1923 in Argentine football explained

Country:	Argentina
Season:	1923
Prevseason:	1922
Nextseason:	1924

1923 in Argentine football saw Boca Juniors win its 3rd title, the Asociación Argentina championship while San Lorenzo achieved its first title ever at the top division winning the Asociación Amateur championship.^[1]

Primera División

Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato

Boca Juniors and Huracán finished with 51 points each so they had to play the playoffs to decide a champion. Palermo, which had been relegated from the Asociación Amateur, joined Asociación Argentina remaining at Primera División. Argentino de Quilmes returned to the top division after being relegated in 1918, while All Boys, Argentino de Banfield and Villa Urquiza made their debuts in Primera.^[2]

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	Dif
1		51	30	24	3	3	87	19
1		51	29	23	5	1	71	20
3		40	28	18	4	6	60	28
4		37	28	13	11	4	35	21
5		33	25	14	5	6	33	26
6		32	22	14	4	4	44	18
7		32	27	13	6	8	36	39
8		29	28	10	9	9	30	25
9		29	29	10	9	10	34	35
10		28	32	10	8	14	31	41
11		27	30	11	5	14	36	40
12	Progresista	27	30	10	7	13	44	50
13		27	33	8	11	14	26	44
14		26	27	11	4	12	27	33
15	Platense II ^[3]	26	28	8	10	10	23	30
16		24	18	9	6	3	27	17
17		23	29	8	7	14	32	45
18		23	30	9	5	16	37	56
19		20	30	6	8	16	30	50
20		18	28	6	6	16	37	61
21		18	31	6	6	19	32	63
22	Villa Urquiza	16	31	4	8	19	17	41
23		14	27	3	8	16	26	53

Final playoffs

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With the third match drawn, the best-of-three series was level at 1-1, meaning a fourth match - to be played to a finish - was required to determine the champion.

Asociación Amateur de Football

Argentino del Sud (promoted last year) debuted in Primera División.

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	Dif
1		35	20	17	1	2	34	13
2		32	20	15	2	3	40	8
3		31	20	14	3	3	29	12
4		29	20	14	1	5	46	16
5		28	20	12	4	4	24	13
6		24	20	11	2	7	23	14
7		20	20	6	8	6	20	19
8		19	20	7	5	8	27	24
9		19	20	8	3	9	20	25
10		19	20	8	3	9	21	29
11	Argentino del Sud	19	20	7	5	8	13	19
12		18	20	7	4	9	20	25
13		17	20	6	5	9	20	25
14		16	20	7	2	11	28	33
15		16	20	6	4	10	19	29
16		16	20	5	6	9	14	24
17		15	20	4	7	9	17	18
18		15	20	6	3	11	12	26
19		13	20	3	7	10	17	36
20		11	20	2	7	11	12	31
21		8	20	2	4	14	17	34

Lower divisions

Primera B

• AFA Champion: Boca Juniors II
• AAm Champion: Liberal Argentino

Primera C

• AFA Champion: Bristol
• AAm Champion: Acassuso

Domestic cups

Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren

• Champion: Boca Juniors^[4]

Final

International cups

Copa Campeonato del Río de la Plata

• Champion: San Lorenzo^[5]

Final

Notes and References

1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg23.html Argentina 1923 at RSSSF
2. Web site: Asociacion Argentina 1923 at Historia y Futbol . 2012-08-30 . 2013-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130812024851/http://historiayfutbol.obolog.com/argentina-1ra-division-asociacion-argentina-1923-180760 . dead .
3. 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
4. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/argibargurencuphist.html Copa Ibarguren at RSSSF
5. https://www.rsssf.org/sacups/aldao.html RSSSF: Campeonato Rioplatense