Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez Explained

Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez
Organiser:	AFA AUF
Founded:	1935
Region:	Argentina, Uruguay
Number Of Teams:	2
Related Comps:	Copa Juan Mignaburu
Current Champions:	(1943)
Most Successful Team:	(3 titles)

The Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez was a football friendly competition contested between Argentina and Uruguay national teams. There were five editions of this competitions, held between 1935 and 1943, with all of them won by Argentina.^[1] and mentor to the creation of the South American Football Confederation (officialised by the Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Uruguay associations in 1916).^{[2] [3]}

The cup has its counterpart, the Copa Juan Mignaburu, held in Argentina in parallel with this competition.

List of champions

The following list includes all the editions of the Cup:^{[4] [5]}

width= px	Ed.	width=50px	Year	width=150px	Champion	Score	City	width=150px	Venue
	1935
	1936			Montevideo	Estadio Centenario
	1938			Montevideo	Estadio Centenario
	1940			Montevideo	Estadio Centenario
	1943			Montevideo	Estadio Centenario

Notes

Titles by country

width=100px	Team	width=50px	Titles	Years won
		1935, 1938, 1943
		1936, 1940

All-time topscorers

width=150px	Player	width=50px	Goals
José M. Medina

See also

• Argentina–Uruguay football rivalry

Notes and References

1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesh/hectorgomez.html Copa Héctor Gómez
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120305132103/http://www.conmebol.com/pages/Quienes_Somos2.html Quiénes somos
3. https://www.conmebol.com/es/se-cumplen-100-anos-de-la-visionaria-idea-de-hector-rivadavia-gomez 100 años de la visionaria idea
4. https://albicelestes.com/teams/uruguay Argentina-Uruguay head to head
5. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/arg-intres.html Argentina national team archive