Copa Adrián C. Escobar Explained

Copa Adrián C. Escobar
Organiser:AFA
Founded:1939
Region:Argentina
Number Of Teams:7 (1949) [1]
Related Comps:Primera División
Most Successful Team:Huracán (2 titles)

The Copa Adrián C. Escobar was an official Argentine football cup competition contested by clubs of Argentina, organized by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) from 1939 to 1949.

The trophy of the tournament was donated by Adrián C. Escobar, president of the AFA in 1939, year in which the match was created. Therefore, the tournament was named after his donation.[2]

Huracán is the most winning team of the competition, with 2 titles.

Format

It was a heptagonal competition, competed by the seven best placed teams in the table of Primera División championship.[2] A single knockout system was adopted. The second to seven competed in the quarter-finals, while the champions of the official league entered the semi-finals directly.

Matches in this tournament were not standard. In the 1939 edition, a match lasted for 20 minutes in the quarter-finals and semi-finals and 30 minutes for the final match. In the later editions, matches lasted for 40 minutes in every round. When matches were drawn, the team gaining the higher number of corner kicks would proceed to the next round. The matches in the same round were played in the same pitch on the same day.

List of champions

The following list includes all the editions of the Copa Adrián C. Escobar:[3]

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1 1939 Independiente Buenos Aires
2 1941River Plate Buenos Aires
3 1942 Huracán Buenos Aires
4 1943 Huracán San LorenzoBuenos Aires
5 1944 Estudiantes (LP) San LorenzoBuenos Aires
6 1946
7 1949 Newell's Old Boys Avellaneda
Notes

Titles by team

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2 1942, 1943
1 1939
1 1941
1 1944
1 1949

Topscorers

Source: [4]

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1941 San Lorenzo
River Plate
1942 Alfredo Borgnia San Lorenzo
1944 Estudiantes LP
1949 Elio Montaño Newell's Old Boys
Racing

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg-esc49.html Copa Adrián Escobar 1949 - RSSSF
  2. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/argcuphist.html Argentina - Domestic Cup History
  3. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/argcuphist.html Copa Adrián C. Escobar
  4. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/argcuptops.html Argentina - List of Topscorers - Domestic Cups