2019–20 Copa Argentina

2019–20 Copa Argentina
Tournament details
Country	Argentina
Dates	15 January – TBD 2020
Teams	77
Tournament statistics
Matches played	35
Goals scored	79 (2.26 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	8 players; (2 goals each)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →; All statistics correct as of 12 March 2020.

The 2019–20 Copa Argentina (officially the Copa Argentina AXION energy 2019–20 for sponsorship reasons)^[1] is the eleventh edition of the Copa Argentina, and the ninth since the relaunch of the tournament in 2011. The competition began on 15 January 2020 and will end on TBD 2020.

Champions will qualify for the 2021 Copa Libertadores and 2020 Supercopa Argentina.

River Plate are the defending champions.

On 17 March 2020, AFA announced the suspension of the tournament until 31 March 2020 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19.^[2]

Teams

Seventy-seven (77) teams took part in this competition: All twenty-four (24) teams from the Primera División; fourteen (14) teams of the Primera Nacional; six (6) from the Primera B, four (4) from the Primera C; three (3) from the Primera D and twenty-six (26) teams from Federal A.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

First Level

Primera División

All twenty-four teams of 2019–20 tournament qualified.

Second Level

Primera Nacional

The top-seven teams of each zone at the 15th round of 2019–20 tournament qualified.

Third Level

Primera B Metropolitana

The top-six teams at the 17th round of 2019–20 Primera B tournament qualified.

Torneo Federal A

The top-thirteen teams of each zone at the 15th round of 2019–20 tournament qualified.

Fourth Level

Primera C Metropolitana

The top-four teams at the 19th round of 2019–20 Primera C tournament qualified.

Fifth Level

Primera D Metropolitana

The top-three teams at the 13th round of 2019–20 Primera D tournament qualified.

Round and draw dates

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Regional Round	Round I	11 December 2019	15 January–11 February 2020	19 January–19 February 2020
Final Stage	Round of 64	30 January 2020	25 February–TBD 2020
	Round of 32		TBD
	Round of 16		TBD
	Quarterfinals		TBD
	Semifinals		TBD
	Final		TBD

Regional Round

This round was organized by the Consejo Federal.

Round I

In the Round I, 26 teams from Torneo Federal A participated. The round was played between 15 January and 19 February, on a home-and-away two-legged tie. The 13 winning teams advanced to the Final Round.^[7]^[8]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sarmiento (R)	1–2	Chaco For Ever	1–1	0–1
Desamparados	1–5	Sportivo Peñarol	0–1	1–4
Huracán Las Heras	4–1	Deportivo Maipú	1–0	3–1
Sansinena	2–3	Villa Mitre	2–2	0–1
Sol de Mayo	1–7	Deportivo Madryn	0–2	1–5
Cipolletti	1–1 (a)	Ferro Carril Oeste (GP)	0–0	1–1
Círculo Deportivo	3–3 (0–3 p)	Deportivo Camioneros	2–1	1–2
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	0–1	Douglas Haig	0–0	0–1
Central Norte	3–3 (a)	Güemes (SdE)	2–2	1–1
San Martín (F)	1–3	Boca Unidos	1–2	0–1
Crucero del Norte	4–4 (a)	Defensores (P)	2–3	2–1
Sportivo Belgrano	2–0	Unión (S)	1–0	1–0
Estudiantes (SL)	3–2	Sportivo Las Parejas	1–1	2–1

First leg

January 21, 2020	Sarmiento (R)	1–1	Chaco For Ever	Resistencia, Pcia. de Chaco
21:00	López 12'	Report	Torres 89'	Stadium: Centenario Referee: Fabricio Llobet

February 12, 2020	Desamparados	0–1	Sportivo Peñarol	San Juan, Pcia. de San Juan
21:45		Report	Fernández 32'	Stadium: El Serpentario Referee: Carlos Gariano

January 18, 2020	Huracán Las Heras	1–0	Deportivo Maipú	Las Heras, Pcia. de Mendoza
18:00	Barrera 69'	Report		Stadium: General San Martín Referee: César Ceballo

January 18, 2020	Sansinena	2–2	Villa Mitre	General Daniel Cerri, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:30	Guajardo 38' Mc Coubrey 48'	Report	Torres 2' H. González 6' (pen.)	Stadium: Luis Molina Referee: Fernando Omar Marcos

