1920 in Argentine football

1920 in Argentine football saw Boca Juniors retain the "Asociación Argentina de Football" (AFA) league title. In the dissident "Asociación Amateurs de Football" (AAm) River Plate ended the run of seven consecutive league titles for Racing Club de Avellaneda.^[1]

In international football Argentina finished as runners up in Copa América 1920.

Primera División

Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato

Club Eureka disappeared when merging with Sportivo Palermo while the Association expanded the number of to 13 clubs participating. Banfield returned to Primera after promoting the last year while Sportivo Barracas came from rival league "Asociación Amateurs de Football". The rest of the teams were promoted to Primera through a resolution by the association, they were Del Plata, Sportivo del Norte (then Colegiales), Nueva Chicago, Lanús, and Sportivo Palermo.^[2]

Pos	Team	Pts	G	W	D	L	Gf	Ga	Gd
1	Boca Juniors	43	24	20	3	1	52	7	+45
2	Banfield	31	24	13	5	6	35	21	+14
3	Huracán	31	24	13	5	6	38	26	+12
4	Porteño	30	24	13	4	7	31	26	+5
5	Del Plata	26	24	10	6	8	22	27	-5
6	Sportivo Barracas	25	24	10	5	9	26	28	-2
7	Nueva Chicago	23	24	10	3	11	17	36	-19
8	Sportivo del Norte	22	24	9	4	11	19	47	-28
9	Estudiantes (LP)	21	24	10	1	13	34	37	-3
10	Sportivo Palermo	19	24	8	3	13	26	52	-26
11	Lanús ^[3]	15	24	5	5	14	26	12	+12
12	Sportivo Almagro ^[4]	11	24	4	3	17	16	9	7
13	Palermo	9	24	4	1	19	14	28	-14

Asociación Amateur de Football - Primera División

The tournament started with 17 teams then expanded to 19 when Lanús and Sportivo Almagro (that had previously left the Asociación Argentina) joined the league. Ferro Carril Oeste returned to the league after being relegated 2 years before. Barracas Central debuted in Primera after winning the Primera B (Aam) title last year. Sportivo Buenos Aires also debuted in the top division.

River Plate won its first championship ending with Racing Club run of 7 consecutive titles.

Pos	Team	Pts	G	W	D	L	Gf	Ga	Gd
1	River Plate	56	34	25	6	3	70	22	+48
2	Racing Club	54	34	25	4	5	77	23	+54
3	San Lorenzo	46	34	17	12	5	58	30	+20
4	Atlanta	41	34	17	7	10	49	29	+20
5	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	41	34	17	7	10	46	32	+14
6	Vélez Sársfield	39	34	17	5	12	60	32	+28
7	Platense	37	34	16	5	13	51	39	12
8	Independiente	35	34	12	11	11	58	47	+11
9	San Isidro	33	34	12	9	13	52	53	-1
10	Quilmes	32	34	13	6	15	35	48	-13
11	Estudiantil Porteño	30	34	9	12	13	38	42	-4
12	Ferro Carril Oeste	30	34	12	6	16	34	61	-27
13	Defensores de Belgrano	27	34	9	9	16	28	40	-12
14	Barracas Central	26	34	9	8	17	28	49	-21
15	Tigre	22	34	9	4	21	38	77	-39
16	Sportivo Buenos Aires	18	34	6	6	22	33	64	-31
17	Sportivo Almagro ^[5]	17	17	6	5	6	22	21	+1
18	Lanús^[6]	15	17	6	3	8	14	23	-9
19	Estudiantes (BA)	13	34	4	5	25	31	90	-59

Lower divisions

Primera B

AFA Champion: El Porvenir
AAm Champion: General Mitre

Primera C

AFA Champion: Sportivo Avellaneda
AAm Champion: Oriente del Sud

Domestic cups

Copa de Honor MCBA

Champion: Banfield

1921-01-30

Banfield	2-1	Boca Juniors
Pambrún, López	Report	M. Martínez

Sp. Barracas

Copa Ibarguren

Champion: Tiro Federal

1921-06-29

Boca Juniors	2-1 ^[7]	Tiro Federal
Calomino 5', Galíndez 52'	Report	Walkens 11'

Sp. Barracas

Referee: Jerónimo Repossi

1922-02-05

Tiro Federal	4-0	Boca Juniors
Walkins 5', Podestá 10', 17', J. Cochrane 75' (pen.)	Report

Boca Juniors

Referee: Servando Pérez

Copa de Competencia (AAm)

Champion: Rosario Central

1920-12-21

Rosario Central	2-0	Sp. Almagro
Hayes, Mascías	Report

Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)

International cups

Copa de Honor Cousenier

Champion: Boca Juniors

1923-09-20

Boca Juniors	2-0	Universal
	Report

(Montevideo)

Copa Aldao

Champion: Nacional

1921-11-20

Nacional	2-1	Boca Juniors
	Report

(Buenos Aires)

Argentina national team

Copa América

In 1920 the Argentina national team travelled to Chile to participate in the 4th edition of Copa América. They finished as runners-up to Uruguay for the third time.

Titles

Copa Premier Honor Argentino 1920

Results

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Competition	Argentina scorers
18 July 1920	Montevideo	Uruguay	2 - 0	Copa Premier Honor Uruguayo
25 July 1920	Buenos Aires	Uruguay	1 - 3	Copa Newton
8 August 1920	Buenos Aires	Uruguay	1 - 0	Copa Premier Honor Argentino
12 September 1920	Viña del Mar	Uruguay	1 - 1	Copa América 1920	Echeverría
20 September 1920	Viña del Mar	Chile	1 - 1	Copa América 1920	Dellavalle
25 September 1920	Viña del Mar	Brazil	0 - 2	Copa América 1920	Echeverría, Libonatti
12 October 1920	Buenos Aires	Brazil	3 - 1	Friendly

References

^ Argentina 1920 at RSSSF
^ Argentina: 1ra. División Asociación Argentina 1920 at Historia y Futbol
^ Lanús abandoned the AAF to join the AAm after the 13th round of fixtures. The remaining 12 fixtures were awarded as wins to its opponents
^ Sportivo Almagro abandoned the AAF to join the AAm after the 13th round of fixtures. The remaining 12 fixtures were awarded as wins to its opponents
^ Sportivo Almagro defected from the AAF league at the halfway stage, therefore played half as many games as the rest of the league.
^ Lanús defected from the AAF league at the halfway stage, therefore played half as many games as the rest of the league.
^ A new game had to be played because Boca Jrs. fielded two ineligible players, Tesoriere and M. Martínez.

[1] Argentina 1920 at RSSSF

[2] Argentina: 1ra. División Asociación Argentina 1920 at Historia y Futbol

[3] Lanús abandoned the AAF to join the AAm after the 13th round of fixtures. The remaining 12 fixtures were awarded as wins to its opponents

[4] Sportivo Almagro abandoned the AAF to join the AAm after the 13th round of fixtures. The remaining 12 fixtures were awarded as wins to its opponents

[5] Sportivo Almagro defected from the AAF league at the halfway stage, therefore played half as many games as the rest of the league.

[6] Lanús defected from the AAF league at the halfway stage, therefore played half as many games as the rest of the league.

[7] A new game had to be played because Boca Jrs. fielded two ineligible players, Tesoriere and M. Martínez.

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