Season 2016–17 Dates 26 Aug 2016 – 29 May 2017 Goals scored 450 | Longest winning run 5 gamesTalleres (C) Location Argentina Matches played 210 | |
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Similar 2016 Argentine Primera, 2015 Argentine Primera, 2014 Argentine Primera, 2015–16 Copa Argentina, 2013–14 Argentine Primera | ||
The 2016–17 Argentine Primera División - Torneo de la Independencia is the 127 season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on August 26, 2016, ending on 29 May 2017. Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty nine returning from the 2016 season, with the addition of Talleres de Córdoba as Primera B Nacional champion. Argentinos Juniors did not take part because of having been relegated in the previous season.
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The tournament was named in commemoration of the 200° anniversary of the Independence of Argentina.
Competition format
The tournament for the 2016 season was composed of 30 teams. Each team played the other 29 teams in a single round-robin tournament, and also played an additional match against its main rival team, named "Fecha de Clásicos" (Derbies Fixture).
Personnel
Updated as of 6 Jan, 2017.
Results
Teams play every other team once (either at home or away), and play one additional round against their local derby rival (or assigned match by AFA if a club doesn't have derby), completing a total of 30 rounds.
Updated to games played on December 19, 2016.
Source: AFA
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Relegation
Relegation at the end of the season is based on coefficients, which take into consideration the points obtained by the clubs during the present season and the three previous seasons (only seasons at the top-flight are counted). The total tally is then divided by the total amount of games played in the top flight on those four seasons and an average is calculated. The four teams with the worst average at the end of the season are relegated to Primera B Nacional.
Source: AFA