2013–14 Primera B Metropolitana

The 2013-14 season, is the 28º Primera B Metropolitana season since it became part of the third tier of the Argentine football league system, and its 79º season overall. The tournament is reserved for teams directly affiliated to the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA), while teams affiliated to AFA through local leagues (known as "indirectly affiliated to AFA") have to play the Torneo Argentino A, which is the other third tier competition.

Primera B Metropolitana

Season	2013–14
Champions	Nueva Chicago
Promoted	Nueva Chicago Temperley
Relegated	Flandria Defensores de Belgrano
Top goalscorer	Ramón Lentini (Chacarita Juniors) (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Los Andes 5-1 Chacarita Juniors (30 April 2014) Deportivo Morón 4-0 Flandria (8 December 2013) Flandria 4-0 Los Andes (15 February 2014) Deportivo Merlo 4-0 UAI Urquiza (16 March 2014)
Biggest away win	Flandria 0-4 Platense (1 March 2014)
Highest scoring	Fénix 4-3 Temperley (11 February 2014) Platense 4-3 Tristán Suárez (6 May 2014)
← 2012–13 2014 →

The regular season began on August 2, 2013 and is scheduled to end on May 31, 2014. Post-season matches are scheduled to start on June 4 and end on June 14. 21 teams will take part of the competition with seventeen of them remaining from the 2012–13 season. They'll be joined by two teams relegated from the 2012-13 Primera B Nacional and two teams promoted from the 2012-13 Primera C.

Competition Format

The tournament is composed of 21 teams playing on a double round-robin format, each team then playing a total of 40 matches. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. The team with more points is declared champion and will be promoted to the Primera B Nacional. Teams positioned 2nd to 5th qualify for the Torneo Reducido, which will be played on a, home and away, knock-out system, the pairings will be 2º vs 5º and 3º vs 4º for the semifinals, with the winners advancing to the final, the winner of the final is then promoted to the Primera B Nacional. If the playoff ends in a draw, there is a penalty shoot-out to determine a winner.

Relegation is not dependent on the standings table, rather, a points average system is used, creating a separate parallel standings table considering the performances of the teams through the latest 3 seasons (2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14). The total of points is divided by the total of matches played on the division to get the average of points per match for each team. The two teams with the worst points average are relegated to the Primera C.

Teams

17 teams remain from the previous season. Nueva Chicago and Deportivo Merlo were relegated from the Primera B Nacional and replace the promoted Villa San Carlos and Brown (Adrogué). UAI Urquiza and Fénix are joining too after winning promotion from the Primera C and replacing the relegated Central Córdoba and San Telmo.

	Team	Location	Stadium
	Acassuso	San Isidro	La Quema
	Almagro	José Ingenieros	Tres de Febrero
	Atlanta	Buenos Aires	Don León Kolbovsky
	Barracas Central	Buenos Aires	Claudio Chiqui Tapia
	Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú	Chacarita Juniors
	Colegiales	Florida Oeste	Colegiales
	Comunicaciones	Buenos Aires	Alfredo Ramos
	Defensores de Belgrano	Buenos Aires	Juan Pasquele
	Deportivo Armenio	Ingeniero Maschwitz	Estadio Armenia
	Deportivo Merlo	Parque San Martín	José Manuel Moreno
	Deportivo Morón	Morón	Nuevo Francisco Urbano
	Estudiantes (BA)	Caseros	Ciudad de Caseros
	Fénix	Pilar	Carlos Barraza
	Flandria	Jáuregui	Carlos V
	Los Andes	Lomas de Zamora	Eduardo Gallardón
	Nueva Chicago	Buenos Aires	República de Mataderos
	Platense	Florida	Ciudad de Vicente López
	Temperley	Turdera	Alfredo Beranger
	Tristán Suárez	Tristán Suárez	20 de Octubre
	UAI Urquiza	Villa Lynch	Monumental de Villa Lynch
	Villa Dálmine	Campana	El Coliseo de Mitre y Puccini

