1998 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby

Main article: Campeonato Argentino

The 1998 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Unione of Buenos Aires

54º Campeonato Argentino
Champions	Buenos Aires (27th title)
Runners-up	Cordoba

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.

Further information: 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
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
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
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
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
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
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
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against	diff.
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

• Sur promoted to "Ascenso"

External links

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