2018–19 Argentine Primera División

The 2018–19 Argentine Primera División – Superliga Argentina (officially the Superliga Quilmes Clásica for sponsorship reasons)^[1] was the 129th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on 10 August 2018 and ended on 7 April 2019.^[2] Boca Juniors were the defending champions.

Superliga Argentina

Season	2018–19
Dates	10 August 2018 – 7 April 2019
Champions	Racing (18th title)
Relegated	Tigre San Martín (SJ) Belgrano San Martín (T)
Copa Libertadores	Racing Defensa y Justicia Boca Juniors Atlético Tucumán River Plate (via Copa Argentina) Tigre (via Copa de la Superliga)
Copa Sudamericana	Vélez Sarsfield Independiente Unión Huracán Lanús Argentinos Juniors (via Copa de la Superliga)
Matches played	325
Goals scored	719 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lisandro López (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Independiente 4–0 San Martín (T) (Nov. 7, 2018) Vélez Sarsfield 4–0 Lanús (Apr. 6, 2019)
Biggest away win	Lanús 1–5 River Plate (Sep. 28, 2018) Rosario Central 0–4 Unión (Oct. 7, 2018) Godoy Cruz 0–4 River Plate (Jan. 30, 2019) San Martín (SJ) 0–4 Boca Juniors (Jan. 31, 2019)
Highest scoring	Tigre 4–4 Banfield (Feb. 8, 2019)
Longest winning run	Boca Juniors and Racing 6 games
Longest winless run	San Lorenzo 13 games
Longest losing run	Argentinos Juniors, Huracán, Lanús and Patronato 5 games
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Twenty-six teams competed in the league, twenty-four returning from the 2017–18 season and two promoted from the 2017–18 Primera B Nacional (Aldosivi and San Martín (T)). Four teams (Temperley, Olimpo, Arsenal, and Chacarita Juniors) were relegated to the Primera B Nacional championship in the previous tournament.

Racing won their eighteenth national league championship with one match to spare after a 1–1 draw against Tigre on 31 March 2019.^[3][4]

Competition format

The tournament was contested by 26 teams. It began on 10 August 2018 and ended on 7 April 2019. Each team played the other 25 teams in a single round-robin tournament. The additional match against the main rival team in the so-called "Fecha de Clásicos" was once again omitted in this season. From 14 April to 2 June 2019, the Primera División played a new competition named "Copa de la Superliga".^[5]

Club information

Stadia and locations

GBA

Aldosivi

Atlético Tucumán

San Martín (T)

Belgrano

Talleres (C)

Estudiantes (LP)

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)

Godoy Cruz

Rosario Central

Newell's Old Boys

Patronato

San Martín (SJ)

Unión

Colón

Locations of the 2018–19 Argentine Primera División teams outside Greater Buenos Aires.

Argentinos Juniors

Banfield

Boca Juniors

Defensa y Justicia

Huracán

Independiente

Lanús

Racing

San Lorenzo

River Plate

Tigre

Vélez Sarsfield

Locations of the 2018–19 Argentine Primera División teams within Greater Buenos Aires.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella	35,354
Argentinos Juniors	Buenos Aires	Diego Armando Maradona	25,000
Atlético Tucumán	Tucumán	Monumental José Fierro	32,700
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Sola	34,901
Belgrano	Córdoba	Julio César Villagra	28,000
		Mario Alberto Kempes	57,000
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando	49,000
Colón	Santa Fe	Brigadier General Estanislao López	40,000
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello	12,000
Estudiantes (LP)	La Plata	Ciudad de La Plata	53,000
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	La Plata	Juan Carmelo Zerillo	24,544
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Malvinas Argentinas	40,268
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
Racing	Avellaneda	Presidente Perón	55,389
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti	61,321
Rosario Central	Rosario	Dr. Lisandro de la Torre	41,654
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain	39,494
San Martín (SJ)	San Juan	Ingeniero Hilario Sánchez	19,000
		Estadio del Bicentenario	25,286
San Martín (T)	Tucumán	La Ciudadela	28,000
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

