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The first Argentine football champions, St. Andrew's and Old Caledonians, were crowned in 1891 in the first official championship. Alumni was the most successful club with 10 titles until its dissolution in 1911. River Plate is the most successful club, having won 38 titles to date.
The Argentine championship was ranked as one of the top ten strongest leagues worldwide for the 2015 calendar year by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Argentina placed 4th after La Liga (Spain), Serie A (Italy), and Bundesliga (Germany), but has since descended to 19th in the 2021 list. [13]
River Plate is the most successful team in Argentine domestic football, having won the league title 38 times. Boca Juniors is the only team that have won at least one title in every decade. River Plate and Racing Club are the only clubs ever to win three back-to-back championships.
The annual football match was played for the first time in 2019, being played by the champions of Primera División and Copa de la Superliga Argentina respectively. The Copa Campeonato , originally awarded to Primera División champion, is the oldest trophy of Argentine football, [ 43 ] having been established in 1896, three year after the AFA ...
The top-flight of Argentine football had 20 teams, with seasons divided into two tournaments: "Apertura" ("opening") championship which opened the season and was contested in the second half of the calendar year, and "Clausura" ("closing") championship that closed the season and was played in the first half of the following year.
The "Copa Campeonato" trophy was awarded to Primera División champion from 1896 until 1926. [1] From 2013 to 2015, it was given to the Superfinal winner. [2]Since the creation of the first league in 1891, several official cups have been played in Argentina apart from the main competition, the Primera División championship.
The Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional is an official national football cup of Argentina organized by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and contested by the winners of Primera División and Copa de la Liga Profesional.
The term was coined on August 4, 1937, when the Argentine Football Association (AFA) arranged a system of proportional representation for the sport clubs involved: the vote of clubs with either 15,000 members and at least 20 years playing the tournament and two or more championships would be weighted threefold, the vote of clubs with 20 years and 10,000 to 15,000 members or one championship ...