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The 2013–14 Primera División season was the 123rd season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. It started on August 2, 2013 and ended on May 24, 2014. Twenty teams competed in the league, seventeen returning from the 2012–13 season and three promoted from the Primera B Nacional Championship (Championship winners Rosario Central, runners-up Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) and 3rd place Olimpo). For first time Independiente did not compete in the Primera División championship.

In the first half of the season San Lorenzo became champion of the 2013 Torneo Inicial "Nietos Recuperados", winning the “Miguel Benancio Sánchez” League Cup. The winner of the 2014 Torneo Final "Nietos Recuperados", River Plate, won the "Presidente Raúl Alfonsín" League Cup. In the Superfinal, River Plate won the Campeonato Cup after a 1–0 victory over San Lorenzo in La Punta, San Luis.

Argentinos Juniors and All Boys were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship. The third relegated team was Colón, who lost a playoff match against Atlético de Rafaela.

Format

There was two champions in the season. The champions (Torneo Inicial and Torneo Final winners) met in a season ending championship final to determine the super champion. The format for each tournament remained the same as in previous seasons.

As in the previous season the last three teams on the relegation (average) table were directly relegated.

Teams

The relegated teams of 2012–13 season were San Martín (SJ), Independiente and Unión. They played in the 2013–14 Primera B Nacional Championship. At the same time the 2012–13 Primera B Nacional Championship winners Rosario Central, runners-up Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) and 3rd place Olimpo were promoted at the end of the season.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Club	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
All Boys	Ricardo Rodríguez	Balonpie	Lácteos Barraza
Argentinos Juniors	Claudio Borghi	Joma	Liderar Seguros
Arsenal	Martín Palermo	Lotto	La Nueva Seguros
Atlético de Rafaela	Jorge Burruchaga	Reusch	SanCor
Belgrano	Ricardo Zielinski	Lotto	Tersuave
Boca Juniors	Carlos Bianchi	Nike	BBVA Banco Francés
Colón	Diego Osella	Umbro	Flecha Bus
Estudiantes (LP)	Mauricio Pellegrino	Adidas	DirecTV
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Pedro Troglio	Penalty	Liderar Seguros
Godoy Cruz	Jorge Almirón	Lotto	Mendoza Espíritu Grande
Lanús	Guillermo Barros Schelotto	KDY	Cerámicas Lourdes
Newell's Old Boys	Ricardo Lunari	Topper	Motomel
Olimpo	Walter Perazzo	Kappa	Bingo Bahía
Quilmes	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	Lotto	Quilmes
Racing	Fabio Radaelli	Olympikus	Banco Hipotecario
River Plate	Ramón Díaz	Adidas	BBVA Banco Francés
Rosario Central	Miguel Ángel Russo	Olympikus	Ingeconser
San Lorenzo	Edgardo Bauza	Lotto	Banco Ciudad
Tigre	Fabián Alegre	Kappa	Banco Macro
Vélez Sarsfield	José Oscar Flores	Topper	Samsung

