Copa de Competencia Jockey Club

The Copa de Competencia Jockey Club was an official Argentine football cup competition contested between 1907 and 1933.^[2] The winner of this Cup was allowed to play the Tie Cup against the Uruguayan champion of Copa de Competencia.

Copa de Competencia
Jockey Club

The trophy awarded to champions
Organising body	AFA
Founded	1907
Abolished	1933; 92 years ago (1933)
Region	Argentina
Number of teams	20 (last edition) [1]
Qualifier for	Tie Cup
Related competitions	Copa de Competencia (Uruguay)
Last champions	Nueva Chicago (1933)
Most successful club(s)	Alumni and San Isidro (3 titles each)

Alumni and San Isidro are the most winning teams of the competition, with 3 titles each.

History

Jockey Club building in Buenos Aires, c. 1899

The Copa de Competencia Jockey Club was first awarded in 1907, being Alumni its first winner. Teams affiliated to the Argentine Football Association and Liga Rosarina de Football were allowed to enter this competition. Rosarian teams participated until the 1919 edition. From the 1921 edition, only teams from the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata took part of the competition.^[3]

After the final edition of the Tie Cup in 1919, the Copa de Competencia Jockey Club was played on four more occasions in 1921, 1925, 1931 and 1936. It was contested on a total of 17 occasions and the most successful teams were Alumni and San Isidro with three titles each.^[4]

The trophy was donated by the Jockey Club, an exclusive social club created in 1882 by lawyer and senator Carlos Pellegrini^[5] (who later would become President of Argentina) to gather the most important and prominent men of Argentina's high society.^[6]

List of champions

Finals

The following list includes all the editions of the Copa de Competencia:

Keys

• aet: after extra time
•   Final defined in a playoff match.

Ed.	Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Venue	City
1	1907	Alumni (1)	4–2	Belgrano A.C.	Belgrano A.C.	Buenos Aires
2	1908	Alumni (2)	5–0	Argentino (Q)	Belgrano A.C.	Buenos Aires
3	1909	Alumni (3)	5–1	Newell's Old Boys	Banco Nación [n 1]	Buenos Aires
4	1910	Estudiantes (BA) (1)	3–1	Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)	Palermo [n 2]	Buenos Aires
5	1911	San Isidro (1)	4–2	Estudiantes (BA)	C.A. San Isidro	San Isidro
6	1912	San Isidro (2)	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Quilmes	C.A. San Isidro	San Isidro
			2–1		Quilmes A.C.	Quilmes
7	1913	San Isidro (3)	2–0	Racing	Racing	Avellaneda
8	1914	River Plate (1)	4–0	Newell's Old Boys	Racing	Avellaneda
9	1915	Porteño (1)	2–1	Racing	Porteño [n 3]	Buenos Aires
10	1916	Rosario Central (1)	2–1	Independiente	Racing	Avellaneda
11	1917	Independiente (1)	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Estudiantes (LP)	GEBA	Buenos Aires
12	1918	Porteño (2)	2–1	River Plate	Porteño [n 3]	Buenos Aires
13	1919	Boca Juniors (1)	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Rosario Central	GEBA	Buenos Aires
14	1921	Sportivo Barracas (1)	2–1	Nueva Chicago	Del Plata [n 4]	Buenos Aires
15	1925	Boca Juniors (2)	1–1 [n 5]	Argentinos Juniors	Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires
			1–0		Boca Juniors	Buenos Aires
16	1931	Sportivo Balcarce (1)	1–1 [n 6]	Almagro	All Boys	Buenos Aires
			4–1 [n 7]		Excursionistas	Buenos Aires
17	1933	Nueva Chicago (1)	1–0	Banfield	Almagro [n 8]	Buenos Aires

Notes

1. Alumni played their home venues in that field, located in the Colegiales district of Buenos Aires.^[7]
2. As there were several fields in Palermo by those times, it is unclear if the match was held in Gimnasia y Esgrima, Estudiantes, or Sociedad Sportiva
3. It has its field in Palermo
4. The club has its field in Barracas
5. Extra time not played because of the negative of both captains.^[8]
6. Suspended at 80' because of struggling.
7. Players of Almagro abandoned the field at 72'.
8. Almagro had its field in Parque Chas from 1927 to 1937, when the club was evicted by the Municipality of Buenos Aires.^[9]

Titles by team

Team	Titles	Years won
Alumni	3	1907, 1908, 1909
San Isidro	3	1911, 1912, 1913
Porteño	2	1915, 1918
Boca Juniors	2	1919, 1925
Estudiantes (BA)	1	1910
River Plate	1	1914
Rosario Central	1	1916
Independiente	1	1917
Sportivo Barracas	1	1921
Sportivo Balcarce	1	1931
Nueva Chicago	1	1933

See also

• Copa de Competencia (Uruguay)
• Tie Cup

References

1. Copa de Competencia Jockey Club 1933 - RSSSF
2. Campeones de Copas nacionales on AFA website
3. La vieja Copa Jockey Club, 8 Mar 2019
4. Copa de Competencia Jockey Club (see section 2.1) by Osvaldo Gorgazzi on the RSSSF (archived, 17 Apr 2010)
5. History - Founding of the Club. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
6. La aristocrática historia del Jockey Club, el lugar de la elite porteña donde las mujeres no podían ser socias by Adrián Pignatelli on Infobae, 1 Jul 2022
7. C.A. San Isidro on Viejos Estadios
8. Boca Juniors en Copa Competencia 1925 on Historia de Boca
9. La infancia del fútbol argentino tuvo varios hogares en la Comuna 12, Periódico El Barrio, 29 May 2020