Personnel

Club	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Aldosivi	Gustavo Álvarez	Kappa	None
Argentinos Juniors	Diego Dabove	Reusch	Autocrédito
Atlético Tucumán	Ricardo Zielinski	Umbro	Secco
Banfield	Hernán Crespo	Hummel	Seguros Orbis
Belgrano	Diego Osella	Kappa	Tersuave
Boca Juniors	Gustavo Alfaro	Nike	Qatar Airways
Colón	Pablo Lavallén	Burrda Sport	PROF Grupo Asegurador
Defensa y Justicia	Sebastián Beccacece	Lyon	Planes ESCO
Estudiantes (LP)	Gabriel Milito	Umbro	DirecTV Sports
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Darío Ortiz	Le Coq Sportif	Escudo Seguros
Godoy Cruz	Lucas Bernardi	Kelme	CATA Internacional
Huracán	Antonio Mohamed	TBS	Banco Ciudad
Independiente	Ariel Holan	Puma	Caminos Protegidos Comapañía de Seguros
Lanús	Luis Zubeldía	Macron / Peak	Yamaha
Newell's Old Boys	Héctor Bidoglio	Umbro	Grupo Márquez
Patronato	Mario Sciacqua	Lyon	Banco Entre Ríos
Racing	Eduardo Coudet	Kappa	RCA
River Plate	Marcelo Gallardo	Adidas	None
Rosario Central	Diego Cocca	Nike	TCL
San Lorenzo	Jorge Almirón	Nike	Banco Ciudad
San Martín (SJ)	Rubén Forestello	Mitre	San Juan
San Martín (T)	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	KDY	Secco
Talleres (C)	Juan Pablo Vojvoda	Penalty	BBVA
Tigre	Néstor Gorosito	Joma	Banco Macro
Unión	Leonardo Madelón	TBS	OSPAT
Vélez Sarsfield	Gabriel Heinze	Kappa	Hitachi

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Belgrano	Pablo Lavallén	Resigned	12 May 2018[6]	Pre-season	Lucas Bernardi 1	31 May 2018[7]
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Darío Ortiz	Replaced	14 May 2018		Pedro Troglio	15 May 2018[8]
Rosario Central	José Chamot		14 May 2018		Edgardo Bauza	17 May 2018[9]
Talleres (C)	Frank Darío Kudelka	End of contract	19 May 2018[10]		Juan Pablo Vojvoda	30 May 2018[11]
Defensa y Justicia	Juan Pablo Vojvoda	Signed by Talleres (C)	28 May 2018[12]		Sebastián Beccacece	6 July 2018[13]
Lanús	Ezequiel Carboni	Resigned	26 August 2018[14]	19th	Luis Zubeldía 2	31 August 2018[15]
Patronato	Juan Pablo Pumpido		16 September 2018[16]	26th	Mario Sciacqua 3	23 September 2018[17]
Argentinos Juniors	Alfredo Berti		16 September 2018[18]	18th	Ezequiel Carboni	18 September 2018[19]
San Martín (T)	Rubén Forestello	Sacked	17 September 2018[20]	23rd	Walter Coyette 4	25 September 2018[21]
San Martín (SJ)	Walter Coyette		23 September 2018[22]	22nd	Rubén Forestello	25 September 2018[23]
Tigre	Cristian Ledesma		24 September 2018[24]	20th	Mariano Echeverría 5	3 October 2018[25]
Belgrano	Lucas Bernardi		9 October 2018[26]	20th	Diego Osella	11 October 2018[27]
San Lorenzo	Claudio Biaggio	Resigned	31 October 2018[28]	20th	Jorge Almirón 6	5 November 2018[29]
Colón	Eduardo Domínguez		11 November 2018[30]	15th	Julio Comesaña 7	20 December 2018[31]
Argentinos Juniors	Ezequiel Carboni	Mutual agreement	12 November 2018[32]	26th	Diego Dabove 8	14 December 2018[33]
Newell's Old Boys	Omar De Felippe	Resigned	25 November 2018[34]	20th	Héctor Bidoglio 9	26 November 2018[35]
Banfield	Julio César Falcioni	End of contract	8 December 2018[36]	9th	Hernán Crespo	14 December 2018[37]
Godoy Cruz	Diego Dabove		8 December 2018[38]	8th	Marcelo Gómez	28 December 2018[39]
Boca Juniors	Guillermo Barros Schelotto		9 December 2018[40]	5th	Gustavo Alfaro	21 December 2018[41]
Huracán	Gustavo Alfaro	Signed by Boca Juniors	21 December 2018[42]	4th	Antonio Mohamed	27 December 2018[43]
Tigre	Mariano Echeverría	Resigned	11 February 2019[44]	19th	Néstor Gorosito	12 February 2019[45]
San Martín (T)	Walter Coyette	Mutual agreement	16 February 2019[46]	21st	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi 10	26 February 2019[47]
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pedro Troglio	Sacked	17 February 2019[48]	22nd	Darío Ortiz	18 February 2019[49]
Rosario Central	Edgardo Bauza		23 February 2019[50]	18th	Paulo Ferrari	24 February 2019[51]
Godoy Cruz	Marcelo Gómez		24 February 2019[52]	14th	Lucas Bernardi 11	2 March 2019[53]
Estudiantes (LP)	Leandro Benítez	Resigned	24 February 2019[54]	17th	Gabriel Milito 12	12 March 2019[55]
Colón	Julio Comesaña		6 March 2019[56]	21st	Pablo Lavallén 13	11 March 2019[57]
Rosario Central	Paulo Ferrari	Sacked	17 March 2019[58]	20th	Diego Cocca	18 March 2019[59]

