1997–98 Primera B Nacional

The 1997–98 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 12th season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 32 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera División.

Primera B Nacional

Season	1997–98
Champions	Talleres (C) (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Talleres (C) Belgrano
Relegated	Almirante Brown Sportivo Italiano Chaco For Ever
Top goalscorer	Alejandro Glaría 30 goals
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Club information

Interior Zone

Club	City	Stadium
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella
Almirante Brown	Arrecifes	Estadio Municipal
Atlético de Rafaela	Rafaela	Nuevo Monumental
Atlético Tucumán	San Miguel de Tucumán	Monumental Presidente Jose Fierro
Belgrano	Córdoba	El Gigante de Alberdi
Chaco For Ever	Resistencia	Juan Alberto García
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	La Visera de Cemento
Douglas Haig	Pergamino	Miguel Morales
Godoy Cruz	Mendoza	Malvinas Argentinas
Huracán Corrientes	Corrientes	José Antonio Romero Feris
Instituto	Córdoba	Presidente Perón
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca	Roberto Natalio Carminatti
San Martín	Mendoza	San Martín
San Martín	San Juan	Ing. Hilario Sánchez
San Martín	San Miguel de Tucumán	La Ciudadela
Talleres	Córdoba	Estadio La Boutique

Metropolitana Zone

Club	City	Stadium
All Boys	Floresta	Islas Malvinas
Almagro	José Ingenieros	Tres de Febrero
Almirante Brown	Isidro Casanova	Fragata Presidente Sarmiento
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio H. Grondona
Atlanta	Villa Crespo	León Kolbovski
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Solá
Central Córdoba	Rosario	Gabino Sosa
Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú	Chacarita Juniors
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello
Deportivo Morón	Morón	Francisco Urbano
Estudiantes	Caseros	Ciudad de Caseros
Los Andes	Lomas de Zamora	Eduardo Gallardón
Nueva Chicago	Mataderos	Nueva Chicago
Quilmes	Quilmes	Centenario
San Miguel	Los Polvorines	Malvinas Argentinas
Sportivo Italiano	Ciudad Evita	Republica de Italia

Interior Zone standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Instituto	30	17	7	6	38	22	+16	58	Championship Group
2	Belgrano	30	15	9	6	52	32	+20	54
3	Talleres (C)	30	13	12	5	38	22	+16	51
4	San Martín (SJ)	30	13	9	8	51	33	+18	48
5	San Martín (T)	30	13	8	9	49	43	+6	47
6	Almirante Brown (A)	30	12	9	9	44	34	+10	45
7	Atlético de Rafaela	30	12	9	9	45	38	+7	45
8	Atlético Tucumán	30	13	4	13	47	43	+4	43
9	Godoy Cruz	30	12	6	12	47	50	−3	42	Relegation Group
10	Aldosivi	30	8	12	10	45	50	−5	36
11	Huracán Corrientes	30	9	8	13	41	57	−16	35
12	Cipolletti	30	9	7	14	34	45	−11	34
13	Chaco For Ever	30	6	12	12	39	52	−13	30
14	Olimpo	30	6	11	13	32	46	−14	29
15	San Martín (M)	30	7	7	16	29	44	−15	28
16	Douglas Haig	30	5	10	15	32	52	−20	25

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Metropolitana Zone standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Banfield	30	18	8	4	69	28	+41	62	Championship Group
2	Chacarita Juniors	30	13	10	7	44	32	+12	49
3	Los Andes	30	13	9	8	51	42	+9	48
4	Quilmes	30	13	9	8	41	32	+9	48
5	Central Córdoba (R)	30	14	6	10	38	30	+8	48
6	Arsenal	30	12	10	8	41	36	+5	46
7	All Boys	30	11	13	6	47	43	+4	46
8	Estudiantes (BA)	30	12	9	9	43	37	+6	45
9	San Miguel	30	12	9	9	33	27	+6	45	Relegation Group
10	Defensa y Justicia	30	12	6	12	46	35	+11	42
11	Nueva Chicago	30	11	7	12	37	36	+1	40
12	Sportivo Italiano	30	7	10	13	33	52	−19	31
13	Deportivo Morón	30	7	9	14	36	56	−20	30
14	Atlanta	30	5	12	13	33	46	−13	27
15	Almagro	30	3	13	14	19	42	−23	22
16	Almirante Brown	30	4	6	20	23	60	−37	18

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Championship Group

It was divided in 2 groups with the 16 teams that qualified from Interior and Metropolitana Zone placed 1st to 8th and were mixed. The team placed 1st of each group qualified for the Promotion Playoff, and the teams placed 2nd and 3rd qualified for the Second Promotion Playoff.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Talleres (C)	14	8	3	3	25	11	+14	27	Promotion Playoff
2	Quilmes	14	7	5	2	26	19	+7	26	Second Promotion Playoff
3	Chacarita Juniors	14	6	4	4	20	16	+4	22
4	Instituto	14	6	3	5	19	18	+1	21
5	Estudiantes (BA)	14	5	4	5	18	22	−4	19
6	Los Andes	14	4	3	7	23	27	−4	15
7	Atlético Tucumán	14	4	3	7	15	24	−9	15
8	Almirante Brown (A)	14	2	3	9	13	22	−9	9

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgrano	14	7	6	1	29	17	+12	27	Promotion Playoff
2	All Boys	14	8	3	3	24	16	+8	27	Second Promotion Playoff
3	Banfield	14	7	5	2	24	14	+10	26
4	San Martín (SJ)	14	4	4	6	23	27	−4	16
5	Central Córdoba (R)	14	5	1	8	12	16	−4	16
6	San Martín (T)	14	3	6	5	20	23	−3	15
7	Arsenal	14	2	6	6	27	36	−9	12
8	Atlético de Rafaela	14	3	3	8	18	28	−10	12

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Relegation Group

It was divided in 2 groups with the 16 teams that qualified from Interior and Metropolitana Zone placed 9th to 16th. The team placed 1st of each group qualified for the Second Promotion Playoff.

