2022 Argentine Primera División

Liga Profesional
Season	2022
Dates	3 June – 25 October 2022
Champions	Boca Juniors (35th title)
Relegated	Aldosivi; Patronato
Copa Libertadores	Argentinos Juniors; Boca Juniors; Huracán; Racing; River Plate; Patronato (via Copa Argentina)
Copa Sudamericana	Defensa y Justicia; Estudiantes (LP); Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP); Newell's Old Boys; San Lorenzo; Tigre
Matches played	378
Goals scored	826 (2.19 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mateo Retegui (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Racing 5–0 Aldosivi; (26 June 2022); River Plate 5–0 Estudiantes (LP); (5 October 2022)
Biggest away win	Unión 1–5 River Plate; (19 June 2022); Colón 0–4 Argentinos Juniors; (26 September 2022); Lanús 0–4 Argentinos Juniors; (6 October 2022)
Highest scoring	Boca Juniors 5–3 Tigre; (15 June 2022)
Longest winning run	Atlético Tucumán; 6 games
Longest unbeaten run	Boca Juniors; 13 games
Longest winless run	Vélez Sarsfield; 15 games
Longest losing run	Aldosivi; 6 games
	← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional (officially the Torneo Binance 2022 for sponsorship reasons)^[1] was the 132nd season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The league season began on 3 June and ended on 25 October 2022.^[2]

Twenty-eight teams competed in the league: the 26 teams that took part in the previous Primera División season as well as two promoted teams from the 2021 Primera Nacional (Tigre and Barracas Central).^[3] River Plate were the defending champions.

On 23 October 2022, Boca Juniors won their 35th national league championship in the last round after they and Independiente drew 2–2 and, simultaneously, River Plate defeated Racing 1–2.^[4]

Competition format

The competition was run under a single round-robin, contested by 28 teams (26 from the previous edition plus 2 promoted from Primera Nacional). The champions qualified for the 2023 Copa Libertadores as Argentina 1. The qualification for international tournaments was determined by an aggregate table of the 2022 Primera División and 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments.^[5]

Club information

Stadia and locations

Sarmiento (J)

Talleres (C)

Unión

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Locations of the 2022 Argentine Primera División teams outside Greater Buenos Aires

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Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella	35,354
Argentinos Juniors	Buenos Aires	Diego Armando Maradona	25,000
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio Humberto Grondona	16,300
Atlético Tucumán	Tucumán	Monumental José Fierro	32,700
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Sola	34,901
Barracas Central	Buenos Aires	Claudio Chiqui Tapia	4,400
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando	54,000
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Santiago del Estero	Único Madre de Ciudades	30,000
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Santiago del Estero	Alfredo Terrera	16,000
Colón	Santa Fe	Brigadier General Estanislao López	40,000
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello	12,000
Estudiantes (LP)	La Plata	Jorge Luis Hirschi	30,000
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	La Plata	Juan Carmelo Zerillo	24,544
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Feliciano Gambarte	14,000
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Malvinas Argentinas	42,000
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó	48,314
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América	52,853
Lanús	Lanús	Ciudad de Lanús - Néstor Díaz Pérez	46,619
Newell's Old Boys	Rosario	Marcelo Bielsa	38,095
Patronato	Paraná	Presbítero Bartolomé Grella	22,000
Platense	Florida Este	Ciudad de Vicente López	28,530
Racing	Avellaneda	Presidente Perón	55,389
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti	70,074
Rosario Central	Rosario	Gigante de Arroyito	41,654
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain	39,494
Sarmiento (J)	Junín	Eva Perón	19,000
Talleres (C)	Córdoba	Mario Alberto Kempes	57,000
Tigre	Victoria	José Dellagiovanna	26,282
Unión	Santa Fe	15 de Abril	22,852
Vélez Sarsfield	Buenos Aires	José Amalfitani	45,540

