2024 Argentine Primera División

The 2024 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional (officially the Torneo Betano 2024 for sponsorship reasons) is the 134th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The league season began on 10 May and will end on 15 December 2024.

Twenty-eight teams compete in the league: twenty-six returning from the 2023 season as well as two promoted teams from the 2023 Primera Nacional (Independiente Rivadavia and Deportivo Riestra), both teams are participating in Argentine Primera División for the first time in history from this season. River Plate are the defending champions.

On 25 May 2024, the match Godoy Cruz vs. San Lorenzo (3rd round) was suspended in the 48th minute after a fight broke out between the supporters of Godoy Cruz in the stands of the Estadio Malvinas Argentinas. The AFA Disciplinary Court decided on 6 June 2024 to resume the match and play the remaining 42 minutes on a date to be determined behind closed doors. Godoy Cruz were deducted three points and had to play two games behind closed doors. They also had to pay San Lorenzo's travel expenses and a fine.

Competition format
The competition will be run under a single round-robin, contested by 28 teams (26 from the previous edition plus 2 promoted from Primera Nacional). The champions will qualify for the 2025 Copa Libertadores as Argentina 1. The qualification for international tournaments will be determined by an aggregate table of the 2024 Primera División and 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments.

In this season two teams will be relegated to the Primera Nacional. One team will be relegated based on coefficients, while the bottom team of the aggregate table will also be relegated.

Managerial changes
Interim managers
 * 1. 🇦🇷 Walter Coyette was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 7th–9th rounds.
 * 2. 🇦🇷 Diego Barrado was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 7th–8th rounds.
 * 3. 🇦🇷 Martín Funes was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 7th round.
 * 4. 🇦🇷 Federico Arias was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 8th round.
 * 5. 🇦🇷 Norberto Fernández was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 11th round.
 * 6. 🇦🇷 Juan Carlos Blengio was interim manager in the 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional Group stage 12th round.
 * 7. Interim manager until the end of the Copa de la Liga Profesional.
 * 8. Interim manager, but later promoted to manager.
 * 9. 🇦🇷 Pablo Quatrocchi was interim manager in the 2nd–3rd rounds.
 * 10. 🇦🇷 Hugo Tocalli was interim manager in the 3rd–5th rounds.
 * 11. 🇦🇷 Adrián Coria was interim manager in the 5th round.

Players holding Argentinian dual nationality
They do not take up a foreign slot.


 * 🇦🇲 Norberto Briasco (Boca Juniors)
 * 🇨🇴 Frank Fabra (Boca Juniors)
 * Ignacio Rodríguez (Boca Juniors)
 * Tiago Palacios (Estudiantes (LP))
 * 🇧🇷 Benjamín Sagüés Barreiro (Estudiantes (LP))
 * 🇪🇨 Hernán Galíndez (Huracán)
 * 🇺🇸 Alan Soñora (Huracán)
 * 🇸🇾 Ezequiel Ham (Independiente Rivadavia)


 * Juan José Cáceres (Lanús)


 * Armando Méndez (Newell's Old Boys)
 * 🇺🇸 Matko Miljevic (Newell's Old Boys)
 * Gabriel Arias (Racing)
 * Paulo Díaz (River Plate)
 * 🇲🇽 Luca Martínez (Rosario Central)
 * Iván Leguizamón (San Lorenzo)
 * 🇸🇮 Andrés Vombergar (San Lorenzo)
 * Bruno Barticciotto (Talleres (C))
 * Matías Catalán (Talleres (C))
 * Matías Galarza (Talleres (C))

Source: AFA

Results
Teams will play every other team once (either at home or away) completing a total of 27 rounds.

Top goalscorers
Source: AFA

Top assists
Source: AFA

International qualification
The 2024 Argentine Primera División champions, 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional champions and 2024 Copa Argentina champions will earn a berth to the 2025 Copa Libertadores. The remaining berths to the 2025 Copa Libertadores as well as the ones to the 2025 Copa Sudamericana will be determined by an aggregate table of the 2024 Argentine Primera División and 2024 Copa de la Liga Profesional first stage tournaments. The top three teams in the aggregate table not already qualified for any international tournament will qualify for the Copa Libertadores, while the next six teams will qualify for the Copa Sudamericana.

Relegation
In this season, the bottom team of the aggregate table will be relegated to the 2025 Primera Nacional. If two or more teams are level on points, extra matches will be played to decide which team will be relegated.

Relegation based on coefficients
In addition to the relegation based on the aggregate table, one team will be relegated at the end of the season based on coefficients, which will take into consideration the points obtained by the clubs during the present season (aggregate table points) and the two previous seasons (only seasons at the top flight will be counted). The total tally will be then divided by the number of games played in the top flight over those three seasons and an average will be calculated. The team with the worst average at the end of the season will be relegated to Primera Nacional.

Source: AFA