1998–99 Primera B Nacional

Primera B Nacional

Season	1998-99
Champions	Instituto (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Instituto Chacarita Juniors
Relegated	Atlanta Douglas Haig Estudiantes (BA) Huracán Corrientes
Top goalscorer	Adrián Czornomaz 26 goals
← 1997-98 1999-00 →

The 1998-99 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 13º season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 33 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera División.

Club information

Interior Zone

Club	City	Stadium
Aldosivi	Mar del Plata	José María Minella
Almirante Brown	Arrecifes	Estadio Municipal
Atlético de Rafaela	Rafaela	Nuevo Monumental
Atlético Tucumán	San Miguel de Tucumán	Monumental Presidente Jose Fierro
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	La Visera de Cemento
Douglas Haig	Pergamino	Miguel Morales
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Concepción del Uruguay	Manuel y Ramón Núñez
Gimnasia y Tiro	Salta	Gigante del Norte
Godoy Cruz	Mendoza	Malvinas Argentinas
Huracán Corrientes	Corrientes	José Antonio Romero Feris
Instituto	Córdoba	Presidente Perón
Juventud Antoniana	Salta	Fray Honorato Pistoia
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca	Roberto Natalio Carminatti
San Martín	Mendoza	San Martín
San Martín	San Juan	Ing. Hilario Sánchez
San Martín	San Miguel de Tucumán	La Ciudadela

Metropolitana Zone

Club	City	Stadium
All Boys	Floresta	Islas Malvinas
Almagro	José Ingenieros	Tres de Febrero
Arsenal	Sarandí	Julio H. Grondona
Atlanta	Villa Crespo	León Kolbovski
Banfield	Banfield	Florencio Solá
Central Córdoba	Rosario	Gabino Sosa
Chacarita Juniors	Villa Maipú	Chacarita Juniors
Defensa y Justicia	Florencio Varela	Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello
Deportivo Español	Parque Avellaneda	Nueva España
Deportivo Morón	Morón	Francisco Urbano
El Porvenir	Gerli	Gildo Francisco Ghersinich
Estudiantes	Caseros	Ciudad de Caseros
Los Andes	Lomas de Zamora	Eduardo Gallardón
Nueva Chicago	Mataderos	Nueva Chicago
Quilmes	Quilmes	Centenario
San Miguel	Los Polvorines	Malvinas Argentinas
Tigre	Victoria	José Dellagiovanna

Interior Zone standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Instituto	30	17	6	7	57	30	+27	57	Promotion Playoff
2	Atlético Tucumán	30	17	6	7	55	29	+26	57
3	Cipolletti	30	15	8	7	56	45	+11	53	Second Promotion Playoff
4	Juventud Antoniana	30	13	7	10	44	33	+11	46
5	San Martín (T)	30	13	7	10	43	48	−5	46
6	Atlético de Rafaela	30	12	8	10	45	36	+9	44
7	Olimpo	30	11	10	9	43	44	−1	43
8	Almirante Brown (A)	30	12	6	12	42	41	+1	42
9	Aldosivi	30	12	6	12	39	41	−2	42
10	San Martín (M)	30	10	8	12	36	42	−6	38
11	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	30	10	7	13	41	41	0	37
12	San Martín (SJ)	30	8	12	10	29	35	−6	36
13	Gimnasia y Tiro	30	8	10	12	37	45	−8	34
14	Godoy Cruz	30	8	6	16	34	54	−20	30
15	Huracán Corrientes	30	7	8	15	29	47	−18	29
16	Douglas Haig	30	6	7	17	37	56	−19	25

Metropolitana Zone Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Chacarita Juniors	34	18	10	6	71	38	+33	64	Promotion Playoff
2	Arsenal	34	17	12	5	62	42	+20	63
3	All Boys	34	16	15	3	47	31	+16	63	Second Promotion Playoff
4	Quilmes	34	17	11	6	72	42	+30	62
5	El Porvenir	34	18	8	8	48	28	+20	62
6	Nueva Chicago	34	14	13	7	47	32	+15	55
7	Defensa y Justicia	34	13	13	8	47	34	+13	52
8	Tigre	34	13	11	10	44	31	+13	50
9	San Miguel	34	12	9	13	40	37	+3	45
10	Central Córdoba (R)	34	11	12	11	47	51	−4	45
11	Deportivo Español	34	9	11	14	36	53	−17	38
12	Banfield	34	9	10	15	38	57	−19	37
13	Almagro	34	6	17	11	33	37	−4	35
14	Atlanta1	34	5	18	11	25	41	−16	33
15	Deportivo Morón	34	7	9	18	37	55	−18	30	Second Promotion Playoff
16	Los Andes	34	6	11	17	32	59	−27	29
17	Estudiantes (BA)	34	3	13	18	28	58	−30	22

1: Didn't qualify for the Second Promotion Playoff as it was involved in Relegation.

