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2023 Argentine Primera División

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The 2023 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional (officially the Torneo Binance 2023, until the 26th round, for sponsorship reasons)[1][2] was the 133rd season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The league season began on 27 January and ended on 30 July 2023.[3]

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Twenty-eight teams competed in the league: twenty-six returning from the 2022 season as well as two promoted teams from the 2022 Primera Nacional (Belgrano and Instituto).[4][5] Boca Juniors were the defending champions.

River Plate won their 38th national league championship with two matches to spare after they defeated Estudiantes (LP) 3–1 on 15 July 2023.[6]

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Competition format

The competition was run under a single round-robin, contested by 28 teams (26 from the previous edition plus 2 promoted from Primera Nacional). The champions qualified for the 2024 Copa Libertadores as Argentina 1. The qualification for international tournaments will be determined by an aggregate table of the 2023 Primera División and 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments.[7]

In this season two teams were relegated to the Primera Nacional. One team was relegated based on coefficients, while the bottom team of the 2023 aggregate table would also be relegated.[8]

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Club information

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Stadia and locations

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Personnel

Managerial changes

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1.^ Originally Argentina Luca Marcogiuseppe would be manager of Arsenal along with Carlos Ruiz,[83] but he resigned before the beginning of the season.[84] Marcogiuseppe was replaced by Martín Cicotello.

Interim managers

2.^ Argentina Marcelo Bravo and Argentina Hernán Manrique were interim managers in the 6th round.
3.^ Argentina Pedro Monzón was interim manager in the 2023 Copa Argentina round of 64 and the 9th–11th rounds.
4.^ Argentina Mariano Herrón was interim manager in the 9th–10th rounds and the 2023 Copa Libertadores Group stage 1st round.
5.^ Argentina Marcelo Mosset was interim manager in the 10th–11th rounds.
6.^ Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.
7.^ Argentina Darío Espínola was interim manager in the 16th–17th rounds.
8.^ Argentina Daniel Jiménez was interim manager in the 2023 Copa Argentina round of 64.
9.^ Argentina Marcelo Bravo was interim manager in the 2023 Copa Argentina round of 64, the postponed 17th round and the 20th–21st rounds.
10.^ Argentina Claudio Cabrera and Argentina Marcelo Broggi were interim managers in the 22nd round.
11.^ Argentina Cristian Zermatten was interim manager in the 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 3rd round.
12.^ Salomón would be interim manager until the end of the Copa de la Liga Profesional, but only was interim manager in the 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 4th–8th rounds.
13.^ Interim manager until the end of the Copa de la Liga Profesional.
14.^ Interim managers until the end of the Copa de la Liga Profesional.

Foreign players

As the championship ended on 30 July 2023, several players left their teams due to expiring contracts or loans, signed with other teams, or had their contracts terminated. Players in italics are those who left their club before the end of the tournament.

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a Newell's Old Boys signed a seventh foreign player due to left knee injury of Colombia Fabián Ángel.[85]

Players holding Argentinian dual nationality

They do not take up a foreign slot.

Tomás Avilés (Racing) played with Chile at the 2023 South American U-20 Championship in January 2023, but later played with Argentina at the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in May 2023.
Source: AFA

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Incidents

The Unión vs. Lanús match (14th round, 30 April 2023) was postponed due to a lack of safety guarantees for the occupants of a seating area in the Estadio 15 de Abril, as a result of a landslide from a drainage channel caused by the strong winds that hit the stadium.[86] The match was played on 17 June 2023.

The Vélez Sarsfield vs. Racing match (17th round, 19 May 2023) was postponed due to the death of Hernán Manrique, manager of Vélez Sarsfield reserve team along with Marcelo Bravo.[87] The match was played on 17 June 2023.

During the match between River Plate and Defensa y Justicia at the Estadio Mâs Monumental (19th round, 3 June 2023), a fan fell to his death during the game, resulting in the match being suspended by the referee in the 26th minute.[88] The match resumed on 17 June 2023.

League table

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Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play ranking 5) drawing of lots.
(C) Champions
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Results

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Teams played every other team once (either at home or away) completing a total of 27 rounds.[89]

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

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Awards

Best Team

The best team was a squad consisting of the most impressive players at the tournament.[90]

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Substitutes

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Aggregate table

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International qualification

The 2023 Argentine Primera División champions, 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional champions and 2023 Copa Argentina champions earned a berth to the 2024 Copa Libertadores. The remaining berths to the 2024 Copa Libertadores as well as the ones to the 2024 Copa Sudamericana were determined by an aggregate table of the 2023 Argentine Primera División and 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments. The top three teams in the aggregate table not already qualified for any international tournament qualified for the Copa Libertadores, while the next six teams qualified for the Copa Sudamericana.[7]

Relegation

In this season, the bottom team of the aggregate table would be relegated to the 2024 Primera Nacional. If two or more teams were level on points, extra matches would be played to decide which team would be relegated.

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Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play ranking 5) drawing of lots.
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. River Plate, Rosario Central and Estudiantes (LP) qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2023 Argentine Primera División, the 2023 Copa de la Liga Profesional and the 2023 Copa Argentina, respectively.
  2. Arsenal were relegated based on coefficients.

Relegation playoff

As Colón and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) finished with the same number of points in the aggregate table, the tournament rules required them to play a playoff match at a neutral venue to determine the relegated team. If tied, extra time would be played and if the score was still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners.

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) won the match 1–0 and remained in the Primera División, while Colón were relegated to the Primera Nacional.[91]

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Referee: Andrés Merlos
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Relegation based on coefficients

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In addition to the relegation based on the aggregate table, one team was relegated at the end of the season based on coefficients, which took into consideration the points obtained by the clubs during the present season (aggregate table points) and the two previous seasons (only seasons at the top flight were counted). The total tally was then divided by the number of games played in the top flight over those three seasons and an average was calculated. The team with the worst average at the end of the season was relegated to Primera Nacional. Originally two teams would be relegated based on coefficients but, on 22 June 2023, AFA decided to reduce the number of relegated teams to one.[8]

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Source: AFA

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