2013–14 Torneo Argentino A

The 2013–14 season, was the nineteenth Torneo Argentino A season since it became part of the third tier of the Argentine football league system. The tournament is reserved for teams indirectly affiliated to the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA), while teams affiliated to AFA have to play the Primera B Metropolitana, which is the other third tier competition. The champion will be promoted to Primera B Nacional.

XIX Torneo Argentino A

Season	2013–14
Champions	Santamarina (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Santamarina Guaraní Antonio Franco
Relegated	Rivadavia Racing (O) Central Norte
Matches	387
Goals	929 (2.4 per match)
Top goalscorer	Fernando Zampedri (22 Goals)
← 2012–13 2014 Federal A →

The regular season began on August 16, 2013 and was scheduled to end on June 7, 2014. A total of 24 teams competed with 20 of them remaining from the 2012–13 season. They were joined by four teams promoted from 2012–13 Torneo Argentino B.

Club information

North Zone

Team	City	Stadium
Central Córdoba	Santiago del Estero	Alfredo Terrara
Central Norte	Salta	Dr. Luis Güemes
Chaco For Ever	Resistencia	Juan Alberto García
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Concepción del Uruguay	Manuel y Ramón Núñez
Gimnasia y Tiro	Salta	Gigante del Norte
Guaraní Antonio Franco	Posadas	Clemente F. de Oliveira
Juventud Antoniana	Salta	Fray Honorato Pistoia
Juventud Unida	Gualeguaychú	Luis Delfino
Libertad	Sunchales	Hogar de Los Tigres
San Jorge	San Miguel de Tucumán	Senador Luis Cruz
San Martín	San Miguel de Tucumán	La Ciudadela
Tiro Federal	Rosario	Fortín de Ludueña

South Zone

Club	City	Stadium
Alvarado	Mar del Plata	(None) 1
CAI	Comodoro Rivadavia	Estadio Municipal
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	La Visera de Cemento
Defensores de Belgrano	Villa Ramallo	Salomón Boeseldín
Deportivo Maipú	Maipú	Higinio Sperdutti
Estudiantes	San Luis	Héctor Odicino – Pedro Benoza
Guillermo Brown	Puerto Madryn	Raul Conti
Juventud Unida Universitario	San Luis	Mario Diez
Racing	Olavarría	José Buglione
Rivadavia	Lincoln	El Coliseo
Santamarina	Tandil	Municipal Gral. San Martín
Unión	Mar del Plata	(None) 1

¹ Play their home games at Estadio José María Minella.

Geographical distribution

Province	Amount	Teams
Interior of Buenos Aires	6	Alvarado, Defensores de Belgrano (VR), Racing (O), Rivadavia (L), Santamarina, Unión (MdP)
Salta	3	Central Norte, Gimnasia y Tiro, Juventud Antoniana
Chubut	2	CAI, Guillermo Brown
Entre Ríos	2	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU), Juventud Unida (G)
San Luis	2	Estudiantes (SL), Juventud Unida Universitario
Santa Fe	2	Libertad (S), Tiro Federal
Tucumán	2	San Jorge (T), San Martín (T)
Chaco	1	Chaco For Ever
Mendoza	1	Deportivo Maipú
Misiones	1	Guaraní Antonio Franco
Río Negro	1	Cipolletti
Santiago del Estero	1	Central Córdoba (SdE)
Total	24

First stage

The teams were divided into two zones, North and South, all of which went to the Second Stage: the first four of each zone and the fifth best team of both zones qualified to the "Nonagonal Final", and the other teams qualified to Revalida Stage.

North Zone

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tiro Federal	22	9	8	5	30	20	+10	35	Qualified for the Nonagonal Final
2	Guaraní Antonio Franco	22	10	5	7	19	20	−1	35
3	San Martín (T)	22	8	10	4	21	16	+5	34
4	Juventud Unida (G)	22	10	4	8	22	19	+3	34
5	Central Córdoba (SdE)	22	8	7	7	23	23	0	31	Qualified for the Revalida Stage
6	San Jorge (T)	22	9	4	9	22	23	−1	31
7	Juventud Antoniana	22	7	9	6	21	17	+4	30
8	Libertad (S)	22	7	9	6	22	19	+3	30
9	Central Norte	22	6	8	8	26	27	−1	26
10	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	22	7	4	11	25	36	−11	25
11	Gimnasia y Tiro	22	5	6	11	26	30	−4	21
12	Chaco For Ever	22	3	12	7	24	31	−7	21

