2024 Argentine Women's Primera División A

The 2024 Argentine Women's Primera División A was the 6th season of top-flight semi-professional women's football in Argentina and the 34th season overall. The league season began on 9 March and ended on 15 December 2024.^[1]

Primera División A

Season	2024
Dates	9 March – 15 December 2024
Champions	Torneo Apertura: Boca Juniors (29th title)
Matches played	153
Goals scored	399 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Torneo Apertura: Andrea Ojeda (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Boca Juniors 8–0 UAI Urquiza (16 March 2024)
Biggest away win	Excursionistas 0–8 Boca Juniors (22 March 2024)
Highest scoring	Boca Juniors 8–0 UAI Urquiza (16 March 2024) Excursionistas 0–8 Boca Juniors (22 March 2024)
Longest winning run	Boca Juniors 7 games
Longest unbeaten run	Boca Juniors 17 games
Longest winless run	Excursionistas 17 games
Longest losing run	Excursionistas 17 games
← 2023 2025 → All statistics correct as of 21 July 2024.

Eighteen teams competed in the league: sixteen returning from the 2023 season as well as two promoted teams from the 2023 Primera División B (Newell's Old Boys and San Luis FC), both teams participated in Primera División A for the first time in history from this season.^[2][3] Boca Juniors were the defending champions.

Competition format

The season is divided in two separate championships, called Apertura and Clausura. Both tournaments are run under a single round-robin, contested by 18 teams (16 from the previous edition plus 2 promoted from Primera División B). If each tournament is won by a different team, they will play a single-legged qualifier for the 2025 Copa Libertadores Femenina.^[1]

In this season the bottom four teams of an aggregate table of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments will be relegated to the Primera División B.

Club information

Stadia and locations

GBA

Belgrano

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)

Newell's Old Boys

Rosario Central

San Luis FC

Locations of the 2024 Argentine Women's Primera División A teams outside Greater Buenos Aires.

Banfield

Boca Juniors

Estudiantes (BA)

Excursionistas

Ferro Carril Oeste

Huracán

Independiente

Platense

Racing

River Plate

San Lorenzo

SAT

UAI Urquiza

Locations of the 2024 Women's Argentine Primera División A teams within Greater Buenos Aires.

Most Argentine women's teams, with a few exceptions, play their home games in other facilities of their clubs and not in the main stadium, unless it is a special occasion, according to the club's interpretation. Both venues where it is most common for them to play at home and where they occasionally play are shown.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Sola	34,901
		Campo de deportes Alfredo Palacios	—
Belgrano	Córdoba	Julio César Villagra	35,000
		Predio Armando Pérez	—
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando	57,200
		Complejo Pedro Pompilio	—
Estudiantes (BA)	Caseros	Ciudad de Caseros	16,740
		Predio de Martín Coronado	—
Excursionistas	Buenos Aires	Excursionistas	7,200
Ferro Carril Oeste	Buenos Aires	Ricardo Etcheverri	24,442
		Predio de Pontevedra	—
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	La Plata	Juan Carmelo Zerillo	24,544
		Estancia Chica	—
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó	48,314
		Campo de Deportes Jorge Newbery	—
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América	52,853
		Predio de Villa Domínico	—
Newell's Old Boys	Rosario	Marcelo Bielsa	38,095
		Centro Jorge B. Griffa	—
Platense	Florida Este	Ciudad de Vicente López	28,530
		Predio Alejandro Mariani Dolán	—
Racing	Avellaneda	Presidente Perón	55,389
		Predio Tita Mattiussi	—
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Mâs Monumental	83,196
		River Camp	—
Rosario Central	Rosario	Gigante de Arroyito	41,654
		Arroyo Seco	12,000
		Ciudad Deportiva de Rosario Central	—
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain	39,494
		Ciudad Deportiva	—
San Luis FC	La Punta	Juan Gilberto Funes	15,062
		Socios Fundadores de Estancia Grande	—
SAT	Moreno	12 de Agosto	700
UAI Urquiza	Buenos Aires	Monumental de Villa Lynch	1,000
		Rancho Taxco	—

Personnel

Club	Manager	Kit manufacturer
Banfield	Indiana Fernández	Athix
Belgrano	Maximiliano Luján	Erreà
Boca Juniors	Florencia Quiñones	Adidas
Estudiantes (BA)	Roberto Hernández	Coach
Excursionistas	Claudio Paz	Mut
Ferro Carril Oeste	Franco Bertera	Sport Lyon
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Silvana Villalobos	Givova
Huracán	Gastón Camargo	Kappa
Independiente	Pablo Goglino	Puma
Newell's Old Boys		AIFIT
Platense	Matías Raia	Hummel
Racing	Héctor Bracamonte	Kappa
River Plate	Ignacio Lacal	Adidas
Rosario Central	Damián Ledesma	Umbro
San Lorenzo	Livio Prieto	Nike
San Luis FC	Carlos Casteglione	Coach
SAT	Rubén Noriega	Camisetas Fan
UAI Urquiza	Leandro Iglesias	Retiel