Interim managers

1.^ Darío Cavallo was interim manager in the 2017–18 Copa Argentina round of 64.

2.^ Rodrigo Acosta was interim manager in the 4th round.

3.^ Martín De León was interim manager in the 6th round.

4.^ Ariel Martos was interim manager in the 6th round.

5.^ Juan Carlos Blengio was interim manager in the 7th round.

6.^ Diego Monarriz was interim manager in the 11th round.

7.^ Esteban Fuertes was interim manager until the end of 2018.

8.^ Raúl Sanzotti was interim manager until the end of 2018.

9.^ Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.

10.^ Floreal García was interim manager in the 20th round.

11.^ Daniel Oldrá was interim manager in the 21st round.

12.^ Pablo Quatrocchi was interim manager in the 21st and 22nd rounds.

13.^ Marcelo Goux was interim manager in the 22nd round.

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6
Aldosivi	Federico Gino	Jefferson Mena
Argentinos Juniors	Enrique Borja	Adrián Colombino	Leandro Paiva	Jonathan Sandoval
Atlético Tucumán	Mathías Abero	Andrés Lamas	Tomás Rojas
Banfield	Iván Arboleda	Reinaldo Lenis
Belgrano	Christian Almeida	Mauricio Cuero	Juan Patiño	Cristian Techera	Anthony Uribe
Boca Juniors	Júnior Alonso	Jorman Campuzano	Frank Fabra	Nahitan Nández	Sebastián Villa
Colón	Gonzalo Bueno	Leonardo Burián	Andrés Cadavid	Guillermo Celis	Marcelo Estigarribia	Wilson Morelo
Defensa y Justicia	Ignacio González	Julio González	Matías Rojas
Estudiantes (LP)	Manuel Castro	Gonzalo Jara	Edwar López
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Víctor Ayala	Alexi Gómez	Jan Carlos Hurtado	Santiago Silva	Jesús Vargas
Godoy Cruz	Santiago García	Miguel Merentiel	Richard Prieto	Diego Viera
Huracán	Omar Alderete	Daniel Hernández	Andrés Felipe Roa	Saúl Salcedo	Antony Silva
Independiente[1]	Martín Campaña	Cecilio Domínguez	Fernando Gaibor	Renzo Rodríguez	Francisco Silva	Gastón Silva
Lanús	Darío Cáceres	Rolando García Guerreño	Pablo Martínez	Sebastián Ribas	José Luis Sinisterra	Tiago Pagnussat
Newell's Old Boys	Ángelo Gabrielli	Luís Leal	Alfio Oviedo	Teodoro Paredes	Ribair Rodríguez
Patronato	Gabriel Ávalos
Racing	Mateo Cassierra	Marcelo Díaz	Fabricio Domínguez	Eugenio Mena
River Plate	Rafael Santos Borré	Jorge Carrascal	Nicolás de la Cruz	Juan Fernando Quintero	Robert Rojas
Rosario Central	Jarlan Barrera	Óscar Cabezas	Washington Camacho	Alfonso Parot	Duván Vergara
San Lorenzo	Raúl Loaiza	Andrés Rentería	Juan Camilo Salazar	Gustavo Torres
San Martín (SJ)	Humberto Osorio	Pablo Palacios Alvarenga	Gianni Rodríguez	Alex Silva
San Martín (T)	Hernán Petryk
Talleres (C)	Miguel Araujo	Junior Arias	Dayro Moreno	Samuel Sosa	Diego Valoyes
Tigre	Gerardo Alcoba	Gastón Guruceaga	Hugo Silveira	Diego Vera
Unión	Yeimar Gómez	Javier Méndez	Diego Zabala
Vélez Sarsfield	Luis Abram	Alexander Domínguez	Pablo Galdames	Cristian Núñez	Jonathan Ramis