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	CCO	CNO	CFE	GYE	GYT	GAF	JUA	JUG	LIB	SJT	SMT	TIF
Central Córdoba (SdE)		1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	0–0
Central Norte	0–1		3–3	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–1
Chaco For Ever	1–0	1–1		4–4	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–2
Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	1–0	2–1	1–2		4–3	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–2	1–2	3–2
Gimnasia y Tiro	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–1		0–0	2–3	3–1	1–2	4–2	0–1	2–1
Guaraní Antonio Franco	4–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1
Juventud Antoniana	0–0	0–0	2–2	4–1	0–0	3–0		2–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1
Juventud Unida (G)	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0		2–1	1–0	1–2	1–0
Libertad (S)	0–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–1		1–0	1–1	0–0
San Jorge (T)	3–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0		0–0	1–0
San Martín (T)	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1		1–1
Tiro Federal	2–2	3–0	2–2	4–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on March 9, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

South Zone

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Santamarina	22	13	6	3	33	21	+12	45	Qualified for the Nonagonal Final
2	Juventud Unida Universitario	22	11	5	6	35	20	+15	38
3	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	22	11	4	7	34	23	+11	37
4	Guillermo Brown	22	9	6	7	31	24	+7	33
5	CAI	22	10	3	9	37	33	+4	33
6	Cipolletti	22	9	5	8	29	25	+4	32	Qualified for the Revalida Stage
7	Deportivo Maipú	22	7	8	7	24	32	−8	29
8	Unión (MdP)	22	7	7	8	26	27	−1	28
9	Alvarado	22	6	9	7	13	16	−3	27
10	Estudiantes (SL)	22	7	6	9	28	32	−4	27
11	Racing (O)	22	4	6	12	22	37	−15	18
12	Rivadavia (L)	22	4	3	15	18	40	−22	15

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	CAI	CIP	DVR	DMA	ESL	GBR	JUU	RAC	RIV	SAN	UNI
Alvarado		0–3	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	4–0
CAI	0–1		2–0	2–3	1–2	5–4	0–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0
Cipolletti	2–0	1–2		1–0	5–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–2	2–2	0–1
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	1–0	1–0	2–0		2–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	5–2	3–1	2–2	2–0
Deportivo Maipú	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0		2–2	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–2	0–0	2–0
Estudiantes (SL)	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	0–0		2–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–2
Guillermo Brown	3–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	5–1	3–0		2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–2
Juventud Unida Universitario	1–0	5–2	1–0	2–2	3–3	0–1	5–0		1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0
Racing (O)	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–4		2–1	1–2	2–2
Rivadavia (L)	0–1	3–2	1–2	0–4	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–2		0–1	1–1
Santamarina	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–2	2–0		2–1
Unión (MdP)	0–0	4–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on March 9, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Nonagonal Final

It consisted of nine teams that qualified from the First Stage (4 from the North Zone and 5 from the South Zone). The winner was promoted to the Primera B Nacional. It was played in a round-robin system. The 2 and 3 team advanced directly to the Fourth Stage, while the 4th to the 9th advanced to the Third Stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Santamarina (C, P)	8	6	1	1	15	6	+9	19	Champion, promoted to Primera B Nacional
2	CAI	8	5	2	1	19	9	+10	17	Qualified for the Fourth Stage
3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	8	4	1	3	15	16	−1	13
4	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	8	4	0	4	10	15	−5	12	Qualified for the Third Stage
5	San Martín (T)	8	3	2	3	14	10	+4	11
6	Guillermo Brown	8	2	3	3	8	13	−5	9
7	Tiro Federal	8	2	2	4	9	12	−3	8
8	Juventud Unida Universitario	8	2	1	5	11	15	−4	7
9	Juventud Unida (G)	8	1	2	5	7	12	−5	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	CAI	DVR	GAF	GBR	JUG	JUU	SAN	SMT	TIF
CAI			5–1	1–1		3–1			2–0
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	1–4		3–1			2–1			2–0
Guaraní Antonio Franco				3–0	2–0		2–2	3–2
Guillermo Brown		3–0			1–0		0–4	0–0
Juventud Unida (G)	2–2	1–2					1–3	1–2
Juventud Unida Universitario			1–2	4–2	0–2				2–1
Santamarina	2–0	1–0				1–0		1–0
San Martín (T)	1–2	4–0				2–2			3–1
Tiro Federal			3–1	1–1	0–0		3–1

Updated to match(es) played on April 29, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Reválida Stage