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Estudiantes (BA)	Santiago Callaud	29 November 2023[4]	Pre-season	Jessica Moreno	6 December 2023[5]
Excursionistas	Ignacio Lacal	3 December 2023[6]		Walter Martins	25 January 2024[7]
River Plate	Daniela Díaz	4 December 2023[8]		Ignacio Lacal	8 January 2024[9]
Racing	Agustín Benchimol	7 December 2023[10]		Héctor Bracamonte	19 December 2023[11]
Huracán	Juan Palermo	19 December 2023[12]		Igor Miranda	23 January 2024[13]
Torneo Apertura changes
Estudiantes (BA)	Jessica Moreno	1 May 2024[14]	15th	Roberto Hernández	3 May 2024[15]
Excursionistas	Walter Martins	19 May 2024[16]	18th	Claudio Paz 1	26 May 2024[17]
Huracán	Igor Miranda	10 June 2024[18]	17th	Gastón Camargo 2	12 June 2024[19]
Newell's Old Boys	Miguel Fullana	13 June 2024[20]	8th	Sergio Vergara 3	13 June 2024
San Luis FC	Carlos Casteglione	4 July 2024	8th	Matías Fernández4 5	20 July 2024

Interim managers

1.^ Nicolás Heredia was interim manager in the 11th round.

2.^ Eduardo Quintairos was interim manager in the 12th round.

3.^ Interim manager until the end of the Apertura.

4.^ Samanta Montero was interim manager in the 16th round.

5.^ Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura was the first tournament of the season. It began on March 9 and ended on 21 July.^[1] Boca Juniors won their fifth tournament in a row, leading the table with 45 points from 14 wins and 3 draws in 17 games. The team managed by Florencia Quiñones finished the tournament without losing any match, and qualified for the Copa Libertadores Femenina play-off, to be held in December.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Boca Juniors (C)	17	14	3	0	49	6	+43	45	Qualification for Copa Libertadores Femenina qualification play-off
2	Racing	17	10	6	1	33	10	+23	36
3	River Plate	17	11	3	3	33	15	+18	36
4	Belgrano	17	9	5	3	27	12	+15	32
5	Ferro Carril Oeste	17	9	4	4	32	19	+13	31
6	San Luis	17	7	7	3	25	17	+8	28
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	17	7	5	5	28	19	+9	26
8	Independiente	17	7	4	6	18	24	−6	25
9	San Lorenzo	17	7	3	7	23	20	+3	24
10	Banfield	17	7	3	7	21	22	−1	24
11	UAI Urquiza	17	7	2	8	20	21	−1	23
12	Newell's Old Boys	17	7	2	8	19	22	−3	23
13	SAT	17	6	2	9	19	21	−2	20
14	Platense	17	3	8	6	14	19	−5	17
15	Rosario Central	17	4	3	10	9	26	−17	15
16	Estudiantes (BA)	17	3	3	11	15	32	−17	12
17	Huracán	17	3	1	13	11	25	−14	10
18	Excursionistas	17	0	0	17	3	63	−60	0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 July 2024. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head results; 5) fair play ranking 6) drawing of lots.
(C) Champions

Results

Teams will play every other team once (either at home or away) completing a total of 17 rounds.^[21]

Home \ Away	BAN	BEL	BOC	EST	EXC	FCO	GLP	HUR	IND	NOB	PLA	RAC	RIV	ROS	SLO	SLU	SAT	UAI
Banfield		3–1	0–1		4–2	1–1	2–5						0–1			0–1	1–2
Belgrano			1–1		6–0	2–1	2–0	2–0					2–0		2–3	0–0	2–0
Boca Juniors						2–0			2–0	2–1	4–0	1–1		4–0	4–0			8–0
Estudiantes (BA)	1–2	0–2	0–2		1–0		3–3						1–3			1–3	1–2
Excursionistas			0–8			0–3		0–3	0–2					0–1	0–7	0–2	0–3	0–3
Ferro Carril Oeste				4–1					3–1	0–1	4–1	0–0		3–0	2–1			2–1
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)			1–1		6–0	1–1		3–0					1–2	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0
Huracán	0–1		0–2	1–2		2–3				0–1		0–1			0–2	0–1	1–0
Independiente	0–2	0–0		4–3			3–2	2–0		1–1	1–0	0–4						0–0
Newell's Old Boys	2–0	0–1		1–0	4–1		0–1					0–2	2–3			2–1
Platense	1–1	0–0		3–0	3–0		1–1	1–1		0–0		1–1	0–3
Racing	1–1	2–2		2–0	6–0		1–0						0–0			4–1	1–2
River Plate			0–2		7–0	1–1		1–0	3–1					3–0	2–1	1–1	3–0
Rosario Central	0–1	0–2		0–0				0–3	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–2						1–0
San Lorenzo	1–2			0–0					0–1	1–2	1–0	1–3		2–1				1–0
San Luis FC			2–3			3–1			3–0		1–1			1–1	0–0		1–1	2–2
SAT			0–2			1–3			0–1	5–1	0–0			0–1	0–1			3–1
UAI Urquiza	2–0	2–0		0–1			0–1	3–0		2–0	1–0	0–2	3–0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 July 2024. Source: AFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Tournament statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Andrea Ojeda Boca Juniors 14 2 Rocío Bueno Racing 12 3 Kimberlyn Campos San Luis FC 10 4 Florencia Gaetán Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) 9 Julieta Lema Newell's Old Boys 5 Raquel Polich Ferro Carril Oeste 8 Marilyn Esquivel Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) Sindy Ramírez Racing Ichika Egashira River Plate 9 Mayra Acevedo Belgrano 7 10 Celeste Dos Santos Boca Juniors 6 Source: AFA

