The Copa de Competencia (Liga Argentina) was an

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official football cup competition organized by dissident "

Liga Argentina de Football The Liga Argentina de Football (LAF) was a dissident football association of Argentina that organised its own professional championships from 1931 to 1934. The Argentine Football Association (that had remained amateur) did not recognise those cham ...

", the first professional association in the country established by clubs that had broken up with the official association (AFA). This cup was one of several competitions named "Copa Competencia", with only two editions contested, in 1932 and 1933.

Overview

The first and second editions were contested by all the 18 teams that also took part in the Primera División championship. The format of the championship was a

single-elimination tournament A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

in which teams played each other in one-off matches, with extra time used to decide the winner if necessary. It began with a round of 18 in which the winner of each game played against the winner of another match. This was followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and the final.Argentina: Copa Competencia 1932 at Historia y Fútbol, by José Carluccio
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Champions

Other tournaments

There were other competitions also named "Copa de Competencia", as follows: *

Copa de Competencia Jockey Club The Copa de Competencia Jockey Club was an official Argentine football cup competition contested between 1907 and 1933. The winner of this Cup was allowed to play the Tie Cup against the Uruguayan champion of Copa de Competencia. History The Cop ...

(1907–33) *

Copa de Competencia (Asociación Amateurs) The Copa de Competencia was an official Argentine football cup competition contested between 1920 and 1926. It was established by the "Asociación Amateurs de Football", a dissident body formed a year before. The Associación Amateurs organized i ...

(1920–26) *

Copa de Competencia Británica The Copa de Competencia Británica George VI was an official Argentine football cup competition, played from 1944 to 1948. It was contested by teams participating in Primera División. The format was a single-elimination tournament and the first ...

(1944–48)

References

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