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2009–10 Argentine Primera División season

119th season of top-tier football league in Argentina

Field	Value
competition	Primera División
season	2009–10
winners	Apertura: Banfield (1st title)
Clausura: Argentinos Juniors (3rd title)
relegated	Chacarita Juniors
Atlético Tucumán
Rosario Central
continentalcup1	2010 Copa Libertadores
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Banfield
Lanús
Colón
Newell's Old Boys
continentalcup2	2011 Copa Libertadores
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Argentinos Juniors
continentalcup3	2010 Copa Sudamericana
continentalcup3 qualifiers	Argentinos Juniors
Newell's Old Boys
Estudiantes (LP)
Banfield
Independiente
Vélez Sarsfield
league topscorer	Apertura: Santiago Silva (14 goals)
Clausura: Mauro Boselli (13 goals)
Season: Mauro Boselli (22 goals)
biggest home win	Newell's Old Boys 6–0 Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)
(8 May 2010)
biggest away win	River Plate 1–5 Tigre
(15 May 2010)
highest scoring	Lanús 3–6 Argentinos Juniors
(6 February 2010)
matches	380
total goals	948
prevseason	2008–09
nextseason	2010–11

Clausura: Argentinos Juniors (3rd title) Atlético Tucumán Rosario Central Lanús Colón Newell's Old Boys Newell's Old Boys Estudiantes (LP) Banfield Independiente Vélez Sarsfield Clausura: Mauro Boselli (13 goals) Season: Mauro Boselli (22 goals) (8 May 2010) (15 May 2010) (6 February 2010)

The 2009–10 Primera División season was the 119th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams competed in the season, which started on 21 August 2009 and ended on 23 May 2010.

Changes from 2008–09

The major changes for this season apply to international qualification. For the 2010 Copa Libertadores, an aggregate table of the two tournaments held in 2009 (2009 Clausura and 2009 Apertura) will be taken into account, instead of an average of the past three tournaments. For the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, River Plate and Boca Juniors will no longer be invited without merit. Their open berths will be up for qualification to any team, including themselves.

On 21 August, the Argentine Football Association revoked the television broadcasting contract with TyC in the hopes of increasing revenue to help the financially struggling clubs. On 18 August, the AFA and the Government of Argentina struck a deal to broadcast the season for free on non-cable channels, which allowed the season to start on the 21st.

Club information

Twenty clubs will participate in the 2009–10 season, with eighteen sides remaining from the previous season. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy and San Martín de Tucumán were relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season. They were replaced by Chacarita Juniors and Atlético Tucumán, both of whom were promoted from the Primera B Nacional. Rosario Central and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) played the relegation/promotion playoffs against Belgrano and Atlético de Rafaela, respectively. Both Gimnasia y Esgrima and Rosario Central won their playoff matches and retained their status in top-flight football.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Argentinos Juniors	Buenos Aires	Diego Armando Maradona	24,800
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio H. Grondona	16,300
Atlético Tucumán	Tucumán	Monumental Presidente José Fierro	30,000
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Solá	40,500
Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires	Alberto J. Armando	49,000
Colón	Santa Fe	Brigadier General Estanislao López	32,500
Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú	Chacarita Juniors	24,300
Estudiantes (LP)	La Plata	Centenario	30,200
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	La Plata	Juan Carlos Zerillo	24,544
Godoy Cruz	Godoy Cruz	Malvinas Argentinas	40,268
Huracán	Buenos Aires	Tomás Adolfo Ducó	48,314
Independiente	Avellaneda	Libertadores de América	32,500
Lanús	Lanús	Ciudad de Lanús – Néstor Díaz Pérez	46,619
Newell's Old Boys	Rosario	Marcelo Bielsa	38,095
Racing Club	Avellaneda	Presidente Juan Domingo Perón	51,389
River Plate	Buenos Aires	Monumental Antonio V. Liberti	57,901
Rosario Central	Rosario	Dr. Lisandro de la Torre	41,824
San Lorenzo	Buenos Aires	Pedro Bidegain	43,494
Tigre	Victoria	Monumental de Victoria	26,282
Vélez Sársfield	Buenos Aires	José Amalfitani	49,540

:1.Chacarita Juniors played all their home games on Argentinos Juniors' Diego Armando Maradona stadium. :2.Estudiantes' own stadium is undergoing renovation and the team is playing in Quilmes. :3.The first match Independiente played in Estadio Libertadores de América after reconstruction was on 28 October 2009. Prior to that, Independiente used Estadio Ciudad de Lanús. :4.Newell's Old Boys changed the name of their stadium to Estadio Marcelo Bielsa from Estadio Newell's Old Boys on 22 December 2009.

