2010–11 Argentine Primera División Season
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The 2010–11 Primera División season was the 120th season of top-flight professional
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. A total of 20 teams competed in two championships —the Apertura and Clausura— over the course of the season, which started on 6 August 2010 and ended on 30 June 2011, one day prior to the start of the
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, held in
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.


Club information

Twenty clubs participated in the 2010–11 season.
Chacarita Juniors Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors (usually known simply as Chacarita) is an Argentine association football, football club headquartered in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, while the stadium is located in Villa Maipú, General San Martín Partido of Gre ...
and Atlético Tucumán were relegated at the end of the 2009–10 season. They were replaced by Olimpo and
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, both of whom were promoted from the
Primera B Nacional Primera Nacional (usually called simply Nacional B, (English "National B Division"), and known as Primera B Nacional until the 2019–20 season) is the second division of the Argentine football league system. The competition is made up of 38 team ...
. Rosario Central and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) played in the relegation/promotion playoffs against
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and Atlético de Rafaela, respectively, to determine the other two teams for this season. Following those matches, Gimnasia stayed in the Primera División, while Rosario Central was relegated and replaced by All Boys. During the season, Estudiantes used Estadio Centenario Dr. José Luis Meiszner in
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and Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in
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since their home stadium,
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, was undergoing renovations.


Personnel and kits


Transfers

See List of Argentine Primera División transfers July–August 2010.


Managerial changes


Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura 2010 (known as the Torneo IVECO del Bicentenario Apertura 2010 for sponsorship reasons) was the first championship of the season. It began on 6 August and it ended on 6 February 2011.Due to the death of
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,
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from 2003–2007, on 27 October, all matches for the following weekend were postponed. This pushed the match schedule for the remainder of the season back a week, changing the end of the tournament from 12 December to 19 December. The schedule was later adjusted again to end on 12 December as planned. Due to Independiente's participation in the
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, their match against Tigre was postponed to 6 February 2011.


Standings


Results


Top goalscorers

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Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura 2011, officially called the Torneo Clausura
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2011, began on 11 February and ended on 19 June.


Standings


Results


Top goalscorers

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Relegation

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Playoff for relegation/promotion playoff 1

Since Huracán and Gimnasia (La Plata) finished with the same relegation co-efficient at the dividing line, a one-match playoff was held to determine who had to play in the relegation/promotion playoffs and who had to be directly relegated to the
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. The match was played on 22 June 2011 at Estadio Alberto J. Armando in
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. Gimnasia won the match 2–0 and continued to the relegation/promotion playoff against San Martín de San Juan; Huracán was relegated to the Primera B Nacional.


Relegation/promotion playoffs

The 17th and 18th placed teams in the relegation table ( River Plate and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP), respectively) played the 3rd and 4th-place finishers of the 2010–11 Primera B Nacional season ( San Martín (SJ) and Belgrano, respectively), the winner of each claiming a spot in the following Primera División season. The Primera División team (''Team 1'') played the second leg at home. Both San Martín de San Juan and Belgrano defeated their Primera División counterparts—Gimnasia de La Plata and River Plate, respectively—to earn promotion to the Primera División for the 2011–12 season. Of historic note, this is the first time River Plate got relegated to the Primera B Nacional. , - !colspan="5", Relegation/promotion playoff 1 !colspan="5", Relegation/promotion playoff 2


International qualification


Copa Libertadores

The 2010 Clausura champion (
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) and the 2010 Apertura champion (
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) earned a berth to the 2011 Copa Libertadores. Independiente won the
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and earned a berth into the competition. The remaining two berths were determined by an aggregate table of the 2010 Clausura and 2010 Apertura tournaments.


Copa Sudamericana

Qualification for the 2011 Copa Sudamericana was determined by an aggregate table of the Apertura 2010 and Clausura 2011 tournaments.


See also

* 2010–11 in Argentine football


Notes


References


External links


Official website
of the
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Season regulations

Universofutbol.com Clausura 2010
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