Promotion Playoff

The Promotion Playoff was played by the teams placed 1º and 2º of each zone. The winning team was declared champion and was automatically promoted to Primera División. The teams that lost in semifinal joined into the Round of 16 of the Second Promotion Playoff, and the team that lost in the final joined in the Quarterfinals of the Second Promotion Playoff.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Semifinals
Instituto1	2-2	Arsenal	1-1	1-1
Semifinals
Chacarita Juniors1	2–2	Atlético Tucumán	0-1	2-1

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Final
Chacarita Juniors	1-3	Instituto	0-3	1-0

Second Promotion Playoff

The Second Promotion Playoff or Torneo Reducido was played by the teams placed 3º to 14º of each zone. Arsenal and Atlético Tucumán joined in the Round of 16, and Chacarita Juniors joined in the Quarterfinals. The winner was promoted to Primera División.

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	5I	San Martín (T)	2	2	4
	7I	Olimpo	2	0	2
								4I	Juventud Antoniana	0	1	1
								5I	San Martín (T)	0	0	0
	4I	Juventud Antoniana1	1	0	1
	5M	El Porvenir	1	0	1
															3M	All Boys	1	3	4
														4I	Juventud Antoniana	2	5	7
	4M	Quilmes	1	3	4
	6I	Atlético de Rafaela	2	3	5
								3M	All Boys	3	2	5
								6I	Atlético de Rafaela	2	1	3
	3M	All Boys1	0	2	2
	8I	Almirante Brown (A)	2	0	2
																						1M	Chacarita Juniors	1	1	2
																						4I	Juventud Antoniana	1	0	0
	2M	Arsenal	0	1	1
	7M	Defensa y Justicia	1	2	3
								3I	Cipolletti	0	2	2
								7M	Defensa y Justicia	2	1	3
	3I	Cipolletti	0	1	1
	6M	Nueva Chicago	0	0	0
															1M	Chacarita Juniors	1	3	4
														7M	Defensa y Justicia	1	1	2
	2I	Atlético Tucumán	1	2	3
	8M	Tigre	3	2	5
								1M	Chacarita Juniors1	0	1	1
								8M	Tigre	1	0	1

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

• Note: The team in the first line plays at home the second leg.

Relegation

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.

Interior Zone

Pos	Team	1996-97 Pts	1997-98 Pts	1998-99 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Situation	Affiliation
1	Instituto	22	58	57	137	76	1.803		Indirect
2	Atlético Tucumán	21	43	57	121	76	1.592
3	Atlético de Rafaela	28	45	44	117	76	1.539
4	Juventud Antoniana	—	—	46	46	30	1.533
5	San Martín (T)	23	47	49	116	76	1.526
6	San Martín (SJ)	28	48	36	112	76	1.474
7	Almirante Brown (A)	—	45	42	87	60	1.45
8	Cipolletti	15	34	53	102	76	1.342
9	Godoy Cruz	28	42	30	100	76	1.316
10	Olimpo	26	29	43	98	76	1.289
11	Gimnasia y Tiro	26	—	33	59	46	1.283
12	Aldosivi	17	36	42	95	76	1.25
13	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	—	—	37	37	30	1.233
14	San Martín (M)	—	28	38	66	60	1.1
15	Huracán Corrientes	—	35	29	64	60	1.067	Relegation Playoff Matches
16	Douglas Haig	13	25	24	62	76	0.816

Metropolitana Zone

Pos	Team	1996-97 Pts	1997-98 Pts	1998-99 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Situation	Affiliation
1	Chacarita Juniors	—	—	64	134	78	1.718		Direct
2	Banfield	—	43	59	105	62	1.694
3	All Boys	24	46	51	121	78	1.551
4	Quilmes	25	48	47	120	78	1.538
5	Arsenal	16	46	57	119	78	1.526
6	Central Córdoba (R)	23	48	43	114	78	1.462
7	San Miguel	—	45	43	88	62	1.419
8	Nueva Chicago	26	40	44	110	78	1.41
9	El Porvenir	—	—	45	45	32	1.406
10	Defensa y Justicia	—	42	44	86	62	1.387
11	Los Andes	30	48	28	106	78	1.359
12	Deportivo Español	—	—	43	43	32	1.344
13	Tigre	—	—	43	43	32	1.344
14	Almagro	27	22	36	85	78	1.09
15	Deportivo Morón	27	30	28	85	78	1.09
16	Atlanta	22	27	35	84	78	1.077	Primera B Metropolitana
17	Estudiantes (BA)	10	45	21	76	78	0.974

Promotion/Relegation Playoff

Teams placed 15º and 16º of the Relegation Table Interior Zone (Huracán Corrientes and Douglas Haig), played a promotion/relegation playoff or Torneo Reclasificatorio, with General Paz Juniors and Villa Mitre, teams from Torneo Argentino A. The winner was Villa Mitre and was promoted to 1999-00 Primera B Nacional. Huracán Corrientes and Douglas Haig were relegated to Torneo Argentino A and General Paz Juniors stayed on it.

Semifinals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Douglas Haig	0–0 (5-4 p)	General Paz Juniors

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Huracán Corrientes	1-3	Villa Mitre

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Douglas Haig	1-3	Villa Mitre

See also

• 1998–1999 in Argentine football