The fifteen clubs that did not qualify for the Nonagonal Final were grouped into three zones of five teams each. To integrate the zones a table was drawn with the fifteen clubs and its overall standings with points obtained in the First Stage. Teams in position 1,6,7,12,15 went to Zone A; teams in position 2,5,8,11,14 went to Zone B and teams in position 3,4,9,10,13 went to Zone C.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cipolletti	22	9	5	8	29	25	+4	32	Zone A
2	Central Córdoba (SdE)	22	8	7	7	23	23	0	31	Zone B
3	San Jorge (T)	22	9	4	9	22	23	−1	31	Zone C
4	Juventud Antoniana	22	7	9	6	21	17	+4	30
5	Libertad (S)	22	7	9	6	22	19	+3	30	Zone B
6	Deportivo Maipú	22	7	8	7	24	32	−8	29	Zone A
7	Unión (MdP)	22	7	7	8	26	27	−1	28
8	Alvarado	22	6	9	7	13	16	−3	27	Zone B
9	Estudiantes (SL)	22	7	6	9	28	32	−4	27	Zone C
10	Central Norte	22	6	8	8	26	27	−1	26
11	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	22	7	4	11	25	36	−11	25	Zone B
12	Gimnasia y Tiro	22	5	6	11	26	30	−4	21	Zone A
13	Chaco For Ever	22	3	12	7	24	31	−7	21	Zone C
14	Racing (O)	22	4	6	12	22	37	−15	18	Zone B
15	Rivadavia (L)	22	4	3	15	18	40	−22	15	Zone A

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Zone A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cipolletti	8	4	2	2	7	8	−1	14	Qualified for the Third Stage
2	Gimnasia y Tiro	8	3	3	2	11	7	+4	12
3	Unión (MdP)	8	2	4	2	11	9	+2	10
4	Rivadavia (L)	8	2	3	3	11	14	−3	9
5	Deportivo Maipú	8	1	4	3	13	15	−2	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	CIP	DMA	GYT	RIV	UNI
Cipolletti		1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1
Deportivo Maipú	1–0		2–2	4–5	1–1
Gimnasia y Tiro	4–0	3–2		1–0	0–0
Rivadavia (L)	0–1	2–1	0–0		2–2
Unión (MdP)	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–1

Updated to match(es) played on April 27, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall standings

Addition of points of First Stage and Reválida Stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Cipolletti	30	13	7	10	36	33	+3	46
2	Unión (MdP)	30	9	11	10	37	36	+1	38
3	Deportivo Maipú	30	8	12	10	37	47	−10	36
4	Gimnasia y Tiro	30	8	9	13	37	37	0	33
5	Rivadavia (L)	30	6	6	18	29	54	−25	24	Relegated to the Torneo Argentino B

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Zone B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Central Córdoba	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15	Qualified for the Third Stage
2	Libertad (S)	8	2	6	0	10	6	+4	12
3	Alvarado	8	3	3	2	11	9	+2	12
4	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	8	2	4	2	7	5	+2	10
5	Racing (O)	8	0	2	6	3	17	−14	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	CCO	GYE	LIB	RAC
Alvarado		2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0
Central Córdoba	2–0		1–0	1–1	5–1
Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	2–2	2–0		0–0	2–0
Libertad (S)	2–1	0–0	1–1		2–2
Racing (O)	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–3

Updated to match(es) played on April 27, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall standings

Addition of points of First Stage and Reválida Stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Central Córdoba	30	12	10	8	35	29	+6	46
2	Libertad (S)	30	9	15	6	32	25	+7	42
3	Alvarado	30	9	12	9	24	25	−1	39
4	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	30	9	8	13	32	41	−9	35
5	Racing (O)	30	4	8	18	25	54	−29	20	Relegated to the Torneo Argentino B

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Zone C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chaco For Ever	8	6	0	2	13	5	+8	18	Qualified for the Third Stage
2	Estudiantes (SL)	8	3	3	2	8	7	+1	12
3	Central Norte	8	3	2	3	8	9	−1	11
4	San Jorge (T)	8	2	2	4	6	9	−3	8
5	Juventud Antoniana	8	2	1	5	7	12	−5	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	CNO	CFE	ESL	JUA	SJT
Central Norte		1–0	1–1	0–2	2–0
Chaco For Ever	2–0		2–0	3–0	2–1
Estudiantes (SL)	1–2	2–0		3–2	0–0
Juventud Antoniana	0–0	1–3	0–1		2–1
San Jorge (T)	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on April 27, 2014. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall standings

Addition of points of First Stage and Reválida Stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Chaco For Ever	30	9	12	9	37	36	+1	39
2	San Jorge (T)	30	11	6	13	28	32	−4	39
3	Estudiantes (SL)	30	10	9	11	36	39	−3	39
4	Juventud Antoniana	30	9	10	11	28	29	−1	37
5	Central Norte	30	9	10	11	34	36	−2	37	Relegated to the Torneo Argentino B

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Tiebreaker

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Juventud Antoniana	0–0(5–3 p)	Central Norte

Third to Sixth stage

Was played by the teams ranked 2nd to 9th in the Nonagonal Final and the teams that qualified from Revalida Stage. To order the matches a table was drawn which contained the teams from the Nonagonal Final and the teams from the Revalida numbering them from 2º to 15º (teams from Nonagonal Final were 2º to 9º and teams from Revalida were 10º to º15).