¹ Independiente signed a seventh foreign player due to left knee ACL rupture of Carlos Benavídez.^[60]

Players holding Argentinian dual nationality

They do not take foreign slot.

• Raúl Bobadilla (Argentinos Juniors)
• Lucas Barrios (Huracán)
• Norberto Briasco-Balekian (Huracán)
• Pablo Hernández (Independiente)
• Dylan Gissi (Patronato)
• Gabriel Arias (Racing)
• Carlos Olses (Racing)
• Camilo Mayada (River Plate)
• Néstor Ortigoza (Rosario Central)
• Joel Soñora (Talleres (C))
• Mauricio Toni (Talleres (C))

Source: AFA

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Racing (C)	25	17	6	2	43	16	+27	57	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Defensa y Justicia	25	15	8	2	33	18	+15	53
3	Boca Juniors	25	15	6	4	42	18	+24	51
4	River Plate	25	13	6	6	42	21	+21	45	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage[a]
5	Atlético Tucumán	25	12	6	7	36	29	+7	42	Qualification for Copa Libertadores second stage
6	Vélez Sarsfield	25	11	7	7	34	25	+9	40	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
7	Independiente	25	10	8	7	35	28	+7	38
8	Unión	25	9	9	7	29	24	+5	36
9	Tigre	25	9	9	7	39	42	−3	36	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage[b]
10	Huracán	25	9	8	8	28	28	0	35	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
11	Lanús	25	9	7	9	27	32	−5	34
12	Talleres (C)	25	9	6	10	25	24	+1	33
13	Aldosivi	25	9	6	10	21	24	−3	33
14	Godoy Cruz	25	9	5	11	23	30	−7	32
15	Newell's Old Boys	25	7	8	10	26	23	+3	29
16	Banfield	25	6	11	8	27	31	−4	29
17	Estudiantes (LP)	25	7	8	10	21	25	−4	29
18	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	25	8	5	12	21	32	−11	29
19	Patronato	25	7	5	13	29	37	−8	26
20	Rosario Central	25	6	8	11	16	26	−10	26
21	San Martín (SJ)	25	6	7	12	24	34	−10	25
22	Belgrano	25	4	12	9	16	23	−7	24
23	San Lorenzo	25	3	14	8	21	30	−9	23
24	Colón	25	4	11	10	21	33	−12	23
25	San Martín (T)	25	4	11	10	25	38	−13	23
26	Argentinos Juniors	25	5	7	13	15	28	−13	22	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage[c]

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.^[2][61]
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018–19 Copa Argentina.
2. Tigre qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2019 Copa de la Superliga.
3. Argentinos Juniors qualified for the Copa Sudamericana first stage as the 2019 Copa de la Superliga best team not qualified for the Copa Libertadores.

2018–19 Argentine Primera División champions
Racing 18th title

Results

Teams played every other team once (either at home or away) completing a total of 25 rounds.^[62]