Club	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Aldosivi	Diego Villar (caretaker)	Kappa	UTHGRA Sasso Hotel
Argentinos Juniors	Gabriel Milito	Umbro	Bumeran
Arsenal	Leonardo Madelón	Sport Lyon	Secco
Atlético Tucumán	Lucas Pusineri	Umbro	RapiCuota$
Banfield	Javier Sanguinetti	Athix	Sur Finanzas
Barracas Central	Rodolfo de Paoli and Alejandro Milano	Il Ossso Sports	La Nueva Seguros
Boca Juniors	Hugo Ibarra (caretaker)	Adidas
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Abel Balbo	Adhoc	Banco Santiago del Estero
Colón	Marcelo Saralegui (caretaker)	Kelme	Cablevideo Digital
Defensa y Justicia	Julio Vaccari	Sport Lyon	RapiCuota$
Estudiantes (LP)	Pablo Quatrocchi (caretaker)	RUGE	B•play
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Néstor Gorosito	Hummel	RapiCuota$
Godoy Cruz	Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez	Fiume Sport	CATA Internacional
Huracán	Diego Dabove	H1908	DECRYPTO
Independiente	Julio César Falcioni	Puma
Lanús	Frank Darío Kudelka	Erreà	Mapei
Newell's Old Boys	Adrián Coria (caretaker)	Givova	City Center ONLINE
Patronato	Facundo Sava	Axfiu	Planes ESCO
Platense	Omar De Felippe	Hummel	Boston Seguros
Racing	Fernando Gago	Kappa	Aeroset
River Plate	Marcelo Gallardo	Adidas	Codere
Rosario Central	Carlos Tevez	Umbro	City Center ONLINE
San Lorenzo	Rubén Darío Insúa	Nike
Sarmiento (J)	Israel Damonte	Coach	Naldo
Talleres (C)	Javier Gandolfi (caretaker)	Givova	ICBC Argentina
Tigre	Diego Martínez	Kappa	Banco Macro
Unión	Gustavo Munúa	Kappa	OSPAT
Vélez Sarsfield	Alexander Medina	Kappa	B•play

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Sarmiento (J)	Martín Funes	End of caretaker spell	11 December 2021	Pre-season	Israel Damonte	15 December 2021^[6]
Atlético Tucumán	Martín Anastacio		11 December 2021		Juan Manuel Azconzábal	11 December 2021^[7]
San Lorenzo	Daniel Di Leo and Diego Monarriz		12 December 2021		Pedro Troglio	29 December 2021^[8]
Newell's Old Boys	Adrián Taffarel		12 December 2021		Javier Sanguinetti	13 December 2021^[9]
Lanús	Luis Zubeldía	End of contract	12 December 2021^[10]		Jorge Almirón	25 December 2021^[11]
Arsenal	Darío Espínola	End of caretaker spell	13 December 2021		Leonardo Madelón	23 December 2021^[12]
Colón	Eduardo Domínguez	Resigned	20 December 2021^[13]		Julio César Falcioni	3 January 2022^[14]
Talleres (C)	Alexander Medina	End of contract	23 December 2021^[15]		Ángel Guillermo Hoyos	14 January 2022^[16]
Independiente	Julio César Falcioni	End of contract	28 December 2021^[17]		Eduardo Domínguez	3 January 2022^[18]
Copa de la Liga Profesional changes
Barracas Central	Rodolfo de Paoli	Resigned	21 February 2022^[19]	14th Zone B	Alfredo Berti ¹	28 February 2022^[20]
Patronato	Iván Delfino	Mutual agreement	2 March 2022^[21]	14th Zone A	Facundo Sava ²	6 March 2022^[22]
Talleres (C)	Ángel Guillermo Hoyos	Sacked	13 March 2022^[23]	14th Zone A	Pedro Caixinha ³	28 March 2022^[24]
Rosario Central	Kily González	Sacked	20 March 2022^[25]	10th Zone B	Leandro Somoza	27 March 2022^[26]
Vélez Sarsfield	Mauricio Pellegrino	Resigned	23 March 2022^[27]	14th Zone B	Julio Vaccari ⁴	24 March 2022^[28]
Platense	Claudio Spontón	Resigned	3 April 2022^[29]	11th Zone A	Omar De Felippe	5 April 2022^[30]
Godoy Cruz	Diego Flores	Mutual agreement	9 April 2022^[31]	10th Zone B	Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez	10 April 2022^[32]
Atlético Tucumán	Juan Manuel Azconzábal	Resigned	10 April 2022^[33]	14th Zone A	Lucas Pusineri	11 April 2022^[34]
San Lorenzo	Pedro Troglio	Resigned	13 April 2022^[35]	10th Zone A	Fernando Berón ⁵	14 April 2022^[36]
Inter-tournament changes
Banfield	Diego Dabove	Mutual agreement	10 May 2022^[37]	N/A	Claudio Vivas	10 May 2022^[37]
Huracán	Frank Darío Kudelka	Resigned	16 May 2022^[38]		Diego Dabove ⁶	26 May 2022^[39]
San Lorenzo	Fernando Berón	End of caretaker spell	18 May 2022		Rubén Darío Insúa	19 May 2022^[40]
Vélez Sarsfield	Julio Vaccari	End of caretaker spell	24 May 2022		Alexander Medina	30 May 2022^[41]
Aldosivi	Martín Palermo	Resigned	30 May 2022^[42]		Leandro Somoza ⁷	27 June 2022^[43]
Liga Profesional changes
Rosario Central	Leandro Somoza	Resigned	14 June 2022^[44]	27th	Carlos Tevez ⁸	21 June 2022^[45]
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Sergio Rondina	Resigned	4 July 2022^[46]	15th	Abel Balbo ⁹	21 July 2022^[47]
Boca Juniors	Sebastián Battaglia	Sacked	6 July 2022^[48]	11th	Hugo Ibarra ¹⁰	11 July 2022^[49]
Colón	Julio César Falcioni	Mutual agreement	7 July 2022^[50]	22nd	Sergio Rondina ¹¹	12 July 2022^[51]
Lanús	Jorge Almirón	Sacked	7 July 2022^[52]	25th	Frank Darío Kudelka ¹²	25 July 2022^[53]
Independiente	Eduardo Domínguez	Resigned	12 July 2022^[54]	22nd	Julio César Falcioni ¹³	2 August 2022^[55]
Barracas Central	Alfredo Berti	Resigned	20 July 2022^[56]	21st	Rodolfo de Paoli and Alejandro Milano ¹⁴	15 August 2022^[57]
Colón	Sergio Rondina	Mutual agreement	17 August 2022^[58]	22nd	Adrián Marini ¹⁵	18 August 2022^[59]
Newell's Old Boys	Javier Sanguinetti	Resigned	29 August 2022^[60]	14th	Adrián Coria ¹⁶	5 September 2022^[61]
Talleres (C)	Pedro Caixinha	Mutual agreement	5 September 2022^[62]	24th	Javier Gandolfi ¹⁷	6 September 2022^[63]
Defensa y Justicia	Sebastián Beccacece	Resigned	11 September 2022^[64]	22nd	Julio Vaccari ¹⁸	20 September 2022^[65]
Aldosivi	Leandro Somoza	Sacked	22 September 2022^[66]	28th	Diego Villar ¹⁹	23 September 2022^[67]
Colón	Adrián Marini	End of caretaker spell	28 September 2022	25th	Marcelo Saralegui ²⁰	28 September 2022^[68]
Estudiantes (LP)	Ricardo Zielinski	Resigned	30 September 2022^[69]	19th	Pablo Quatrocchi ¹⁹	1 October 2022^[69]
Banfield	Claudio Vivas	Mutual agreement	5 October 2022^[70]	21st	Javier Sanguinetti ²¹	10 October 2022^[71]