January 15, 2020	Sol de Mayo	0–2	Deportivo Madryn	Viedma, Pcia. de Río Negro
17:30		Report	Zúñiga 22' Jeldres 53'	Stadium: Sol de Mayo Referee: Sergio Testa

January 23, 2020	Cipolletti	0–0	Ferro Carril Oeste (GP)	Cipolletti, Pcia. de Río Negro
21:30		Report		Stadium: La Visera de Cemento Referee: Sergio Testa

January 15, 2020	Círculo Deportivo	2–1	Deportivo Camioneros	Comandante Nicanor Otamendi, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:30	Buzzini 35' (pen.) Lazaneo 50'	Report	J. González 24'	Stadium: Guillermo Trama Referee: Fernando Omar Marcos

January 19, 2020	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	0–0	Douglas Haig	San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
20:00		Report		Stadium: Estadio Único Referee: Maximiliano Macheroni

January 16, 2020	Central Norte	2–2	Güemes (SdE)	Salta, Pcia. de Salta
22:00	Ríos 1' Rivas 84'	Report	Romero 30' N. Rodríguez 65'	Stadium: Padre Ernesto Martearena Referee: Nelson Bejas

January 19, 2020	San Martín (F)	1–2	Boca Unidos	Formosa, Pcia. de Formosa
17:30	Leiva 61'	Report	Núñez 6' Fabro 57'	Stadium: 17 de Octubre Referee: Nelson Bejas

January 16, 2020	Crucero del Norte	2–3	Defensores (P)	Garupá, Pcia. de Misiones
21:15	Vera 29' (pen.) Campozano 49'	Report	Robles 22', 24' Allende 85'	Stadium: Comandante Andrés Guacurarí Referee: Guillermo González

January 19, 2020	Sportivo Belgrano	1–0	Unión (S)	San Francisco, Pcia. de Córdoba
19:00	Balmaceda 60'	Report		Stadium: Oscar C. Boero Referee: José Sandoval

January 18, 2020	Estudiantes (SL)	1–1	Sportivo Las Parejas	San Luis, Pcia. de San Luis
20:00	F. Quiroga 57'	Report	Salvatierra 27'	Stadium: Héctor Odicino-Pedro Benoza Referee: Jonathan Correa

Second leg

February 4, 2020	Chaco For Ever	1–0 (2–1 agg.)	Sarmiento (R)	Resistencia, Pcia. de Chaco
22:00	Santa Cruz 18'	Report		Stadium: Juan Alberto García Referee: Carlos Córdoba

February 19, 2020	Sportivo Peñarol	4–1 (5–1 agg.)	Desamparados	Chimbas, Pcia. de San Juan
21:45	Cantero 19', 71' Fernández 45+2' Paz 61'	Report	Lastra 45'	Stadium: Ramón Pablo Rojas Referee: Pablo Núñez

January 22, 2020	Deportivo Maipú	1–3 (1–4 agg.)	Huracán Las Heras	Maipú, Pcia. de Mendoza
21:40	Nasta 26'	Report	Lucero 50', 81' Herrera 76' (pen.)	Stadium: Omar Higinio Sperdutti Referee: Mario Ejarque

January 22, 2020	Villa Mitre	1–0 (3–2 agg.)	Sansinena	Bahía Blanca, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
21:00	Escobares 90+5'	Report		Stadium: El Fortín Referee: Bruno Bocca

January 19, 2020	Deportivo Madryn	5–1 (7–1 agg.)	Sol de Mayo	Puerto Madryn, Pcia. de Chubut
18:00	Maldonado 1' González 17' Becerra 20' Giménez 31', 57' (pen.)	Report	Valdebenito 37' (pen.)	Stadium: Abel Sastre Referee: Julio Luciano

January 31, 2020	Ferro Carril Oeste (GP)	1–1 (1–1 agg.)	Cipolletti	General Pico, Pcia. de La Pampa
21:30	Canuhé 59'	Report	Trecco 26'	Stadium: El Coloso de Barrio Talleres Referee: Lucas Novelli

January 19, 2020	Deportivo Camioneros	2–1 (3–3 agg.) (3–0 p)	Círculo Deportivo	Nueve de Abril, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:00	Tello 3' Zaninovic 78'	Report	Vedda 87'	Stadium: Hugo Moyano Referee: Carlos Gariano
	Penalties
	J. González Campo Baglivo		Atlante Ullúa Astiz

