Torneo Federal A

Torneo Federal A
Founded	2014
Country	Argentina
Confederation	CONMEBOL
Number of teams	34
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	Primera Nacional
Relegation to	Torneo Regional Federal Amateur
Domestic cup(s)	Copa Argentina
Current champions	Gimnasia y Tiro (1st title) ; (2023)
Most championships	Nine clubs (1 title each)
TV partners	Argentina:; DeporTV; TV Pública; DirecTV SportsInternational:; InTV Sports; InTV Max; TyC Sports; TNT;
Website	afa.com.ar/federala
	Current: 2024 Torneo Federal A

The Torneo Federal A (in English "Federal A Tournament") is one of the two professional leagues that form the regionalised third level of the Argentine football league system, along with Primera B Metropolitana. The competition was established in 2014 as a result of a change in the structure of the league system, replacing Torneo Argentino A.

Federal A is organised by "Consejo Federal", a division of the Argentine Football Association. Clubs in Federal A have indirect membership in AFA unlike clubs in Primera B, which have direct membership. All teams with indirect membership are from outside the city of Buenos Aires (playing in regional leagues) and its metropolitan area (Greater Buenos Aires), while most of the direct members are from the aforementioned area.

Format (2023 season)

First stage

The 36 teams were split into four zones of nine teams, where they will play against the other teams in their group four: twice at home and twice away. The top four teams from each zone qualified for the final stages.

Final stages

The final stages was played between the 16 teams that qualified from the first stage. They were seeded in the final stages according to their results in the first stage, with the best eight seeded 1–8, and the worst eight teams seeded 9–16. The teams played four rounds and the winner was declared champion and automatically promoted to the Primera Nacional, the losing team in the final qualified for a promotion playoff against a team from Primera B Metropolitana.

Relegation

After the first stage, the bottom team of each zone were relegated to the Torneo Regional Federal Amateur, giving a total of four teams relegated.

Participating teams (2023 season)

Zone A

Team	City	Province	Stadium
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	Río Negro	La Visera de Cemento
Círculo Deportivo	Comandante Nicanor Otamendi	Buenos Aires	Guillermo Trama
Germinal	Rawson	Chubut	El Fortín
Liniers	Bahía Blanca	Buenos Aires	Alejandro Pérez
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca		Roberto Natalio Carminatti
Sansinena	General Cerri		Luis Molina
Santamarina	Tandil		Municipal General San Martín
Club Sol de Mayo	Viedma	Río Negro	El Coliseo
Villa Mitre	Bahía Blanca	Buenos Aires	El Fortín

Zone B

Team	City	Province	Stadium
Argentino	Monte Maíz	Córdoba	Modesto Marrone
Atenas	Río Cuarto	Córdoba	9 de Julio
Ciudad de Bolivar	San Carlos de Bolívar	Buenos Aires	Municipal Eva Perón
Estudiantes	San Luis	San Luis	Héctor Odicino - Pedro Benoza
Ferro Carril Oeste	General Pico	La Pampa	El Coloso del Barrio Talleres
Huracán Las Heras	Las Heras	Mendoza	General San Martín
Juventud Unida Universitario	San Luis	San Luis	Mario Diez
San Martín	San Martín	Mendoza	Libertador General San Martín
Sportivo Peñarol	Chimbas	San Juan	Ramón Pablo Rojas

Zone C

Team	City	Province	Stadium
Defensores	Pronunciamiento	Entre Ríos	Delio Cardozo
Defensores de Belgrano	Villa Ramallo	Buenos Aires	Salomón Boeseldín
Douglas Haig	Pergamino		Miguel Morales
El Linqueño	Lincoln		Leonardo Costa
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Concepción del Uruguay	Entre Ríos	Manuel y Ramón Núñez
Independiente	Chivilcoy	Buenos Aires	Raúl Orlando Lungarzo
Sportivo Belgrano	San Francisco	Córdoba	Oscar Boero
Sportivo Las Parejas	Las Parejas	Santa Fe	Fortaleza del Lobo
Unión	Sunchales	Santa Fe	La Fortaleza

Zone D

Team	City	Province	Stadium
9 de Julio	Rafaela	Santa Fe	Germán Solterman
Boca Unidos	Corrientes	Corrientes	Leoncio Benítez
Central Norte	Salta	Salta	Doctor Luis Güemes
Crucero del Norte	Garupá	Misiones	Andrés Guacurarí
Gimnasia y Tiro	Salta	Salta	Gigante del Norte
Juventud Antoniana	Salta	Salta	Fray Honorato Pistoia
San Martín	Formosa	Formosa	17 de Octubre
Sarmiento	Resistencia	Chaco	Centenario
Sol de América	Formosa	Formosa	Sol de América

