The 1985
Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; ), known officially as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Betano for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Argentina and the highest level of the Argentine football league system. Organ ...
was the 94th season of top-flight
football in Argentina
Association football is the most popular sport in Argentina and part of the culture of Argentina, culture in the country. It is the one with the most players (2,658,811 total, 331,811 of which are registered and 2,327,000 unregistered; with 3,37 ...
. The season began on February 17 and ended on September 4.
This tournament featured the last edition of the
Nacional championship The Campeonato Nacional was one of the two football tournaments that formed the Primera División season (along with the Metropolitano championship) since 1967. The Nacional championship was played annually until its last edition in 1985.
The Nac ...
. The structure of the tournament made it the most complicated championship in the history of Primera División. The eventual champions were
Argentinos Juniors
Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its association football, football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División, and was reco ...
who beat
Vélez Sársfield in a 2nd final.
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Nacional Championship
Group Stages (1st step)
''The top two teams go through to the winners knockout, the bottom two go to the losers knockout.''
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
2nd step
Winners knockout
''The winners progressed to the winners QF, the losers enter the losers 3rd round.''
Losers knockout
3rd step
Winners Quarter-finals
Losers 3rd round
4th step
Winners Semi-finals
Losers 4th round
5th step
Winners final
*Argentinos Juniors to play in the final
*Vélez Sársfield progress to the losers final
Losers 5th round
6th step
Losers 6th round
7th step
Losers 7th round
8th step
Losers final
*Vélez Sársfield to play in the final
Final
August 28, 1985
*''As Argentinos Juniors had made it to the final without losing a game, the final had to be replayed to give them the 2nd chance that every other team had already had.''
September 3, 1985
Final
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Rematch
See also
* 1985–86 in Argentine football
References
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