February 5, 2020	Douglas Haig	1–0 (1–0 agg.)	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	Pergamino, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:00	Bastianini 87'	Report		Stadium: Miguel Morales Referee: Fernando Omar Marcos

January 21, 2020	Güemes (SdE)	1–1 (3–3 agg.)	Central Norte	Santiago del Estero, Pcia. de Santiago del Estero
22:00	Montiglio 86'	Report	Arriola 90+2'	Stadium: Arturo Miranda Referee: Luis Lobo Medina

February 4, 2020	Boca Unidos	1–0 (3–1 agg.)	San Martín (F)	Corrientes, Pcia. de Corrientes
21:00	A. Morales 50'	Report		Stadium: Leoncio Benítez Referee: César Ceballo

January 21, 2020	Defensores (P)	1–2 (4–4 agg.)	Crucero del Norte	Villa Elisa, Pcia. de Entre Ríos
21:30	Rodríguez 90+2'	Report	Motta 35' Klusener 65'	Stadium: Atlético Villa Elisa Referee: Nahuel Viñas

February 5, 2020	Unión (S)	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	Sportivo Belgrano	Sunchales, Pcia. de Santa Fe
20:00		Report	Strada 67'	Stadium: La Fortaleza del Bicho Referee: Rodrigo Rivero

February 19, 2020	Sportivo Las Parejas	1–2 (2–3 agg.)	Estudiantes (SL)	Las Parejas, Pcia. de Santa Fe
20:00	Ortigoza 69'	Report	Amieva 1' F. Quiroga 45'	Stadium: 4 de Septiembre Referee: Nahuel Viñas

Final Rounds

Draw

The draw for the Final Rounds was held on 30 January 2020, 18:00 at AFA Futsal Stadium in Ezeiza. The 64 qualified teams were divided in four groups. Teams were seeded by their historical performance and Division. Champions of AFA tournaments playing in Argentine Primera División were allocated to Group A. The matches were drawn from the respective confronts: A vs. C; B vs. D. Some combinations were avoided for security reasons.^[9]

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Argentinos Juniors Arsenal Banfield Boca Juniors Estudiantes (LP) Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) Huracán Independiente Lanús Newell's Old Boys Racing River Plate Rosario Central San Lorenzo Vélez Sarsfield	Aldosivi Atlanta Atlético Tucumán Central Córdoba (SdE) Colón Defensa y Justicia Defensores de Belgrano Estudiantes (RC) Godoy Cruz Patronato Platense San Martín (T) Sarmiento (J) Talleres (C) Temperley Tigre Unión	Boca Unidos^[1] Cañuelas Claypole Defensores (P) Deportivo Camioneros Estudiantes (SL)^[1] Güemes (SdE) Huracán Las Heras Laferrere Liniers Real Pilar Sportivo Barracas Sportivo Belgrano^[1] Sportivo Peñarol^[1] Villa Mitre	Almirante Brown Alvarado Atlético de Rafaela Chaco For Ever^[1] Cipolletti^[1] Comunicaciones Deportivo Madryn Deportivo Riestra Dock Sud Douglas Haig^[1] Estudiantes (BA) Instituto J. J. de Urquiza San Martín (SJ) San Telmo Talleres (RdE) Villa San Carlos

¹ The identity of seven teams from Torneo Federal A were not known at the time of the draw.

Bracket

Upper bracket

Sarmiento (J)

3

Douglas Haig

0

Aldosivi

1

Talleres (RdE)

3

Lower bracket

Defensores de Belgrano

Patronato (p)

1 (5)

1 (3)

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)

2

Sportivo Barracas

0

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)

Dock Sud

Unión

1 (5)

Dock Sud (p)

1 (6)

Colón

Cipolletti

Argentinos Juniors

Argentinos Juniors

1

Cañuelas

0

Estudiantes (LP)

1 (4)

Laferrere (p)

1 (5)

Laferrere

San Telmo

Central Córdoba (SdE)

0

San Telmo

1

Platense

0

Deportivo Madryn

1

Deportivo Madryn

Banfield

Güemes (SdE)

Round of 64

The Round of 64 had 13 qualified teams from the Regional Round (13 teams from Torneo Federal A), 13 qualified teams from the Metropolitan Zone (6 teams from Primera B Metropolitana; 4 teams from Primera C and 3 teams from Primera D), 14 teams from Primera B Nacional and 24 teams from Primera División. The round was played between 25 February and TBD, in a single knock-out match format. The 32 winning teams advanced to the Round of 32.

