2026 Torneo Federal A

XIV Torneo Federal A
Season	2026
Matches	391
Goals	737 (1.88 per match)
Biggest home win	Alvarado 5-0 Germinal (July 5)
Biggest away win	Independiente (Ch) 0-4 Douglas Haig (June 28)
Highest scoring	Guillermo Brown 3-4 Kimberley (April 26)
	← 2025 2027 → All statistics correct as of August 23, 2026.

The 2026 Argentine Torneo Federal A^[1] was the fourteenth season of the Torneo Federal A, the regionalised third tier of the Argentine football league system. The tournament is reserved for teams indirectly affiliated to the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA), while teams affiliated to AFA have to play the Primera B Metropolitana, which is the other third-tier competition. The competition was contested by 32 of the 36 teams that took part in the 2025 season, with one team relegated from Primera Nacional and four teams promoted from Torneo Regional Federal Amateur; Two teams were promoted to Primera Nacional and four teams were relegated to Torneo Regional Federal Amateur. The season began on March 22 and ended in December 2026.

Format

First stage

The thirty-seven teams were divided into four zones, one with ten teams and three with nine teams in each zone and it was played in a round-robin tournament whereby each team played each one of the other teams two times. The teams placed 1st to 5th from the zone with ten teams, the teams placed 1st to 4th from each zone with nine teams and the best third place from the zones with nine teams qualified for the championship stages. The remaining teams qualify for the revalida stage.^[1]

Championship stages

Second stage

The eighteen teams were divided into two zones with nine teams each and it was played in a round-robin tournament whereby each team played each one of the other teams one time. The teams placed 1st to 4th qualified for the third stage. The remaining ten teams qualified for the second phase of the revalida stage.

Third stage

The eight teams play a two-legged tie and the winners advance to the fourth stage. The losing teams qualified for the second phase of the revalida stage.

Fourth stage

The four teams play a two-legged tie and the winners advance to the fifth stage. The losing teams qualified for the third phase of the revalida stage.

Fifth stage

Both tie winners will play a final match on neutral ground to decide the champion and first promoted team to Primera Nacional. The losing team qualified for the third phase of the revalida stage.^[1]

Revalida stages

The revalida stage is divided in several phases: First, the twenty teams that did not qualify for the championship stages were divided into two zones and it was played in a round-robin tournament whereby each team played each one of the other teams one time. The teams placed 1st to 6th from each zone advance too the second phase.

Second phase

The twelve teams from the first phase of revalida stage and the fourteen teams from the second and third stages of championship stages play a two-legged tie and the winners advance to the third phase.

Third to sixth phase

The thirteen teams from the second phase, the losing teams from the fourth and fifth stage of championship stages, play a torneo reducido, with teams seeded according to their previous results; playing a two-legged tie over the phases. The winner of the sixth phase is promoted to Primera Nacional.

Relegation

After the first phase of the revalida stage a table was drawn up with the points obtained in the first stage and the first phase of the revalida stage and the bottom two teams of each two zones were relegated to the Torneo Regional Federal Amateur, giving a total of four teams relegated.^[1]

Club information

2026 Torneo Federal A is located in Argentina

Atlético Escobar

Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)

Chivilcoy

Bart. Mitre (P)

Def. de Vilelas

Formosa

Tucumán Central

Argentino (MM)

Atenas (RC)

Cipolletti

Costa Brava

Dvo. Rincón

FADEP

Huracán LH

Juv. Unida. Univ.

San Martín (M)

Círculo Dvo.

Germinal

Gmo. Brown

Mar del Plata

Bahía Blanca

Santamarina

Sol de Mayo

Bahía Blanca teams

Olimpo

Villa Mitre

Chivilcoy teams

Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ch)

Independiente (Ch)

Formosa teams

San Martín (F)

Sol de América

Mar del Plata teams

Alvarado

Kimberley

Locations of the 2026 season teams.

