2009–10 Argentine Primera División season explained

Competition:	Primera División
Season:	2009–10
Winners:	Apertura: Banfield (1st title) Clausura: Argentinos Juniors (3rd title)
Relegated:	Chacarita Juniors Atlético Tucumán Rosario Central
Continentalcup1:	2010 Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	Banfield Lanús Colón Newell's Old Boys
Continentalcup2:	2011 Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:	Argentinos Juniors
Continentalcup3:	2010 Copa Sudamericana
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:	Argentinos Juniors Newell's Old Boys Estudiantes (LP) Banfield Independiente Vélez Sarsfield
League Topscorer:	Apertura: Santiago Silva (14 goals) Clausura: Mauro Boselli (13 goals) Season: Mauro Boselli (22 goals)
Biggest Home Win:	Newell's Old Boys 6–0 Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) (8 May 2010)
Biggest Away Win:	River Plate 1–5 Tigre (15 May 2010)
Highest Scoring:	Lanús 3–6 Argentinos Juniors (6 February 2010)
Matches:	380
Total Goals:	948
Prevseason:	2008–09
Nextseason:	2010–11

The 2009–10 Primera División season was the 119th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams competed in the season, which started on 21 August 2009 and ended on 23 May 2010.

Changes from 2008–09

The major changes for this season apply to international qualification. For the 2010 Copa Libertadores, an aggregate table of the two tournaments held in 2009 (2009 Clausura and 2009 Apertura) will be taken into account, instead of an average of the past three tournaments. For the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, River Plate and Boca Juniors will no longer be invited without merit. Their open berths will be up for qualification to any team, including themselves.

On 21 August, the Argentine Football Association revoked the television broadcasting contract with TyC in the hopes of increasing revenue to help the financially struggling clubs.^{[1] [2]} On 18 August, the AFA and the Government of Argentina struck a deal to broadcast the season for free on non-cable channels, which allowed the season to start on the 21st.^[3]

Club information

Twenty clubs will participate in the 2009–10 season, with eighteen sides remaining from the previous season. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy and San Martín de Tucumán were relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season. They were replaced by Chacarita Juniors and Atlético Tucumán, both of whom were promoted from the Primera B Nacional. Rosario Central and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) played the relegation/promotion playoffs against Belgrano and Atlético de Rafaela, respectively. Both Gimnasia y Esgrima and Rosario Central won their playoff matches and retained their status in top-flight football.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Argentinos Juniors	Buenos Aires	Diego Armando Maradona	24,800
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio H. Grondona	16,300
Atlético Tucumán	Tucumán	Monumental Presidente José Fierro	30,000
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Solá	40,500
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando	49,000
Colón	Santa Fe	Brigadier General Estanislao López	32,500
Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú		24,300
Estudiantes (LP)	La Plata		30,200
Gimnasia (La Plata)	La Plata	Juan Carlos Zerillo	24,544
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Malvinas Argentinas	40,268
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó	48,314
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América	32,500
Lanús	Lanús	Ciudad de Lanús – Néstor Díaz Pérez	46,619
Newell's Old Boys	Rosario	Marcelo Bielsa	38,095
Racing Club	Avellaneda	Presidente Juan Domingo Perón	51,389
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Monumental Antonio V. Liberti	57,901
Rosario Central	Rosario	Dr. Lisandro de la Torre	41,824
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain	43,494
Tigre	Victoria	Monumental de Victoria	26,282
Vélez Sársfield	Buenos Aires		49,540

1.Chacarita Juniors played all their home games on Argentinos Juniors' Diego Armando Maradona stadium.

2.Estudiantes' own stadium is undergoing renovation and the team is playing in Quilmes.

3.The first match Independiente played in Estadio Libertadores de América after reconstruction was on 28 October 2009. Prior to that, Independiente used Estadio Ciudad de Lanús.

