The Argentine Association Football League was the first

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association of Argentina and predecessor of current

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. The association has a historic importance in football for having organised the first official championship outside the

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(which has the oldest football competition, the

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established in 1871).

History

By the 1890s, more than 20,000 inhabitants of Argentina were

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, most of them employees of railway companies. They had introduced several sports to the country, with football among them."Hace 120 años, el fútbol tenía su primer torneo local"
by Oscar Barnade, Clarín, 12 Apr 2011 On March 7, 1891, the act of foundation of the "Argentine Association Football League" was signed.''Historia de fútbol de AFA: orígenes 1891/1899'', by Carlos Yametti – Edición del Autor (2011) – Board members were F.L. Wooley (president),Historia de la AFA
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''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'', by Jorge Iwanczuk – Autores Editores (1992) – Argentine assoc football league 1891 thestandard

The recently formed Association set three objectives: * The organisation of a championship played regularly * The establishment of an institution to rule the championship created * A code of regulations The first Argentine football championship began on April 12,

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, with five teams contesting the competition, they were, Old Caledonians, Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, Buenos Aires Football Club, Belgrano Football Club, and

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. After organising the first championship (won by Old Caledonian and St. Andrew's), the Association was dissolved. Therefore no championship would be held in 1892 until a new association with the same name (currently

) was established in 1893.

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