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-season changes
Quilmes	Omar De Felippe	Resigned	June 22, 2013	Nelson Vivas	June 24, 2013	N/A
All Boys	José Romero	Contract terminated	June 23, 2013	Julio César Falcioni	June 24, 2013	N/A
Colón	Pablo Morant	Replaced	June 29, 2013	Rubén Forestello	June 29, 2013	N/A
Tigre	Néstor Gorosito	Resigned	July 6, 2013	Diego Cagna	July 8, 2013	N/A
Newell's Old Boys	Gerardo Martino	Contract terminated	July 10, 2013	Alfredo Berti	July 10, 2013	N/A
Torneo Inicial changes
Racing	Luis Zubeldía	Resigned	August 24, 2013	Carlos Ischia	August 30, 2013	20th
Tigre	Diego Cagna	Sacked	September 10, 2013	Fabián Alegre	September 10, 2013	19th
Racing	Carlos Ischia	Resigned	October 7, 2013	Reinaldo Merlo	October 10, 2013	20th
Colón	Rubén Forestello	Resigned	October 7, 2013	Mario Sciacqua	October 8, 2013	17th
Quilmes	Nelson Vivas	Resigned	October 21, 2013	Blas Giunta	October 22, 2013	16th
All Boys	Julio César Falcioni	Resigned	November 16, 2013	Ricardo Rodríguez	November 19, 2013	17th
Inter-tournament changes
Godoy Cruz	Martín Palermo	Contract terminated	December 6, 2013	Jorge Almirón	December 9, 2013	N/A
Argentinos Juniors	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	Mutual agreement	December 10, 2013	Claudio Borghi	December 29, 2013	N/A
San Lorenzo	Juan Antonio Pizzi	Resigned	December 20, 2013	Edgardo Bauza	December 26, 2013	N/A
Vélez Sarsfield	Ricardo Gareca	Contract terminated	December 23, 2013	José Oscar Flores	December 26, 2013	N/A
Colón	Mario Sciacqua	Replaced	January 1, 2014	Diego Osella	January 1, 2014	N/A
Torneo Final changes
Quilmes	Blas Giunta	Sacked	February 16, 2014	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi	February 18, 2014	20th
Newell's Old Boys	Alfredo Berti	Resigned	April 11, 2014	Ricardo Lunari	April 11, 2014	14th
Arsenal	Gustavo Alfaro	Sacked	April 14, 2014	Martín Palermo	April 15, 2014	20th
Racing	Reinaldo Merlo	Resigned	May 6, 2014	Fabio Radaelli	May 7, 2014	17th

Interim Managers
Torneo Inicial

1. Fabio Radaelli was interim manager in the 5th round.

2. Interim manager, but later promoted to full-time manager.

3. Ignacio Carlos González was interim manager in the 11th round.

4. Interim manager.

Torneo Final

5. Interim manager.

6. Roberto González was interim manager in the 14th round.

7. Interim manager.

Torneo Inicial

The Torneo Inicial was the first tournament of the season. It began on August 2 and ended on December 15, 2013. Originally the tournament should finish on December 8, but AFA decided to postpone two matches of the last round (Vélez Sarsfield-San Lorenzo and Newell's Old Boys-Lanús) one week as Lanús had to play the 2013 Copa Sudamericana final against Ponte Preta of Brazil. San Lorenzo won the title with a 0–0 draw at Vélez Sarsfield as outgoing champions Newell's Old Boys were held 2–2 in Rosario. San Lorenzo topped the Torneo Inicial with 33 points from 19 matches, two more than Vélez Sarsfield, Newell's Old Boys and Lanús. It was San Lorenzo's 12th league title in the professional era and first since the 2007 Clausura championship.
Also in this tournament Colón were deducted six points after their denial to pay the fee that was agreed upon with Mexican side Atlante over Juan Carlos Falcón back in 2007. Atlante decided to take this issue to FIFA and they won the case. Colón lost the appeal and were forced to pay US$600.000.
Additionally, on November 18 (16th round) the Colón players refused to participate in the match against Atlético de Rafaela, due to a failure to pay the squad's wages. Finally, on December 10, AFA gave the victory to Atlético de Rafaela (0−1), but they did not deduct any points from Colón.

Standings

1. Colón deducted 6 points

Results

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	César Pereyra	Argentine	Belgrano	10
2	Mauro Matos	Argentine	All Boys	9
3	Emanuel Gigliotti	Argentine	Boca Juniors	8
	Ignacio Piatti	Argentine	San Lorenzo	8
	Diego Vera	Uruguayan	Atlético de Rafaela	8
6	Lucas Pratto	Argentine	Vélez Sarsfield	7
	Santiago Silva	Uruguayan	Lanús	7
8	Hernán Boyero	Argentine	Argentinos Juniors	6
	Julio Furch	Argentine	Arsenal	6
	Facundo Pereyra	Argentine	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	6
	Maxi Rodríguez	Argentine	Newell's Old Boys	6

Attendances

The Boca Juniors drew the highest average home attendance in the 2013-14 Torneo Inicial edition of the Argentine top-flight football league, followed by Rosario Central.

