2017–18 Rosario Central season

Rosario Central
2017–18 season
President	Raúl Broglia
Manager	Paolo Montero; (until 10 November 2017); Leonardo Fernández (int.); (from 11 November 2017)
Stadium	Estadio Gigante de Arroyito
Primera División	21st
2016–17 Copa Argentina	Semi-finals
2017–18 Copa Argentina	Round of 64
Top goalscorer	League: Fernando Zampedri (4); All: Fernando Zampedri (6)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 season is Rosario Central's 6th consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Current squad

As of 26 September 2017.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	ARG	Paulo Ferrari
8	MF	ARG	Federico Carrizo
9	FW	ARG	Marco Ruben
11	MF	ARG	José Fernández
15	DF	URU	Washington Camacho
16	MF	ARG	Mauricio Martínez
17	FW	ARG	Germán Herrera
18	DF	ARG	Renzo Alfani
20	MF	ARG	Gustavo Colman
21	GK	ARG	Diego Rodríguez
22	MF	ARG	Pedro Ojeda
24	MF	ARG	Diego Becker
27	DF	PAR	José Leguizamón
28	FW	ARG	Agustín Coscia
30	GK	ARG	Jeremías Ledesma
34	FW	ARG	Maximiliano Lovera
35	MF	ARG	Joaquín Pereyra


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
37	DF	ARG	Leonel Rivas
38	FW	ARG	Joel Reinoso
39	DF	ARG	Tomás Zanotti
—	DF	CHI	Alfonso Parot
—	DF	ARG	Elías Gómez
—	GK	ARG	Emilio Di Fulvio
—	FW	ARG	Ezequiel Rodríguez
—	DF	ARG	Palmeiras )
—	FW	ARG	Fernando Zampedri
—	MF	ARG	Hernán Da Campo
—	MF	ARG	Leonardo Gil
—	DF	ARG	Luciano Recalde
—	MF	ARG	Marcelo Ortiz (on loan from Boca Unidos)
—	MF	ARG	Maximiliano González
—	DF	ARG	Nahuel Quiroga
—	FW	ARG	Pablo Becker
—	MF	URU	Santiago Romero (on loan from Nacional)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
7	FW	ARG	Fabián Bordagaray (at Defensa y Justicia until 30 June 2018)
13	FW	ARG	Rodrigo Migone (at Patronato until 30 June 2018)
26	MF	ARG	Matías Mansilla (at Quilmes until 30 June 2018)
40	MF	ARG	Félix Banega (at San Martín until 30 June 2018)
—	DF	ARG	Fernando Alarcón (at Villa Dálmine until 30 June 2018)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	ARG	Ijiel Protti (at Chacarita Juniors until 30 June 2018)
—	MF	ARG	Puebla until 31 December 2017)
—	DF	ARG	Marco Torsiglieri (at Racing Club until 31 December 2017)
—	MF	ARG	Marcos Martinich (at Villa Dálmine until 30 June 2018)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2017	DF	Washington Camacho	Racing Club	Undisclosed^[2]
12 July 2017	DF	Alfonso Parot	Universidad Católica	Undisclosed^[2]^[3]
13 July 2017	FW	Fernando Zampedri	Atlético Tucumán	Undisclosed^[2]^[3]
27 July 2017	MF	Leonardo Gil	Estudiantes	Undisclosed^[2]
30 July 2017	GK	Diego Rodríguez	Independiente	Undisclosed^[2]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
1 July 2017	DF	Javier Pinola	River Plate	Undisclosed^[2]^[3]
1 July 2017	DF	Víctor Salazar	San Lorenzo	Undisclosed^[2]^[3]
3 July 2017	MF	Damián Musto	Tijuana	Undisclosed^[2]^[3]
14 August 2017	FW	Walter Acuña	Juventud Unida	Undisclosed^[2]
17 August 2017	FW	César Delgado	Central Córdoba	Undisclosed^[2]
17 August 2017	DF	Cristian Villagra	Atlético Tucumán	Undisclosed^[2]
17 August 2017	DF	Dylan Gissi	Defensa y Justicia	Undisclosed^[2]