Interior Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Aldosivi	14	9	2	3	26	19	+7	29	Second Promotion Playoff
2	Cipolletti	14	7	4	3	24	14	+10	25
3	San Martín (M)	14	6	6	2	23	13	+10	24
4	Olimpo	14	7	3	4	26	18	+8	24
5	Godoy Cruz	14	3	5	6	20	22	−2	14
6	Chaco For Ever	14	4	2	8	20	28	−8	14
7	Douglas Haig	14	3	4	7	14	27	−13	13
8	Huracán Corrientes	14	3	2	9	18	30	−12	11

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Metropolitano Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Almagro	14	10	1	3	25	16	+9	31	Second Promotion Playoff
2	San Miguel	14	6	4	4	22	15	+7	22
3	Sportivo Italiano	14	6	3	5	27	30	−3	21
4	Deportivo Morón	14	6	2	6	21	18	+3	20
5	Atlanta	14	6	2	6	17	16	+1	20
6	Defensa y Justicia	14	6	1	7	22	20	+2	19
7	Nueva Chicago	14	3	4	7	16	13	+3	13
8	Almirante Brown	14	3	3	8	16	28	−12	12

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Promotion Playoff

The promotion playoff was played by the winner of Group A, Talleres (C) and the winner of Group B, Belgrano. The winning team was declared champion and was automatically promoted to Primera Division. The losing team joined in semifinals of the Second Promotion Playoff.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Final
Belgrano	2–2 (3–4 p)	Talleres (C)	0-1	2-1

Second Promotion Playoff

The Second promotion playoff or Torneo Reducido was played by the teams placed 2nd and 3rd of each group of the Championship Group: Quilmes and Chacarita Juniors (Group A), All Boys and Banfield (Group B), and the teams placed 1st of each group of the Relegation Group: Aldosivi (Interior Group) and Almagro (Metropolitano Group). In the semifinals joined Belgrano, the losing team of the First Promotion Playoff. The winner was promoted to Primera Division.

First Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
First Round
Quilmes	4-1	Almagro	2-1	2-0

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
First Round
All Boys	2-3	Aldosivi	0-1	2-2

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
First Round
Banfield	3-2	Chacarita Juniors	0-0	3-2

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Semifinals
Quilmes	0-2	Aldosivi	0-0	0-2

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Semifinals
Belgrano	3-2	Banfield	1-1	2-1

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Final
Belgrano	4-2	Aldosivi	1-1	3-1

Relegation

Note: Clubs with indirect affiliation with AFA are relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana. Clubs with direct affiliation are all from Greater Buenos Aires, with the exception of Newell's, Rosario Central, Central Córdoba and Argentino de Rosario, all from Rosario, and Unión and Colón from Santa Fe.

Interior Zone

Pos	Team	1995–96 Pts	1996–97 Pts	1997–98 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Situation	Affiliation
1	Godoy Cruz	66	28	56	150	102	1.471		Indirect
2	Huracán Corrientes	75	—	46	121	86	1.407
3	Aldosivi	—	17	65	82	60	1.367
4	Olimpo	—	26	53	79	60	1.317
5	Cipolletti	—	15	59	74	60	1.233
6	San Martín (M)	—	—	52	52	44	1.182
7	Douglas Haig	65	13	38	116	102	1.137	Relegation Playoff Matches
8	Chaco For Ever	—	16	44	60	60	1

Metropolitana Zone

Pos	Team	1995–96 Pts	1996–97 Pts	1997–98 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Situation	Affiliation
1	San Miguel	—	—	67	67	44	1.523		Indirect
2	Defensa y Justicia	—	—	61	61	44	1.386
3	Almagro	—	27	53	80	60	1.333
4	Nueva Chicago	52	26	53	131	102	1.284
5	Atlanta	55	22	47	124	102	1.216
6	Deportivo Morón	43	27	50	120	102	1.176
7	Sportivo Italiano	—	15	52	67	60	1.117	Primera B Metropolitana
8	Almirante Brown	—	14	30	44	60	0.733

Promotion/Relegation Playoff

Teams placed 7th and 8th of the Relegation Table Interior Zone (Douglas Haig and Chaco For Ever), played a promotion/relegation playoff or Torneo Reclasificatorio, with Huracán (SR) and Villa Mitre, teams from Torneo Argentino A. The winner was Douglas Haig and remained in the Primera B Nacional, while Huracán (SR) and Villa Mitre remained in Torneo Argentino A and Chaco For Ever was relegated to it.

Semifinals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Douglas Haig	4-2	Villa Mitre

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Huracán (SR)	2-5	Chaco For Ever

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Douglas Haig	4-3 (a.e.t.)	Chaco For Ever

See also

• 1997–98 in Argentine football

References

External links

• "Argentina Second Level 1997/98". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2014-05-31.