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

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Competition format

Twenty-five teams played each other once for a total of twenty-four matches each. The champion earns promotion to the

AFA was relegated to the Torneo Federal A, while one directly affiliated faced relegation to Primera B Metropolitana

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Club information

Stadia and locations

Sarmiento (J)

Villa Dálmine

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

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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

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

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	Championship play-off for promotion to Primera División
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

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

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

2018–19 Primera B Nacional

Competition format

Club information

Stadia and locations

Personnel

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Championship play-off

Results

Torneo Reducido

Final

Relegation

Direct Affiliation

Indirect Affiliation

Season statistics

Top scorers

See also

References

External links

Sarmiento (J)	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Central Córdoba (SdE)
	Report 1 Report 2
Penalties
Kippes Castro Villalba Leys	3–5	Jara Rossi Melivilo Vera Oviedo Ramírez

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