1928 in Argentine football

1928 in Argentine football saw the Primera División league expanded to include 36 teams. They played in a single league with each team playing the other only once.

Huracán won its 4th. title in Primera.

Primera División

El Porvenir and Argentino de Banfield returned to the top division after their runs on Primera B while Liberal Argentino and Porteño were relegated.^[1]

Pos	Team	Pts	G	W	D	L	Gf	Ga	Gd
1	Huracán	58	35	28	2	5	73	29	+44
2	Boca Juniors	57	35	28	1	6	100	17	+83
3	Estudiantes (LP)	53	35	25	3	7	89	39	+50
4	Independiente	52	35	22	8	5	71	27	+44
5	Racing Club	49	35	23	3	9	77	38	+39
6	San Lorenzo	47	35	21	5	9	63	38	+25
7	River Plate	46	35	20	6	9	68	42	+26
8	Quilmes	43	35	18	7	10	72	45	+27
9	Tigre	43	35	18	7	10	55	48	+7
10	Ferro Carril Oeste	41	35	19	3	13	78	51	+27
11	Banfield	40	35	15	10	10	63	49	+14
12	Chacarita Juniors	39	35	16	7	12	63	46	+17
13	Lanús	37	35	15	7	13	64	46	+18
14	Argentinos Juniors	36	35	13	10	12	45	40	+5
15	Estudiantil Porteño	34	35	11	12	12	56	52	+4
16	Almagro	34	35	12	10	13	44	53	-9
17	San Fernando	33	35	12	9	14	55	56	-1
18	Talleres (RE)	33	35	13	7	15	40	44	-4
19	Sportivo Palermo	33	35	11	11	13	45	52	-7
20	Sportivo Barracas	32	35	12	8	15	42	47	-5
21	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	32	35	12	8	15	38	44	-6
22	Excursionistas	32	35	11	10	14	35	46	-11
23	El Porvenir	31	35	11	9	15	55	66	-11
24	Sportivo Buenos Aires	31	35	11	9	15	38	51	-13
25	Platense	29	35	10	9	16	40	50	-10
26	Argentino de Banfield	28	35	9	10	16	46	59	-13
27	Atlanta	27	35	11	5	19	36	60	-24
28	Estudiantes (BA)	27	35	11	5	19	37	62	-25
29	Barracas Central	27	35	9	9	17	42	74	-32
30	Argentino de Quilmes	26	35	10	6	19	58	68	-10
31	San Isidro	26	35	9	8	18	49	68	-19
32	Vélez Sarsfield	26	35	9	8	18	39	75	-36
33	Argentino del Sud ^[2]	25	35	9	7	19	34	59	-25
34	Liberal Argentino	21	35	7	7	21	29	71	-42
35	Defensores de Belgrano ^[2]	19	35	4	11	20	29	79	-50
36	Porteño	11	35	3	5	27	31	108	-77

Champion

Relegated

Lower Divisions

Argentina national team

The national team played the football tournament where finished 2nd. to Uruguay. Therefore Argentina was awarded the silver medal.

Argentina would later defeat Uruguay twice, winning the Copa Newton by 1-0 in Avellaneda and then the Copa Lipton after a 2-2 in Montevideo, where Argentina won the trophy as visiting team, according to tournament rules.

1928 Summer Olympics

Finals

June 10, 1928
16:00

Uruguay	1-1	Argentina
Petrone 23'	Report	Ferreira 50'

Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)

Attendance: 28.253

Referee: Johannes Mutters (NED)

June 13, 1928
19:00

Uruguay	2-1	Argentina
Figueroa 17' Scarone 73'	Report	Monti 28'

Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)

Attendance: 28.113

Referee: Johannes Mutters (NED)

Copa Newton

30 August 1928

Argentina	1-0	Uruguay
	Report

Avellaneda

Copa Lipton

21 September 1928

Argentina	2-2	Uruguay
	Report

Montevideo

References

↑ Argentina 1928 at RSSSF
1 2 The clubs founders of the Asociación Amateur would only relegate when they occupied for second time one of the last four positions.

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[1] Argentina 1928 at RSSSF

[relegated-2] 1 2 The clubs founders of the Asociación Amateur would only relegate when they occupied for second time one of the last four positions.