Primera División Argentina 1986-87
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Overview

The 1986-1987 season in Argentine football saw Rosario Central
Rosario Central
Club Atlético Rosario Central is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina. Its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second tier of the Argentine football league system, after being relegated in the 2009-10 season....

 win the Argentine Primera
Primera División Argentina
The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

 by a single point from fierce local rivals Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys
Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

.

League standings

Position Team Points Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference
1 Rosario Central
Rosario Central
Club Atlético Rosario Central is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina. Its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second tier of the Argentine football league system, after being relegated in the 2009-10 season....

49 38 17 15 6 64 45 19
2 Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys
Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

48 38 19 10 9 57 38 19
3 Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente is an Argentine athletic, sports and social club, which has its headquarters and stadium in the city of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División....

47 38 17 13 8 70 47 23
4 Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

46 38 18 10 10 62 49 13
5 Racing Club
Racing Club de Avellaneda
Racing Club is an Argentine professional football club from Avellaneda, a suburb of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the "big five" clubs of Argentine football...

44 38 16 12 10 50 41 9
6 Ferro Carril Oeste
Ferro Carril Oeste
Club Ferro Carril Oeste, known simply as Ferro Carril Oeste or Ferro, is a sports club from the neighbourhood of Caballito, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club was founded on July 28, 1904 by 95 railway workers from the Buenos Aires Western Railway...

44 38 13 18 7 40 32 8
7 San Lorenzo 44 38 15 14 9 45 38 7
8 Instituto de Córdoba 41 38 13 15 10 54 46 8
9 Vélez Sársfield
Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield
Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield is a sports club based in the Liniers neighborhood of western Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vélez is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División, the top level of the Argentine league system...

41 38 15 11 12 50 43 7
10 River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....

39 38 13 13 12 54 49 5
11 Talleres de Córdoba
Talleres de Córdoba
Club Atlético Talleres is a sports club from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, mostly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the regionalised third division, the Torneo Argentino A...

38 38 11 16 11 45 61 -16
12 Estudiantes de La Plata
Estudiantes de La Plata
Club Estudiantes de La Plata , simply referred to as Estudiantes, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its history....

37 38 10 17 11 40 45 -5
13 Gimnasia de La Plata 37 38 12 13 13 33 41 -8
14 Deportivo Español 36 38 12 12 14 29 31 -2
15 Racing de Córdoba 33 38 8 17 13 43 56 -13
16 Unión de Santa Fe
Unión de Santa Fe
Club Atlético Unión is a sports club from Santa Fe, the capital city of the province with the same name in Argentina. The club, founded in 1907, has a strong rivalry with Colón de Santa Fe....

31 38 6 19 13 30 38 -8
17 Argentinos Juniors
Argentinos Juniors
Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine football club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. Founded on August 15, 1904, the club was originally called the “Martyrs of Chicago”, in homage to the eight anarchists imprisoned or hanged after the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago.-Early...

28 38 5 18 15 45 47 -2
18 Temperley
Club Atlético Temperley
Club Atlético Temperley is a sports club from the city of Temperley in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system.-History:Temperley...

27 38 7 13 18 28 48 -20
19 Platense
Club Atlético Platense
Club Atlético Platense is an Argentine sports club based in Vicente López, in the north side of Greater Buenos Aires. The club nickname is Calamar after the journalist Palacio Zino said that the team moved "like a squid in its ink"....

27 38 6 15 17 40 63 -23
20 Deportivo Italiano
Sportivo Italiano
Club Sportivo Italiano is a football club located in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana third level of the Argentine Football Association....

23 38 6 11 21 29 59 -30
  • Rosario Central qualified for Copa Libertadores 1987 as champions of Argentina.
  • Teams highlighted in light blue qualified for the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores.

Top scorers

Position Player Team Goals
1 Omar Palma
Omar Palma
Omar Palma is an Argentine football midfielder. He was born on April 12, 1958, in the city of Campo Largo in the Chaco Province of Argentina. He played most of his career for Rosario Central in Argentina...

Rosario Central
Rosario Central
Club Atlético Rosario Central is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina. Its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second tier of the Argentine football league system, after being relegated in the 2009-10 season....

20
2 Jorge Comas
Jorge Comas
Jorge Alberto Comas Romero is a former Argentine footballer. He played club football in Argentina and Mexico and represented the Argentina national football team....

Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

19
3 Franco Navarro
Franco Navarro
Franco Enrique Navarro Monteiro is a former football striker and manager from Peru.-Career:Navarro played for Deportivo Municipal, Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima, Independiente from Argentina and Grasshoppers from Switzerland among others...

Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente is an Argentine athletic, sports and social club, which has its headquarters and stadium in the city of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División....

18

Relegation

  • Deportivo Italiano
    Sportivo Italiano
    Club Sportivo Italiano is a football club located in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana third level of the Argentine Football Association....

     were relegated with the worst points average (0.600)
  • Temperley
    Club Atlético Temperley
    Club Atlético Temperley is a sports club from the city of Temperley in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system.-History:Temperley...

     were relegated after losing 2-0 to Platense
    Club Atlético Platense
    Club Atlético Platense is an Argentine sports club based in Vicente López, in the north side of Greater Buenos Aires. The club nickname is Calamar after the journalist Palacio Zino said that the team moved "like a squid in its ink"....

     in the relegation playoff.

Liguilla Pre-Libertadores

  • Deportivo Armenio
    Club Deportivo Armenio
    Club Deportivo Armenio, known simply as Deportivo Armenio or Armenio, is a football club from Ingeniero Maschwitz, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina...

    , Banfield
    Club Atlético Banfield
    Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club located in the city of Banfield, part of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires province. Founded on 21 January 1896 by residents of the town of British origin , its main activity is football...

     and Belgrano de Córdoba
    Belgrano de Córdoba
    Club Atlético Belgrano is a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina, best known for its football team, promoted to the Argentine first division at the end of the 2010/2011 season. The football team is very popular and it has one of the largest fan bases outside Buenos Aires...

     qualified as the top 3 teams in the 2nd division.


Quarter finals
Home (1st leg) Home (2nd leg) 1st Leg 2nd leg Aggregate
Banfield Independiente 1-0 0-2 1-2
Belgrano Newell's Old Boys 0-0 0-2 0-2
Deportivo Armenio Boca Juniors 2-4 0-2 2-6
Racing Club Ferro Carril Oeste 0-0 1-2 1-2


Semi-finals
Home (1st leg) Home (2nd leg) 1st Leg 2nd leg Aggregate
Ferro Carril Oeste Independiente 0-1 0-0 0-1
Newell's Old Boys Boca Juniors 0-1 2-5 2-6


Final
Home (1st leg) Home (2nd leg) 1st Leg 2nd leg Aggregate
Independiente Boca Juniors 2-2 2-1 4-3

  • Independiente qualified for Copa Libertadores 1987.
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