	Newell's Old Boys	1	Sportivo Peñarol
		Report

	Banfield	2	Güemes (SdE)
		Report

	Boca Juniors	3	Claypole
		Report

^[10]	Independiente	4	Villa Mitre	Lanús, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
		Report		Stadium: Ciudad de Lanús – Néstor Díaz Pérez

	Rosario Central	5	Boca Unidos
		Report

	Lanús	6	Real Pilar
		Report

February 25, 2020	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	2–0	Sportivo Barracas	Quilmes, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
21:10	Licht 3' Cocimano 30'	Report		Stadium: Centenario Ciudad de Quilmes Attendance: Julio Barraza

	Vélez Sarsfield	8	Deportivo Camioneros
		Report

	Arsenal	9	Huracán Las Heras
		Report

March 11, 2020	Argentinos Juniors	1–0	Cañuelas	Sarandí, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
22:10	Hauche 5'	Report		Stadium: Julio Humberto Grondona Referee: Carlos Gariano

	Huracán	11	Estudiantes (SL)
		Report

	Racing	12	Sportivo Belgrano
		Report

	San Lorenzo	13	Liniers
		Report

	River Plate	14	Defensores (P)
		Report

March 4, 2020	Estudiantes (LP)	1–1 (4–5 p)	Laferrere	Lanús, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
19:00	F. González 32'	Report	Faillace 40'	Stadium: Ciudad de Lanús – Néstor Díaz Pérez Referee: Pablo Echavarría
	Penalties
	Schunke Estévez Retegui Díaz García Mascherano		Scarnato López Benítez Pintos Barreal Acuña

	Temperley	16	Deportivo Riestra
		Report

February 26, 2020	Aldosivi	1–3	Talleres (RdE)	Sarandí, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:35	Verón 90+4'	Report	Sosa 38' Aranda 86', 90+5'	Stadium: Julio Humberto Grondona Referee: Jorge Broggi

March 4, 2020	Central Córdoba (SdE)	0–1	San Telmo	Salta, Pcia. de Salta
21:30		Report	Ramírez Agudelo 90'	Stadium: Padre Ernesto Martearena Referee: Jorge Baliño

	Atlético Tucumán	19	Comunicaciones
		Report

	Defensa y Justicia	20	Estudiantes (BA)
		Report

	San Martín (T)	21	San Martín (SJ)
		Report

	Atlanta	22	Villa San Carlos
		Report

	Colón	23	Cipolletti
		Report

	Estudiantes (RC)	24	Chaco For Ever
		Report

	Talleres (C)	25	Atlético de Rafaela
		Report

March 5, 2020	Unión	1–1 (5–6 p)	Dock Sud	Rafaela, Pcia. de Santa Fe
20:05	Calderón 90+2'	Report	Caruso 40'	Stadium: Nuevo Monumental Referee: Yael Falcón Pérez
	Penalties
	Troyansky Cabrera Cañete Mazzola Bou Elías Milo		Kissner Villalba Tamborelli Soria Manes Armoa Adín

February 27, 2020	Patronato	1–1 (5–3 p)	Instituto	Santa Fe, Pcia. de Santa Fe
20:05	Silveira 37'	Report	Arce 60' (pen.)	Stadium: 15 de Abril Referee: Carlos Córdoba
	Penalties
	Silveira Díaz Torres Barreto Abero		Sills Agüero Silva Erpen

	Godoy Cruz	28	J. J. de Urquiza
		Report

	Tigre	29	Alvarado
		Report

^[11]	Defensores de Belgrano	30	Almirante Brown	Florida, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
		Report		Stadium: Ciudad de Vicente López

March 10, 2020	Platense	0–1	Deportivo Madryn	Caseros, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
18:00		Report	Distaulo 43'	Stadium: Ciudad de Caseros Referee: Sebastián Zunino

March 12, 2020^[12]	Sarmiento (J)	3–0	Douglas Haig	Quilmes, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
17:00	Magnín 13' Pombo 73', 83'	Report		Stadium: Centenario Ciudad de Quilmes Referee: Diego Ceballos

Round of 32

This round had 32 qualified teams from the Round of 64. The round was played between TBD and TBD, in a single knock-out match format. The 16 winning teams advanced to the Round of 16.

