The 1920

Argentine Primera División The Primera División (; en, "First Division"), known officialy as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Binance for sponsorship reasons, is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Th ...

was the 29th season of top-flight

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. The AFA season began on March 21 and ended in January 1921 while the AAmF began on March 28 and also ended on January 1921.

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won its 2nd. consecutive AFA championship while River Plate won the dissident

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(AAmF) title, putting an ended to the seven consecutive titles won by

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. As champion of the AFA season, Boca Juniors qualified to the 1920 Copa Aldao.

Final tables

Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato

Club Eureka disappeared when merging with

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while the Association expanded the number of to 13 clubs participating. Banfield returned to Primera after promoting the last year while

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came from rival league "

". The rest of the teams were promoted to Primera through a resolution by the association, they were Del Plata, Sportivo del Norte (then

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), Nueva Chicago,

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, and

Asociación Amateurs de Football

The tournament started with 17 teams then expanded to 19 when

and Sportivo Almagro (that had previously left the Asociación Argentina) joined the league.

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returned to the league after being relegated 2 years before.

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debuted in Primera after winning the Primera B (Aam) title last year. Sportivo Buenos Aires also debuted in the top division.

References

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