2013–14 Primera B Nacional

The 2013–14 Primera B Nacional was the 28th season of professional Argentine second division. For this season, the total teams was raised to 22; the champion, runner-up and winner of the tiebreaker playoff were promoted to Primera División.

Primera B Nacional

Season	2013–14
Champions	Banfield (3rd divisional title)
Promoted	Banfield Defensa y Justicia Independiente
Relegated	Almirante Brown Brown Talleres (C) Villa San Carlos
Matches played	462
Goals scored	984 (2.13 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juan Martín Lucero 23 goals
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Club information

Club	City	Stadium
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella
Almirante Brown	Isidro Casanova	Fragata Presidente Sarmiento
Atlético Tucumán	Tucumán	Monumental José Fierro
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Solá
Boca Unidos	Corrientes	José Antonio Romero Feris
Brown	Adrogué	Lorenzo Arandilla
Crucero del Norte	Garupá	Comandante Andrés Guacurarí
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello
Douglas Haig	Pergamino	Miguel Morales
Ferro Carril Oeste	Buenos Aires	Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverry
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Jujuy	23 de Agosto
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América
Independiente Rivadavia	Mendoza	Bautista Gargantini
Instituto	Córdoba	Presidente Perón
Patronato	Paraná	Presbítero Bartolomé Grella
San Martín	San Juan	Ingeniero Hilario Sánchez
Sarmiento	Junín	Eva Perón
Sportivo Belgrano	San Francisco	Oscar Boero
Talleres	Córdoba	La Boutique
Unión	Santa Fe	15 de Abril
Villa San Carlos	Buenos Aires	Genacio Sálice

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Banfield (C)	42	22	12	8	71	40	+31	78	Primera División
2	Defensa y Justicia	42	21	12	9	67	45	+22	75
3	Huracán	42	19	10	13	43	30	+13	67	Tiebreaker Playoff
4	Independiente (P)	42	17	16	9	49	37	+12	67
5	Atlético Tucumán	42	16	16	10	44	36	+8	64
6	Instituto	42	16	14	12	54	46	+8	62
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	42	16	13	13	41	35	+6	61
8	Crucero del Norte	42	16	11	15	45	42	+3	59
9	San Martín (SJ)	42	15	12	15	49	52	−3	57
10	Unión	42	12	19	11	48	48	0	55
11	Independiente Rivadavia	42	12	19	11	50	51	−1	55
12	Sarmiento	42	15	10	17	45	47	−2	55
13	Ferro Carril Oeste	42	13	16	13	35	39	−4	55
14	Boca Unidos	42	12	18	12	43	46	−3	54
15	Sportivo Belgrano	42	14	11	17	39	40	−1	53
16	Aldosivi	42	11	18	13	42	47	−5	51
17	Douglas Haig	42	11	18	13	35	44	−9	51
18	Brown	42	13	11	18	45	50	−5	50
19	Patronato	42	11	16	15	30	34	−4	49
20	Talleres (C)	42	10	15	17	48	58	−10	45
21	Almirante Brown	42	9	15	18	30	48	−18	42
22	Villa San Carlos	42	4	12	26	31	69	−38	24

Updated to match(es) played on June 8, 2014. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored. This does not apply to determining the champion. If two or more teams had been tied in point at the end of the tournament, a playoff would have been held at a neutral venue within 72 hours for the championship
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

3rd. promotion playoff

Since Huracán and Independiente finished tied in points, a one-match playoff had to be held to determine the 3rd. team to promote to Primera División. The match was played on June 11 at Estadio Único in La Plata.^[1]

Independiente	2–0	Huracán
Zapata 37' Pizzini 86'	Report

Third promotion playoff

11 June 2014

Estadio Único, La Plata

Referee: Diego Ceballos

Team details

Independiente Huracán GK 1 Diego Rodríguez DF 4 Jorge Figal DF 2 Cristian Tula DF 6 Sergio Ojeda DF 3 Claudio Morel Rodríguez MF 8 Martín Zapata  35' MF 5 Franco Bellocq  9' MF 11 Federico Mancuello  90' MF 7 Matías Pisano  66' MF 10 Daniel Montenegro  47'  78' FW 9 Sebastián Penco Substitutions: FW 16 Francisco Pizzini  66'  89' MF 14 Hernán Fredes  78' MF 18 Federico Insúa  90' Manager: Omar De Felippe GK 1 Marcos Díaz DF 8 Germán Mandarino  78' DF 2 Federico Mancinelli DF 6 Eduardo Domínguez  28' DF 3 Carlos Arano   87' MF 11 Patricio Toranzo MF 4 Víctor Cuesta MF 5 Alejandro Capurro  82' FW 7 Cristian Espinoza  71' FW 9 Leandro Caruso FW 10 Pity Martínez Substitutions: FW 18 Ramón Ábila  71'  88' MF 16 Lucas Villafáñez  78' MF 17 Alejandro Romero  82' Manager: Frank Kudelka

Note: Independiente promoted to Primera División.