Yellow: Zone A;

Blue: Zone B;

Green: Zone C;

Red: Zone D.

Zone A

Team	City	Stadium
9 de Julio	Rafaela	Germán Solterman
Atlético Escobar	Ingeniero Maschwitz	Armenia
Defensores de Belgrano	Villa Ramallo	Salomón Boeseldín
Douglas Haig	Pergamino	Miguel Morales
El Linqueño	Lincoln	Leonardo Costa
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Chivilcoy	José María Paz
Gimnasia y Esgrima	Concepción del Uruguay	Manuel y Ramón Núñez
Independiente	Chivilcoy	Raúl Orlando Lungarzo
Sportivo Belgrano	San Francisco	Oscar Boero
Sportivo Las Parejas	Las Parejas	Fortaleza del Lobo

Zone B

Team	City	Stadium
Bartolomé Mitre	Posadas	Ernesto Tito Cucchiaroni
Boca Unidos	Corrientes	José Antonio Romero Feris
Defensores de Vilelas	Puerto Vilelas	Estadio Vilelas
Juventud Antoniana	Salta	Fray Honorato Pistoia
San Martín	Formosa	17 De Octubre
Sarmiento	La Banda	Ciudad de La Banda
Sarmiento	Resistencia	Centenario
Sol de América	Formosa	Sol de América
Tucumán Central	San Miguel de Tucumán	Estadio Tucumán Central

Zone C

Team	City	Stadium
Argentino	Monte Maíz	Modesto Marrone
Atenas	Río Cuarto	9 de Julio
Cipolletti	Cipolletti	La Visera de Cemento
Costa Brava	General Pico	Nuevo Pacaembú
Deportivo Rincón	Rincón de Los Sauces	Elías Moisés Gómez
FADEP	Russell	Predio Social y Deportivo FADEP
Huracán Las Heras	Las Heras	General San Martín
Juventud Unida Universitario	San Luis	Mario Diez
San Martín	San Martín	Libertador General San Martín

Zone D

Team	City	Stadium
Alvarado	Mar del Plata	Estadio José María Minella
Círculo Deportivo	Cdte. Nicanor Otamendi	Guillermo Trama
Germinal	Rawson	El Fortín
Guillermo Brown	Puerto Madryn	Raul Conti
Kimberley	Mar del Plata	José Alberto Valle
Olimpo	Bahía Blanca	Roberto Natalio Carminatti
Santamarina	Tandil	Municipal General San Martín
Sol de Mayo	Viedma	Sol de Mayo
Villa Mitre	Bahía Blanca	El Fortín

First stage

Zone A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	Douglas Haig	18	9	4	5	22	15	+7	31	Advance to Championship Stages
2	Sportivo Belgrano	18	7	9	2	21	9	+12	30
3	Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ch)	18	7	6	5	17	12	+5	27
4	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	18	7	6	5	24	20	+4	27
5	9 de Julio (R)	18	7	4	7	28	27	+1	25
6	Sportivo Las Parejas	18	5	9	4	12	13	−1	24	Advance to Revalida Stages
7	Atlético Escobar	18	6	4	8	21	29	−8	22
8	Independiente (Ch)	18	4	7	7	15	22	−7	19
9	El Linqueño	18	5	4	9	14	21	−7	19
10	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	18	4	5	9	12	18	−6	17

