Overview
- Kickoff is 17:00 local time at Platense’s Estadio Ciudad de Vicente López, televised on TyC Sports with Nicolás Ramírez as referee.
- Promotion will be decided in a single game with 30 minutes of extra time if needed and, if still level, a penalty shootout, while the loser moves to the reduced playoffs.
- VAR will be used in this category, with Héctor Paletta as VAR and Gastón Suárez as AVAR.
- Authorities reported a Deportivo Madryn supporters’ hired bus was set on fire after the trip was canceled over documentation issues, with no injuries.
- Both teams arrive as zone winners—Gimnasia with 63 points after a midseason switch to coach Ariel Broggi and Madryn with 60 under Leandro Gracián—and large traveling groups have gathered in Buenos Aires.