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
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
** Germany takes formal possession of its new Af ...
in the first official championship.
Alumni
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...
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
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
. As the
National Government allowed football competitions to return in October, AFA organised the
2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional
The 2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional (officially Copa Diego Armando Maradona) was the first edition of the Copa de la Liga Profesional, an Argentine domestic cup contested by the 24 teams that took part in the Primera División during the 2019†...
, 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
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Me ...
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 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.
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See also
* List of football clubs in Argentina by competitive honours won
* List of Argentine football national cups
References
{{CONMEBOL national champions
champions
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...
Argentine Primera División