2012–13 Torneo Argentino A

XVIII Torneo Argentino A

Season	2012–13
Champions	Talleres (C) (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Talleres (C) Sportivo Belgrano
Relegated	Racing (C) Alumni (VM) Desamparados
Top goalscorer	Gonzalo Klusener (25 goals)
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Argentine Torneo Argentino A was the eighteenth season of third division professional football in Argentina. A total of 25 teams competed; the champion was promoted to Primera B Nacional.

Club information

Cipolletti

Douglas Haig

Rivadavia

Unión (MdP)

Santamarina

Dep. Maipú

Juventud Unida
Universitario

T. Federal

Ctral. Córdoba (SdE)

Central Norte

J. Antoniana

Crucero del Norte

Gimnasia (CdU)

Alumni

Sp. Belgrano

Talleres,  Racing (C)

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Locations of the 2011−12 season teams

North Zone

Club	City	Stadium
Alumni	Villa María	Manuel Ocampo
Central Córdoba	Santiago del Estero	Alfredo Terrara
Central Norte	Salta	Dr. Luis Güemes
Gimnasia y Tiro	Salta	Gigante del Norte
Guaraní Antonio Franco	Posadas	Clemente F. de Oliveira
Juventud Antoniana	Salta	Fray Honorato Pistoia
Libertad	Sunchales	Hogar de Los Tigres
Racing	Córdoba	Miguel Sancho
San Jorge	San Miguel de Tucumán	Senador Luis Cruz
San Martín	San Miguel de Tucumán	La Ciudadela
Sportivo Belgrano	San Francisco	Oscar Boero
Talleres	Córdoba	La Boutique
Tiro Federal	Rosario	Fortín de Ludueña

South Zone

Club	City	Stadium
Alvarado	Mar del Plata	(None)1
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	La Visera de Cemento
Defensores de Belgrano	Villa Ramallo	Salomón Boeseldín
Deportivo Maipú	Maipú	Higinio Sperdutti
Desamparados	San Juan	El Serpentario
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Concepción del Uruguay	Manuel y Ramón Núñez
Guillermo Brown	Puerto Madryn	Raul Conti
Juventud Unida Universitario	San Luis	Mario Diez
Racing	Olavarría	José Buglione
Rivadavia	Lincoln	El Coliseo
Santamarina	Tandil	Municipal Gral. San Martín
Unión	Mar del Plata	(None)1

¹ Play their home games at Estadio José María Minella.

First stage

North Zone

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Talleres (C)	24	13	7	4	42	23	+19	46	Second Stage
2	Gimnasia y Tiro	24	13	3	8	36	26	+10	42
3	San Martín (T)	24	9	10	5	29	22	+7	37
4	Sportivo Belgrano	24	10	6	8	37	28	+9	36
5	San Jorge (T)	24	9	9	6	25	35	−10	36
6	Juventud Antoniana	24	9	8	7	20	18	+2	35
7	Central Norte	24	9	6	9	33	29	+4	33	Reválida Stage
8	Central Córdoba (SdE)	24	8	9	7	32	28	+4	33
9	Libertad (S)	24	6	11	7	23	28	−5	29
10	Tiro Federal	24	6	9	9	20	25	−5	27
11	Guaraní Antonio Franco	24	4	11	9	24	29	−5	23
12	Alumni (VM)	24	4	8	12	17	29	−12	20
13	Racing (C)	24	3	9	12	18	36	−18	18

Updated to match(es) played on March 2012. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored. This does not apply to determining the champion. If two or more teams had been tied in point at the end of the tournament, a playoff would have been held at a neutral venue within 72 hours for the championship

South Zone

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Santamarina	22	11	6	5	30	19	+11	39	Second Stage
2	Juventud Unida Universitario	22	9	8	5	27	23	+4	35
3	Deportivo Maipú	22	9	6	7	32	29	+3	33
4	Racing (O)	22	9	3	10	33	28	+5	30
5	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	22	8	6	8	26	27	−1	30
6	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	22	8	6	8	19	22	−3	30	Reválida Stage
7	Rivadavia (L)	22	8	5	9	32	36	−4	29
8	Cipolletti	22	9	1	12	27	26	+1	28
9	Alvarado	22	8	4	10	20	21	−1	28
10	Unión (MdP)	22	7	7	8	24	30	−6	28
11	Guillermo Brown	22	7	6	9	25	32	−7	27
12	Desamparados	22	5	10	7	26	28	−2	25

Updated to match(es) played on March 2013. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored. This does not apply to determining the champion. If two or more teams had been tied in point at the end of the tournament, a playoff would have been held at a neutral venue within 72 hours for the championship

