Primera B Nacional
The Nacional B or Primera B Nacional is the second highest division in Argentinian football . In the 2017/18 season, 25 clubs are playing in this league for promotion to the Superliga Argentina .
History and Development
The league was founded in 1986 as the "substructure" of the Primera División in order to enable clubs that are not directly part of the AFA to enter professional football . This applies to almost all clubs outside of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area . Before the introduction of the league, their teams could only participate in the national cup competition Campeonato Nacional , apart from in their own regional leagues , since promotion to the Primera División was only possible from what is now the third-class Primera B at the time . The new league was pushed between these two divisions from the 1986/87 season, it continues to be in the hierarchy above the Torneo Argentino A, founded in 1995, to which club teams from the interior belong.
Up until 2007, two championships were played per season: first round ( Apertura ) and second round ( Clausura ). Since the 2007/08 season, this system was abandoned in favor of a uniform championship. Because of an outbreak of violence in a promotion game, fans of the visiting team were temporarily prohibited from attending the games from the 2007/08 season, so the games only took place in front of the home crowd. However, this rule was abandoned again in 2011, although individual games can still be banned for visiting fans if security problems are expected.
Ascent and descent
Up until 2007, the promotion system between the first and second division was complicated - because of the double championship, three different tables were taken into account, with several promotion games and a kind of playoff round.
Since the 2007/08 season with a uniform championship, first and second placed players have been promoted directly, the third and fourth play the promotion / relegation round (Promoción) against the third and fourth from bottom of the relegation table of the first division. The relegation table of the Primera División is calculated from the point average over the past three years. The third promoted player will be determined in an encounter with a return leg between the 18th of the relegation table of the Primera División and the third-placed player of the Nacional B, the fourth in an encounter of the 17th of the relegation table of the Primera División and the fourth-placed player of the Nacional B.
The descent also takes place via a separate relegation table, in which the points average of the last three years is assessed. The last two in the relegation table are relegated directly - depending on their geographic origin to the Primera B Metropolitana (teams from Buenos Aires) or to the Torneo Argentino A (teams from the interior). Two other teams - the next worst placed from Buenos Aires and from the interior - play a relegation round (promoción) with the second of the Torneo Argentino A and the Primera B Metropolitana.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Vuelve el público visitante al Ascenso tras cuatro años , Clarín, 23 August 2011
