1998 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby

Main article: Campeonato Argentino

54º Campeonato Argentino

Champions	Buenos Aires (27th title)
Runners-up	Cordoba
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The 1998 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Unione of Buenos Aires

The 22 teams participating were divided on three levels: "Campeonato", "Ascenso", "Promocional".

Rugby Union in Argentina in 1998

National

The "Campeonato Argentino Menores de 21" (Under 21 championship) was won by Buenos Aires
The "Campeonato Argentino Menores de 19" (Under 19 championship) was won by Tucumán
The "National Championship for clubs was won by Jockey Club de Rosario
The first edition of Torneo del Interior (tournament with club outside Buenos Aires) was won by Jockey Club Córdoba
The "Torneo de la URBA" (Buenos Aires) was won by Hindú
The "Cordoba Province Championship was won by Tala
The North-East Championship was won by Universitario de Tucumán

International

Winning the third edition of Pan American Championship, the "Pumas" conquest the qualification for 1999 Rugby World Cup
In JuneFrance visit Argentina, and won both test with "Pumas" (35-18 and 37-12)
In August, is Romania to visit Argentina, for a five match tour, The test is won by Pumas 68-22
Argentina national team, in September visit Japan for a short tour (two matches). With an experimental team. lost the test match against Japan national team (29-44). In November, The Pumas visit Europe. Played six match, with three losses with Italy, France and Wales in the test match.

For more details on this topic, see 1998 Argentina rugby union tour of Japan and Europe.

In October, Argentina, won as usual the 1998 South American Rugby Championship

"Campeonato"

1ª round
7 march	Cordoba	-	Rosario	36-37	Cordoba
7 march	Tucumàn	-	Cuyo	41-7	S.Miguel de T.
7 march	Buenos Aires	-	Noreste	129-0	Buenos Aires

2ª round
14 march	Noreste	-	Rosario	13-56	Resistencia
14 march	Cuyo	-	Buenos Aires	12-62	Mendoza
14 march	Cordoba	-	Tucumàn	42-38	Cordoba

3ª round
21 march	Rosario	-	Cuyo	41-21	Rosario
21 march	Tucumàn	-	Buenos Aires	13-27	S.Miguel de T.
21 march	Noreste	-	Cordoba	25-43	Resistencia

4ª round
28 march	Cordoba	-	Cuyo	41-3	Cordoba
28 march	Buenos Aires	-	Rosario	54-31	Buenos Aires
28 march	Tucumàn	-	Noreste	61-10	S.Miguel de T.

5ª round
4 April	Buenos Aires	-	Cordoba	41-23	Buenos Aires
4 April	Rosario	-	Tucumàn	46-30	Rosario
4 April	Cuyo	-	Noreste	26-9	Mendoza

Champion
Relegated to "Ascenso"

Place	Team	Games				Points			Table points
Place	Team	played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.	Table points
1	Buenos Aires	5	5	0	0	313	85	228	10
2	Cordoba	5	4	0	1	189	142	47	8
3	Rosario	5	3	0	2	211	154	57	6
4	Tucumàn	5	2	0	3	190	132	58	4
5	Cuyo	5	1	0	4	73	194	-121	2
6	Noroeste	5	0	0	5	55	324	-269	0

"Ascenso"

	MdP	E-R	SFE	A-V	S-J	SAL
Mar del Plata	––––	34-21	35-36	27-16	48-30	22-10
Entre Rios	21-34	––––	24-18	23-26	31-22	26-13
Santa Fè	36-35	18-24	––––	55-19	19-20	29-26
Alto Valle	16-27	26-23	19-55	––––	37-36	14-33
San Juan	30-48	22-31	20-19	36-37	––––	38-33
Salta	10-22	13-26	26-29	33-14	33-38	––––

Promoted to "Campeonato"
Relegated to "Promocional"

Place	Team	Games				Points			Table points
Place	Team	played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.	Table points
1	Mar del Plata	5	4	0	1	166	113	53	8
2	Entre Rios	5	3	0	2	125	113	12	6
3	Santa Fè	5	3	0	2	157	124	33	6
4	Alto Valle	5	2	0	3	112	174	-62	4
5	San Juan	5	2	0	3	146	168	-22	4
6	Salta	5	1	0	4	115	129	-14	2

Promossa: Mar del Plata , Retrocede: Salta

Promocional

Pool A

	SUR	CHU	AUS	OES	CEN
Sur	––––	35-15	39-6	42-7	77-6
Chubut	15-35	––––	20-15	38-10	N.D.
Austral	6-39	15-20	––––	20-12	26-6
Oeste	7-42	10-38	12-20	––––	38-23
Centro	6-77	N.D.	6-26	23-38	––––

Qualified for final

Place	Team	Games				Points			Table points
Place	Team	played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.	Table points
1	Sur	4	4	0	0	193	34	159	8
2	Chubut	3	2	0	1	73	60	13	4
3	Austral	3	2	0	1	67	77	-10	4
4	Oeste	4	1	0	3	67	123	-56	4
5	Centro	4	1	0	3	35	141	-106	4

Pool B

	MIS	RIJ	STG	JUJ	FOR
Misiones	––––	26-25	24-20	28-20	38-7
La Rioja	25-26	––––	29-16	12-3	24-7
Santiago	20-24	16-29	––––	37-21	28-22
Jujuy	20-28	3-12	21-37	––––	15-14
Formosa	7-38	7-24	22-28	14-15	––––

Qualified for final

Place	Team	Games				Points			Table points
Place	Team	played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.	Table points
1	Misiones	4	4	0	0	116	72	44	8
2	La Rioja	4	3	0	1	90	52	38	6
3	Santiago	4	2	0	2	101	96	5	4
4	Jujuy	4	1	0	3	59	91	-32	2
5	Formosa	4	0	0	4	50	105	-55	0

Final

2 may 1988

Sur	47-24	Misiones

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Sur promoted to "Ascenso"

External links

(Spanish) Memorias de la UAR 1998
(Italian) Francesco Volpe, Paolo Pacitti (Author), Rugby 2000, GTE Gruppo Editorale (1999)

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