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6
Aldosivi	Martín Cauteruccio	Juan Manuel Cuesta	Juan Pablo Gallego	Mario López Quintana	Fernando Román	Santiago Silva
Argentinos Juniors	Andrés Alarcón	Gabriel Ávalos	Javier Cabrera	Juan José Cardozo	Andrés Felipe Roa	Alan Rodríguez
Arsenal	William Machado
Atlético Tucumán	Andrés Balanta	Enrique Borja	Jonathan Sandoval
Banfield	José Ignacio Álvarez	Mauricio Cuero	Dany Edjo'o	Erik López	Luis Mago
Barracas Central	Cristian Colmán	Thomás Gutiérrez	Sebastián Rincón
Boca Juniors	Luis Advíncula	Óscar Romero	Sebastián Villa	Carlos Zambrano
Central Córdoba (SdE)	Paulo Lima	Renzo López	Iván Ramírez	Cristopher Toselli
Colón	Mario Otazú	Baldomero Perlaza	Andrew Teuten
Defensa y Justicia	Fabricio Domínguez	Leandro Otormín
Estudiantes (LP)	Manuel Castro	Mauro Méndez	Jorge Morel
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Brahian Alemán	Guillermo Fratta	Ramón Sosa
Godoy Cruz	José María Canale	Juan Espínola	Enzo Larrosa	Santiago Paiva	Juan Pintado	Salomón Rodríguez
Huracán	Maicol Cabrera	Matías Cóccaro	Guillermo Soto
Independiente	Juan Cazares	Edgar Elizalde	Renzo Rodríguez	Diego Segovia	Sebastián Sosa
Lanús	Felipe Aguilar	Luciano Boggio	Iván Cazal	Guillermo de Amores	Raúl Loaiza
Newell's Old Boys	Fabián Ángel	Willer Ditta	Armando Méndez	Djorkaeff Reasco	Víctor Velázquez
Patronato	Emerson Batalla
Platense	Jorge Benítez	Federico Gino	Sebastián Guerrero	Haibrany Ruiz Díaz
Racing	Johan Carbonero	Edwin Cardona	Eugenio Mena	Fernando Prado	Matías Rojas
River Plate	Miguel Borja	Paulo Díaz	Flabián Londoño	Juan Fernando Quintero	Robert Rojas
Rosario Central	Jhonatan Candia	Michael Covea	José David Leudo	Gustavo Ramírez
San Lorenzo	Adam Bareiro	Iván Leguizamón	Cristian Zapata
Sarmiento (J)	Federico Andueza	Harrinson Mancilla	Fernando Martínez	Jean Rosso
Talleres (C)	Alan Franco	Christian Oliva	Kevin Pereira	Rafa Pérez	Michael Santos	Diego Valoyes
Tigre	Blas Armoa
Unión	Jonathan Álvez	Bryan Castrillón	Junior Marabel	Santiago Mele	Diego Polenta
Vélez Sarsfield	Leonardo Burián	Matías de los Santos	José Florentín	Diego Godín

