Argentine Football Association

Argentine Football Association
CONMEBOL
Founded	1893
Headquarters	Buenos Aires
FIFA affiliation	1912
CONMEBOL affiliation	1916
President	vacancy
Website	https://www.afa.com.ar/

The Argentine Football Association (Spanish: Asociación del Fútbol Argentino or AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina. It organises the Argentine football league, the Argentine Cup and the Argentina national football team. It is based in Buenos Aires. Secondly, it also organizes the amateur leagues for women, children, youth, Futsal, and other local leagues, as well as the national women's team.

History

The Argentine Association Football League (in English) was founded on February 21 1893 (thus it is the oldest in South America and one of the oldest to be formed outside Europe), to be later renamed Argentine Football Association in 1903, and translated into Asociación Argentina de Football (Argentine Football Association) in 1912.

The parallel Federación Argentina de Football (Argentine Football Federation), founded in 1912, joined the Asociación Argentina de Football, as well as did the 1919 founded Asociacion Amateurs de Football (Amateur Football Association) in 1926.

In 1926 it was again renamed to Asociación Amateur Argentina de Football (Argentine Amateur Football Association), but with the professionalization of the sport in 1931 it was named Asociación de Football Amateur y Profesionales (Amateur and Professional Football Association). The first round of the first professional championship was on May 31 1931.^[1]

The Liga Argentina de Football (Argentine Football League), founded in 1931 merged with the Asociación de Football Amateur y Profesionales on November 3, 1934, into what is still today the Asociación de Fútbol Argentino (Argentine Football Association).

References

^ Diario Ole - "Bodas de Brillante"

External links

Argentina at FIFA site
Argentina at CONMEBOL site Template:En icon
Official site Template:Es icon Template:En icon
TiempoRojo (Spanish)
Argentine Football History (Spanish)
Argentina leagues (Spanish)
Information Argentina leagues

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[1] Diario Ole - "Bodas de Brillante"

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