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) goals scored; 5) away goals scored; 6) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	9JU	ATL	DEF	DOU	ELI	GCH	GYE	ICH	SPB	SLP
9 de Julio (R)		4–1	1–2	2–0	3–2	2–1	4–1	3–2	0–2	2–2
Atlético Escobar	2–0		3–2	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–1
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	0–0	1–1		1–0	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0
Douglas Haig	2–1	4–1	3–2		1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
El Linqueño	0–3	2–1	0–2	2–0		1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ch)	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–0		0–1	1–0	0–1
Independiente (Ch)	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–4	1–0	3–0	0–0		0–3	1–1
Sportivo Belgrano	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1		2–0
Sportivo Las Parejas	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Zone B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	San Martín (F)	16	9	3	4	24	19	+5	30	Advance to Championship Stages
2	Bartolomé Mitre (P)	16	7	5	4	13	7	+6	26
3	Sol de América (F)	16	8	2	6	19	14	+5	26
4	Sarmiento (LB)	16	7	4	5	17	15	+2	25
5	Juventud Antoniana	16	7	4	5	19	11	+8	25
6	Defensores de Vilelas	16	6	1	9	21	26	−5	19	Advance to Revalida Stages
7	Boca Unidos	16	5	3	8	19	24	−5	18
8	Tucumán Central	16	5	2	9	14	19	−5	17
9	Sarmiento (R)	16	3	6	7	12	23	−11	15

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) goals scored; 5) away goals scored; 6) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BOU	DVI	JUA	SAF	SLB	SAR	SOL	TUC
Bartolomé Mitre (P)		1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0
Boca Unidos	2–1		2–4	0–3	3–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	3–1
Defensores de Vilelas	1–3	2–0		0–1	2–3	3–0	2–2	2–1	1–0
Juventud Antoniana	1–2	0–0	4–0		0–3	0–1	2–0	2–1	3–1
San Martín (F)	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0		4–2	3–0	1–0	3–2
Sarmiento (LB)	1–0	3–0	1–2	0–0	2–0		1–1	2–0	1–0
Sarmiento (R)	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–1		2–1	1–0
Sol de América (F)	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–0		3–0
Tucumán Central	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Zone C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	Cipolletti	16	7	4	5	19	15	+4	25	Advance to Championship Stages
2	Argentino (MM)	16	5	8	3	16	12	+4	23
3	Atenas (RC)	16	6	5	5	12	13	−1	23
4	Huracán Las Heras	16	6	5	5	11	13	−2	23
5	FADEP	16	4	9	3	17	14	+3	21	Advance to Revalida Stages
6	Deportivo Rincón	16	5	4	7	13	16	−3	19
7	San Martín (M)	16	4	7	5	11	15	−4	19
8	Costa Brava	16	4	6	6	12	13	−1	18
9	Juventud Unida Universitario	16	3	8	5	10	10	0	17

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) goals scored; 5) away goals scored; 6) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	ATE	CIP	CBR	DRI	FAD	HLH	JUU	SMA
Argentino (MM)		0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	4–1
Atenas (RC)	1–0		3–1	1–1	3–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Cipolletti	2–2	1–0		1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	3–0
Costa Brava	2–0	0–1	1–0		0–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–1
Deportivo Rincón	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0		0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0
FADEP	2–2	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–2		1–0	1–3	0–0
Huracán Las Heras	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–0		1–0	1–0
Juventud Unida Universitario	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0		1–1
San Martín (M)	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Zone D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	Olimpo	16	8	7	1	13	4	+9	31	Advance to Championship Stages
2	Alvarado	16	7	6	3	19	7	+12	27
3	Kimberley	16	6	8	2	15	9	+6	26
4	Villa Mitre	16	5	8	3	14	8	+6	23
5	Germinal	16	4	6	6	7	14	−7	18	Advance to Revalida Stages
6	Sol de Mayo	16	4	6	6	15	18	−3	18
7	Guillermo Brown	16	4	5	7	13	20	−7	17
8	Santamarina	16	2	7	7	9	17	−8	13
9	Círculo Deportivo	16	2	7	7	8	16	−8	13

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) goals scored; 5) away goals scored; 6) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	CIR	GER	GBR	KIM	OLI	RSA	SDM	VMI
Alvarado		1–0	5–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1
Círculo Deportivo	0–1		2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–0
Germinal	1–0	0–0		1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Guillermo Brown	0–0	1–0	2–0		3–4	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–0
Kimberley	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–0		0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0
Olimpo	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		2–0	1–0	0–0
Santamarina	0–0	4–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–0		0–2	0–2
Sol de Mayo	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–2		3–3
Villa Mitre	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Juventud Antoniana	16	7	4	5	19	11	+8	25	Advance to Championship Stages
2	C	FADEP	16	4	9	3	17	14	+3	21
3	D	Germinal	16	4	6	6	7	15	−8	18

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goal scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) draw of lots.