Winners 1

1

Sarmiento (J)

Talleres (RdE)

2

Winners 16

Winners 9

3

Winners 24

Winners 25

4

Winners 8

Winners 5

5

Winners 28

Winners 21

6

Winners 12

Winners 13

7

Winners 20

Winners 29

8

Winners 4

Winners 3

9

Winners 30

Winners 19

10

Winners 14

Winners 11

11

Winners 22

Patronato

12

Winners 6

Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)

13

Dock Sud

Winners 23

14

Argentinos Juniors

Laferrere

15

San Telmo

Deportivo Madryn

16

Winners 2

Round of 16

This round had the 16 qualified teams from the Round of 32. The round was played between TBD and TBD, in a single knock-out match format. The 8 winning teams advanced to the Quarterfinals.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Quarterfinals

This round had the 8 qualified teams from the Round of 16. The round was played between TBD and TBD, in a single knock-out match format. The 4 winning teams advanced to the Semifinals.

1

2

3

4

Semifinals

This round had the 4 qualified teams from the Quarterfinals. The round was played between TBD and TBD, in a single knock-out match format. The 2 winning teams advanced to the Final.

1

2

Final

TBD	1	TBD

TBD

Top goalscorers

As of 12 March 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alejandro Aranda	Talleres (RdE)	2
	Alan Cantero	Sportivo Peñarol
	Carlos Alfredo Fernández	Sportivo Peñarol
	Fabio Giménez	Deportivo Madryn
	Cristian Lucero	Huracán Las Heras
	Claudio Pombo	Sarmiento (J)
	Facundo Quiroga	Estudiantes (SL)
	Lautaro Robles	Defensores (P)

Source: Copa Argentina

References

^ "¡Bienvenido AXION energy, nuevo main sponsor de la Copa Argentina!" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina. 31 January 2020.
^ "Suspensión del fútbol" (in Spanish). AFA. 17 March 2020.
^ "Plazas para la Copa Argentina 2019-20" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.
^ "Copa Argentina 2020: Estos son los 77 participantes" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.
^ "Los 77 equipos de la Copa Argentina 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.
^ "Sistema de clasificación para la Fase Final de la Copa Argentina 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.
^ "Copa Argentina - Los cruces del Federal A" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.
^ "La novena edición de la Copa Argentina comenzará el 15 de enero" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.
^ "Se sorteó la Fase Final de la Copa Argentina AXION energy 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.
^ The match, originally scheduled to be played on March 17 was indefinitely postponed due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Argentina
^ The match, originally scheduled to be played on March 19 was indefinitely postponed due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Argentina
^ Match suspended in the 20th minute due to rain. The original date was March 11. The remaining 70 minutes were played on March 12.

External links

Official site (in Spanish)
Copa Argentina on the Argentine Football Association's website (in Spanish)

[1] "¡Bienvenido AXION energy, nuevo main sponsor de la Copa Argentina!" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina. 31 January 2020.

[2] "Suspensión del fútbol" (in Spanish). AFA. 17 March 2020.

[3] "Plazas para la Copa Argentina 2019-20" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.

[4] "Copa Argentina 2020: Estos son los 77 participantes" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.

[5] "Los 77 equipos de la Copa Argentina 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.

[6] "Sistema de clasificación para la Fase Final de la Copa Argentina 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.

[7] "Copa Argentina - Los cruces del Federal A" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.

[8] "La novena edición de la Copa Argentina comenzará el 15 de enero" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.

[9] "Se sorteó la Fase Final de la Copa Argentina AXION energy 2020" (in Spanish). Copa Argentina.

[10] The match, originally scheduled to be played on March 17 was indefinitely postponed due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Argentina

[11] The match, originally scheduled to be played on March 19 was indefinitely postponed due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Argentina

[12] Match suspended in the 20th minute due to rain. The original date was March 11. The remaining 70 minutes were played on March 12.

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Teams

First Level

Primera División

Second Level

Primera Nacional

Third Level

Primera B Metropolitana

Torneo Federal A

Fourth Level

Primera C Metropolitana

Fifth Level

Primera D Metropolitana

Round and draw dates

Regional Round

Round I

First leg

Second leg

Final Rounds

Draw

Bracket

Upper bracket

Lower bracket

Round of 64

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Top goalscorers

References

See also

External links