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Argentine Football Association
CONMEBOL
Founded	21 February 1893; 125 years ago (1893-02-21)
Headquarters	Buenos Aires
FIFA affiliation	1912; 106 years ago (1912);
CONMEBOL affiliation	1916; 102 years ago (1916);
President	Claudio Tapia
Website	afa.org.ar

The Argentine Football Association (Spanish: Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, locally [asosjaˈsjon del ˈfutbol aɾxenˈtino]) is the governing body of football in Argentina. It organises the Primera División and lower divisions (from Primera B Nacional to Torneo Argentino C), the Argentine Cup, Supercopa Argentina and the Argentina national football team.

The association is based in the city of Buenos Aires. Secondly, it also organizes the amateur leagues for women, children, youth, Futsal, and other local leagues, as well as the national women's team.

History

The Argentine Association Football League (in English) was founded on 21 February 1893 by Alexander Watson Hutton, considered "the father" of Argentine football.^[2] The Argentine Association is the oldest in South America and one of the oldest to be formed outside Europe. In 1906 Florencio Martínez de Hoz became the first Argentine-born President of the Association.^[3]

In 1912 the president of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires, Ricardo Aldao, broke up with the association establishing an own league, the Federación Argentina de Football which organized a parallel tournament. Some teams moved to the FAF were Gimnasia y Esgrima, Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata and Atlanta. The league lasted until 1914 when rejoining Asociación Argentina de Football forming a unique league for the 1915 season.

The second dissident league was formed in 1919 and named Asociacion Amateurs de Football, organizing its own championships (as FAF had done) until 1926 when it merged to official association. The dissident league included some of the most prominent teams such as River Plate, Racing, Independiente and San Lorenzo, with the exception of Boca Juniors that remained in the official "Asociación Argentina de Football".

When both leagues merged for the 1927 season, the association was again renamed to "Asociación Amateur Argentina de Football" until the professionalization of the sport in 1931 when it switched to "Liga Argentina de Football". The first round of the recently created professional championship was on 31 May 1931.^[1]^[4]

Despite football turning professional in Argentina, some clubs wanted to remain amateur so they formed a new league, the "Asociación de Football Amateur y Profesionales", which organized a parallel tournament until 1934 when the dissident association merged with LAF on 3 November 1934 to form the "Asociación del Football Argentino" which has remained since.^[1]^[5]

In 2015, during the presidential elections to elect a new president for the body, there were two candidates to occupy Julio Humberto Grondona's chair, Marcelo Tinelli –who wanted a change in how things were going, like eliminating corruption between some clubs and the AFA– and Luis Segura, who had taken charge after Grondona's death, with the intention of extending his mandate.

With 75 presidents of different Argentine clubs voting, the day of the elections something went wrong when the final count resulted in a draw of 38 to 38 (76 votes in total). The explanation given was that one of the electors put a double vote and that mistake was not reported. As a result, the executive committee decided to postpone the election.^[6]

After some meetings to put an end to the conflict, both candidates agreed to have another election in June 2016.^[7]

In June 2016, AFA president Luis Segura was charged with "aggravated administrative fraud".^[8] Segura has been replaced on an interim basis by the AFA's executive secretary, Damián Dupiellet.^[9]

Names

The body has been renamed several times since its establishment in 1893, in most of cases translating into Spanish the original British names. The list of names is the following:^[10]

Argentine Association Football League (1893-1903) ^{[note 1]}

Argentine Football Association (1903–12)

Asociación Argentina de Football (1912–27)

Asociación Amateur Argentina de Football (1927–31)

Asociación de Football Amateurs y Profesionales (1931–34)

Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (1934–present) ^{[note 2]}

Competitions

Official association

The list of official competitions organized by the Argentine Football Association since its creation in 1893 are:^[11]^[12]

Name	Time
Current competitions
Primera División	1891–present ^{[note 3]}
Copa Argentina	1969-70, 2011–present ^{[note 4]}
Supercopa Argentina ^{[note 5]}	2012–present
Defunct competitions
Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires	1905–36
Copa de Competencia Jockey Club	1913–33
Copa de Competencia La Nación	1913–14
Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren	1913–58
Copa Estímulo	1920–26
Copa Adrián C. Escobar	1939–49
Copa Gral. P. Ramírez ^{[note 6]}	1943–45
Copa de Competencia Británica George VI	1944–48
Copa Suecia ^{[note 7]}	1958
Copa Centenario de la AFA ^{[note 8]}	1993
Copa Campeonato (Superfinal) ^{[note 9]}	2013–14

Dissident associations

The following table include competitions organized by dissident associations.^[12]