Championship Stages

Second stage

Zone A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	San Martín (F)	5	4	1	0	11	4	+7	13	Advance to Third stage of Championship Stages and qualification for Copa Argentina
2	Douglas Haig	5	2	2	1	7	5	+2	8
3	Sol de América (F)	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
4	Defensores de Belgrano (VR)	5	2	1	2	3	2	+1	7
5	Sarmiento (LB)	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	5	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages and qualification for Copa Argentina
6	9 de Julio (R)	4	1	2	1	3	3	0	5	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ch)	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	5
8	Sportivo Belgrano	5	0	2	3	1	8	−7	2
9	Bartolomé Mitre (P)	4	0	1	3	2	7	−5	1

Updated to match(es) played on August 23. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	9JU	BAR	DEF	DOU	GCH	SAF	SLB	SOL	SPB
9 de Julio (R)				0–0	1–0
Bartolomé Mitre (P)				0–3			1–1
Defensores de Belgrano (VR)		1–0		0–0	0–1
Douglas Haig						1–4	3–1
Gimnasia y Esgrima (Ch)						1–1			0–0
San Martín (F)	2–1							2–1	2–0
Sarmiento (LB)								0–0	3–0
Sol de América (F)		2–1	1–0
Sportivo Belgrano	1–1		0–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Zone B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	Olimpo	5	3	2	0	5	1	+4	11	Advance to Third stage of Championship Stages and qualification for Copa Argentina
2	Alvarado	4	2	2	0	4	1	+3	8
3	Cipolletti	5	2	2	1	6	6	0	8
4	Atenas (RC)	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7
5	Kimberley	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1	6	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages and qualification for Copa Argentina
6	Villa Mitre	5	1	3	1	2	3	−1	6	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages
7	Huracán Las Heras	4	1	0	3	1	3	−2	3
8	Argentino (MM)	5	0	2	3	3	6	−3	2
9	Juventud Antoniana	4	0	2	2	0	3	−3	2

Updated to match(es) played on August 23. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	ARG	ATE	CIP	HLH	JUA	KIM	OLI	VMI
Alvarado		1–1			1–0
Argentino (MM)			1–2					1–1
Atenas (RC)							2–1		0–1
Cipolletti		1–0	2–2		1–0
Huracán Las Heras						1–0		0–1
Juventud Antoniana	0–2								0–0
Kimberley		1–0		3–1
Olimpo						0–0	1–0		2–0
Villa Mitre	0–0			1–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Revalida Stages

First phase

Zone A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	4	3	1	0	8	0	+8	10	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages
2	Boca Unidos	4	3	1	0	8	1	+7	10
3	Defensores de Vilelas	5	2	2	1	8	6	+2	8
4	Atlético Escobar	5	2	1	2	4	7	−3	7
5	El Linqueño	4	1	3	0	3	1	+2	6
6	Independiente (Ch)	4	1	2	1	4	3	+1	5
7	Sportivo Las Parejas	5	0	3	2	0	3	−3	3
8	Sarmiento (R)	4	1	0	3	3	9	−6	3
9	Tucumán Central	5	0	1	4	6	14	−8	1