Torneo Final

The Torneo Final was the second and final tournament of the season. It began on February 7 and ended on May 19, 2014. Colón was leader of the Torneo Final until the 11th round, then Estudiantes (LP), Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) and River Plate started to fight for the lead of the tournament until the last round. In the last round River Plate trashed Quilmes 5-0 as Estudiantes (LP) and Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) were beaten 2–1 by Tigre and 0–1 by Boca Juniors respectively. Finally River Plate won the Torneo Final with a five-point margin over Boca Juniors, Estudiantes (LP) and Godoy Cruz in joint second place. One of the fundamental moments in the title of River Plate was the victory 1–2 to Boca Juniors in the 10th round with a head goal of Ramiro Funes Mori in the last minutes of the match. This was their first away victory over Boca Juniors in 10 years.
With Argentinos Juniors and All Boys relegated previously, the third relegation place had a dramatic final in the last round after Colón and Atlético de Rafaela scored injury-time winners to win their games, at home to Olimpo and away to Arsenal respectively, forcing a play-off match between them.
At the end of the season Juan Sebastián Verón and Gabriel Heinze, captains of Estudiantes (LP) and Newell's Old Boys, finished their professional careers.

Standings

Results

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Mauro Zárate	Argentine	Vélez Sarsfield	13
2	Guido Carrillo	Argentine	Estudiantes (LP)	9
3	Fernando Cavenaghi	Argentine	River Plate	8
	Emanuel Gigliotti	Argentine	Boca Juniors	8
5	José Adolfo Valencia	Colombian	Olimpo	7
6	Lucas Albertengo	Argentine	Atlético de Rafaela	6
	Carlos Carbonero	Colombian	River Plate	6
	Mariano Echeverría	Argentine	Arsenal	6
	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Colombian	River Plate	6
10	Gabriel Graciani	Argentine	Colón	5
	Lucas Pratto	Argentine	Vélez Sarsfield	5
	Juan Román Riquelme	Argentine	Boca Juniors	5
	Diego Vera	Uruguayan	Atlético de Rafaela	5

Attendances

River Plate drew the highest average home attendance in the 2013-14 Torneo Final edition of the Argentine top-flight football league, followed by Rosario Central.

Superfinal

The 2013-14 Superfinal was played between San Lorenzo, winners of the 2013 Torneo Inicial, and River Plate, winners of the 2014 Torneo Final. River Plate did not count on defender Éder Álvarez Balanta nor striker Teófilo Gutiérrez, as both players were called up by José Néstor Pekerman for the Colombia national team to train for the 2014 World Cup. San Lorenzo did not count on defender Carlos Valdés, who also was training with the Colombia national team, and Ignacio Piatti, who was recovering from an injury. River Plate defeated San Lorenzo 1–0 and as Super Champions they qualified to 2014 Copa Sudamericana and 2014 Supercopa Argentina. The only goal came from Germán Pezzella in the 73rd minute, a header after a free-kick from the left.

Details

San Lorenzo	0–1	River Plate
	Report	Pezzella 73'

San Lorenzo

River Plate

GK 12 Sebastián Torrico DF 7 Julio Buffarini  81' DF 29 Fabricio Fontanini  72' DF 6 Santiago Gentiletti  24' DF 21 Emmanuel Más  76' MF 15 Héctor Villalba MF 5 Juan Mercier  80' MF 20 Néstor Ortigoza MF 10 Leandro Romagnoli (c)  64' FW 11 Ángel Correa FW 26 Mauro Matos Substitutes: GK 1 Cristian Álvarez DF 14 Walter Kannemann DF 4 Gonzalo Prósperi MF 8 Enzo Kalinski MF 19 Leandro Navarro  80' MF 24 Juan Cavallaro  64' FW 9 Martín Cauteruccio  76' Manager: Edgardo Bauza

GK 1 Marcelo Barovero DF 25 Gabriel Mercado  80' DF 2 Jonathan Maidana  22' DF 6 Ramiro Funes Mori  18' DF 21 Leonel Vangioni MF 7 Carlos Carbonero MF 28 Cristian Ledesma MF 16 Ariel Rojas MF 10 Manuel Lanzini FW 30 Daniel Villalva  54'  85' FW 9 Fernando Cavenaghi (c)  46' Substitutes: GK 19 Leandro Chichizola DF 20 Germán Pezzella  77'  22' MF 5 Matías Kranevitter  85' MF 11 Osmar Ferreyra MF 18 Augusto Solari FW 8 Juan Carlos Menseguez FW 35 Giovanni Simeone  46' Manager: Ramón Díaz

• Buffarini (San Lorenzo) and Barovero (River Plate) finished the match as captains.

