1985 Argentine Primera División

Nacional
	Argentinos Jrs, Nacional champions
Season	1985
Champions	Argentinos Juniors (2nd title)
Promoted	Dep. Español ; Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
Top goalscorer	Jorge Comas (12 goals)
	← 1984 1985–86 →

Primera División
Season	1985
Champions	Argentinos Juniors (Nacional)
	← 1984 1985–86 →

The 1985 Argentine Primera División was the 94th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on February 17 and ended on September 4.

This tournament featured the last edition of the Nacional championship. The structure of the tournament made it the most complicated championship in the history of Primera División. The eventual champions were Argentinos Juniors who beat Vélez Sársfield in a 2nd final.^[1]^[2]

Nacional Championship

Group Stages (1st step)

The top two teams go through to the winners knockout, the bottom two go to the losers knockout.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Estudiantes (LP)	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
2	Ramón Santamarina	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	5
3	Racing (C)	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	5
4	Platense	6	2	1	3	5	9	−4	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Boca Juniors	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	8
2	Estudiantes (RC)	6	3	1	2	12	12	0	7
3	Temperley	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	5
4	Altos Hornos Zapla	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente	6	3	1	2	11	6	+5	7
2	Talleres (C)	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	7
3	Guaraní Antonio Franco	6	3	1	2	6	8	−2	7
4	Huracán	6	0	3	3	7	10	−3	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	River Plate	6	4	2	0	10	4	+6	10
2	Unión	6	1	3	2	9	6	+3	5
3	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	6	1	3	2	4	10	−6	5
4	Cipolletti	6	0	4	2	5	8	−3	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Newell's Old Boys	6	2	4	0	9	6	+3	8
2	San Lorenzo	6	2	3	1	10	5	+5	7
3	Huracán Las Heras	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	7
4	Círculo Deportivo	6	1	0	5	6	14	−8	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Argentinos Juniors	6	3	3	0	16	5	+11	9
2	Chacarita Juniors	6	3	1	2	11	6	+5	7
3	Central Norte	6	1	3	2	4	14	−10	5
4	Belgrano	6	0	3	3	8	14	−6	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	San Martín (T)	6	3	2	1	12	4	+8	8
2	Vélez Sársfield	6	2	3	1	11	6	+5	7
3	Argentino (F)	6	2	1	3	5	10	−5	5
4	Juventud Alianza	6	1	1	4	4	12	−8	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ferro Carril Oeste	6	4	1	1	8	2	+6	9
2	Deportivo Español	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	7
3	Instituto	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	6
4	Juventud Antoniana	6	1	0	5	4	13	−9	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2nd step

Winners knockout

The winners progressed to the winners QF, the losers enter the losers 3rd round.

Home (1st leg)	Home (2nd leg)	1st Leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
Independiente	Ramón Santamarina	3-1	3-2	6-3
Talleres (C)	Estudiantes (LP)	1-1	1-3	2-4
Newell's Old Boys	Chacarita Juniors	0-0	2-1	2-1
San Lorenzo	Argentinos Juniors	2-2	0-1	2-3
San Martín (T)	Estudiantes (RC)	4-2	0-0	4-2
Boca Juniors	Vélez Sársfield	3-2	0-3	3-4
Ferro Carril Oeste	Unión	1-0	2-1	3-1
Deportivo Español	River Plate	2-1	0-5	2-6

Losers knockout

Home (1st leg)	Home (2nd leg)	1st Leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
Guaraní	Platense	0-0	0-1	0-1
Huracán	Racing (C)	2-1	1-1	3-2
Belgrano	Huracán La Heras	2-1	1-3	3-4
Central Norte	Círculo Deportivo	0-0	3-2	3-2
Altos Hornos Zapla	Argentino (F)	2-0	1-2	3-2
Juventud Alianza	Temperley	4-3	1-4	5-7
Cipolletti	Instituto	0-0	1-3	1-3
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Juventud Antoniana	3-0	0-1	3-1

3rd step

Winners Quarter-finals

		Score
San Martín	Argentinos Juniors	0-2
Ferro Carril Oeste	Independiente	3-0
River Plate	Estudiantes (LP)	2-0
Newell's Old Boys	Vélez Sársfield	1-2 (aet)

