Season 2016 Top goalscorer José Sand (15 goals) Location Argentina Goals scored 606 | Champions Lanús (2nd title) Dates 5 Feb 2016 – 29 May 2016 Champion Club Atlético Lanús Matches played 242 | |
Biggest home win Newell's Old Boys 5–0 Racing (Feb. 17, 2016)
Tigre 5–0 Atlético Tucumán (Mar. 7, 2016) Biggest away win Argentinos Juniors 1–5 Defensa y Justicia (Mar. 4, 2016)
Unión 0–4 Lanús (Apr. 4, 2016) Highest scoring Unión 3–6 Racing (Mar. 6, 2016)
Atlético de Rafaela 3–6 Racing (Mar. 21, 2016) Similar 2016–17 Argentine Primera, 2014 Argentine Primera, 2015 Argentine Primera, 2015–16 Copa Argentina, 2017 Copa Libertadores | ||
The 2016 Argentine Primera División - Copa Axion Energy was the 126 season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on February 5 and ended on May 29. Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty eight returning from the 2015 and two promoted from the 2015 Primera B Nacional (Atlético Tucumán and Patronato). Two teams (Nueva Chicago and Crucero del Norte) were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship in the previous tournament.
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Lanús won their second title after defeating San Lorenzo 4–0 in the final.
Competition format
The tournament for the 2016 season was composed of two zones of 15 teams. Each team played the other 14 teams in its zone in a round-robin tournament and also played two interzonal matches against its rival team in the other zone, once home and once away. In the end, the winner of each played a final match on a neutral ground to determine the champion.
Results
Source: AFA
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Copa Libertadores playoff
The second-place team in each zone qualifies to the 2017 Copa Libertadores and will play a match at a neutral stadium to determine at which stage each team enters. The winner of this playoff will qualify directly to the second stage (earning the Argentina 3 berth), and the loser will enter the first stage of the tournament (earning the Argentina 4 berth).
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 two 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 three season and an average is calculated. The team with the worst average at the end of the season is relegated to Primera B Nacional.
Source: AFA