1920 in Argentine football explained

Country:	Argentina
Season:	1920
Prevseason:	1919
Nextseason:	1921

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

See main article: 1920 Argentine 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]

width=40px	Pos	width=200px	Team	width=40px	Pts	width=40px	G	width=40px	W	width=40px	D	width=40px	L	width=40px	Gf	width=40px	Ga	width=40px	Gd
1		43	24	20	3	1	52	7	+45
2		31	24	13	5	6	35	21	+14
3		31	24	13	5	6	38	26	+12
4		30	24	13	4	7	31	26	+5
5		26	24	10	6	8	22	27	-5
6		25	24	10	5	9	26	28	-2
7		23	24	10	3	11	17	36	-19
8		22	24	9	4	11	19	47	-28
9		21	24	10	1	13	34	37	-3
10		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		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.

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1		56	34	25	6	3	70	22	+48
2		54	34	25	4	5	77	23	+54
3		46	34	17	12	5	58	30	+20
4		41	34	17	7	10	49	29	+20
5		41	34	17	7	10	46	32	+14
6		39	34	17	5	12	60	32	+28
7		37	34	16	5	13	51	39	12
8		35	34	12	11	11	58	47	+11
9		33	34	12	9	13	52	53	-1
10		32	34	13	6	15	35	48	-13
11		30	34	9	12	13	38	42	-4
12		30	34	12	6	16	34	61	-27
13		27	34	9	9	16	28	40	-12
14		26	34	9	8	17	28	49	-21
15		22	34	9	4	21	38	77	-39
16		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		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

Copa Ibarguren

• Champion: Tiro Federal

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Copa de Competencia (AAm)

• Champion: Rosario Central

International cups

Copa Aldao

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	Match Report(s)
18 July 1920	Montevideo		2 - 0	Copa Premier Honor Uruguayo
25 July 1920	Buenos Aires		1 - 3	Copa Newton
8 August 1920	Buenos Aires		1 - 0	Copa Premier Honor Argentino
12 September 1920	Viña del Mar		1 - 1	Copa América 1920	Echeverría
20 September 1920	Viña del Mar		1 - 1	Copa América 1920	Dellavalle
25 September 1920	Viña del Mar		0 - 2	Copa América 1920	Echeverría, Libonatti
12 October 1920	Buenos Aires		3 - 1	Friendly

Notes and References

1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg20.html Argentina 1920 at RSSSF
2. Web site: Argentina: 1ra. División Asociación Argentina 1920 at Historia y Futbol . 2012-08-23 . 2013-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005144048/http://historiayfutbol.obolog.com/argentina-1ra-division-asociacion-argentina-1920-175840 . dead .
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.