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Nueva Chicago (P)	36	19	12	5	41	20	+21	69	Promoted to the 2014 Primera B Nacional
2	Temperley (P)	36	15	14	7	48	38	+10	59	Promoted to the 2014 Primera B Nacional by winning the Torneo Reducido
3	Atlanta	36	14	16	6	37	23	+14	58	Qualified to the Torneo Reducido
4	Platense	36	15	11	10	46	35	+11	56
5	Deportivo Morón	37	15	10	12	43	35	+8	55
6	Los Andes	36	14	12	10	37	28	+9	54
7	Defensores de Belgrano	37	13	15	9	29	22	+7	54
8	Chacarita Juniors	37	13	12	12	38	40	−2	51
9	Deportivo Merlo	37	12	14	11	37	31	+6	50
10	Fénix	36	14	8	14	49	46	+3	50
11	Barracas Central	36	12	14	10	33	32	+1	50
12	Tristán Suárez	36	11	14	11	33	37	−4	47
13	Almagro	36	12	11	13	28	34	−6	47
14	Deportivo Armenio	36	10	14	12	37	35	+2	44
15	Acassuso	36	9	16	11	31	34	−3	43
16	Villa Dálmine	36	10	12	14	30	36	−6	42
17	Estudiantes	36	9	14	13	25	29	−4	41
18	UAI Urquiza	36	11	8	17	34	49	−15	41
19	Comunicaciones	36	9	13	14	28	32	−4	40
20	Flandria	36	6	12	18	29	53	−24	30
21	Colegiales	36	6	10	20	19	43	−24	28

Source:
(P) Promoted.

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ALM	ATL	BAR	CHA	COL	COM	DEF	ARM	MER	MOR	EST	FEN	FLA	LAN	NCH	PLA	TEM	TRI	UAI	VDA
Acassuso		1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–0
Almagro	0–0		1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0
Atlanta	4–1	1–0		1–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1
Barracas Central	2–0	1–1	1–1		1–0	3–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	0–1
Chacarita Juniors	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–0		1–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–1
Colegiales	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–0		1–3	0–1	1–3	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1
Comunicaciones	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–0		0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1
Defensores de Belgrano	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0		0–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Deportivo Armenio	0–3	1–2	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0		0–0	0–2	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	3–0	3–1	2–3
Deportivo Merlo	1–0	1–2	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–4	0–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	4–0	0–0
Deportivo Morón	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	3–0	0–2		0–0	2–3	4–0	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–2	0–0	4–2	2–1
Estudiantes	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0		1–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–1	3–2	3–1	3–1	1–0
Fénix	1–2	0–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	4–2		0–0	0–1	1–0	2–4	4–3	2–2	0–1	2–1
Flandria	0–3	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–3	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–4		4–0	0–0	0–4	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–0
Los Andes	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	5–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–0		0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0
Nueva Chicago	2–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	3–2		3–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
Platense	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	1–2	4–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–1		0–0	4–3	3–0	2–0
Temperley	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–3	0–1	2–0	2–1		1–2	2–1	1–0
Tristán Suárez	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–3	3–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1		2–0	1–1
UAI Urquiza	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–4	1–2		1–2
Villa Dálmine	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 26 May 2014. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation

Pos	Team	11/12	12/13	13/14	Total	Pld	Average
1º	Nueva Chicago	70	-	69	139	76	1,829
2º	Atlanta	-	65	58	123	76	1,618
3º	Platense	61	70	56	187	116	1,612
4º	Estudiantes	72	63	41	176	116	1,517
5º	Chacarita Juniors	-	60	51	111	77	1,442
6º	Almagro	54	64	47	165	116	1,422
7º	Los Andes	61	48	54	163	116	1,405
8º	Fénix	-	-	50	50	36	1,389
9º	Temperley	46	55	59	160	116	1,379
10º	Deportivo Merlo	-	-	50	50	37	1,351
11º	Comunicaciones	60	54	40	154	116	1,328
12º	Deportivo Armenio	50	58	44	152	116	1,310
13º	Barracas Central	40	56	50	146	116	1,259
14º	Acassuso	55	48	43	146	116	1,259
15º	Colegiales	73	44	28	145	116	1,250
16º	Tristán Suárez	45	50	47	142	116	1,224
17º	Villa Dálmine	-	48	42	90	76	1,184
18º	Deportivo Morón	35	47	55	137	117	1,171
19º	UAI Urquiza	-	-	41	41	36	1,139
20º	Defensores de Belgrano	41	35	54	130	117	1,111
21º	Flandria	50	48	30	128	116	1,103

	Relegation Zone: the teams that occupy these positions once the tournament is finished will be relegated to the Primera C

Torneo Reducido

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Temperley	2–0	Fénix	0-0	2–0
Platense	1–1 (4–3p)	Atlanta	0-0	1–1

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Temperley	1–1 (5–4p)	Platense	0-1	1–0

External links

• List of Argentine second division champions by RSSSF