Personnel and kits

Club	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Argentinos Juniors	ARG Claudio Borghi	Diadora	Liderar Seguros
Arsenal	ARG Carlos Ruiz (interim)	Mitre	Liderar Seguros
Atlético Tucumán	ARG Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez	Topper	Ingenio San Juan
Banfield	ARG Sebastián Ariel Méndez	Mitre	Bingo Lomas
Boca Juniors	ARG Roberto Pompei (interim)	Nike	LG
Colón	ARG	Umbro	La Nueva Seguros/Flecha Bus
Chacarita Juniors	ARG Luis Marabotto	TBS	La Nueva Seguros
Estudiantes (LP)	ARG Hernán Darío Ortiz	Topper	RCA
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	ARG Diego Cocca	Kappa	La Nueva Seguros
Godoy Cruz	ARG Omar Asad	Lotto	Mendoza
Huracán	ARG Héctor Rivoira	Kappa	Motomel
Independiente	ARG Américo Gallego	Puma	Motomel
Lanús	ARG Luis Zubeldía	Signia	Bingo Lanús
Newell's Old Boys	ARG Roberto Sensini	Topper	Motomel
Racing	ARG Miguel Ángel Russo	Penalty	Banco Macro
River Plate	ARG Ángel Cappa	Adidas	Petrobras
Rosario Central	ARG Leonardo Madelón	Puma	Ingeconser
San Lorenzo	ARG Sebastián Ariel Méndez (interim)	Lotto	Walmart
Tigre	ARG Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	Diadora	Banco Macro
Vélez Sársfield	ARG	Penalty	Mondial

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of
departure	Date of
vacancy	Replaced by	Date of
appointment	Position
in table	Pre-season changes	Apertura changes	Inter-tournament changes	Clausura changes
Boca Juniors	Abel Álves (interim)	End of contract	5 July 2009	Alfio Basile	6 July 2009	N/A
Rosario Central	Miguel Ángel Russo	Resigned	13 July 2009	Ariel Cuffaro Russo	22 July 2009	N/A
Chacarita Juniors	Ricardo Zielinski	Resigned	20 September 2009	Fernando Gamboa	21 September 2009	20th
River Plate	Néstor Gorosito	Resigned	4 October 2009	Leonardo Astrada	6 October 2009	16th
Racing	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	Resigned	8 October 2009	Juan Barbas (interim)	10 October 2009	18th
Atlético Tucumán	Héctor Rivoira	Resigned	2 November 2009	Salvador Mónaco (interim) &
Ricardo Salomón (interim)	4 November 2009	17th
Racing	Juan Barbas (interim)	End of contract	2 November 2009	Claudio Vivas	3 November 2009	18th
Godoy Cruz	Diego Cocca	Sacked	3 November 2009	Daniel Oldrá (interim)	3 November 2009	15th
Godoy Cruz	Daniel Oldrá (interim)	End of contract	8 November 2009	Enzo Trossero	9 November 2009	15th
Atlético Tucumán	Salvador Mónaco (interim) &
Ricardo Salomón (interim)	End of contract	11 November 2009	Osvaldo Sosa	11 November 2009	14th
Huracán	Ángel Cappa	Resigned	24 November 2009	Héctor Martínez (interim)	25 November 2009	19th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Leonardo Madelón	Resigned	2 December 2009	Pablo Morant (interim) &
Darío Ortíz (interim)	2 December 2009	18th
Huracán	Héctor Martínez (interim)	End of contract	3 December 2009	Héctor Rivoira	3 December 2009	19th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pablo Morant (interim) &
Darío Ortíz (interim)	End of contract	4 December 2009	Pablo César Fernández	4 December 2009	18th
Tigre	Diego Cagna	Resigned	14 December 2009	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	16 December 2009	20th
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pablo César Fernández	Sacked	16 December 2009	Diego Cocca	24 December 2009	18th
Godoy Cruz	Enzo Trossero	End of contract	29 December 2009	Omar Asad	30 December 2009	17th
Boca Juniors	Alfio Basile	Resigned	21 January 2010	Abel Álves (interim)	22 January 2010	N/A
Racing	Claudio Vivas	Sacked	15 February 2010	Miguel Ángel Russo	17 February 2010	16th
Atlético Tucumán	Osvaldo Sosa	Sacked	url=http://www.ole.clarin.com/notas/2010/03/08/futbollocal/02154822.html	title=A rey muerto...	date=8 March 2010	publisher=Diario Olé	language=es	access-date=8 March 2010	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100407072356/http://www.ole.clarin.com/notas/2010/03/08/futbollocal/02154822.html	archive-date= 7 April 2010	url-status= live}}	Mario Gómez	8 March 2010	19th
Chacarita Juniors	Fernando Gamboa	Sacked	21 March 2010	Mauro Navas	22 March 2010	16th
Rosario Central	Ariel Cuffaro Russo	Sacked	28 March 2010	Leonardo Madelón	29 March 2010	19th
San Lorenzo	Diego Simeone	Resigned	3 April 2010	Sebastián Méndez (interim)	4 April 2010	17th
Boca Juniors	Abel Álves (interim)	Sacked	url=http://www.clarin.com/diario/2010/04/09/um/m-02177109.htm	title=Ameal presentó a Pompei y dijo que quiere que sigan Palermo y Riquelme	date=9 April 2010	publisher=Clarín	language=es	access-date=9 April 2010}}	Roberto Pompei (interim)	9 April 2010	19th
River Plate	Leonardo Astrada	Sacked	12 April 2010	Ángel Cappa	12 April 2010	17th
Chacarita Juniors	Mauro Navas	Sacked	19 April 2010	Luis Marabotto	21 April 2010	18th
Arsenal	Jorge Burruchaga	Resigned	29 April 2010	Carlos Ruiz (interim)	2 May 2010	16th