Loan in

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	From
16 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Santiago Romero	Nacional^[2]
5 August 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Marcelo Ortiz	Boca Unidos^[2]
23 August 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Fernando Tobio	Palmeiras^[2]

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To
11 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Félix Banega	San Martín^[2]
29 July 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Fernando Alarcón	Villa Dálmine^[2]
6 August 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Rodrigo Migone	Patronato^[2]
14 August 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Matías Mansilla	Quilmes^[2]
23 August 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Ijiel Protti	Chacarita Juniors^[2]
24 August 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Fabián Bordagaray	Defensa y Justicia^[4]
5 September 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Marcos Martinich	Villa Dálmine^[2]

Friendlies

Win Draw Loss

Pre-season

2 August 2017 Friendly	Patronato	0–0	Rosario Central	Arroyo Seco, Argentina
		Report

2 August 2017 Friendly	Patronato	5–1	Rosario Central	Arroyo Seco, Argentina
	M. Quiroga 9' D. González 32' T. Spinelli 55'	Report	S. Romero 7'

8 August 2017 Friendly	Rosario Central	0–2	Vélez Sarsfield	Arroyo Seco, Argentina
		Report	G. Díaz F. Andrada

8 August 2017 Friendly	Rosario Central	2–1	Vélez Sarsfield	Arroyo Seco, Argentina
		Report

Primera División

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
18	San Martín (SJ)	27	9	6	12	30	36	−6	33
19	Patronato	27	8	9	10	26	32	−6	33
20	Rosario Central	27	8	8	11	30	41	−11	32	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage^[a]
21	Newell's Old Boys^[b]	27	8	6	13	23	28	−5	29
22	Lanús	27	6	11	10	20	37	−17	29

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.^[9]^[10]
Notes:

^ Rosario Central qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2017–18 Copa Argentina.
^ Newell's Old Boys were deducted one point for debts owed to former players. Originally AFA partially accepted the appeal by Newell's Old Boys reducing the penalty from three points to one point but a new appeal by Lanús overturned the decision. Finally, on 28 June 2019 CAS gave back two points to Newell´s Old Boys reducing the penalty to one point again.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	D	D	L	L	L	D	L	W	W	P	W
Position	15	18	18	23	26	26	24	27	24	23	23	21

Updated to match(es) played on 12 December 2017. Source: Soccerway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

26 August 2017 1	Colón	1–1	Rosario Central	Santa Fe, Argentina
16:15	T. Sandoval 87'	Report	W. Camacho 84'	Stadium: Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López Referee: Juan Pompei (Argentina)

10 September 2017 2	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
16:05		Report		Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Patricio Loustau (Argentina)

18 September 2017 3	Temperley	1–1	Rosario Central	Turdera, Argentina
21:05	M. Villasanti 56'	Report	F. Zampedri 22'	Stadium: Estadio Alfredo Beranger Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)

24 September 2017 4	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
16:05		Report	D. Cvitanich 21', 31' (pen.) P. Mouche 58' M. Sperduti 79'	Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)

1 October 2017 5	San Martín	3–1	Rosario Central	San Juan, Argentina
14:05	F. Barcelo 64' L. Ardente 88' (pen. )	Report	F. Zampedri 45'	Stadium: Estadio Ingeniero Hilario Sánchez Referee: Juan Pompei (Argentina)

14 October 2017 6	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
14:05	F. Zampedri 90+3'	Report	B. Romero 30', 82' N. González 89'	Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Pablo Echavarría (Argentina)

30 October 2017 7	Tigre	1–1	Rosario Central	Buenos Aires, Argentina
21:05	L. Menossi 16'	Report	M. Ruben 80'	Stadium: Estadio José Dellagiovanna Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)

4 November 2017 8	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
18:05		Report	G. Núñez 53'	Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Andrés Merlos (Argentina)

