1922 in Argentine football explained

Country:	Argentina
Season:	1922
Prevseason:	1921
Nextseason:	1923

1922 in Argentine football saw Huracán win its second consecutive championship, while Independiente obtained its first title, the Asociación Amateurs de Football championship.

Primera División

Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato

Alvear, Boca Alumni, San Fernando and Progresista made their debuts at the top division of Argentine football.^[1]

width=30px	Pos	width=200px	Team	width=30px	Pts	width=30px	G	width=30px	W	width=30px	D	width=30px	L	width=30px	Gf	width=30px	Ga	width=30px	Gd
1		28	16	13	2	1	36	7	+29
2		25	16	11	3	2	34	14	+20
3		22	16	10	2	4	30	19	+11
4		20	16	10	0	6	27	15	+12
5		18	16	7	4	5	23	22	+1
6		18	16	7	4	5	18	19	-1
7		17	16	7	3	6	29	16	+13
8		16	16	6	4	6	22	23	-1
9		15	16	6	3	7	20	22	-2
10		14	16	4	6	6	18	20	-2
11		13	16	4	5	7	20	29	-9
12		13	16	5	3	8	14	22	-8
13		12	16	4	4	8	15	24	-9
14		12	16	3	6	7	11	20	-9
15		11	16	3	5	8	14	30	-16
16	Progresista	9	16	2	5	9	19	32	-13
17	Platense II ^[2]	9	16	3	3	10	16	32

Asociación Amateurs de Football

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1		65	40	30	5	5	97	27	+70
2		61	40	25	11	4	58	18	+40
3		60	40	24	12	4	65	25	+40
4		57	40	23	11	6	65	30	+35
5		53	40	22	9	9	52	30	+25
6		52	40	20	12	8	56	30	+26
7		42	40	16	10	14	47	43	+4
8		42	40	18	6	16	52	55	-3
9		41	40	15	11	14	50	45	+5
10		39	40	14	11	15	42	40	+2
11		35	40	12	11	17	46	51	-5
12		35	40	15	5	20	43	53	-10
13		34	40	14	6	20	43	53	-10
14		34	40	12	10	18	46	58	-12
15		32	40	12	8	20	41	55	-14
16		31	40	10	11	19	35	53	-18
17		30	40	10	10	20	42	64	-22
18		28	40	10	8	22	47	69	-22
19		27	40	10	7	23	35	61	-26
20	Palermo^[3]	21	40	7	7	26	40	85	-45
21		21	40	8	5	27	25	82	-57

Lower divisions

Primera B

• AFA Champion: Boca Juniors II
• AAm Champion: Argentino del Sud

Primera C

• AFA Champion: Central Argentino
• AAm Champion: Nacional FC

Domestic cups

Copa C. Ibarguren

• Champion: Huracán

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Argentina national team

The national team contested 4 competitions in 1922, but could not win any of them.

Copa América

Argentina was eliminated at semifinals by Paraguay.

Copa Lipton

Argentina lost to Uruguay 1-0 at Montevideo.

Copa Newton

In Buenos Aires, Argentina and Uruguay drew 2-2 but Uruguay won the trophy as visiting team.^[4]

Roca Cup

Argentina lost to Brazil 2-1 at Sao Paulo.

Notes and References

1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg22.html Argentina 1922 at RSSSF
2. From 1921 to 1925 there were two teams called "Platense" due to an internal conflict in the lists of candidates for president of the institution. Current Club Atlético Platense played at the dissident Asociación Amateur and the other squad (known as "Platense II") played in the Asociación Argentina. Source: Historia del Club at Platense Locura website
3. Palermo was relegated after a long discussion in the Association - source: Argentina: 1ra. División Asociación Amateurs 1922 at Historia y Futbol
4. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/newton.html Copa Newton at RSSSF