1969 Argentine Primera División Explained

Competition:Primera División
Season:1969
Dates:21 February – 22 December
Winners:Chacarita Juniors (Metropolitano)
Boca Juniors (Nacional)
Prevseason:1968
Nextseason:1970

The 1969 Primera División season was the 78th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The entire season (Metropolitano and Nacional championship) ran from 21 February to 22 December. Club Deportivo Morón and Unión de Santa Fe were promoted from Primera B Metropolitana via "Torneo de Reclasificación".[1] [2]

The Metropolitano was won by Chacarita Juniors (1st title in Primera División) while Boca Juniors won the Nacional (17th league title).[3]

Unlike previous editions, in 1969 there was only one team relegated, Deportivo Morón.

Campeonato Metropolitano

Competition:Metropolitano
Season:1969
Dates:21 February – 22 December
Winners:Chacarita Juniors (1st title)
League Topscorer: Walter Machado da Silva (13 goals)
Prevseason:1968
Nextseason:1970

Semifinals

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2 Jul Buenos Aires
3 Jul Avellaneda
Notes

Final

Match details

GK 1 Eliseo Petrocelli
DF 4 Jorge A. Gómez
DF 2 Abel Pérez
DF 6
DF 3 Franco Frassoldati
MF 8 Leonardo Recúpero
MF 5 Raúl Poncio
MF 10 Juan C. Puntonero
FW 7 Ángel Marcos
FW 9 Rodolfo Orife
FW 11 Horacio Neumann
Manager:
Víctor Rodríguez
GK 1 Hugo Carballo
DF 4
DF 2 Miguel Ángel López
DF 6 Juan C. Guzmán
DF 3 Abel Vieytez
MF 8 Eduardo Dreyer
MF 5 Jorge Recio
MF 10 Roberto Gutiérrez
FW 7 Juan C. Trebucq
FW 9
FW 11 Oscar Mas
Manager:
Ángel Labruna

Petit Tournament

Matches

Reclasificatorio "A" Tournament

Teams placed 9th to 11th in each zone of Metropolitano championship, plus 3 teams eliminated from Petit tournament, contested the "Torneo Reclasificatorio". Out of those 9 clubs, teams placed 1st to 7th would remain in Primera División while the last two teams plus two first of Primera B Metropolitana "Campeonato Zone" would play a new Reclasificatorio to determine which would be promoted or relegated.

Los Andes won the Reclasificatorio A, with no official title awarded.[4]

Reclasificatorio de Primera Tournament

Contested by the two last teams of Torneo Reclasificación plus two teams from Primera B

Top scorers

Rank.PlayerTeamGoals
Bernardo Acosta
Eduardo Flores
Omar Wehbe Vélez Sarsfield
Roque Avallay

Campeonato Nacional

Final standings

Competition:Nacional
Season:1969
Dates:5 September – 14 December
Winners:Boca Juniors (17th title)
Continentalcup1:1970 Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Boca Juniors
River Plate
League Topscorer: Carlos Bulla
Rodolfo Fischer
(14 goals each)
Prevseason:1968
Nextseason:1970

2nd place playoffs

After River Plate and San Lorenzo finished equaled on points, they played a two-legged series in neutral venues to determine which team would be the second qualified for 1970 Copa Libertadores:

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San Lorenzo

Top scorers

Rank.PlayerTeamGoals
Carlos Bulla
San Lorenzo
Oscar Más
Independiente
Carlos BianchiVélez Sarsfield

Notes and References

  1. https://zonales.com/moron-quiere-repetir-gesta-1968-suena-otro-ascenso-primera/ Morón quiere repetir aquella inolvidable gesta de 1968 y sueña con otro ascenso a Primera A
  2. https://www.clubaunion.com.ar/futbol/logros/ Segundo ascenso a Primera
  3. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg69.html Argentina 1969
  4. "Argentina: 1ra. División AFA 1969 Torneo Reclasificación" by José Carluccio, 13 Nov 2009