The regular stage of Opening Tournament The first Division has already come to an end. With River’s triumph over Vélez 4-1, the 16th and last date of the championship was completed, and the 16 teams that will play the round of 16 from next week were defined.
What is coming will be an unique match meetings, without supplementary in case of equality after 90 minutes, and with a local team in charge of the best located team, with the exception of the final, scheduled for next June 1, at the mother stadium of Cities, in Santiago del Estero, which will be held in a neutral field.
In Victoria, Boca could not with tiger. The 1-1 left Xeneize on the second step in zone A; ended with the same score as Argentinos Juniors (33), But those of the paternal captured first place for having a better goal difference. With this result, the bug will face with the Institute of Córdoba, the 8th of Zone B, as a local.
On his side, Boca, as a second, will have Lanús as a rival, the seventh of Group B, who comes from losing with Atlético Tucumán and next Tuesday will visit Melgar, in Peru, for the South American Cup.
As for the possibility of a superclassic, everything changed with River’s wide victory over Vélez. Marcelo Gallardo’s team won 4-1 in the Monumental to the current champion-which this time did not even reach the playoffs-and displaced the second place in Independiente B a, which on Saturday lost with Rosario Central (1-0). In context: the millionaire will be local in his next duel against Barracas Central, while red, as a third, will receive Independiente Rivadavia in Avellaneda. Thus, as were on opposite sides of the key, Boca and River could only cross in the final in Santiago del Esteroin case both exceed three duels prior to the great definition.
With the draw, Tigre was fifth in his area, and therefore he has to play against the room of zone B: San Lorenzo, which had secured that position with the 1-1 draw in Junín against Sarmiento.
Another duel will be the one that will hold Racing and Platense, as third of Zone A, and the sixth of the B. Hurricane (4th in the A) and Riesra (5th in the b) will face in Tomás A. Ducó.
The leaders of each area will be hosts in eighths, rooms and semifinals, provided they advance in the painting. All matches will be directly eliminated, without supplementary times, with the exception of the final.
The quarterfinals will have these crosses:
The season will continue in the second semester with the Closing Tournament 2025which will have the same format and fixture, but with the inverted locations. The points that the clubs add in the first stage of the two championships will be counted in the annual and averages tables.
Through the first, quotas will be granted to the Libertadores and South American Cups of 2026 while the last one will descend to the first national next to the worst of the ranks, which this year averaged the units achieved in the contests of 2023, 2024 and 2025.