List of champions

In brackets, the number of titles won to date

Ed.	Season	Champion/s	Also Promoted
1	2014	— ^{[note 1]}	Central Córdoba (SdE) Estudiantes (SL) Guillermo Brown Juventud Unida (G) Unión (MdP) Atlético Paraná Gimnasia y Esgrima (M) ^{[note 1]}
2	2015	Talleres (C) (1)	Juventud Unida Universitario
3	2016	San Martín (T) (1)	—
4	2016–17	Agropecuario Argentino (1)	Mitre (SdE)
5	2017–18	Central Córdoba (SdE) (1)	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)
6	2018–19	Estudiantes (RC) (1)	Alvarado
7	2019–20	(abandoned) ^{[note 2]}
8	2020	Güemes (SdE) (1)	Deportivo Maipú
9	2021	Deportivo Madryn (1)	Chaco For Ever
10	2022	Racing (C) (1)	—
11	2023	Gimnasia y Tiro (1)	—

Titles by club

Team	Titles	Years won
Talleres (C)	1	2015
San Martín (T)	1	2016
Agropecuario Argentino	1	2016–17
Central Córdoba (SdE)	1	2017–18
Estudiantes (RC)	1	2018–19
Güemes	1	2020
Deportivo Madryn	1	2021
Racing (C)	1	2022
Gimnasia y Tiro	1	2023

Top scorers

Top scorers by tournament

Season	Player	Team	Goals
2014	Hugo Troche	Sportivo Patria	16
2015	Gustavo Balvorín	Juventud Antoniana	18
	David Romero	San Lorenzo de Alem (C)^{[n2 1]}
	Adrián Toloza	Mitre (SdE)
2016	Matías Zbrun	Libertad (S)	13
2016–17	Pablo Palacios	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	21
2017–18	Pablo Palacios	Gimnasia y Esgrima (M)	21
2018–19	Franco Olego	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	20
2019–20	Julio Cáceres	Chaco For Ever	10
2020	Nelson Romero	Güemes (SdE)	6
2020	Maximiliano Tunessi	Villa Mitre	6
2021	Bruno Nasta	Huracán (LH)	17
	Franco Coronel	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)
	Juan P. Zárate	Cipolletti
2022	Juan M. Amieva	Sansinena	16

Notes

↑ Located in Catamarca Province.

Seasons in Torneo Federal A

Note: Updated to 2023 season. Teams in bold currently playing in Torneo Federal A.

Club/s	Seasons
Cipolletti, Defensores de Belgrano (VR), Sarmiento (R)	11
Ferro Carril Oeste (GP), Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU), Juventud Unida Universitario, Sportivo Las Parejas, Unión (S)	10
Chaco For Ever, Defensores (P), Deportivo Madryn, Gimnasia y Tiro, Sportivo Belgrano, Villa Mitre	9
Deportivo Maipú, Juventud Antoniana	8
Desamparados, Douglas Haig, Estudiantes (SL), Huracán Las Heras, Sansinena	7
Altos Hornos Zapla, Alvarado, Boca Unidos, Crucero del Norte, Deportivo Roca, Independiente (N), Juventud Unida (G), San Jorge (T), San Lorenzo (A), Sol de Mayo	6
Central Norte, Círculo Deportivo, Deportivo Camioneros, Independiente (Ch), Libertad (S), Olimpo, Sol de América (F), Sportivo Patria, Sportivo Peñarol, Unión (VK), Unión Aconquija	5
Atlético Paraná, General Belgrano, Gimnasia y Esgrima (M), Gutiérrez SC, Mitre (SdE), San Martín (F)	4
Ciudad de Bolivar, Concepción FC, Guaraní Antonio Franco, Güemes, Racing (C), San Martín (T),	3
Alianza (CC), Américo Tesorieri, Andino, Argentino (MM), CAI, Central Córdoba (SdE), Estudiantes (RC), Liniers (BB), Rivadavia (L), Talleres (C), Textil Mandiyú, Tiro Federal (BB), Tiro Federal (R)	2
9 de Julio (M), 9 de Julio (R), Agropecuario Argentino, Atenas (RC), Deportivo Mandiyú, El Linqueño, Germinal, Guillermo Brown, San Martín (M), Santamarina, Unión (MdP), Vélez Sársfield (SdE)	1

Notes

1 2 Because of being a transicional tournament, the competition had the unusual number of seven clubs promoted to Primera B Nacional and no relegations.^[1] They are listed as "winners", although no official champion was crowned.^[2]
↑ On 28 April 2020, AFA decided to abandon the competition and declare the season finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All official competitions were suspended since 17 March.

References

↑ Argentina Federal A 2014 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at the RSSSF
↑ Argentina - Torneo del Interior at the RSSSF

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[scorers-5] Located in Catamarca Province.

[nochamp-1] 1 2 Because of being a transicional tournament, the competition had the unusual number of seven clubs promoted to Primera B Nacional and no relegations.^[1] They are listed as "winners", although no official champion was crowned.^[2]

[coronavirus-4] On 28 April 2020, AFA decided to abandon the competition and declare the season finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All official competitions were suspended since 17 March.

[2] Argentina Federal A 2014 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at the RSSSF

[3] Argentina - Torneo del Interior at the RSSSF

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