for each side.^[3]

The winners and runners-up of the first division qualified for the

2015 Copa Argentina earned the Argentina 3 berth to the Copa Libertadores. The teams that place third to sixth in the league table advanced to the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores. The winner of this Liguilla earned the fourth berth to the Copa Libertadores, with the runner-up entering the 2016 Copa Sudamericana. The teams that place seventh to eighteenth in addition to the losing semifinalists of the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores advanced to the Liguilla Pre-Sudamericana, to determine the six berths for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana.^[2]

Club information

Stadia and locations

Sarmiento

Locations of the 2015 Argentine Primera División teams outside Greater Buenos Aires

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Club	City	Stadium
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella
Argentinos Juniors	Buenos Aires	Diego Armando Maradona
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio Humberto Grondona
Atlético de Rafaela	Rafaela	Nuevo Monumental
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Sola
Belgrano	Córdoba	Mario Alberto Kempes
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando
Colón	Santa Fe	Brigadier Estanislao López
Crucero del Norte	Garupá	Comandante Andrés Guacurarí
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Tito Tomaghello
Estudiantes (LP)	La Plata	Único Ciudad de La Plata
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	La Plata	Juan Carmelo Zerillo
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Malvinas Argentinas
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América
Lanús	Lanús	Ciudad de Lanús - Néstor Díaz Pérez
Newell's Old Boys	Rosario	Marcelo Bielsa
Nueva Chicago	Buenos Aires	República de Mataderos
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca	Roberto Carminatti
Quilmes	Quilmes	Centenario Dr. José Luis Meiszner
Racing	Avellaneda	Presidente Perón
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti
Rosario Central	Rosario	Gigante de Arroyito
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain
San Martín (SJ)	San Juan	Ingeniero Hilario Sánchez
Sarmiento	Junín	Eva Perón
Temperley	Temperley	Alfredo Martín Beranger
Tigre	Victoria	Don José Dellagiovanna
Unión	Santa Fe	15 de Abril
Vélez Sarsfield	Buenos Aires	José Amalfitani

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-season changes
Vélez Sarsfield	José Oscar Flores	End of contract	December 6, 2014^[5]	Miguel Ángel Russo	December 9, 2014^[6]	N/A
Newell's Old Boys	Gustavo Raggio	Mutual agreement	December 7, 2014^[7]	Américo Gallego	December 8, 2014^[8]	N/A
Rosario Central	Hugo Galloni	Replaced	December 12, 2014	Eduardo Coudet	December 12, 2014^[9]	N/A
San Martín (SJ)	Rubén Forestello	Resigned	December 15, 2014^[10]	Carlos Mayor	December 31, 2014^[11]	N/A
Quilmes	Marcelo Pontiroli	Replaced	December 20, 2014	Julio César Falcioni	December 20, 2014^[12]	N/A
Tournament changes
Colón	Reinaldo Merlo	Sacked	February 16, 2015^[13]^[14]	Javier Oscar López ¹	February 16, 2015^[15]	29th
Nueva Chicago	Omar Labruna	Sacked	March 31, 2015^[16]	Alejandro Nanía ²	March 31, 2015^[17]	28th
Atlético de Rafaela	Roberto Sensini	Sacked	April 4, 2015^[18]	Leonardo Astrada ³	April 13, 2015^[19]	28th
Olimpo	Walter Perazzo	Resigned	April 12, 2015^[20]	Diego Osella ⁴	April 17, 2015^[21]	27th
Estudiantes (LP)	Mauricio Pellegrino	Sacked	April 14, 2015^[22]	Gabriel Milito ⁵	April 15, 2015^[23]	16th
Defensa y Justicia	Darío Franco	Resigned	April 18, 2015^[24]	José Oscar Flores	April 20, 2015^[25]	21st
Arsenal	Martín Palermo	Resigned	April 19, 2015^[26]	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi ⁶	May 9, 2015^[27]	26th
Crucero del Norte	Gabriel Schürrer	Resigned	April 22, 2015^[28]	Sebastián Rambert ⁷	April 27, 2015^[29]	27th
Nueva Chicago	Alejandro Nanía	Resigned	May 9, 2015^[30]	Rubén Forestello	May 15, 2015^[31]	30th
Independiente	Jorge Almirón	Resigned	May 25, 2015^[32]	Mauricio Pellegrino ⁸	June 4, 2015^[33]	17th
Newell's Old Boys	Américo Gallego	Sacked	June 1, 2015^[34]	Lucas Bernardi ⁹	June 10, 2015^[35]	7th
Colón	Javier Oscar López	Resigned	June 6, 2015^[36]	Darío Franco	June 10, 2015^[37]	21st
Godoy Cruz	Daniel Oldrá	Resigned	June 7, 2015^[38]	Gabriel Heinze	June 10, 2015^[39]	22nd
Defensa y Justicia	José Oscar Flores	Mutual agreement	June 10, 2015^[40]	Ariel Holan	June 11, 2015^[41]	27th
Quilmes	Julio César Falcioni	Mutual agreement	July 20, 2015^[42]	Facundo Sava	July 21, 2015^[43]	23rd
Banfield	Matías Almeyda	Resigned	August 3, 2015^[44]	Claudio Vivas ¹⁰	August 4, 2015^[45]	12th
Huracán	Néstor Apuzzo	Resigned	August 15, 2015^[46]	Eduardo Domínguez	August 18, 2015^[47]	26th
Godoy Cruz	Gabriel Heinze	Sacked	September 26, 2015^[48]	Daniel Oldrá ¹¹	September 26, 2015^[49]	25th