Home \ Away	ALD	ARG	ATU	BAN	BEL	BOC	COL	DYJ	EST	GLP	GOD	HUR	IND	LAN	NOB	PAT	RAC	RIV	ROS	SLO	SMA	SMT	TAL	TIG	UNI	VEL
Aldosivi	—	—	—	1–4	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	—	0–0	—	2–1	—	—	1–0	—	1–3	—	—	2–2	1–0	2–0	—	0–2	—	—
Argentinos Juniors	1–2	—	—	—	0–0	0–1	—	—	2–1	—	0–0	—	0–2	2–0	—	—	0–2	—	0–2	—	—	—	0–2	—	0–1	0–0
Atlético Tucumán	1–0	0–0	—	—	—	—	2–1	—	—	4–1	—	—	4–2	0–0	—	—	2–2	0–1	2–1	—	—	2–3	0–0	3–0	—	—
Banfield	—	0–1	1–2	—	—	—	—	—	0–2	1–0	2–2	—	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	—	2–0	1–1	—	—	—	—	—
Belgrano	—	—	1–3	1–1	—	1–1	—	—	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	—	—	0–0	3–0	—	—	—	0–0	0–0	—	—	1–2	0–0	—
Boca Juniors	—	—	1–2	2–0	—	—	3–1	—	—	—	2–0	—	—	2–1	—	1–0	—	0–2	0–0	3–0	—	—	1–0	4–1	—	3–0
Colón	—	2–0	—	0–1	1–1	—	—	—	1–1	—	3–1	—	—	—	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	0–0	—	—	2–2	0–0	—
Defensa y Justicia	—	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	—	—	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–2
Estudiantes (LP)	0–2	—	1–1	—	—	2–0	—	—	—	1–0	—	—	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	—	—	—	1–1	0–1	—	—	1–2
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	—	1–0	—	—	—	2–1	3–2	0–1	—	—	1–0	2–2	1–0	—	1–0	—	0–3	—	1–1	—	0–2	—	0–2	3–1	—	—
Godoy Cruz	2–0	—	1–0	—	—	—	—	0–1	1–0	—	—	—	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	—	0–4	0–0	1–0	—	3–2	—	—	—	0–2
Huracán	—	0–0	2–0	3–0	—	0–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–0	2–1	—	—	1–3	—	—	1–3	1–1
Independiente	2–0	—	—	—	2–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	—	—	—	3–1	—	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	—	4–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1
Lanús	0–1	—	—	—	3–1	—	1–0	2–2	—	2–0	—	0–1	1–0	—	—	3–1	0–1	1–5	2–0	—	1–1	—	2–1	—	—	—
Newell's Old Boys	—	2–0	1–2	—	—	1–1	—	0–0	—	—	—	3–1	2–2	2–0	—	1–0	—	—	0–0	—	3–0	—	1–2	2–0	—	—
Patronato	0–0	2–1	3–0	—	—	—	0–0	2–0	—	0–2	—	1–0	1–2	—	—	—	0–3	—	2–1	—	—	3–3	2–1	—	—	3–3
Racing	—	—	—	0–0	1–0	2–2	—	1–1	1–0	—	3–0	3–1	—	—	1–0	—	—	—	2–0	2–1	1–0	—	—	—	1–0	2–0
River Plate	1–0	0–0	—	—	0–0	—	—	0–1	—	3–1	—	—	3–0	—	4–2	1–3	2–0	—	—	—	4–1	2–1	—	2–2	1–2	—
Rosario Central	0–0	—	—	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	0–1	2–1	—	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	—	1–1	—	0–1	1–0	2–0	—	0–2	0–4	—
San Lorenzo	—	2–3	0–2	—	—	—	—	—	1–1	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–2	—	1–1	—	—	2–1	—	0–1	—	—	—
San Martín (SJ)	—	2–3	1–3	—	—	0–4	—	0–1	3–0	—	0–0	1–2	1–1	—	—	1–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	2–1	—	2–0	3–1
San Martín (T)	—	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	1–4	0–0	1–2	—	1–1	—	—	—	1–2	0–3	—	2–1	—	—	0–0	2–0	—	—	—	1–1	—
Talleres (C)	0–0	—	—	3–1	3–0	—	2–0	—	—	—	1–0	0–0	—	—	—	—	1–3	0–2	0–1	—	—	0–0	—	1–3	—	1–1
Tigre	—	2–1	—	4–4	—	—	—	—	1–0	—	1–3	0–2	—	1–1	—	2–1	1–1	—	—	2–2	2–2	2–2	—	—	2–2	—
Unión	1–0	—	3–0	0–1	—	1–3	—	—	0–0	1–0	0–3	—	—	3–0	0–0	2–2	—	—	—	1–1	—	—	2–1	—	—	0–2
Vélez Sarsfield	2–0	—	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	—	—	1–0	—	—	—	4–0	2–0	—	—	1–2	2–0	0–0	—	1–0	—	1–2	—	—

