Copa Campeonato

For the international club competition, see Copa Campeonato del Río de la Plata.
Copa Campeonato
The trophy awarded to champions
Organiser(s)AFA
Founded2013
Abolished2014 (2014)
RegionArgentina
Teams2
Related competitionsPrimera División
Last championsRiver Plate (2014)
Broadcaster(s)TV Pública
Canal 26 (UHF and Pay TV)

The Copa Campeonato Primera División (familiarly known as Superfinal) was an official Argentine football cup competition organized by the Argentine Football Association. It was played in a single match format between the Torneo Inicial and Torneo Final champions.

History

Originally awarded to Primera División champions, the Copa Campeonato is the oldest thropy in Argentine football, having been awarded for the first time in 1896,[1] three years after the Argentine Football Association was established.[2] It received several names over time, such as "Championship Cup", "Copa Campeonato", "Challenge Cup" and "Copa Alumni",[3] due to the association offered legendary team Alumni to keep the Cup definitely for having won it three consecutive times (1900–02), but the club from Belgrano declined the honour to keep the trophy under dispute.[1][4] Despite this, the competition continued to be played without interruption until 1926.[5]

It was eventually brought back in June 2013, after the Argentine Football Association decided to establish a new format for the 2012–13 Primera División, which would pair the first-placed teams of the two league tournaments held during the Argentine season, the Torneo Inicial and Torneo Final, in a decisive match to determine the season's champion.[6] This format replicated that of the 1990–91 Primera División.[7] However, the Argentine governing body later recanted this arrangement, proceeding to grant three league honours as they followed on the decision to also recognize the two separate tournaments as official championships.[8] Thus, the winner of the Copa Campeonato would not only obtain two league titles during their campaign, but would also qualify to the following season's Supercopa Argentina, and the two continental competitions, the Copa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores.[9] The first edition was carried out and Vélez Sársfield achieved its 10th league championship after defeating Newell's Old Boys.[10][11]

The Argentine Football Association would once again change the format for the 2013–14 season, stating that the winner of that season's Copa Campeonato would not earn a Primera División honour.[12] This was due to backlash caused after the regulations for the previous season, which gave way to claims from San Lorenzo and River Plate regarding their merits yielded during the 1936 Argentine Primera División, which was contested similarly to the newly adopted league format.[13] The governing body concurred to those petitions as well, and recognized two more championships from the 1936 season, one to each team.[14]

Due to the 2015 and 2016 seasons were played as single tournaments with only one champion per season, the Copa Campeonato has not held since then.

Champions

Ed. Year Champion Score Runner-up Venue City
1 2013 Vélez Sarsfield [a]
1–0
 Newell's Old Boys Malvinas Argentinas Mendoza
2 2014 River Plate [b]
1–0
 San Lorenzo Juan G. Funes La Punta

Titles by team

Rank Team Titles Years won
1
 Vélez Sarsfield 1 2013
River Plate 1 2014

Notes

  1. ^ Considered as a Primera División title.[10]
  2. ^ Since this edition the Superfinal was homologated as a domestic cup, not counting as a Primera División title.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ a b "El trofeo más añejo del fútbol argentino" Archived 2016-09-15 at the Wayback Machine on Copa Argentina website, 26 Jun 2013
  2. ^ Orígenes: El fútbol, una pasión argentina on AFA website (Archive, 30 Nov 2014)
  3. ^ "Presentaron Superfinal Vélez-Newell's" Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine on ESPN
  4. ^ "Una Copa con mucha historia", Diario Uno Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, 27 Jun 2013
  5. ^ "Memoria y Balance 1935 - Argentine Football Association Library". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  6. ^ "REGLAMENTO DEL CAMPEONATO DE PRIMERA DIVISION 2012/2013" (PDF), afa.com.ar, retrieved 2026-01-14
  7. ^ "Argentina 1990/91". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  8. ^ Rebossio, Alejandro (2013-07-06). "Argentina reparte tres títulos de Liga". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  9. ^ en, Seguir (2017-11-19). "Todo lo que hay que conocer sobre la Superfinal que Vélez y Newell's jugarán en Cuyo". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  10. ^ a b "Súper campeón: Vélez venció a Newell's y sumó un nuevo título oficial" on CanchaLlena.com Archived 2015-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, 29 Jun 2013
  11. ^ "Vélez venció a Newell's y es el Supercampeón" Archived 2014-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, Clarín, 29 Jun 2013
  12. ^ en, Seguir (2017-11-19). "¿La misma historia? El 'nuevo' reglamento no admite como un título la Súper Final". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  13. ^ "Otro papelón de la AFA: la Superfinal ya no valdrá como un título". Todo Noticias (in Spanish). 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  14. ^ "Argentina - List of Champions and Runners-Up". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  15. ^ ""La AFA homologó la Superfinal de River como una Copa Nacional" on CanchaLlena.com". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
  16. ^ "Campeones de Copas Nacionales on AFA website". Archived from the original on 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
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