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Boca Juniors (C)	30	20	4	6	49	26	+23	64	2016 Copa Libertadores group stage
2	San Lorenzo	30	18	7	5	44	20	+24	61
3	Rosario Central	30	16	11	3	47	26	+21	59
4	Racing	30	16	9	5	40	23	+17	57
5	Independiente	30	14	12	4	44	22	+22	54	2016 Copa Sudamericana second stage
6	Belgrano	30	14	9	7	33	23	+10	51
7	Estudiantes (LP)	30	14	9	7	34	28	+6	51
8	Banfield	30	14	8	8	38	32	+6	50
9	River Plate	30	13	10	7	46	33	+13	49	2016 Copa Libertadores group stage
10	Tigre	30	12	10	8	32	25	+7	46	Advanced to Liguilla Pre-Sudamericana
11	Quilmes	30	13	6	11	38	37	+1	45
12	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	30	12	8	10	41	38	+3	44
13	Lanús	30	10	12	8	33	29	+4	42	2016 Copa Sudamericana second stage
14	Unión	30	9	14	7	38	37	+1	41	Advanced to Liguilla Pre-Sudamericana
15	Aldosivi	30	11	7	12	37	40	−3	40
16	Newell's Old Boys	30	10	10	10	27	30	−3	40
17	San Martín (SJ)	30	8	13	9	32	34	−2	37
18	Olimpo	30	8	12	10	23	26	−3	36
19	Colón	30	7	13	10	26	31	−5	34
20	Argentinos Juniors	30	8	9	13	30	38	−8	33
21	Defensa y Justicia	30	8	8	14	27	31	−4	32
22	Godoy Cruz	30	8	8	14	32	40	−8	32
23	Huracán	30	6	12	12	29	37	−8	30	2016 Copa Libertadores first stage
24	Sarmiento	30	7	9	14	24	34	−10	30
25	Temperley	30	6	12	12	19	29	−10	30
26	Nueva Chicago	30	7	8	15	29	38	−9	29
27	Vélez Sarsfield	30	7	8	15	27	37	−10	29
28	Arsenal	30	7	6	17	25	44	−19	27
29	Atlético de Rafaela	30	4	11	15	29	51	−22	23
30	Crucero del Norte	30	3	5	22	21	55	−34	14

