The 2025 Argentine Primera División - Liga Profesional is the 135th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina.
The league season began on 23 January and will end on 14 December 2025.
[1] Thirty teams compete in the league: twenty-eight returning from the 2024 season as well as two promoted teams from the 2024 Primera Nacional (Aldosivi and San Martín (SJ)).
[2][3] Vélez Sarsfield are the defending champions, having won the 2024 Argentine Primera División tournament.
During the Torneo Apertura, the referee Yael Falcón Pérez suspended the match Godoy Cruz vs. Talleres (C) (4 February 2025, 3rd round) before the start of the second half after the assistant referee Diego Martín was hit on the head by an object thrown from the stands of the Estadio Víctor Legrotaglie.
Qualification for international tournaments will be determined by the overall standings of the 2025 Primera División.
Starting from the round of 16, the teams will play a single-elimination tournament on a single-leg basis with the following rules:[6] Source: AFA Source: AFA The 2025 Torneo Clausura (officially the Torneo Betano Clausura 2025 for sponsorship reasons)[26] will be the second tournament of the 2025 season.
The remaining berths to the 2026 Copa Libertadores as well as the ones to the 2026 Copa Sudamericana will be determined by an aggregate table from the group stages of the 2025 Torneo Apertura and 2025 Torneo Clausura.
[6] In this season, the bottom team of the aggregate table will be relegated to the 2026 Primera Nacional.
The total tally will be then divided by the number of games played in the top flight over those three seasons and an average will be calculated.
The team with the worst average at the end of the season will be relegated to Primera Nacional.