Updated to match(es) played on August 23. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ATL	BOU	DVI	ELI	GYE	ICH	SAR	SLP	TUC
Atlético Escobar		0–3			0–2			0–0
Boca Unidos						1–1		1–0
Defensores de Vilelas				0–0			4–1		4–3
El Linqueño					0–0			2–0
Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)			2–0						4–0
Independiente (Ch)							1–2		2–0
Sarmiento (R)	0–1	0–3
Sportivo Las Parejas			0–0			0–0
Tucumán Central	2–3			1–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Zone B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or Relegation
1	San Martín (M)	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11	Advance to Second phase of Revalida Stages
2	Deportivo Rincón	5	3	1	1	7	3	+4	10
3	Costa Brava	5	2	3	0	5	3	+2	9
4	Germinal	5	2	2	1	8	4	+4	8
5	FADEP	5	2	1	2	3	3	0	7
6	Guillermo Brown	5	2	0	3	3	5	−2	6
7	Sol de Mayo	4	2	0	2	4	6	−2	6
8	Círculo Deportivo	5	1	2	2	1	2	−1	5
9	Juventud Unida Universitario	5	1	1	3	3	5	−2	4
10	Santamarina	5	1	0	4	3	8	−5	3

Updated to match(es) played on August 23. Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) draw of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	CIR	CBR	DRI	FAD	GER	GBR	JUU	RSA	SMA	SDM
Círculo Deportivo		0–1				1–0
Costa Brava					1–1	1–0
Deportivo Rincón	0–0					2–0	1–0
FADEP	1–0	0–0								2–0
Germinal							2–1	5–1	0–0
Guillermo Brown							2–1	1–0
Juventud Unida Universitario	0–0			1–0
Santamarina				2–0					0–1
San Martín (M)		2–2	1–0							2–1
Sol de Mayo			2–4		1–0			1–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation

Zone A

Pos	Team	First Stage Pts	Reválida Stage Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Defensores de Vilelas	19	7	26	19	1.368
2	Atlético Escobar	22	4	26	21	1.238
3	Sportivo Las Parejas	24	2	26	21	1.238
4	Boca Unidos	18	4	22	18	1.222
5	El Linqueño	19	5	24	21	1.143
6	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CdU)	17	4	21	20	1.05
7	Independiente (Ch)	19	1	20	20	1
8	Tucumán Central	17	1	18	19	0.947	Torneo Regional Federal Amateur
9	Sarmiento (R)	15	3	18	19	0.947	Torneo Regional Federal Amateur

Zone B

Pos	Team	First Stage Pts	Reválida Stages Pts	Total Pld	Total Pts	Relegation
1	Deportivo Rincón	19	7	19	26
2	San Martín (M)	19	7	19	26
3	Germinal	18	7	19	25
4	FADEP	21	4	19	25
5	Sol de Mayo	18	3	19	21
6	Costa Brava	18	3	19	21
7	Guillermo Brown	17	3	19	20
8	Juventud Unida Universitario	17	3	19	20
9	Círculo Deportivo	13	4	19	17	Torneo Regional Federal Amateur
10	Santamarina	13	0	19	13	Torneo Regional Federal Amateur

References

1 2 3 4 "Reglamento Oficial Torneo Federal 2026" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.

External links

Sitio Oficial de AFA (in Spanish)
Ascenso del Interior (in Spanish)
Interior Futbolero (in Spanish)
Solo Ascenso (in Spanish)
Mundo Ascenso (in Spanish)
Promiedos (in Spanish)

[rules-1] 1 2 3 4 "Reglamento Oficial Torneo Federal 2026" (in Spanish). Ascenso del Interior.

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Format

First stage

Championship stages

Second stage

Third stage

Fourth stage

Fifth stage

Revalida stages

Second phase

Third to sixth phase

Relegation

Club information

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

First stage

Zone A

Results

Zone B

Results

Zone C

Results

Zone D

Results

Ranking of third-placed teams

Championship Stages

Second stage

Zone A

Results

Zone B

Results

Revalida Stages

First phase

Zone A

Results

Zone B

Results

Relegation

Zone A

Zone B

See also

References

External links