Second Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Talleres (C) (C, P)	10	7	3	0	15	6	+9	24	Primera B Nacional
2	Sportivo Belgrano	10	6	2	2	19	13	+6	20	Fourth Stage
3	Santamarina	10	5	2	3	16	11	+5	17
4	Deportivo Maipú	10	4	4	2	11	7	+4	16
5	San Jorge (T)	10	4	2	4	21	19	+2	14
6	San Martín (T)	10	4	2	4	7	8	−1	14	Third Stage
7	Gimnasia y Tiro	10	3	4	3	15	14	+1	13
8	Racing (O)	10	3	2	5	13	15	−2	11
9	Juventud Unida Universitario	10	2	3	5	14	21	−7	9
10	Juventud Antoniana	10	1	5	4	10	13	−3	8
11	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	10	0	3	7	6	20	−14	3

Updated to match(es) played on May 2013. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head goals scored. This does not apply to determining the champion. If two or more teams had been tied in point at the end of the tournament, a playoff would have been held at a neutral venue within 72 hours for the championship
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Reválida Stage

Zone A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Central Córdoba (SdE)	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Second round
2	Guaraní Antonio Franco	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12
3	Racing (C)	6	2	2	2	8	4	+4	8
4	Tiro Federal	6	1	4	1	6	7	−1	7	Second round
5	Libertad (S)	6	1	3	2	3	5	−2	6
6	Alumni (VM)	6	2	0	4	4	10	−6	6
7	Central Norte	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Racing (C) was ineligible for the Second Round, as it was involved in relegation.

Overall standings

The overall standings for the seven teams of Zone A include the regular season and the first round of the Reválida. The bottom team relegates to the Torneo Argentino B, while the next-to-last team plays the relegation play-off with a team from such category. Those two teams cannot qualify for the second round of the Reválida.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Central Córdoba (SdE)	30	11	12	7	41	32	+9	45
2	Central Norte	30	10	7	13	38	38	0	37
3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	30	7	14	9	32	33	−1	35
4	Libertad (S)	30	7	14	9	26	33	−7	35
5	Tiro Federal	30	7	13	10	26	32	−6	34
6	Alumni (VM)	30	6	8	16	21	39	−18	26	Torneo Argentino B relegation play-off
7	Racing (C)	30	5	11	14	26	40	−14	26	Torneo Argentino B

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Tiebreaker

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Racing (C)	0–0 (4–5 p)	Alumni (VM)

Zone B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alvarado	6	4	0	2	9	8	+1	12	Second round
2	Unión (MdP)	6	3	1	2	9	9	0	10
3	Rivadavia (L)	6	2	3	1	9	6	+3	9
4	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9
5	Cipolletti	6	2	2	2	10	8	+2	8
6	Guillermo Brown	6	1	2	3	6	9	−3	5
7	Desamparados	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Overall standings

The overall standings for the seven teams of Zone B include the regular season and the first round of the Reválida. The bottom team relegates to the Torneo Argentino B, while the next-to-last team plays the relegation play-off with a team from such category. Those two teams cannot qualify for the second round of the Reválida.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alvarado	28	12	4	12	29	29	0	40
2	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	28	10	9	9	26	28	−2	39
3	Unión (MdP)	28	10	8	10	33	39	−6	38
4	Rivadavia (L)	28	10	8	10	41	42	−1	38
5	Cipolletti	28	11	3	14	37	34	+3	36
6	Guillermo Brown	28	8	8	12	31	42	−11	32	Torneo Argentino B relegation play-off
7	Desamparados	28	6	11	11	30	37	−7	29	Torneo Argentino B

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Torneo Argentino B relegation play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alumni (VM)	1–2	Guillermo Brown

Second round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Central Córdoba (SdE)	3–4	Libertad (S)	1–2	2–2
Guaraní Antonio Franco	4–1	Tiro Federal	0–1	4–0
Alvarado	4–1	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	0–1	4–0
Unión (MdP)	3–5	Rivadavia (L)	2–1	1–4

Third round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guaraní Antonio Franco	2–3	Libertad (S)	0–3	2–0
Alvarado	1–3	Rivadavia (L)	0–2	1–1

Third Stage

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
San Martín (T)	2 –2	Libertad (S)	1–1	1–1
Gimnasia y Tiro	4–1	Rivadavia (L)	1–0	3–1
Racing (O)	2–2	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	1–1	1–1
Juventud Unida Universitario	1–2	Juventud Antoniana	0–2	1–0

Fourth Stage

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sportivo Belgrano	5 –2	Juventud Antoniana	1–1	4–1
Santamarina	3–2	Racing (O)	0–1	3–1
Deportivo Maipú	3–3	Gimnasia y Tiro	1–3	2–0
San Jorge (T)	3–6	San Martín (T)	2–3	1–3

Fifth Stage

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sportivo Belgrano	4–2	San Martín (T)	2–0	2–2
Santamarina	4–3	Deportivo Maipú	0–2	4–1

Sixth Stage

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sportivo Belgrano	1–1	Santamarina	0–0	1–1

See also

• 2012–13 in Argentine football