4.Newell's Old Boys changed the name of their stadium to Estadio Marcelo Bielsa from Estadio Newell's Old Boys on 22 December 2009.^[4]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-season changes
Boca Juniors	Abel Álves (interim)	End of contract	5 July 2009	Alfio Basile	6 July 2009	N/A
Rosario Central	Miguel Ángel Russo	Resigned	13 July 2009	Ariel Cuffaro Russo	22 July 2009	N/A
Apertura changes
Chacarita Juniors	Ricardo Zielinski	Resigned	20 September 2009	Fernando Gamboa	21 September 2009^[5]	20th
River Plate	Néstor Gorosito	Resigned	4 October 2009^[6]	Leonardo Astrada	6 October 2009^[7]	16th
Racing	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	Resigned	8 October 2009^[8]	Juan Barbas (interim)	10 October 2009^[9]	18th
Atlético Tucumán	Héctor Rivoira	Resigned	2 November 2009^[10]	Salvador Mónaco (interim) &<br>Ricardo Salomón (interim)	4 November 2009^[11]	17th
Racing	Juan Barbas (interim)	End of contract	2 November 2009	Claudio Vivas	3 November 2009^[12]	18th
Godoy Cruz	Diego Cocca	Sacked	3 November 2009^[13]	Daniel Oldrá (interim)	3 November 2009	15th
Godoy Cruz	Daniel Oldrá (interim)	End of contract	8 November 2009^[14]	Enzo Trossero	9 November 2009	15th
Atlético Tucumán	Salvador Mónaco (interim) &<br>Ricardo Salomón (interim)	End of contract	11 November 2009	Osvaldo Sosa	11 November 2009^[15]	14th
Huracán	Ángel Cappa	Resigned	24 November 2009^[16]	Héctor Martínez (interim)	25 November 2009	19th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Leonardo Madelón	Resigned	2 December 2009^[17]	Pablo Morant (interim) &<br>Darío Ortíz (interim)	2 December 2009	18th
Huracán	Héctor Martínez (interim)	End of contract	3 December 2009	Héctor Rivoira	3 December 2009^[18]	19th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pablo Morant (interim) &<br>Darío Ortíz (interim)	End of contract	4 December 2009	Pablo César Fernández	4 December 2009^[19]	18th
Inter-tournament changes
Tigre	Diego Cagna	Resigned	14 December 2009^[20]	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	16 December 2009^[21]	20th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pablo César Fernández	Sacked	16 December 2009^[22]	Diego Cocca	24 December 2009^[23]	18th
Godoy Cruz	Enzo Trossero	End of contract	29 December 2009^[24]	Omar Asad	30 December 2009^[25]	17th
Boca Juniors	Alfio Basile	Resigned	21 January 2010	Abel Álves (interim)	22 January 2010^[26]	N/A
Clausura changes
Racing	Claudio Vivas	Sacked	15 February 2010^[27]	Miguel Ángel Russo	17 February 2010^[28]	16th
Atlético Tucumán	Osvaldo Sosa	Sacked	8 March 2010^[29]	Mario Gómez	8 March 2010	19th
Chacarita Juniors	Fernando Gamboa	Sacked	21 March 2010^[30]	Mauro Navas	22 March 2010^[31]	16th
Rosario Central	Ariel Cuffaro Russo	Sacked	28 March 2010^[32]	Leonardo Madelón	29 March 2010^[33]	19th
San Lorenzo	Diego Simeone	Resigned	3 April 2010^[34]	Sebastián Méndez (interim)	4 April 2010^[35]	17th
Boca Juniors	Abel Álves (interim)	Sacked	8 April 2010^[36]	Roberto Pompei (interim)	9 April 2010	19th
River Plate	Leonardo Astrada	Sacked	12 April 2010^[37]	Ángel Cappa	12 April 2010^[38]	17th
Chacarita Juniors	Mauro Navas	Sacked	19 April 2010^[39]	Luis Marabotto	21 April 2010^[40]	18th
Arsenal	Jorge Burruchaga	Resigned	29 April 2010^[41]	Carlos Ruiz (interim)	2 May 2010^[42]	16th

