List of Argentine football national cups
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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 first cup held in the country was the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires; launched in 1905, it was played until 1920.[3]
The Copa Campeonato, originally awarded to Primera División champion, is the oldest trophy of Argentine football for a current competition,[2] having been established in 1896, three year after the Association was created,[4] and played without interruption until 1926.[1] The Cup received several names, such as "Championship Cup", "Copa Campeonato", "Challenge Cup", and "Copa Alumni",[5] due to the association offered legendary team Alumni to keep the Cup definitely for having won it three consecutive times (1900–02), but the club from Belgrano declined the honour to keep the trophy under dispute.[2][6]
In June 2013, the association decided to put the trophy back into circulation with the creation of a new competition, named "Superfinal" that consisted in a single match between winners of Torneo Inicial and Torneo Final, played in a neutral venue.[2]
Current cup competitions held in Argentina are Copa Argentina, Supercopa Argentina, Copa de la Liga Profesional, Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional, and the most recent Supercopa Internacional.
List of cup competitions
[edit]The following is a list with all the national cups held in Argentina until present days. Only competitions where Primera División clubs took part are included.[7]
- Keys
| Cup | Org. | Status | Years held | Contested by clubs from division |
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| Copa de Honor MBA | AFA | Defunct | 1905–1920 | Primera División and Liga Rosarina |
| Copa de Competencia Jockey Club | AFA | Defunct | 1907–1933 | Primera División and Liga Rosarina |
| Copa de Competencia La Nación | FAF | Defunct | 1913–1914 | Primera División, Segunda División and Federación Rosarina de Football |
| Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren | AFA | Defunct | 1913–1952 | Primera División and Regional leagues |
| Copa Estímulo | AFA | Defunct | 1920–1926 | Primera División |
| Copa de Competencia (AAmF) | AAmF | Defunct | 1920–1926 | Primera División and Asociación Amateurs Rosarina de Football |
| Copa de Competencia (LAF) | LAF | Defunct | 1932–1933 | Primera División |
| Copa Beccar Varela | LAF | Defunct | 1932–1933 | Primera División |
| Copa Adrián C. Escobar | AFA | Defunct | 1939–1949 | Primera División |
| Copa General Pedro Ramírez | AFA | Defunct | 1943–1945 | Primera División and Regional leagues |
| Copa de Competencia Británica | AFA | Defunct | 1944–1946 | Primera División |
| Copa Campeonato Juan Domingo Perón[8][9] | AFA | Defunct | 1955 | Primera División |
| Copa Campeones de la República Argentina[n1 1] | AFA | Defunct | 1959[10] | Regional leagues |
| Copa Suecia[n1 2] | AFA | Defunct | 1958 | Primera División |
| Copa Argentina | AFA | Active | 1969–70, 2012– | All divisions of Argentine league system |
| Copa Centenario de la AFA[n1 2] | AFA | Defunct | 1993 | Primera División |
| Supercopa Argentina | AFA | Active | 2012– | Primera División and Copa Argentina champions |
| Copa Campeonato | AFA | Defunct | 2014[n1 3] | Torneo Inicial and Torneo Final champions[n1 4] |
| Copa Bicentenario[n1 2] | AFA | Defunct | 2016 | Primera División (2014 and 2016) champions |
| Copa de la Superliga | SAF | Defunct | 2019 | Primera División |
| Trofeo de Campeones (SAF) | SAF | Defunct | 2019 | Primera División and Copa de la Superliga champions |
| Copa de la Liga Profesional | AFA | Active | 2020– | Primera División |
| Trofeo de Campeones (LPF)[n1 5] | AFA | Active | 2020– | Primera División and Copa de la Liga champions |
| Supercopa Internacional | AFA | Active | 2022– | Primera División and Trofeo de Campeones (LPF) champions |
- Notes
- ^ Competition organised by AFA's "Consejo Federal", held in 1959. It was contested by clubs from regional leagues outside Buenos Aires with no direct affiliation to the Association.
- ^ a b c Cup established to be played only once.
- ^ For this edition, the Copa Campeonato (also known as "Superfinal") was homologated as a national cup instead of a Primera División title.[7][11] Nevertheless, the cup has not been held since.
- ^ Split seasons similar to Apertura and Clausura format.
- ^ It took the name and format from the homonymous cup after the Superliga was dissolved.
Titles by club
[edit]- Notes
Trophies gallery
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Copa de Honor MCBA -
Copa Jockey Club -
Copa Carlos Ibarguren -
Copa Adrián Escobar -
Copa General Pedro Ramírez -
Copa de Competencia Británica "George VI"
Other cups
[edit]Apart from the cups mentioned, there were other competitions such as Copa Bullrich (contested from 1903 to 1934 by teams of lower divisions) and Copa Presidente de la Nación (contested from representatives of regional leagues), originally organised by dissident Asociación Amateurs de Football (1920–26) and then continued by AFA from 1927 to 1989).
Because of not having been contested by Primera División clubs, these cups are not included in the list of national cups by the Argentine Association although they were official competitions.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Memoria y Balance 1935 - Argentine Football Association Library
- ^ a b c d "El trofeo más añejo del fútbol argentino" at AFA website Archived 2016-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, 26 Jun 2013
- ^ Argentina - Domestic Cup History on RSSSF
- ^ Orígenes de la Asociación on AFA website
- ^ "Presentaron Superfinal Vélez-Newell's" ESPN
- ^ "Una Copa con mucha historia", Diario Uno, 27 Jun 2013
- ^ a b c Campeones de Copas Nacionales Archived 2015-06-17 at the Wayback Machine on AFA website, retrieved 5 Aug 2016
- ^ Lanús tiene una nueva estrella: ¿qué título le dieron?
- ^ Lanús sumó una nueva estrella a su historia y los hinchas celebran la determinación de la AFA
- ^ Argentina - Argentine Republic Champions Championship 1959 Archived 2022-12-06 at the Wayback Machine by Osvaldo Gorgazzi and Edgardo Imas on the RSSSF
- ^ "La AFA homologó la Superfinal de River como una Copa Nacional" on CanchaLlena.com
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