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Boca Juniors (C)	27	16	4	7	34	28	+6	52	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Racing	27	14	8	5	41	24	+17	50
3	River Plate	27	14	5	8	43	22	+21	47
4	Huracán	27	12	11	4	35	21	+14	47
5	Atlético Tucumán	27	12	10	5	32	22	+10	46
6	San Lorenzo	27	10	13	4	33	23	+10	43
7	Tigre	27	11	10	6	41	32	+9	43
8	Argentinos Juniors	27	12	6	9	33	24	+9	42
9	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	27	11	8	8	26	18	+8	41
10	Patronato	27	11	7	9	31	27	+4	40
11	Newell's Old Boys	27	11	7	9	26	22	+4	40
12	Defensa y Justicia	27	10	10	7	29	27	+2	40
13	Talleres (C)	27	9	8	10	28	26	+2	35
14	Independiente	27	9	8	10	31	31	0	35
15	Godoy Cruz	27	9	8	10	25	29	−4	35
16	Central Córdoba (SdE)	27	10	4	13	34	37	−3	34
17	Barracas Central	27	8	10	9	31	37	−6	34
18	Estudiantes (LP)	27	9	6	12	28	40	−12	33
19	Platense	27	7	11	9	23	25	−2	32
20	Rosario Central	27	7	11	9	24	28	−4	32
21	Sarmiento (J)	27	8	8	11	27	32	−5	32
22	Unión	27	8	8	11	28	36	−8	32
23	Arsenal	27	6	12	9	28	29	−1	30
24	Banfield	27	7	9	11	23	29	−6	30
25	Colón	27	7	8	12	24	36	−12	29
26	Vélez Sarsfield	27	6	10	11	30	33	−3	28
27	Lanús	27	5	6	16	22	40	−18	21
28	Aldosivi	27	4	4	19	16	48	−32	16

2022 Argentine Primera División

Competition format

Club information

Stadia and locations

Personnel

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Players holding Argentinian dual nationality