Name	Time	Association
Other competitions
Copa de Competencia (AAm)	1920–26	Asociación Amateurs de Football
Copa de Competencia (LAF)	1932–33	Liga Argentina de Football
Copa Adrián Beccar Varela	1932–33	Liga Argentina de Football

Presidents

Official Association

Period	President/s
Asociación del Fútbol Argentino
1893–96	Alexander Watson Hutton
1897–98	Alfredo P. Boyd
1899	Charles Wibberley
1900–05	Frank Chevallier Boutell
1906	Florencio Martínez de Hoz
1907–08	Emilio Hansen
1909–14	Hugo Wilson
1915–17	Adolfo Orma
1918–19	Ricardo Aldao
1919–21	Federico Luzio
1921–22	Benjamin Toulouse
1922–24	Aldo Cantoni
1924–26	Virgilio Tedin Uriburu
1926	Natalio Botana
1927–29	Adrián Beccar Varela
1929–32	Juan Pignier
1932	Carlos Anessi
1932–33	Silvio Serra
1933–34	José Claisse
1934	Alejandro Russo
1934	Tiburcio Padilla
1935	Ernesto F. Malbec
1936	Ángel Molinari
1937–38	Eduardo Sánchez Terrero
1939–40	Adrián Escobar
1941–43	Ramón Castillo
1944	Jacinto Armando
1945	Agustín Nicolás Matienzo
1946	Eduardo J. Avalos
1947	Pedro Canaveri
1948–49	Oscar Nicolini
1949	Cayetano Giardulli
1950–53	Valentín Suárez
1954–55	Domingo Peluffo
1955	Cecilio Conditi
1956	Arturo Bullrich ^{[note 10]}
1957–65	Raúl Colombo
1966	Francisco Perette
1967–68	Valentin Suárez ^{[note 10]}
1968	Armando Ramos Ruiz ^{[note 10]}
1969	Aldo JPorri 1 & O.L. Ferrari ^{[note 10]}
1969–71	Juan Oneto Gaona ^{[note 10]}
1971–73	Raúl D'Onofrio ^{[note 10]}
1973	Horacio Bruzzone ^{[note 10]}
1973–74	Baldomero Gigan ^{[note 10]}
1974	Fernando Mitjans ^{[note 10]}^{[note 11]}
1974–76	David Bracuto ^{[note 12]}
1976–79	Alfredo Cantilo
1979–2014	Julio Grondona
2014–16	Luis Segura
2016–17	Armando Pérez ^{[note 10]}
2017–	Claudio Tapia ^[18]

Dissident Associations

Period	President/s
Federación Argentina de Football
1912-14	Ricardo Aldao

Period	President/s
Asociación Amateurs de Football
1919	Juan Mignaburu
1920-26	Adrián Beccar Varela

Period	President/s
Liga Argentina de Football ^{[note 13]}
1931	Julio Planisi
1932-34	Eduardo Larrandart
1934	Tiburcio Padilla

Alexander Watson Hutton, the first president of the Argentine Football Association in 1893

Ricardo Aldao (1918-19), had also presided dissident Federación Argentina de Football

Adrián Beccar Varela presided from 1927 to his death in 1929

Adrián C. Escobar (1939-41)

Julio Grondona had the longest tenure at the AFA, with 35 years as President of the body

Notes

^ The organisation was founded with the same name as its predecessor, the AAFL of 1891

^ Translated into Spanish as "Asociación del Fútbol Argentino" in 1946

^ The 1891 edition was organized by a precedent association, "Argentine Association Football League", dissolved at the end of the season.^[13]

^ The Copa Argentina was re-launched in 2011.^[14]

^ Contested by the champions of the Argentine Primera División and Copa Argentina

^ Also known as "Campeonato de la República", it received the name "Copa General de División Pedro Pablo Ramírez", due to the trophy had been donated by de facto President of Argentina, Pedro P. Ramírez

^ Held once to keep league teams in readiness while the 1958 FIFA World Cup was being played

^ Held once to celebrate the 100th. anniversary of the Association ^[15]

^ Once Inicial and Final tournaments have finished, both winners have to play a match named Superfinal. The association had determined that the first edition (played in 2013) would be considered as a Primera División official title (2012-13 season), therefore Vélez Sársfield awarded its 10th. official championship after defeating Newell's.^[16] Nevertheless, from the 2014 edition it was determined that the Superfinal would not be considered as a Primera División title but an official cup.^[17]

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hⁱ^j Interventor

^ Director

^ Expelled by the Argentine military dictatorship

^ When football became professional in Argentina, the teams that wanted to remain amateur formed this league that organized its own tournaments from 1931 to 1934, when it merged with the professional body, being all of its teams relegated to second division.^[19]

