The 2004–05 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 19th season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera División.
Club information
Club City StadiumAtlético de RafaelaRafaelaNuevo Monumental Belgrano Córdoba El Gigante de Alberdi CAI Comodoro Rivadavia Municipal de Comodoro Rivadavia Chacarita Juniors Villa Maipú Chacarita Juniors Defensa y Justicia Florencio Varela Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Defensores de Belgrano Núñez Juan Pasquale El Porvenir Gerli Gildo Francisco Ghersinich Ferro Carril Oeste Caballito Arq. Ricardo Etcheverry Gimnasia y Esgrima San Salvador de Jujuy 23 de AgostoGodoy Cruz Mendoza Malvinas Argentinas Huracán Parque Patricios Tomás Adolfo Ducó Juventud Antoniana Salta Fray Honorato Pistoia Nueva Chicago Mataderos Nueva Chicago Racing Córdoba Miguel Sancho San Martín Mendoza San Martín San Martín San Juan Ing. Hilario Sánchez Sarmiento Junín Eva Perón Talleres Córdoba Estadio La Boutique Tiro Federal Rosario Fortín de Ludueña Unión Santa Fe 15 de Abril
Torneo Apertura standings
Torneo Clausura standings
Overall standings
Promotion playoff This leg was played between the Apertura Winner: Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy (J), and the Clausura Winner: Tiro Federal. The winning team was declared champion and was automatically promoted to 2005–06 Primera División and the losing team played the Second Promotion Playoff.
Match details
GK 1 Leonardo Aguirre DF Alejandro González DF Gabriel Ramón DF Fabián Berza DF Facundo Torres MF 8 Marcelo Quinteros MF Daniel Ramasco MF 4 Franco Sosa MF Julián Kmet FW Gustavo Balvorín FW Gabriel RothSubstitutions: FW 16 Aquilino Villalba Nelson Agoglia Daniel Juárez Manager: Roberto Mario Gómez
GK 1 Pablo Del Vecchio DF 4 Germán Noce DF Víctor Molina DF Miguel Abrigo DF 3 Javier Yacuzzi MF Diego Romano MF Damián Terés MF Silvio Iuvalé MF 10 Raúl Gordillo FW 11 Javier García FW 9 Matías Saad Substitutions: Pablo Vacaria Diego Bono Martín Valli Manager: José María Bianco
Second Promotion Playoff This leg was played by Gimnasia y Esgrima (J), the losing team of the Promotion Playoff, and Huracán, who was the best team in the overall standings under the champions. The winning team was promoted to 2005–06 Primera División and the losing team played the Promotion Playoff Primera División-Primera B Nacional.
Match details
GK Coronel DF A. González DF Ramón DF Versa DF Torres MF Quinteros MF Ramasco MF Maidana MF Kmet FW Roth FW Villalba Substitutes: Abaurre Córdoba Juárez Manager: Roberto Mario Gómez
GK Mariano Andújar DF Darío Marra DF Matías Villavicencio DF Leandro Grimi MF Nahuel Fioretto MF Mariano Juan MF Ignacio Anívole MF Cristian Sánchez Prette MF Alejandro Alonso FW Daniel Osvaldo FW Joaquín LarriveySubstitutes: MF Roberto Pompei FW Sebastián Cobelli FW Nicolás Hernández Manager: Antonio Mohamed
Torneo Reducido It was played by the teams placed 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th in the Overall Standings: CAI (4th), Atlético de Rafaela (5th), Nueva Chicago (6th) and San Martín (M) (7th). The winning team played the Promotion Playoff Primera División-Primera B Nacional.
Semifinals
!colspan="5"|Semifinals
!colspan="5"|Semifinals
Final
!colspan="5"|Final
Promotion playoff Primera División-Primera B Nacional The Second Promotion playoff loser (Huracán) and the Torneo Reducido Winner (Atlético de Rafaela) played against the 18th and the 17th placed of the Relegation Table of 2004–05 Primera División.
!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 1
!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 2
Argentinos Juniors remains in Primera División after winning the playoff. Instituto remains in Primera División after winning the playoff.
Relegation Team Situation 1Atlético de Rafaela 77 — 58 135 76 Indirect 2Huracán — 54 61 115 76 Direct 3Tiro Federal — 50 67 113 76 Indirect 4Nueva Chicago — — 55 55 38 Direct 5Gimnasia y Esgrima (J) 48 49 63 164 114 Indirect 6Godoy Cruz 58 58 47 163 114 Indirect 7Belgrano 52 57 53 162 114 Indirect 8Ferro Carril Oeste — 54 52 106 76 Direct 9San Martín (M) 62 42 55 159 114 Indirect 10CAI 45 47 61 153 114 Indirect 11Unión — 47 51 98 76 Direct 12Talleres (C) — — 49 49 38 Indirect 13Defensa y Justicia 55 48 40 143 114 Direct 14Juventud Antoniana 53 42 45 140 114 Indirect 15El Porvenir 42 52 46 140 114 Direct 16San Martín (SJ)1 36 50 52 138 114 Indirect 17Racing (C) 1 — — 46 46 38 Relegation Playoff MatchesIndirect 18Chacarita Juniors 2 — — 45 45 38 Additional PlayoffDirect 19Defensores de Belgrano 2 49 46 40 135 114 Direct 20Sarmiento — — 31 31 38 Primera B MetropolitanaDirect 1: Had to play a tiebreaker to see which team played Promotion/relegation Legs. 2: Had to play a tiebreaker to see which team was relegated and which team played Promotion/relegation Legs. Note: Clubs with indirect affiliation with AFA are relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana. Clubs with direct affiliation are all from Greater Buenos Aires, with the exception of Newell's, Rosario Central, Central Córdoba and Argentino de Rosario, all from Rosario, and Unión and Colón from Santa Fe.
Tiebreaker 1 Since San Martín (SJ) and Racing (C) finished with the same relegation co-efficient at the dividing line, a one-match playoff was held to determine who had to play in the relegation/promotion playoffs. San Martín (SJ) won the playoff so Racing (C) had to play the Relegation Playoff Matches.
Tiebreaker 2 Since Chacarita Juniors and Defensores de Belgrano finished with the same relegation co-efficient at the dividing line, a one-match playoff was held to determine who had to play in the relegation/promotion playoffs and who had to be directly relegated to the Primera B Metropolitana. Chacarita won the match on penalties and continued to the Relegation Playoff Matches; Defensores de Belgrano was relegated to the Primera B Metropolitana.
Relegation playoff matches
!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 1 (Direct affiliation vs. Primera B Metropolitana)
!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 2 (Indirect affiliation vs. Torneo Argentino A)
Chacarita Juniors remains in Primera B Nacional after a 2-2 aggregate tie by virtue of a "sports advantage". In case of a tie in goals, the team from the Primera B Nacional gets to stay in it. Aldosivi was promoted to 2005–06 Primera B Nacional by winning the playoff and Racing (C) was relegated to 2005–06 Torneo Argentino A.
See also 2004–05 in Argentine football
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