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

International qualification

Aggregate table

Relegation

References

External links

Home \ Away	ALD	ARG	ARS	ATU	BAN	BAR	BOC	CCO	COL	DYJ	EST	GLP	GOD	HUR	IND	LAN	NOB	PAT	PLA	RAC	RIV	ROS	SLO	SAR	TAL	TIG	UNI	VEL
Aldosivi				0–1	0–1	2–0		0–3			0–1			0–1			1–2		0–0		0–3	2–1		1–2	1–3			3–2
Argentinos Juniors	2–1		1–1	1–2			2–0				1–0			1–1	2–1				0–2		0–3	2–1	0–1			2–1	2–0	2–0
Arsenal	3–0			3–1	0–0	1–2		2–0			2–1			1–1	0–1				1–1		0–0	0–3			1–1			2–2
Atlético Tucumán					0–0	4–0		1–0	1–1		3–1	2–0	1–1			2–1	2–0		2–1			1–1		1–0	1–1		1–1
Banfield		1–1				1–1		2–1	2–1	1–2		0–2	1–1			1–2	1–2	0–0		0–2			1–1	0–0			2–3
Barracas Central		1–3					1–3	1–1	1–0	3–1		1–1	3–1			2–0	1–1	2–1		0–0			2–1	1–1			1–2
Boca Juniors	2–1		2–1	2–1	0–3						3–1			0–0	2–2				2–1		1–0	0–0			1–0	5–3	1–2	1–0
Central Córdoba (SdE)		1–2					1–0		3–0	1–0		1–0	3–0			2–2	0–3	1–3		1–3			0–2	0–0		1–2
Colón	1–1	0–4	1–1				1–2			1–2				0–1	0–3			1–0		0–2	1–0		0–0			2–1	2–2	2–1
Defensa y Justicia	3–2	2–1	0–0	3–1			0–1							1–1	2–1			2–1		3–3	0–0		0–0			0–0	1–0	1–1
Estudiantes (LP)					0–0	3–1		2–2	2–4	1–2		1–1	2–0			3–1	0–2	1–0		1–0				2–1	1–0		1–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	0–0	0–0	2–0				1–2		0–0	1–0			2–0		3–1	1–0		2–0		3–1			0–1			0–1
Godoy Cruz	2–0	0–0	1–0				0–1		1–0	2–1					1–1	2–1		0–1		2–0			0–0			1–1		1–1
Huracán				0–0	3–1	1–1		2–0			3–1	0–1	0–0				1–0		2–0		3–2	2–0		4–1	1–0
Independiente	3–0			0–1	1–0	2–2		1–2			2–1			1–1			1–0		1–3		0–1	0–0			1–0			1–1
Lanús	0–1	0–4	1–0				0–1		1–0	1–1				2–3	1–1			0–1		0–1			2–0			1–2		2–2
Newell's Old Boys		1–0	0–0				2–0		0–0	1–2		2–0	1–2			2–0		2–2		0–0			0–0	0–1		0–2
Patronato	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–1			3–0							3–2	3–1				1–0		0–1	0–0	3–2			1–0	0–0	1–1
Platense					3–1	0–0		2–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1			1–1	1–1			0–1				0–0	0–0		1–0
Racing	5–0	1–0	1–1	2–0			0–0							2–0	1–0			1–0			1–2	4–3	1–2			3–3	2–1	2–0
River Plate				0–0	1–2	2–0		3–0			5–0	1–0	0–2			2–1	4–1		2–1			1–2		1–2	0–1
Rosario Central					0–1	3–1		0–3	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0			0–0	1–0		1–1					1–0	1–0		1–1
San Lorenzo	3–0		3–3	1–1			2–1				0–0			1–0	1–1				2–0		0–1	1–1			1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0
Sarmiento (J)		1–0	2–0				0–1		1–3	2–0		0–0	1–2		1–2	2–1		3–1		1–1			2–4			2–2
Talleres (C)		2–0			1–0	0–2		0–2	2–0	1–0		2–1	3–1			0–1	0–1	3–3		1–1				2–0			2–2
Tigre	3–0		1–4	0–0	0–1	1–1					2–1			1–1	2–1				3–0		1–1	3–1			1–1			2–0
Unión	0–0		1–0					1–4				0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1				1–5			1–0		1–2		2–1
Vélez Sarsfield				0–1	1–0	1–0		3–1			4–0	1–1		1–1			0–1		0–1		2–2	2–0		1–1	2–1

Pos	Team	2019–20 Pts	2021 Pts	2022 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	River Plate	47	75	76	198	103	1.922
2	Boca Juniors	51	63	79	193	103	1.874
3	Racing	42	53	80	175	103	1.699
4	Defensa y Justicia	39	59	65	163	103	1.583
5	Argentinos Juniors	42	51	67	160	103	1.553
6	Tigre	—	—	63	63	41	1.537
7	Vélez Sarsfield	39	70	46	155	103	1.505
8	Estudiantes (LP)	30	61	61	152	103	1.476
9	Talleres (C)	37	66	46	149	103	1.447
10	San Lorenzo	39	48	58	145	103	1.408
11	Independiente	32	58	51	141	103	1.369
12	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	24	51	65	140	103	1.359
13	Newell's Old Boys	38	39	63	140	103	1.359
14	Huracán	22	51	65	138	103	1.34
15	Barracas Central	—	—	53	53	41	1.293
16	Rosario Central	36	50	46	132	103	1.282
17	Colón	21	64	45	130	103	1.262
18	Unión	28	53	49	130	103	1.262
19	Atlético Tucumán	32	40	57	129	103	1.252
20	Lanús	36	56	36	128	103	1.243
21	Banfield	27	47	49	123	103	1.194
22	Central Córdoba (SdE)	26	43	49	118	103	1.146
23	Sarmiento (J)	—	36	53	89	79	1.127
24	Arsenal	35	33	47	115	103	1.117
25	Godoy Cruz	18	46	51	115	103	1.117
26	Platense	—	45	42	87	79	1.101
27	Patronato (R)	23	37	50	110	103	1.068	Relegation to Primera Nacional
28	Aldosivi (R)	22	44	36	102	103	0.99	Relegation to Primera Nacional

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CONMEBOL competitions	final ) final ) Recopa Sudamericana Copa Libertadores Femenina U-20 Copa Libertadores Under-20 Intercontinental Cup Copa Libertadores de Futsal