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FOOTBALL ARGENTINA: THE CLASSIC TEAMS & FAMOUS RIVALRIES

06-29-2022

Argentina’s First Division Super League are the best teams in the Argentine football.
In 1893 Argentina was the first country, aside from the United Kingdom, to establish a national football league. It has continued uninterrupted since.
Argentina’s First Division Championship is considered one of the best in the world of football, so it’s a surprise to learn that the first organized game took place at Buenos Aires Cricket club in 1867.
In 1931, 18 broke off from the amateur league to form the country’s first professional league.
Today, Argentina’s First Division league has 26 teams competing. The league operates with a system of relegation and promotion with the Primera Nacional, (Second Division clubs), which has 35 teams competing.
Relegation of football teams down to the second division and promotions to the Primera Division are calculated on a system of averages over a three year period.

‘The Big Five’ are Argentina’s most popular football teams.
All these teams — Boca, River, Independiente, Racing and San Lorenzo are based in Buenos Aires, but have fans around the country.
Boca Juniors and River Plate are the two most popular teams.

Boca Juniors is the favorite team, both in Buenos Aires and country-wide, with 39% of the country’s rabid football fans supporting them.
Second in popularity are River Plate with 28% of the country’s supporters. Independiente has 6% of fans, San Lorenzo 5%, and Racing 3% according to a Gallop poll.
If you come to see football in Argentina, you must pick a team, but be careful, once you pick a team you can’t change your mind!
Based in the poor, but colorful neighborhood of La Boca, the team inspires a multitude of fanatical supporters.
While Boca Jrs. has never been relegated from Division A, fans place more importance on guts and commitment from their players than displays of pretty football.
Boca Jrs was the first team to win the new Super League trophy.
For their fans, Boca Juniors is not just a football club, it’s a way of life.
The Yin to Boca’s Yang, River Plate’s mythical white shirt with its diagonal red stripe incites just as much passion amongst supporters as the blue and yellow of their rivals.
Regarded by some as the greatest of all South American teams because of their trophy-laden history, River Plate pride themselves on their attractive, attacking style of football above all else.
They experienced the shame of being relegated to Division B in 2011 but have since bounced back, winning the Copa and Supercopa Argentina in 2017.
Traditionally, fans come from the middle and upper classes, but you’ll find River supporters in all walks of life.
A club that was previously known as ‘The King of the Cups‘ (until Boca overtook their number of international trophies), Independiente has a glorious past, and a present that can best be described as mediocre.
Independiente fans are notoriously demanding —they not only expect success on the pitch, they want beautiful football as well. These days, unfortunately, they more often than not go home disappointed.

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