20 November 2017 9	Talleres	0–1	Rosario Central	Córdoba, Argentina
21:30		Report	F. Zampedri 62'	Stadium: Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes Referee: Jorge Baliño (Argentina)

26 November 2017 10	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
21:30	M. Ruben 4'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Patricio Loustau (Argentina)

2 December 2017 11	Independiente	Postponed	Rosario Central	Avellaneda, Argentina
19:15		Report		Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América Referee: Federico Beligoy (Argentina)

10 December 2017 12	Rosario Central Rosario, Argentina
17:00	G. Herrera 3'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Gigante de Arroyito Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)

January 2018 13	Gimnasia y Esgrima	–	Rosario Central	Buenos Aires, Argentina
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo

Copa Argentina

Win Draw Loss

3 September 2017 R32	Rosario Central	2–1	Deportivo Riestra	Buenos Aires, Argentina
15:15	F. Zampedri 56' J. Leguizamón 73'	Report	E. Gómez 66' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estadio Diego Armando Maradona Referee: Hernán Mastrángelo (Argentina)

27 September 2017 R16	Rosario Central	1–0	Boca Juniors	Mendoza, Argentina
21:10	M. Martínez 26'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Malvinas Argentinas Referee: Fernando Rapallini (Argentina)

23 October 2017 QF	Godoy Cruz	2–3	Rosario Central	Avellaneda, Argentina
18:00	S. García 7' F. Angileri 43'	Report	W. Camacho 61' F. Carrizo 76' F. Zampedri 88'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Ariel Penel (Argentina)

10 November 2017 SF	Atlético Tucumán	0–0 (3–1 p)	Rosario Central	Formosa, Argentina
20:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Antonio Romero Referee: Federico Beligoy (Argentina)
	Penalties
	F. Álvarez		D. Rodríguez M. Martínez

References

^ "Rosario Central squad". Soccerway. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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^ "Regresos y caras nuevas". Vavel. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
^ "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5416. FALLO DICTADO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE DISCIPLINA DEPORTIVA EL 24/11/2017 Y PUBLICADO EL 27/11/2017" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. November 27, 2017.
^ "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5514. FALLOS DICTADOS POR EL TRIBUNAL DE APELACIONES PUBLICADOS EL 07/08/2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. August 7, 2018.
^ "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5568. TRIBUNAL DE APELACIONES. RESOLUCION DEL DIA 26 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. November 26, 2018.
^ "El TAS le devolvió dos puntos a Newell's" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. June 28, 2019.
^ "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera División 2017–18" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.
^ "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

[table_note_res_CLGS20.95729744665199-5] Rosario Central qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2017–18 Copa Argentina.

[table_note_NOB0.95729744665199-10] Newell's Old Boys were deducted one point for debts owed to former players. Originally AFA partially accepted the appeal by Newell's Old Boys reducing the penalty from three points to one point but a new appeal by Lanús overturned the decision. Finally, on 28 June 2019 CAS gave back two points to Newell´s Old Boys reducing the penalty to one point again.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

[Soccerway_profile-1] "Rosario Central squad". Soccerway. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

[Soccerway_transfers-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u "Rosario Central transfers". Soccerway. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[Goal.com_transfers-3] "Mercado de pases del fútbol Argentino 2017/2018: Altas, bajas y rumores". Soccerway. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[F._Bordagaray_leaves-4] "Regresos y caras nuevas". Vavel. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

[6] "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5416. FALLO DICTADO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE DISCIPLINA DEPORTIVA EL 24/11/2017 Y PUBLICADO EL 27/11/2017" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. November 27, 2017.

[7] "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5514. FALLOS DICTADOS POR EL TRIBUNAL DE APELACIONES PUBLICADOS EL 07/08/2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. August 7, 2018.

[8] "ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO. BOLETIN Nº 5568. TRIBUNAL DE APELACIONES. RESOLUCION DEL DIA 26 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA. November 26, 2018.

[9] "El TAS le devolvió dos puntos a Newell's" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. June 28, 2019.

[rules-11] "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera División 2017–18" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

[12] "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

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