This page covers the period January - September 1985. The rest of 1985 is covered in 1985-86 in Argentine football.
Nacional 1985
1985 featured the last ever edition of the Nacional championship. The structure of the tournament made it the most complicated championship in the history of the Argentine first division. The eventual champions were Argentinos Juniors who beat Vélez Sársfield in a 2nd final.
Group Stages (1st step) The top two teams go through to the winners knockout, the bottom two go to the losers knockout.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
2nd step
Winners knockout
The winners progressed to the winners QF, the losers enter the losers 3rd round.
Losers knockout
3rd step
Winners Quarter-finals
Losers 3rd round
4th step
Winners Semi-finals
Losers 4th round
5th step
Winners final
Argentinos Juniors to play in the final
Vélez Sársfield progress to the losers final
Losers 5th round
6th step
Losers 6th round
7th step
Losers 7th round
8th step
Losers final
Vélez Sársfield to play in the final
Final
August 28, 1985
As Argentinos Juniors had made it to the final without losing a game, the final had to be replayed to give them the 2nd chance that every other team had already had.
September 3, 1985
References
Argentina final tables: 1980s by Osvaldo José Gorgazzi at rsssf.