From Nonagonal Final

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2	CAI	8	5	2	1	19	9	+10	17
3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	8	4	1	3	15	16	−1	13
4	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	8	4	0	4	10	15	−5	12
5	San Martín (T)	8	3	2	3	14	10	+4	11
6	Guillermo Brown	8	2	3	3	8	13	−5	9
7	Tiro Federal	8	2	2	4	9	12	−3	8
8	Juventud Unida Universitario	8	2	1	5	11	15	−4	7
9	Juventud Unida (G)	8	1	2	5	7	12	−5	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

From Revalida

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
10	Chaco For Ever	8	6	0	2	13	5	+8	18
11	Central Córdoba	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15
12	Cipolletti	8	4	2	2	7	8	−1	14
13	Gimnasia y Tiro	8	3	3	2	14	10	+4	12
14	Libertad (S)	8	2	6	0	10	6	+4	12
15	Estudiantes (SL)	8	3	3	2	8	7	+1	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Third stage

This Stage was played by the teams in position 4º to 9º from the Nonagonal Final and the teams from the Revalida. The winning teams qualify for Fourth Stage. In case of a tie the teams from position 4º to 9º qualified for the next stage (teams of the left column).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	4–5	Estudiantes (SL)	2–1	2–4
San Martín (T)	4–2	Libertad (S)	2–1	2–1
Guillermo Brown1	3–3	Gimnasia y Tiro	1–2	2–1
Tiro Federal	3–2	Cipolletti	0–2	3–0
Juventud Unida Universitario	3–0	Central Córdoba (SdE)	2–0	1–0
Juventud Unida (G)	5–2	Chaco For Ever	1–1	4–1

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

Bracket

	Fourth Stage							Fifth Stage							Sixth Stage
	2	CAI	1	3	4
	15	Estudiantes (SL)	2	2	4
								2	CAI	1	1	2
								8	Juventud Unida Univ.	2	1	3
	5	San Martín (T)	0	1	1
	8	Juventud Unida Univ.	1	1	2
															3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	1	1	2
															8	Juventud Unida Univ.	2	0	2
	3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	1	4	5
	9	Juventud Unida (G)	3	0	3
								3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	2	1	3
								7	Tiro Federal	1	2	3
	6	Guillermo Brown	0	1	1
	7	Tiro Federal	1	1	2

• Note: The team in the first line plays at home the second leg.

Fourth stage

This Stage was played by the teams ranked 2º and 3º Nonagonal Final and the teams that qualified from the Third Stage. In case of a tie the teams from position 2º, 3º, W1 and W2 qualified for the next stage (teams of the left column).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CAI1	4–4	Estudiantes (SL)	1–2	3–2
Guaraní Antonio Franco	5–3	Juventud Unida (G)	1–3	4–0
Guillermo Brown	1–2	Tiro Federal	0–1	1–1
San Martín (T)	1–2	Juventud Unida Universitario	0–1	1–1

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

Fifth stage

This Stage was played by the teams that qualified from the Fourth Stage. The matches will be W1 vs W4 and W2 vs W3. In case of a tie, W1 and W2 qualified for the next stage (teams of the left column).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CAI	2–3	Juventud Unida Universitario	1–2	1–1
Guaraní Antonio Franco1	3–3	Tiro Federal	2–1	1–2

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

Sixth stage

This Stage was played by the teams that qualified from the Fifth Stage, W1 vs W2. The winning team will be promoted to Primera B Nacional. In case of a tie, W1 was promoted (team of the left column).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guaraní Antonio Franco	2–2	Juventud Unida Universitario	1–2	1–0

1: Promoted because of sport advantage.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Fernando Zampedri	Guillermo Brown	22
2	Mauro Villegas	CAI	21
3	Pablo Vilchez	Santamarina	17
	Aldo Visconti	Chaco For Ever	17
	Jorge Piñero da Silva	CAI	17
6	Oscar Altamirano	Central Norte	16

See also

• 2013–14 in Argentine football