Top assists Rank Player Club Goals 1 Eliana Stábile Boca Juniors 8 2 Betina Soriano Belgrano 7 Marilyn Esquivel Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) 4 Nadia Fernández Banfield 6 5 Valentina Barroso Independiente 5 Agostina Holzheier Racing Kimberlyn Campos San Luis FC Melina Salinas San Luis FC Source: Muchachas on Instagram

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura will be the second tournament of the season. It will begin on August 4 and will end on 8 December.^[1]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Lorenzo	17	14	3	0	24	8	+16	45	Qualification for Copa Libertadores Femenina qualification play-off
2	Racing	17	11	4	2	41	16	+25	37
3	Boca Juniors	17	10	6	1	48	13	+35	36
4	UAI Urquiza	17	10	3	4	34	16	+18	33
5	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	17	10	2	5	28	26	+2	32
6	Newell's Old Boys	17	9	4	4	26	13	+13	31
7	Belgrano	17	8	3	6	22	16	+6	27
8	Banfield	17	7	2	8	24	21	+3	23
9	River Plate	17	5	6	6	27	25	+2	21
10	Independiente	17	5	6	6	18	25	−7	21
11	San Luis FC	17	4	8	5	31	29	+2	20
12	Platense	17	5	3	9	19	24	−5	18
13	Ferro Carril Oeste	17	4	5	8	23	20	+3	17
14	Huracán	17	4	5	8	24	34	−10	17
15	Estudiantes (BA)	17	3	6	8	20	31	−11	15
16	Rosario Central	17	4	2	11	22	30	−8	14
17	SAT	17	2	5	10	12	26	−14	11
18	Excursionistas	17	1	1	15	6	76	−70	4

Updated to match(es) played on 12 December 2024. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head results; 5) fair play ranking 6) drawing of lots.

Copa Libertadores Femenina qualification

The winners of the Apertura tournament and the winners of the Clausura tournament will face each other in a play-off match in order to qualify for the 2025 Copa Libertadores Femenina. It is expected to take place on December 15. If the same team wins both tournaments it will automatically qualify to the competition.^[1]

Aggregate table

In this season, relegation will be determined by an aggregate table of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The bottom four teams will be relegated to the 2025 Primera División B. If two or more teams are level on points, extra matches will be played to decide which team will be relegated.^[1]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Boca Juniors	17	14	3	0	49	6	+43	45
2	Racing	17	10	6	1	33	10	+23	36
3	River Plate	17	11	3	3	33	15	+18	36
4	Belgrano	17	9	5	3	27	12	+15	32
5	Ferro Carril Oeste	17	9	4	4	32	19	+13	31
6	San Luis FC	17	7	7	3	25	17	+8	28
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	17	7	5	5	28	19	+9	26
8	Independiente	17	7	4	6	18	24	−6	25
9	San Lorenzo	17	7	3	7	23	20	+3	24
10	Banfield	17	7	3	7	21	22	−1	24
11	UAI Urquiza	17	7	2	8	20	21	−1	23
12	Newell's Old Boys	17	7	2	8	19	22	−3	23
13	SAT	17	6	2	9	19	21	−2	20
14	Platense	17	3	8	6	14	19	−5	17
15	Rosario Central	17	4	3	10	9	26	−17	15	Relegation to Primera División B
16	Estudiantes (BA)	17	3	3	11	15	32	−17	12
17	Huracán	17	3	1	13	11	25	−14	10
18	Excursionistas	17	0	0	17	3	63	−60	0

Updated to match(es) played on 23 July 2024. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head results; 5) fair play ranking 6) drawing of lots.