The Argentina football champion is the winner of the highest league in Argentine football, the
Primera División. The league season have had different formats, since the original
double round-robin until the ''Superliga''. The champion is the team with the most points at the end of the competition.
The first Argentine football champions,
St. Andrew's and
Old Caledonians, were crowned in
1891 in the first official championship.
Alumni
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was the most successful club with 10 titles until its dissolution in 1911.
River Plate is the most successful club, having won 37 titles to date.
Primera División champions (1891–present)
The following is a list including all the Primera División champions since the first edition held in 1891.
For the first time since 1892, no league championship was held in 2020 after the schedule for a regular league season had been repeatedly delayed because of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. As the
National Government allowed football competitions to return in October, AFA organised the
2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional
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, a
domestic cup conceived as a contingency competition.
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Titles by club
The list include all the titles won by each club since the first Primera División championship held in 1891. Clubs in ''italic'' no longer exist or are currently disaffiliated from the AFA.
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Championships defined by final
Although most of Primera División championships were decided by points in single and double
round-robin tournament
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s, some finals were played when two teams ended tied on points at the end of the season. The following is a list of those cases:
Un repaso único: las 33 finales del fútbol argentino de Primera División hasta 2021
by Carlos Aira on Abrà La Cancha, 14 Sep 2021
''Notes'':
# The 1936 "Copa de Oro" is not listed because it did not define a Primera División champion but which team would participate in the 1936 Copa Aldao.
# Nacional
Nacional, the Portuguese and Spanish word for "national", may refer to:
Airlines
* Nacional Transportes Aéreos, a Brazilian airline defunct in 2002
* Transportes Aéreos Nacional, a Brazilian airline defunct in 1961
Bank
* Banco Nacional, a ...
championship finals are listed on their respective article and not included here.
# Copa Campeonato
The Copa Campeonato Primera División (familiarly known as Superfinal) was an official Argentine football cup competition organized by the Argentine Football Association. It was played in a single match format between the Torneo Inicial and Torn ...
matches are not included because they had the format of national cup The English National Cup is an annual basketball knock-out competition held between professional, semi-professional and amateur teams from the various divisions of the National Basketball League. For most of the competition's history, the draw has ...
.
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See also
* List of football clubs in Argentina by competitive honours won
* List of Argentine football national cups
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 Buen ...
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champions
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