Promoted Talleres (C) Goals scored 530 (2.29 per match) | Matches played 231 | |
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Champions Talleres (C)(2nd divisional title) Top goalscorer Germán Lesman (17 goals) | ||
The 2016 Argentine Primera B Nacional is the 31 season of the second tier of football in Argentina. The season began in January and will end in July. Twenty two teams are competing in the league, sixteen returning from the 2015 season, two teams that were relegated from Primera División and four teams promoted from Federal A and B Metropolitana.
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Competition format
The league's format has changed from last season. This year there will be twenty-two teams which will play each other once in one Round-robin tournament against the other teams. One team will be crowned as champion and automatically promoted to the Primera División. One team will be relegated at the end of the season.
Results
Updated to games played on 19 June 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
The bottom team of this table face relegation. Clubs with an indirect affiliation with Argentine Football Association are relegated to the Torneo Federal A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana.
Source: AFA
As of 19 June 2016