The Professional League 2024 It is in its final stage and the clubs that have no chance of fighting for the title and their objective is to qualify for next year’s international tournaments only look at the Annual Table. Among them are Boca Juniors and River Plate, the two most important clubs in Argentina that close a meager season without relevant titles – the Millonario only won the Argentine Super Cup – and are already thinking about what will be a 2025 in which, once again, The maximum objective will be to win the Copa Libertadores, to which no one has yet qualified.
Neither of them has a chance of being champion of the current championship because the xeneize is sixth with 38 points, 10 behind the leader, Vélez with 48, and the cast of Marcelo Gallardo He is fifth with 39. Although his game with San Lorenzo is pending and he can reach 48 if he wins the three remaining matches, teams that are ahead of him will face each other and some of them will add. In that context, Both clubs can only obtain a ticket to the top continental championship through the ladder in which the points obtained in the 2024 League Cup and the 2024 Professional League are added.
Vélez is highest in the Annual Table with 73 points and after the 24th date of the Professional League it was guaranteed to play in the 2025 Copa Libertadores. Its second team is, with 67 points, Racing Club. The Academy freed up a place because it was crowned champion of the 2024 Copa Sudamericana by beating Cruzeiro 3 to 1 in Asunción in the final and, consequently, its position favors the fourth place overall, which is Talleres de Córdoba with 66 units. El Millonario is third, also with 66 but with a better goal difference than T, and at the moment he is achieving his last goal of the year.
Boca is fifth in the Annual Table with 63 units and, for now, is qualifying for the 2025 Copa Sudamericana with Huracán and Independiente (59); Godoy Cruz (58), Unión de Santa Fe and Defensa y Justicia (56). The xeneize needs Vélez or Talleres to win the Professional League to free up another place. The cast directed by Gustavo Quinteros It leads with 48 points and is five ahead of Racing and Globo, which is, precisely, one of the fights with Boca to enter the Libertadores and accumulates four fewer units in the Annual Table. Those from Docta are fourth in the championship with 42, so they have a chance of winning and this Monday they will play a key duel against those from Frank Darío Kudelka.
In the event that Vélez wins the Argentine Cup and not the Professional League, it will enter the Libertadores 2025 for the Argentine Cup and It will also free up a place in the Annual that may favor Boca, although it will depend on what Huracán does, especially. If they win the two championships, the main winner will be Central Córdoba of Santiago del Estero because they will enter the international tournament as a finalist of the contest that brings together clubs from all categories of Argentine soccer.
The best outlook for the blue and yellow club is for Talleres to win the Professional League and Vélez the Argentine Cup because, in this way, they will free up the two places they have in the Annual Table. Even so, the xeneize must add the six possible units in the Professional League to not be surpassed by those who come behind.
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For Boca, the Copa Libertadores is an obsession and the dream of achieving it was very close in 2023 – they lost the final against Fluminense 2 to 1 at the Maracaná stadium – but very far away in 2024 because they did not even play in the championship and had to settle for the Copa Sudamericana, in which they bowed out in the round of 16 at the hands of Cruzeiro.
The club is the second highest champion in the history of the Copa Libertadores with six stars, one less than Independent. The xeneize made the Olympic tour in 1977, 1978, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007 and dreams of ending the 17-year drought without conquering America.
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El Millonario is the last Argentine club to win the Copa Libertadores in 2018, when they beat Boca Juniors in the final. In total he has four titles: in 1986 (3 to 1 to América de Cali), 1996 (2 to 1 to América de Cali), 2015 (3 to 0 to Tigres de México) and 2018 (5 to 3 to xeneize). In history, it is in fourth place along with Estudiantes de La Plata behind Independiente (7), xeneize (6) and Peñarol de Uruguay (5).
Copa Libertadores 2025 (6)
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