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The 2022 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional (officially the Torneo Binance 2022 for sponsorship reasons) [1] was the 132nd season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The league season began on 3 June and ended on 25 October 2022.
As of 2022, five clubs from Argentina are eligible to play the Copa Libertadores. The champion of Primera División automatically qualifies for the tournament. The other four teams best placed in the table at the end of the tournament (2nd to 5th) are also eligible to play the Cup. For the Copa Sudamericana, six teams are eligible. Clubs placed ...
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 Boca Juniors (C): 27 16 4 7 34 28 +6 52 Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage: 2 Racing: 27 14 8 5 41 24 +17 50 3 River Plate: 27
The Argentina football champion is the winner of the highest league in Argentine football, the Primera División. The league season have had different formats, since the original double round-robin until the Liga Profesional. The champion is the team with the most points at the end of the competition.
In October 2022, the AFA determined that the postponed 2020 edition would be held on 1 March 2023. As Boca Juniors won both the 2019–20 Primera División and the 2020 Copa LPF, River Plate and Banfield (the runners-up in those competitions) played a semi-final on 22 February 2023 [8] to determine who would play Boca Juniors in the final. [9] [10]
San Martín de Tucumán is the only club that reached the Primera División from the lowest possible category (the Liga Tucumana de Fútbol), then was relegated all the way back to that category and from there reached the Argentine top division again.
Paraguayan Arsenio Erico and Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli are the two foreigners to have been top scorer of Argentina on the most occasions. Erico was the top scorer three consecutive seasons (1937 to 1939), while Francescoli was the top scorer in the 1984 Metropolitano, the 1985–86 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
On 14 July 2022, Payero returned to Argentina to join Boca Juniors on a season-long loan deal. [8] On 23 October 2022, the 2022 Argentine Primera División ended with Payero's Boca Juniors winning the league title.