The Campeonato Metropolitano championship was modified, returning to a double round-robin format, and four relegations.
Nevertheless, the AFA interventor, Raúl D'Onofrio (the 4th interventor since the military dictatorship led by Juan Carlos Onganía removed Valentín Suárez from the Association),[1][2] reduced the number of relegated teams to two.
[3] The entire season ran from 5 March to 29 December.
Moreover, both clubs qualified for the 1972 Copa Libertadores (in the case of Independiente, after winning the first "Liguilla pre-Libertadores" edition v San Lorenzo).
It was contested by the Metropolitano champion and the Nacional runner-up.