Transfers

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura was scheduled to begin on 14 August 2009 and end on 13 December 2009. However, the AFA delayed the start of the tournament until 21 August 2009 due to financial debts in some clubs.

Standings

Results

Top ten goalscorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	URU Santiago Silva	Banfield	14
2	ARG Federico Nieto	Colón	12
3	URU Joaquín Boghossian	Newell's Old Boys	11
4	ARG Darío Gandín	Independiente	10
ARG Gabriel Hauche	Argentinos Juniors	10
6	ARG Mauro Boselli	Estudiantes (LP)	9
7	ARG Diego Buonanotte	River Plate	8
8	ARG Esteban Fuertes	Colón	6
ARG Franco Jara	Arsenal	6
ARG Martín Palermo	Boca Juniors	6
ARG Facundo Parra	Chacarita Juniors	6
ARG Luis Rodríguez	Atlético Tucumán	6
PAR Santiago Salcedo	Lanús	6

Source:

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Results

Top ten goalscorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	ARG Mauro Boselli	Estudiantes (LP)	13
2	ARG Martín Palermo	Boca Juniors	10
COL Marco Pérez	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	10
ARG Rubén Ramírez	Banfield	10
5	ARG Carlos Luna	Tigre	9
ARG Ismael Sosa	Argentinos Juniors	9
7	ARG Facundo Parra	Chacarita Juniors	8
8	ARG Federico Higuaín	Godoy Cruz	7
ARG Leonel Núñez	Independiente	7
ARG Andrés Silvera	Independiente	7

Source:

Relegation

Pos
Team	2007–08
Pts	2008–09
Pts	2009–10
Pts	Total
Pts	Total
Pld	Avg
Relegation
1	Estudiantes (LP)	69	57	71	197	114	****
2	Lanús	56	75	60	191	114	****
3	Vélez Sarsfield	59	66	61	186	114	****
4	San Lorenzo	64	63	52	179	114	****
5	Boca Juniors	70	61	47	178	114	****
6	Newell's Old Boys	56	52	69	177	114	****
7	Banfield	54	46	73	173	114	****
8	Argentinos Juniors	61	38	73	172	114	****
9	Independiente	59	39	68	166	114	****
10	Colón	45	57	55	157	114	****
11	Godoy Cruz	—	49	53	102	76	****
12	River Plate	66	41	43	150	114	****
13	Tigre	56	62	32	150	114	****
14	Huracán	52	58	37	147	114	****
15	Arsenal	51	46	46	143	114	****
16	Racing	40	52	46	138	114	****
17	Rosario Central	41	40	50	131	114	****	Relegation Playoff Matches
18	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	36	55	37	128	114	****
19	Atlético Tucumán	—	—	35	35	38	****	Primera B Nacional
20	Chacarita Juniors	—	—	32	32	38	****

Source:

Relegation/promotion playoffs

|- !colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 1 |- !colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 2

All Boys won 4–1 and was promoted for the next season to Primera División, while Rosario Central was relegated to the Primera B Nacional. Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) won 3–2 and stayed in the Primera División.

International qualification

Copa Libertadores

The first two of Argentina's five allocated berths to the 2010 Copa Libertadores went to the 2009 Clausura champion (Vélez Sársfield) and the 2009 Apertura champion (Banfield). The remaining three berths went to the teams with the best average of the past two tournaments. Additionally, Estudiantes had a berth as the defending Copa Libertadores champion.

Copa Sudamericana

Qualification for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana is determined by an aggregate table of the Apertura 2009 and Clausura 2010 tournaments. The top six teams in the aggregate table qualify. Boca Juniors and River Plate will no longer be invited to the tournament without merit.

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