Soccer in Buenos Aires
The football in Buenos Aires has significantly to the development of football in Argentina contributed. The "five big football teams" in Argentina are all based in Buenos Aires ( River Plate , Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo ) or in the suburb of Avellaneda ( Racing Club and Independiente ) in the greater Buenos Aires area bordering the city . With a total of 20 successes in the 56 Copa Libertadores (up to and including 2015), the greater Buenos Aires area is also by far the most successful city in South America. Also in the football world cup , which was held 43 times between 1960 and 2004 , the clubs from Buenos Aires brought more titles to the Argentine capital than any other city with a total of eight successes. Their success rate in the old world cup is almost twenty percent, and in the Copa Libertadores even a good 35 percent. In this respect, it is entirely justified to call Buenos Aires the “world capital of football”.
The beginnings of football in Buenos Aires
When the Argentine soccer championship was held for the first time in 1891 , four of the six participating teams came from Gran Buenos Aires . The first winner of the oldest football league outside of Great Britain was the school team of St. Andrew's Scots School, located in the Tigre Partido of the greater Buenos Aires area . The masters for the next few years each came from the Partido Lomas de Zamora in Gran Buenos Aires; the five-time winner Lomas Athletic Club had also emerged from a former school team and the 1896 champion, Lomas Academy, also represented an educational institution.
1899 won with in Belgrano -based Belgrano Athletic Club for the first time a club from the city of Buenos Aires , the football championship. The club from the district in the north of the Argentine capital, which has also been home to the Estadio Monumental , home of record champions River Plate and the Argentine national team , since 1938 , was later twice more successful in 1904 and 1908. The other ten championship titles between 1900 and 1911 went to the Alumni Athletic Club, which emerged from a student team . Their origins can be found in the Buenos Aires English High School, also located in Belgrano . In 1912, the Quilmes Athletic Club , a team still represented in professional football today, was successful for the first time, before one of the country's later "five great teams" won a championship title in 1913, the Racing Club .
Records and rivalries
With 36 titles, River Plate is the Argentine record champion , followed by its arch-rival Boca Juniors with 34 titles (as of 2019/2020), who in turn is one of the record winners in the now defunct World Cup for club teams . Their Superclásico divides the country, because supposedly around 72 percent of Argentine football fans support one of these two clubs (40 percent for Boca and 32 percent for River Plate). Originally both clubs were based in the La Boca port district , but later River Plate left the neglected district on the southern outskirts and settled in the upscale north of the Argentine capital. At that time, the club began to spend large sums of money on player purchases and thus earned the nickname "Los Millonarios" in every respect.
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The rival clubs from Avellaneda rank behind on the success scale ; a suburb of Buenos Aires, which is immediately south of La Boca. The Racing Club won 18 championships and its competitor Independiente was successful 16 times. Independiente was also the first club to bring the Copa Libertadores to Argentina in 1964 and, with seven successes, is the record winner in the most prestigious competition among South American club teams. The Racing Club was the first Argentine club to win the World Cup in 1967.
The fifth major club is CA San Lorenzo , which was able to record 15 championship titles and was the first club to win the Copa Sudamericana introduced in 2002 . His argument with the five-time champion Huracán is considered the third most important derby in Gran Buenos Aires , because the two clubs reside in the neighboring districts of Boedo and Parque Patricios . Another traditional derby is the match between Vélez Sársfield and Ferro Carril Oeste .
The oldest derby in Argentina takes place in Quilmes , although the last official meeting was held in 1981 because of the different league affiliations of the two clubs. Quilmes AC , which is much more successful today , was founded by British immigrants in 1887 and remained closed to the locals. Therefore, students of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires founded their own club in 1899, which never made it into the first division. Nevertheless, the derby was always fiercely contested and the derby balance is relatively even: Argentino won 18 out of 54 matches and the Quilmes AC 24 won. The remaining 12 games ended in a draw.
Further information on the main clubs from the Buenos Aires area in professional football, introduced in 1931, can be found in the table below.
Overview of the most important clubs in the Buenos Aires region
The following table contains the most important associations in the city of Buenos Aires as well as those from its immediate suburbs and suburbs belonging to the greater Buenos Aires area . Clubs that were only successful during the amateur era (before 1931), such as the ten-time Master Alumni AC , which was dissolved in 1913 , are not included in the table.
The respective club is specified in the first column, whereby the order of their sorting is determined by the geographical location. First, the clubs from the city included in the table are listed and their order follows the geographic course from north to south and from west to east. Then the clubs from the suburbs included in the table are named and their order is also determined from north to west to south (in the east is the Río de la Plata ) and thus follows roughly counterclockwise.
In the second column, the respective club's headquarters are named, although the location of the stadium can be different, for example in the case of River Plate (club headquarters is Núñez , the stadium is in neighboring Belgrano ) and the Chacarita Juniors (club headquarters is the quarter Chacarita in the city of Buenos Aires, while the stadium is in the suburb of Villa Maipú in the greater Buenos Aires area).
The third column shows the year the club was founded, the fourth column shows the most important successes (if any) and the fifth column shows the main rival .
Web links
- Todos los Clásicos del Fútbol Argentino (Spanish; accessed July 11, 2016)
- Final Tables Argentina since 1891 at RSSSF (English)
- Ecstasy and shock - The football capital Buenos Aires ( WDR documentary )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buenos Aires - The world capital of football (presentation of the book of the same name by Reinaldo Coddou H.)
- ↑ Thomas Badtke ( n-tv ): World capital of football: Buenos Aires - a unique portrait (article from November 16, 2010)
- ↑ Alejandro Rebossio ( El País ): Buenos Aires, la ciudad con más campos de fútbol del mundo (Spanish; article from August 17, 2015)
- ↑ Rodrígo Calvo ( La Nación ): Buenos Aires, la capital del futbol mundial (Spanish; article of July 24, 2011)
- ↑ Tim Pears ( The Observer ): Salvation Army (English; article in The Guardian of June 4, 2006)
- ↑ Boca es el 5º equipo con mas hinchas en el mundo (Spanish; accessed July 12, 2016)
- ↑ Omar Gisler: Football Derbies - The 75 Most Football Crazy Cities in the World . Copress, Munich 2007, p. 54, ISBN 978-3-7679-0883-3