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

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until the ''Liga Profesional''. 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

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in the first official championship.

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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 38 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

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. As the National Government allowed football competitions to return in October, AFA organised the

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, a domestic cup conceived as a contingency competition. ;Keys: ;Notes

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. ;Notes

Championships defined by tiebreaker match(es)

Although most of Primera División championships were decided by points in single and double

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s, some

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matches were played when two (or more) teams ended tied on points at the end of the season in order to define a champion. The following is a list of those cases:Un repaso único: las 33 finales del fútbol argentino de Primera División hasta 2021
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championship finals are listed on their respective articles and not included here. It is due to finals included in the list below were played in exceptional cases (mostly when both teams finished tied on points). #

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matches are not included because they had the format of

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Argentine Primera División

Primera División champions (1891–present)

Titles by club

Championships defined by tiebreaker match(es)

See also

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