Results

Home \ Away	ALD	ALM	ATU	BAN	BOU	BRO	CRU	DYJ	DOU	FCO	GJU	HUR	IND	IRV	INS	PAT	SMA	SAR	SPB	TAL	UNI	VSC
Aldosivi		3–0	1–1	0–3	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	4–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	4–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–2
Almirante Brown	1–1		2–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–4	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1
Atlético Tucumán	2–0	0–1		0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–2
Banfield	3–0	2–1	0–0		3–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–2	3–3	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	4–2	4–2
Boca Unidos	1–3	0–0	1–1	2–1		2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	3–0
Brown (A)	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–1		1–2	1–3	2–2	2–3	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	4–4	2–1
Crucero del Norte	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	6–0	1–3		2–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1
Defensa y Justicia	3–0	1–0	1–0	5–3	2–0	2–1	3–1		4–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	1–3	0–0	2–1
Douglas Haig	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–1		0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1
Ferro Carril Oeste	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0		0–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	3–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0		1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–0
Huracán	4–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1		0–1	2–2	1–3	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0
Independiente	2–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1		0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	3–0	1–1	0–0
Independiente Rivadavia	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–1		1–2	1–1	3–4	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0
Instituto	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–2		2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–2
Patronato	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0		1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–2
San Martín (SJ)	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	4–3	2–1	0–2		2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1
Sarmiento	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–4	1–0	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	2–2		4–0	3–0	1–0	1–0
Sportivo Belgrano	0–0	3–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	4–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2		0–0	1–1	1–1
Talleres (C)	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–4	2–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–1	3–2
Unión	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	4–4	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–2	1–1		1–0
Villa San Carlos	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–3	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	3–2	0–3

Updated to match(es) played on May 31, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation

The bottom two teams of this table faced relegation. Clubs with an indirect affiliation with Argentine Football Association are relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana.

Pos	Team	2011–12 Pts	2012–13 Pts	2013–14 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation	Affiliation
1	Banfield	—	58	78	136	80	1.7		Direct
2	Independiente	—	—	67	67	42	1.595		Direct
3	Defensa y Justicia	54	57	75	186	118	1.576		Direct
4	Instituto	70	39	62	171	118	1.449		Indirect
5	Huracán	46	54	67	167	118	1.415		Direct
6	Sarmiento (J)	—	58	55	113	80	1.413		Direct
7	Patronato	56	56	49	161	118	1.364		Indirect
8	San Martín (SJ)	—	—	57	57	42	1.357		Indirect
9	Atlético Tucumán	42	51	64	157	118	1.331		Indirect
10	Boca Unidos	57	45	54	156	114	1.322		Indirect
11	Unión	—	—	55	55	42	1.31		Direct
12	Ferro Carril Oeste	56	43	55	154	118	1.305		Direct
13	Crucero del Norte	—	45	59	104	80	1.3		Indirect
14	Sportivo Belgrano	—	—	53	53	42	1.262		Indirect
15	Aldosivi	53	44	51	148	118	1.254		Indirect
16	Independiente Rivadavia	45	48	55	148	118	1.254		Indirect
17	Douglas Haig	—	49	51	100	80	1.25		Indirect
18	Gimnasia y Esgrima (J)	34	50	61	145	118	1.229		Indirect
19	Almirante Brown (R)	55	46	42	143	118	1.212	Primera B Metropolitana	Direct
20	Brown (R)	—	—	50	50	42	1.19		Direct
21	Talleres (C) (R)	—	—	45	45	42	1.071	Torneo Argentino A	Indirect
22	Villa San Carlos (R)	—	—	24	24	42	0.571	Primera B Metropolitana	Direct

Updated to games played on 8 June 2014.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[2]
1	Juan Martín Lucero	Defensa y Justicia	23
2	Gonzalo Klusener	Talleres (C)	18
3	Ernesto Alvarez	Crucero del Norte	17
4	Andrés Chávez	Banfield	16
	Santiago Salcedo	Banfield
5	Mariano Guerreiro	Brown (A)	14
	Juan Martín	Instituto

See also

• 2013–14 in Argentine football