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Lisandro López Racing 17 2 Emmanuel Gigliotti Independiente 12 3 Luis Miguel Rodríguez Atlético Tucumán / Colón 11 Federico González Tigre 5 Matías Rojas Defensa y Justicia 10 6 Cristian Chávez Aldosivi 8 Darío Cvitanich Banfield / Racing Nicolás Fernández Defensa y Justicia 9 Santiago García Godoy Cruz 7 José Sand Lanús Nicolás Blandi San Lorenzo Franco Fragapane Unión Source: AFA

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Walter Montillo Tigre 9 2 Mauro Zárate Boca Juniors 7 3 Gabriel Carabajal Patronato 6 4 Luis Miguel Rodríguez Atlético Tucumán / Colón 5 Ramón Ábila Boca Juniors Lucas Pratto River Plate Leonardo Gil Rosario Central Source: AFA

Relegation

Relegation at the end of the season is based on coefficients, which take into consideration the points obtained by the clubs during the present season 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 four teams with the worst average at the end of the season were relegated to Primera B Nacional.^[2]

Pos	Team	2016–17 Pts	2017–18 Pts	2018–19 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Boca Juniors	63	58	51	172	82	2.098
2	Racing	55	45	57	157	82	1.915
3	Defensa y Justicia	49	44	53	146	82	1.78
4	River Plate	56	45	45	146	82	1.78
5	Independiente	53	46	38	137	82	1.671
6	Godoy Cruz	43	56	32	131	82	1.598
7	San Lorenzo	53	50	23	126	82	1.537
8	Talleres (C)	42	46	33	121	82	1.476
9	Estudiantes (LP)	56	36	29	121	82	1.476
10	Banfield	54	35	29	118	82	1.439
11	Vélez Sarsfield	37	38	40	115	82	1.402
12	Lanús	50	29	34	113	82	1.378
13	Colón	49	41	23	113	82	1.378
14	Huracán	29	48	35	112	82	1.366
15	Atlético Tucumán	33	36	42	111	82	1.354
16	Unión	32	43	36	111	82	1.354
17	Aldosivi	—	—	33	33	25	1.32
18	Newell's Old Boys	49	29	29	107	82	1.305
19	Rosario Central	44	32	26	102	82	1.244
20	Argentinos Juniors	—	41	22	63	52	1.212
21	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	43	27	29	99	82	1.207
22	Patronato	34	33	26	93	82	1.134
23	Tigre (R)	31	24	36	91	82	1.11	Relegation to Primera B Nacional
24	San Martín (SJ) (R)	33	33	25	91	82	1.11
25	Belgrano (R)	26	40	24	90	82	1.098
26	San Martín (T) (R)	—	—	23	23	25	0.92

Source: AFA

Awards

The following players were rewarded for their performances during the season.^[63]

• Best goalkeeper: Esteban Andrada (Boca Juniors)
• Best defender: Javier Pinola (River Plate)
• Best midfielder: Nicolás Domínguez (Vélez Sarsfield)
• Best forward: Lisandro López (Racing)
• Best save: Alan Aguerre (Newell's Old Boys) against San Lorenzo
• Best goal: Emanuel Reynoso (Boca Juniors) against San Martín (T)
• Best coach: Eduardo Coudet (Racing)
• Best player: Lisandro López (Racing)
• Topscorer: Lisandro López (Racing)
• Honorary Award: Pablo Guiñazú (Talleres (C)), Rodrigo Mora (River Plate), Rodrigo Braña (Estudiantes (LP)) and Sebastián Bertoli (Patronato)
• Breakthrough player: Matías Zaracho (Racing)
• Fair Play: Defensa y Justicia
• SAF de Oro: Racing

2018–19 Superliga Argentina de Fútbol team

Pos. Player Team GK Esteban Andrada Boca Juniors DF Damián Martínez Unión DF Leonardo Sigali Racing DF Javier Pinola River Plate DF Lisandro Martínez Defensa y Justicia MF Nicolás Domínguez Vélez Sarsfield MF Walter Montillo Tigre MF Juan Fernando Quintero River Plate MF Matías Rojas Defensa y Justicia FW Lisandro López Racing FW Federico González Tigre

Andrada Sigali Pinola D. Martínez L. Martínez Domínguez Montillo Quintero Rojas López González

See also

• 2019 Copa de la Superliga
• 2018–19 Primera B Nacional
• 2018–19 Copa Argentina