Home \ Away	ALD	ARG	ARS	RAF	BAN	BEL	BOC	COL	CRU	DYJ	EST	GLP	GOD	HUR	IND	LAN	NOB	NUE	OLI	QUI	RAC	RIV	RCE	SLA	SMA	SAR	TEM	TIG	UNI	VEL
Aldosivi					0–3			1–1	2–0				2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–1			1–1	1–2		1–3	1–0	2–0		0–0		3–3
Argentinos Juniors	0–1			2–0			1–3		4–0	1–0	2–2		0–0				2–1	1–1	0–1	0–2		1–2		2–3				2–1	1–2
Arsenal	0–3	3–2		1–1			1–2		1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1					0–1	1–1	2–1	0–1		3–3						2–0	1–1
Atlético de Rafaela	2–1				1–4	1–1				2–1	1–2		1–4				1–1	2–0		2–4	1–1	1–5	1–1	0–1			1–1		2–3
Banfield		1–1	4–1			1–2		0–0	2–1			1–0		1–0	1–1	1–2					0–0		2–1		3–2	0–0	0–1			1–3
Belgrano	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0			0–1		1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1					2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1		1–2						1–0
Boca Juniors	0–3			1–0	3–0				1–0	2–1	3–0		2–0				4–0	0–0	3–1	2–1		2–0		0–1				1–0	3–4
Colón		1–1	3–1	2–1		0–1	1–1					2–1		1–1	0–1	1–2			1–0						2–2	0–1		0–1	0–0	0–0
Crucero del Norte	0–2			1–1				0–0		3–1	1–2			3–3	0–4	1–3		0–1	0–0			0–1	0–1		3–1		1–0	0–0
Defensa y Justicia	4–0		1–0		1–0			2–3			0–1		1–1				1–0	2–1		0–1	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–2			0–1		0–0
Estudiantes (LP)	2–1				1–2			0–0				1–1	2–1				0–2	1–0		4–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–0		2–1		2–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	4–1	4–2		1–0			1–2		2–1	0–1	1–3		2–0				0–0	2–1	2–2	3–2		2–3						1–1	5–2
Godoy Cruz			0–0		1–2	1–0		1–3	3–0					2–1	2–2	1–5					1–2		1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0			2–2
Huracán		4–0	1–0	3–2		1–1	0–2			0–0	1–0	1–1			1–1	0–0			1–3					1–0		3–0		1–2		0–0
Independiente		0–0	4–0	2–0		1–2	1–1			1–0	1–1	1–1						2–1	3–1		3–0	3–0				1–1		1–0		1–0
Lanús		0–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–3			0–1	0–0	2–0			1–1			1–0	2–0							2–1		1–1		0–1
Newell's Old Boys					1–1			0–1	2–0				2–0	2–0	2–3	1–1				1–1	3–0		0–1	1–1	1–0		0–0		2–0	0–0
Nueva Chicago	3–1	1–2			1–2			0–0					0–2	3–0			5–0			2–1	0–0	1–4	0–2	0–1	0–0		0–2		2–2
Olimpo	3–1			0–0	1–2					0–0	0–0		1–0				2–0	0–0		0–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–1		1–0			0–0
Quilmes					0–1			1–0	3–1				0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1					2–1		3–1	1–2	2–0	0–4	0–0		1–3	2–1
Racing		1–0	2–1			0–0	3–1	4–1	3–0			2–0		2–0	1–0	2–0							0–1		2–0	2–1	2–1			3–1
River Plate	1–1				4–1		0–1	3–1					1–0	1–1		1–1	0–2			2–2	0–0		2–0	1–0	0–1		1–1		2–2
Rosario Central		2–0	1–0			3–1	3–1	1–1				4–0		1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0								2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1		0–0
San Lorenzo			3–0		0–0	0–0		2–0	2–1			1–0		3–1	1–0	4–0					2–1		2–2		1–2	3–0	2–0			1–0
San Martín (SJ)		0–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–1			2–2		1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	1–1			2–0							0–1		3–1		3–1
Sarmiento	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–1		1–3	0–1		2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0					1–2	1–2	0–0			1–4						0–1
Temperley		0–0	1–2			2–1	0–2	2–1				1–3		0–0	0–1	1–1			0–0	0–0					0–1	0–0		1–1		2–1
Tigre	2–1			2–1	3–1					0–0	2–0		2–1				0–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0		1–1					2–1	3–0
Unión					0–0	1–1		0–0	5–2				1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1					1–2		0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1			1–0
Vélez Sarsfield	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–2		1–2	2–0		2–1	2–1	0–1	0–1						1–2	0–2			0–1				1–1		2–2

Semi-finals			Final

5	Independiente	4

6	Belgrano	1
			5	Independiente	0	2	2

			4	Racing	2	1	3
4	Racing	2

7	Estudiantes (LP)	1

2015 Argentine Primera División

Competition format

Club information

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

Notable occurrences

League table

Results

Liguilla Pre Libertadores

Semi-finals

Final

First leg

Second leg

Liguilla Pre Sudamericana

Semi-finals

Finals

Match 1

Match 2

Match 3

Match 4

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Relegation

See also

References

External links

Pos	Team	2012–13 Pts	2013–14 Pts	2014 Pts	2015 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Independiente	—	—	33	54	87	49	1.776
2	River Plate	64	58	39	49	210	125	1.68
3	Boca Juniors	51	61	31	64	207	125	1.656
4	San Lorenzo	58	60	26	61	205	125	1.64
5	Lanús	67	59	35	42	203	125	1.624
6	Newell's Old Boys	74	56	25	40	195	125	1.56
7	Racing	62	33	41	57	193	125	1.544
8	Rosario Central	—	54	21	59	134	87	1.54
9	Estudiantes (LP)	48	59	31	51	189	125	1.512
10	Belgrano	59	49	25	51	184	125	1.472
11	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	—	57	24	44	125	87	1.437
12	Banfield	—	—	20	50	70	49	1.429
13	Vélez Sarsfield	61	61	25	29	176	125	1.408
14	Unión	—	—	—	41	41	30	1.367
15	Aldosivi	—	—	—	40	40	30	1.333
16	Arsenal	60	48	26	27	161	125	1.288
17	Godoy Cruz	49	56	21	32	158	125	1.264
18	Tigre	34	49	26	46	155	125	1.24
19	San Martín (SJ)	—	—	—	37	37	30	1.233
20	Quilmes	50	45	12	45	152	125	1.216
21	Olimpo	—	50	19	36	105	87	1.207
22	Colón	—	—	—	34	34	30	1.133
23	Atlético de Rafaela	43	49	25	23	140	125	1.12
24	Argentinos Juniors	—	—	—	33	33	30	1.1
25	Defensa y Justicia	—	—	20	32	52	49	1.061
26	Huracán	—	—	—	30	30	30	1
27	Sarmiento	—	—	—	30	30	30	1
28	Temperley	—	—	—	30	30	30	1
29	Nueva Chicago (R)	—	—	—	29	29	30	0.967	Relegation to Primera B Nacional
30	Crucero del Norte (R)	—	—	—	14	14	30	0.467	Relegation to Primera B Nacional

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