Losers 3rd round

		Score
Estudiantes (RC)	Temperley	0-1
Gimnasia La Plata	Deportivo Español	0-2
Unión	Platense	3-0
Talleres	Instituto	0-4
Boca Juniors	Altos Hornos Zapla	3-1
Huracán La Heras	San Lorenzo	3-3 (2-3 p)
Chacarita Juniors	Huracán	0-0 (4-3 p)
Central Norte	Ramón Santamarina	1-1 (4-2 p)

4th step

Winners Semi-finals

		Score
Ferro Carril Oeste	Argentinos Juniors	0-3
Vélez Sársfield	River Plate	3-0

Losers 4th round

		Score
Independiente	Boca Juniors	1-0
Newell's Old Boys	Temperley	2-1
Chacarita Juniors	San Lorenzo	2-0 (aet)
Estuidaintes (LP)	Deportivo Español	1-1 (6-5 p)
Central Norte	Unión	0-0 (1-3 p)
San Martín	Instituto	0-0 (4-1 p)

5th step

Winners final

Home (1st leg)	Home (2nd leg)	1st Leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
Argentinos Juniors	Vélez Sársfield	2-0	0-2	2-2 (4-3 p)

Argentinos Juniors to play in the final
Vélez Sársfield progress to the losers final

Losers 5th round

		Score
Newell's Old Boys	Chacarita Juniors	1-0
Estudiantes (LP)	San Martín	1-0
River Plate	Unión	1-0
Ferro Carril Oeste	Independiente	0-0 (2-4 p)

6th step

Losers 6th round

		Score
River Plate	Estudiantes (LP)	4-1
Independiente	Newell's Old Boys	0-2

7th step

Losers 7th round

		Score
River Plate	Newell's Old Boys	2-0

8th step

Losers final

		Score
Vélez Sársfield	River Plate	2-1

Vélez Sársfield to play in the final

Final

August 28, 1985

Home	Away	Score
Argentinos Juniors	Vélez Sársfield	1-1 (3-4 p)

As Argentinos Juniors had made it to the final without losing a game, the final had to be replayed to give them the 2nd chance that every other team had already had.

September 3, 1985

Home	Away	Score
Vélez Sársfield	Argentinos Juniors	1-2

Final

1985 Torneo Nacional Final

28 August 1985

Argentinos Juniors	1–1	Vélez Sársfield
	Report
Penalties
Batista Videla J.J.López Castro Pellegrini	4–3	Larraquy Gabrich Cuciuffo Lucca E. Hernández

River Plate, Buenos Aires

Rematch

4 September 1985

Rematch

Vélez Sársfield	1–2	Argentinos Juniors
Comas 58'	Report (1) Report (2)	Castro 50' Batista 80'

River Plate, Buenos Aires

Referee: Juan Bava

Vélez Sársfield

Argentinos Jrs


GK	1	Carlos Navarro Montoya
DF	4	Mario Lucca
DF	2	Pedro Larraquy
DF	6	José Luis Cuciuffo
DF	3	Jorge Bujedo
MF	8	Oscar A. Gissi	b'
MF	5	Osvaldo Coloccini	a'
MF	10	Juan José Meza
FW	7	Eduardo D. Hernández
FW	9	Jorge Gabrich
FW	11	Jorge Comas
Substitutes:
MF		Carlos G. Amodeo	a'
MF		Fabián A. Vázquez	b'
GK		Jorge L. Fernández
		Héctor W. López
FW		Víctor A. Lucero
Manager:
Alfio Basile


GK	1	Enrique Vidallé
DF	4	Carmelo Villalba
DF	2	José Luis Pavoni
DF	6	Jorge Olguín
DF	3	Adrián Domenech
MF	10	Emilio Commisso
MF	5	Sergio Batista
MF	8	Mario Videla
FW	7	José A. Castro
FW	9	Claudio Borghi	a'
FW	11	Carlos Ereros
Substitutes:
MF		Miguel Lemme	a'
GK		César R. Mendoza
DF		Jorge Pellegrini
MF		Juan José López
FW		Carlos Morete
Manager:
José Yudica

References

^ http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201509/118756-hace-30-anos-argentinos-jrs-se-consagraba-como-ultimo-campeon-del-nacional-de-primera-division.html, Telam, 4 Sep 2015
^ Argentina 1985 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com

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[rsssf-2] Argentina 1985 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com

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1985 Argentine Primera División

Nacional Championship

Group Stages (1st step)

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

2nd step

Winners knockout

Losers knockout

3rd step

4th step

5th step

6th step

7th step

8th step

Final

Final

Rematch

See also

References