List of Argentine football champions
The Argentina football champion is the winner of the highest league in Argentine football, currently the Primera División. The league season have had different formats, since the original double round-robin until the Torneo de Transición. The champion is the team with the most points at the end of the championship.
The first Argentine football champion, St. Andrew's, was crowned in 1891 in the first championship organized by the Football Association existing by then. Alumni was the most successful club with 10 titles until its dissolution in 1911. River Plate is the most successful club having won 36 titles to date.
Primera División champions (1891–present)
Official championships recognised by the Argentine Football Association, including tournaments organized by dissident associations, such as the "Federación Argentina de Football" (FAF) (1912-14), the "Asociación Amateurs de Football" (AAmF) (1919-26) and the "Liga Argentina de Football" (LAF) (1931-34).[1][2][3][4][5]
- Notes
- H = Copa de Honor
- C = Copa Campeonato
- O = Copa de Oro
- Met = Metropolitano (1967-84)
- Nac = Nacional (1967-84)
- Ap = Apertura (1991-2012)
- Cl = Clausura (1991-2012)
- In = Inicial (2012-14)
- Fi = Final (2012-14)
- Tr = Transition (2014)
Notes
- ↑ Not to be confused with Club Atlético Lanús
- ↑ When Alumni won the 1900 title the club still named "English High School AC". In 1901 it was renamed due to the Football Association did not allow teams to use the same name as the school they represented to avoid advertising purposes.
- ↑ The Federación Amateurs de Football (FAF) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1912 to 1914.
- ↑ The Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAmF) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1919 to 1926.
- ↑ The Liga Argentina de Fútbol (LAF) was a dissident association that organized the first four professional championships between 1931 and 1934. In 1935 it merged with the amateur association Asociación Argentina de Football (AAF) whose teams were relegated to second division.[1]
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 In 1936 two single-round tournaments were played: The Copa de Honor (won by San Lorenzo)[6] and Copa Campeonato (won by River Plate). At the end of both seasons, River and San Lorenzo played a final match for the "Copa de Oro", being River the winner. The Argentine Football Association recognized the three championships as individual honours for each club.[2][8][9]
- ↑ Although there was an Apertura (Newell's Old Boys) and Clausura champion (Boca Juniors) this season, the half-year champions played in a two-legged final to determine the season champion, which finally was Newell's.
- ↑ Since 1991-92 season both Apertura and Clausura are official titles as individuals
- ↑ Vélez was recognized as the champion of the entire season (2013-14) and awarded its 10th. Primera División title.[2]
- ↑ Although River defeated San Lorenzo in the "Superfinal", this did not count as a new Primera División honour.
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