Transfers

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura was scheduled to begin on 14 August 2009 and end on 13 December 2009. However, the AFA delayed the start of the tournament until 21 August 2009 due to financial debts in some clubs.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Standings

Top ten goalscorers

width=28	Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Santiago Silva	Banfield	14
2	Federico Nieto	Colón	12
3	Joaquín Boghossian	Newell's Old Boys	11
4	Darío Gandín	Independiente	10
	Gabriel Hauche	Argentinos Juniors	10
6	Mauro Boselli	Estudiantes (LP)	9
7	Diego Buonanotte	River Plate	8
8	Esteban Fuertes	Colón	6
	Franco Jara	Arsenal	6
	Martín Palermo	Boca Juniors	6
	Facundo Parra	Chacarita Juniors	6
	Luis Rodríguez	Atlético Tucumán	6
	Santiago Salcedo	Lanús	6

Source:^[43]

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Top ten goalscorers

width=28	Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Mauro Boselli	Estudiantes (LP)	13
2	Martín Palermo	Boca Juniors	10
	Marco Pérez	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	10
	Rubén Ramírez	Banfield	10
5	Carlos Luna	Tigre	9
	Ismael Sosa	Argentinos Juniors	9
7	Facundo Parra	Chacarita Juniors	8
8	Federico Higuaín	Godoy Cruz	7
	Leonel Núñez	Independiente	7
	Andrés Silvera	Independiente	7

Source:^[44]

Relegation

width=28		width=185	Team	width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		width=50		Relegation
1	Estudiantes (LP)	69	57	71	197	114
2	Lanús	56	75	60	191	114
3	Vélez Sarsfield	59	66	61	186	114
4	San Lorenzo	64	63	52	179	114
5	Boca Juniors	70	61	47	178	114
6	Newell's Old Boys	56	52	69	177	114
7	Banfield	54	46	73	173	114
8	Argentinos Juniors	61	38	73	172	114
9	Independiente	59	39	68	166	114
10	Colón	45	57	55	157	114
11	Godoy Cruz	—	49	53	102	76
12	River Plate	66	41	43	150	114
13	Tigre	56	62	32	150	114
14	Huracán	52	58	37	147	114
15	Arsenal	51	46	46	143	114
16	Racing	40	52	46	138	114
17	Rosario Central	41	40	50	131	114		Relegation Playoff Matches
18	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	36	55	37	128	114
19	Atlético Tucumán	—	—	35	35	38		Primera B Nacional
20	Chacarita Juniors	—	—	32	32	38

Source:^[45]

Relegation/promotion playoffs

|-!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 1|-!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 2

All Boys won 4–1 and was promoted for the next season to Primera División, while Rosario Central was relegated to the Primera B Nacional. Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) won 3–2 and stayed in the Primera División.

International qualification

Copa Libertadores

The first two of Argentina's five allocated berths to the 2010 Copa Libertadores went to the 2009 Clausura champion (Vélez Sársfield) and the 2009 Apertura champion (Banfield). The remaining three berths went to the teams with the best average of the past two tournaments. Additionally, Estudiantes had a berth as the defending Copa Libertadores champion.

Copa Sudamericana

Qualification for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana is determined by an aggregate table of the Apertura 2009 and Clausura 2010 tournaments. The top six teams in the aggregate table qualify. Boca Juniors and River Plate will no longer be invited to the tournament without merit.

See also

• 2009–10 in Argentine football

External links

• Season regulations
• Universofutbol.com Clausura 2010

Notes and References

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3. Web site: Argentina strikes deal with govt to show games . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100310/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=668777&sec=global&cc=3888 . dead . 4 June 2011 . . 19 August 2010 . 17 November 2010 .
4. Web site: Newell's Old Boys name stadium after Bielsa . https://archive.today/20110604152256/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=717152&sec=global&cc=5901 . dead . 4 June 2011 . . 23 December 2009 . 17 November 2010 .
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