1978 Argentine Primera División

The 1978 Primera División season was the 87th season of top-flight football in Argentina. Quilmes won the Metropolitano (2nd title) and Independiente achieved the Nacional championship (12th title).

Primera División

Season	1978
Champions	Quilmes (Metropolitano) Independiente (Nacional)
← 1977 1979 →

Banfield and Estudiantes (BA) were relegated.^[1]

Metropolitano Championship

Metropolitano

Quilmes, Metropolitano champions
Season	1978
Champions	Quilmes (2nd title)
Promoted	Estudiantes (BA)
Relegated	Banfield Estudiantes (BA)
1979 Copa Libertadores	Quilmes
Top goalscorer	Luis Andreuchi Diego Maradona (22 goals each)
← 1977 1979 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Quilmes	40	22	10	8	53	41	+12	54
2	Boca Juniors	40	20	13	7	58	45	+13	53
3	Unión	40	20	12	8	58	36	+22	52
4	San Lorenzo	40	17	13	10	47	41	+6	47
5	Argentinos Juniors	40	17	12	11	66	52	+14	46
6	River Plate	40	16	13	11	59	47	+12	45
7	Newell's Old Boys	40	14	16	10	52	36	+16	44
8	Independiente	40	15	13	12	69	54	+15	43
9	Racing	40	15	12	13	58	46	+12	42
10	Rosario Central	40	13	16	11	43	32	+11	42
11	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	40	11	18	11	41	44	−3	40
12	Colón	40	14	11	15	60	59	+1	39
13	Atlanta	40	10	17	13	49	56	−7	37
14	Estudiantes (LP)	40	13	10	17	59	51	+8	36
15	Huracán	40	11	13	16	47	46	+1	35
16	Vélez Sarsfield	40	10	15	15	35	39	−4	35
17	All Boys	40	10	11	19	34	58	−24	31
18	Chacarita Juniors	40	11	9	20	39	69	−30	31
19	Platense	40	8	14	18	41	63	−22	30
20	Banfield	40	7	15	18	43	66	−23	29
21	Estudiantes (BA)	40	8	13	19	43	73	−30	29

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Nacional Championship

Group A

Nacional

Independiente, Nacional champions
Season	1978
Champions	Independiente (12th title)
1979 Copa Libertadores	Independiente
Top goalscorer	José Reinaldi (16 goals)
← 1977 1979 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Talleres (C)	14	9	3	2	37	17	+20	21
2	Racing	14	8	3	3	21	14	+7	19
3	Newell's Old Boys	14	7	4	3	27	19	+8	18
4	Ledesma	14	5	5	4	23	22	+1	15
5	Ferro Carril Oeste	14	6	3	5	23	22	+1	15
6	Estudiantes (LP)	14	5	0	9	28	31	−3	10
7	All Boys	14	2	6	6	16	26	−10	10
8	Juventud Antoniana	14	0	4	10	16	40	−24	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Unión	14	9	3	2	22	6	+16	21
2	Huracán	14	7	5	2	31	18	+13	19
3	Atlético Tucumán	14	8	3	3	24	12	+12	19
4	Boca Juniors	14	7	1	6	19	25	−6	15
5	Patronato	14	4	5	5	17	21	−4	13
6	Chacarita Juniors	14	4	4	6	20	23	−3	12
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	14	4	2	8	17	25	−8	10
8	Platense	14	0	3	11	9	29	−20	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente	14	9	3	2	31	16	+15	21
2	Vélez Sarsfield	14	8	5	1	20	14	+6	21
3	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	14	6	5	3	22	13	+9	17
4	Racing (C)	14	5	4	5	17	16	+1	14
5	Deportivo Roca	14	5	4	5	12	14	−2	14
6	Rosario Central	14	2	6	6	9	14	−5	10
7	Argentinos Juniors	14	4	1	9	17	26	−9	9
8	Altos Hornos Zapla	14	1	4	9	14	29	−15	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	River Plate	14	10	3	1	35	13	+22	23
2	Colón	14	7	3	4	23	15	+8	17
3	San Martín (M)	14	7	2	5	22	22	0	16
4	Atlanta	14	3	7	4	22	23	−1	13
5	San Martín (T)	14	4	4	6	24	22	+2	12
6	Quilmes	14	4	3	7	16	27	−11	11
7	Alvarado	14	3	4	7	20	28	−8	10
8	San Lorenzo	14	3	4	7	13	25	−12	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Colón	2–4	Independiente	2–2	0–2
Huracán	2–4	Talleres	2–1	0–3
River Plate	3–2	Vélez Sársfield	2–0	1–2
Racing	1–3	Unión	1–2	0–1

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Independiente	4–2	Talleres (C)	2–1	2–1
Unión (SF)	1–2	River Plate	0–1	1–1

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
River Plate	0–2	Independiente	0–0	0–2

First leg

1978 Campeonato Nacional Final

7 January 1979

First leg

River Plate	0–0	Independiente
	Report

River Plate, Buenos Aires

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Second leg

10 January 1979

Second leg

Independiente	2–0	River Plate
Bochini 19', 54'	Report

Independiente Stadium, Avellaneda

Attendance: 43,422

Referee: Jorge Romero

Independiente

River Plate

GK 1 Héctor Baley DF 4 Rubén Pagnanini  75' DF 2 Hugo Villaverde DF 6 Enzo Trossero DF 3 Osvaldo Pérez MF 8 Omar Larrosa MF 5 Carlos Fren MF 10 Ricardo Bochini FW 7 Antonio Alzamendi  71' FW 9 Norberto Outes FW 11 Alejandro Barberón Substitutes: DF Juan M. Insaurralde  75' DF Ricardo Fontana  71' Manager: José Pastoriza

GK 1 Ubaldo Fillol DF 4 Eduardo Saporiti DF 2 José Luis Pavoni DF 6 Daniel Passarella DF 3 Héctor López MF 8 Juan José López MF 5 Reinaldo Merlo MF 10 Norberto Alonso FW 7 Pedro A. González  57' FW 9 Leopoldo Luque FW 11 Oscar Ortiz Substitutes: FW Rubén Galletti  57' Manager: Ángel Labruna