The 2022
Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; en, "First Division"), known officialy as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Binance for sponsorship reasons, is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
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- Liga Profesional will be the 132nd season of top-flight professional
football in Argentina. The league season will begin on 5 June and will end on 23 October 2022.
Twenty-eight teams will compete in the league: the 26 teams that took part in the
previous Primera División season as well as two promoted teams from the
2021 Primera Nacional (
Tigre and
Barracas Central).
are the defending champions.
Competition format
The competition will be run under a
single round-robin, contested by 28 teams (26 from the
previous edition plus 2 promoted from
Primera Nacional). The champions will qualify for the
2023 Copa Libertadores as ''Argentina 1''. The qualification for international tournaments will be determined by an aggregate table of the 2022 Primera División and 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments.
Club information
Stadia and locations
Personnel
Managerial changes
Interim managers
:1.
Sergio Ramos and
Salvador Daniele were interim manager in the 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage
4th round.
:2.
Gabriel Graciani was interim manager in the 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage
5th round.
:3.
Javier Gandolfi was interim manager in the 2021–22 Copa Argentina
round of 64 and the 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage
7th round.
:4. Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.
:5. Interim manager until the end of the Copa de la Liga Profesional.
League table
International qualification
The 2022 Argentine Primera División champions,
2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional
The 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional (officially the Copa Binance 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was the third edition of the Copa de la Liga Profesional, an list of Argentine football national cups, Argentine domestic cup. It began on 10 February a ...
champions and
2021–22 Copa Argentina champions will earn a berth to the
2023 Copa Libertadores. The remaining berths to the 2023 Copa Libertadores as well as the ones to the
2023 Copa Sudamericana
The 2023 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana will be the 22nd edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana''), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.
The winners of the 2023 Copa Suda ...
will be determined by an aggregate table of the 2022 Argentine Primera División and 2022 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments. The top three teams in the aggregate table not already qualified for any international tournament will qualify for the Copa Libertadores, while the next six teams will qualify for the Copa Sudamericana.
Aggregate table
Relegation
Relegation at the end of the season is based on coefficients, which take 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 are counted). The total tally is then divided by the number of games played in the top flight over those three seasons and an average is calculated. The two teams with the worst average at the end of the season will be relegated to
Primera Nacional. Relegation will be reinstated starting from this season after it was suspended by AFA at the end of the 2019–20 season due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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Source
AFA
References
External links
LPF official site
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