References

^ ^a^b^c "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Retrieved 4 March 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

^ "La historia de una casa poderosa", Clarín, 21 Feb 2003

^ "Campeones del Bicentenario", La Nación, 2010-5-18

^ Diario Ole - "Bodas de Brillante"^{[permanent dead link]}

^ Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina, by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) -
ISBN 9504343848

^ "Escándalo: la elección en la AFA salió empatada por un error y ahora Segura y Tinelli analizan unirse", La Nación, 3 Dec 2015

^ "Historia de un papelón: con 75 asambleístas hubo 76 votos", Clarín, 3 Dec 2015

^ "FIFA to oversee Argentinean FA after FIFA Council member charged - Sports Integrity Initiative". 27 June 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ "Ousted Argentine Football Association President attacks FIFA for taking over crisis-hit organisation". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ ^a^b "Argentina - Domestic Cup History". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ "Argentina 1891". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

^ "En medio de las polémicas, Grondona lanzó la Copa Argentina" on Notio.com.ar 19 May 2011

^ AFA Centenary Cup on RSSSF

^ "Vélez venció a Newell's y es el Supercampeón", Clarín, 29 Dec 2013

^ "La AFA homologó la final de River como una copa nacional", Cancha Llena, 28 May 2014

^ Claudio Chiqui Tapia fue electo presidente casi sin oposición y comienza una nueva era, Clarín, 29 Mar 2017

^ "Argentina 1934 (amateur)". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

External links

Official site

Argentina at FIFA site

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[samename-11] The organisation was founded with the same name as its predecessor, the AAFL of 1891

[transl-12] Translated into Spanish as "Asociación del Fútbol Argentino" in 1946

[aafl-16] The 1891 edition was organized by a precedent association, "Argentine Association Football League", dissolved at the end of the season.^[13]

[copaarg-18] The Copa Argentina was re-launched in 2011.^[14]

[superc-19] Contested by the champions of the Argentine Primera División and Copa Argentina

[ramirez-20] Also known as "Campeonato de la República", it received the name "Copa General de División Pedro Pablo Ramírez", due to the trophy had been donated by de facto President of Argentina, Pedro P. Ramírez

[suecia-21] Held once to keep league teams in readiness while the 1958 FIFA World Cup was being played

[cent-23] Held once to celebrate the 100th. anniversary of the Association ^[15]

[superf-26] Once Inicial and Final tournaments have finished, both winners have to play a match named Superfinal. The association had determined that the first edition (played in 2013) would be considered as a Primera División official title (2012-13 season), therefore Vélez Sársfield awarded its 10th. official championship after defeating Newell's.^[16] Nevertheless, from the 2014 edition it was determined that the Superfinal would not be considered as a Primera División title but an official cup.^[17]

[interv-27] ⁱ^j Interventor

[dir-28] Director

[expell-29] Expelled by the Argentine military dictatorship

[laf-32] When football became professional in Argentina, the teams that wanted to remain amateur formed this league that organized its own tournaments from 1931 to 1934, when it merged with the professional body, being all of its teams relegated to second division.^[19]

[orig-1] "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Retrieved 4 March 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

[2] "La historia de una casa poderosa", Clarín, 21 Feb 2003

[3] "Campeones del Bicentenario", La Nación, 2010-5-18

[4] Diario Ole - "Bodas de Brillante"^{[permanent dead link]}

[5] Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina, by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) -
ISBN 9504343848

[6] "Escándalo: la elección en la AFA salió empatada por un error y ahora Segura y Tinelli analizan unirse", La Nación, 3 Dec 2015

[7] "Historia de un papelón: con 75 asambleístas hubo 76 votos", Clarín, 3 Dec 2015

[8] "FIFA to oversee Argentinean FA after FIFA Council member charged - Sports Integrity Initiative". 27 June 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[9] "Ousted Argentine Football Association President attacks FIFA for taking over crisis-hit organisation". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[10] "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[13] "SITIO OFICIAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[argcup-14] "Argentina - Domestic Cup History". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[15] "Argentina 1891". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[17] "En medio de las polémicas, Grondona lanzó la Copa Argentina" on Notio.com.ar 19 May 2011

[22] AFA Centenary Cup on RSSSF

[firstsuper-24] "Vélez venció a Newell's y es el Supercampeón", Clarín, 29 Dec 2013

[25] "La AFA homologó la final de River como una copa nacional", Cancha Llena, 28 May 2014

[30] Claudio Chiqui Tapia fue electo presidente casi sin oposición y comienza una nueva era, Clarín, 29 Mar 2017

[31] "Argentina 1934 (amateur)". Retrieved 4 March 2017.

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