Relegation

The relegation (or average) table is the table that averages the points over the last 3 seasons (each season consisting of two tournaments, "Inicial" and "Final"). Teams that have recently been promoted will only have one or two seasons counted under this table (and therefore fewer games played), thus each point they score increases their average more than the teams that have 3 seasons played.

Relegation playoff

After three seasons, Colón and Atlético de Rafaela finished with the same average (142 points in 114 matches, Average 1.246). The tournament rules established that if two teams, at the end of the season, had the same average it was required a playoff game. Atlético de Rafaela won the match 0–1 and remained in the Primera División. In the other hand, after 19 seasons playing in the Primera División, Colón was relegated to the Primera B Nacional championship.

Colón	0–1	Atlético de Rafaela
	Report	Depetris 56'

International qualification

Qualification for the 2014 Copa Sudamericana tournament was awarded to the winners of the 2013–14 Argentine Primera División and the 5 best teams of this aggregate table (if not qualified for 2014 Copa Libertadores second stage, or won the 2014 Torneo Final or were the aggregate table best team not yet qualified for the 2015 Copa Libertadores, or relegated).

Qualification for the 2015 Copa Libertadores tournament was awarded to the 2014 Torneo Final champion and the aggregate table best team not yet qualified. This aggregate table could also be used for award places for the 2015 Copa Libertadores if the 2014 Torneo de Transición champion is qualified and could be used as tiebreak for the 2013–14 Copa Argentina and the 2014 Copa Sudamericana best Argentine team berths.

At the end of the season Vélez Sarsfield and Boca Juniors tied the aggregate table best team with 61 points. Therefore, a playoff match between them was played on January 28, 2015. Boca Juniors won 1–0 and qualified to the 2015 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.

1. Lanús was qualified for the 2014 Copa Sudamericana as the 2013 Copa Sudamericana champion.
2. River Plate was qualified for the 2014 Copa Sudamericana as 2013-14 Super Champions and the 2015 Copa Libertadores as the 2014 Torneo Final champion.
3. Colón deducted 6 points.

Copa Libertadores playoff

Boca Juniors	1–0	Vélez Sarsfield
Colazo 34'	Report (1) Report (2)

Boca Juniors

Vélez Sarsfield

GK 1 Agustín Orión DF 15 Leandro Marín DF 24 Guillermo Burdisso DF 2 Daniel Díaz DF 18 Nicolás Colazo MF 17 César Meli MF 21 Cristian Erbes MF 5 Fernando Gago MF 7 Juan Manuel Martínez  66' FW 27 Jonathan Calleri FW 11 Federico Carrizo  81' Substitutions: FW 25 Andrés Chávez  66'  80' MF 8 Pablo Pérez  81' GK Guillermo Sara DF Luciano Monzón DF Claudio Pérez MF Andrés Cubas FW Emmanuel Gigliotti Manager: Rodolfo Arruabarrena

GK 13 Sebastián Sosa DF 5 Fabián Cubero DF Hernán Pellerano DF 6 Sebastián Domínguez DF 21 Lautaro Grillo   MF 7 Yamil Asad  78' MF Lucas Romero  64' MF 18 Leandro Somoza MF Alejandro Cabral  64' FW 8 Mariano Pavone FW Milton Caraglio Substitutions: DF Leandro Desábato  64' FW Leonardo Villalba  64' FW Ramiro Cáseres  78' GK Alan Aguerre DF Emiliano Amor DF Matías Pérez Acuña FW Roberto Nanni Manager: Miguel Ángel Russo

Boca Juniors qualified for 2015 Copa Libertadores second stage as Argentina 4.

References

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External links

• 2013–14 Argentine Primera División season at Soccerway
• Official regulations
• Football-Lineups

• 2013–14 in Argentine football leagues
• Argentine Primera División seasons
• Club Atlético River Plate matches
• San Lorenzo de Almagro matches
• Boca Juniors matches
• Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield matches