Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires

Copa de Honor
Municipalidad de Buenos Aires

The trophy awarded to champions
Organising body	AFA
Founded	1905
Abolished	1920;105 years ago (1920)
Region	Argentina
Number of teams	18 (last edition) [1]
Qualifier for	Copa de Honor Cousenier
Related competitions	Copa de Honor (Uru)
Last champions	Banfield (1920)
Most successful club(s)	Racing (4 titles)

The Copa de Honor Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (MCBA), known as Buenos Aires Municipality Honour Cup, was an Argentine official football cup competition. It was contested fourteen times between 1905 and 1920.

Racing is the most winning team of the competition, with 4 titles.

Overview

This cup was played by teams from Buenos Aires and Rosario (which belonged to Liga Rosarina de Football). The champion of this tournament qualified to play the Copa de Honor Cousenier versus the winner of Uruguayan Copa de Honor representing the Association of that country. ^[2]

In 1936, a new "Copa de Honor" was played under a regular Primera División season, with 18 teams playing a single-round tournament. San Lorenzo finished 1st and was awarded the cup. ^[1] In July 2013, the Argentine Football Association recognized the 1936 edition as a Primera División honour awarded to the club. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

List of champions

Finals

The following list includes all the editions of the Copa de Honor: ^[6]

Ed.	Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Venue	City
1	1905	Alumni (1)	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Quilmes	Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
2	1906	Alumni (2)	3–1	Estudiantes (BA)	Belgrano A.C.	Buenos Aires
3	1907	Belgrano AC (1)	3–1	Quilmes	Quilmes A.C.	Quilmes
4	1908	Quilmes (1)	2–1	Porteño	Quilmes A.C.	Quilmes
5	1909	San Isidro (1)	8–1	Estudiantes (BA)	GEBA	Buenos Aires
6	1910	(abandoned on quarter-finals) [n 1]
7	1911	Newell's Old Boys (1)	3–2	Porteño	River Plate [n 2]	Buenos Aires
8	1912	Racing (1)	3–0	Newell's Old Boys	Racing	Avellaneda
9	1913	Racing (2)	5–1	Estudiantes (BA)	Ferro C. Oeste	Buenos Aires
10	1915	Racing (3)	2–1	Tiro Federal	Racing	Avellaneda
11	1916	Rosario Central (1)	1–0	Independiente	Racing	Avellaneda
12	1917	Racing (4)	3–1 (a.e.t.)	River Plate	Independiente	Avellaneda
13	1918	Independiente (1)	1–0	Platense	GEBA	Buenos Aires
14	1920	Banfield (1)	2–1	Boca Juniors	Sportivo Barracas	Buenos Aires

Notes

1. Team qualified for semifinals were Estudiantes (BA), Gimnasia y Egrima (BA), Tiro Federal, and River Plate.
2. Dársena Sud field.

Titles by team

Rank	Team	Titles	Years won
1	Racing	4	1912, 1913, 1915, 1917
2	Alumni	2	1905, 1906
3	Belgrano A.C.	1	1907
	Quilmes	1	1908
	San Isidro	1	1909
	Newell's Old Boys	1	1911
	Rosario Central	1	1916
	Independiente	1	1918
	Banfield	1	1920

Topscorers by season

Source: ^[7]

Year	Player	Goals	Club
1905	Arthur Wells	5	Quilmes
1906	Alfredo Brown	5	Alumni
1907	Charles Whaley	6	Belgrano AC
1908	Juan Rossi	6	San Isidro
	Henry Cunningham		Quilmes
1909	Maximiliano Susan	6	Estudiantes (BA)
1910	Eduardo Rothschild	3	Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)
	Thomas Hughes		Quilmes
	Juan O. Gil		San Isidro
1911	Antonio Márquez	4	Porteño
1912	Alberto Ohaco	6	Racing
	Alberto Marcovecchio
1913	Alberto Marcovecchio	7	Racing
1915	Carlos Guidi	7	Tiro Federal
1916	Ennis Hayes	7	Rosario Central
1917	Alberto Marcovecchio	11	Racing
1918	Gualberto Galeano	4	Independiente
	Atilio Badalani		Newell's Old Boys
1920	Pedro Calomino	5	Boca Juniors

See also

• Copa de Honor Cousenier
• Copa de Honor (Uruguay)

References

1. Copa de Honor 1936 - RSSSF, updated 5 Dec 2002
2. Copa de Honor overview at RSSSF
3. "La AFA le dio un campeonato a River y a San Lorenzo y se desató la polémica", Cancha Llena, 5 Jul 2013
4. Polémica: AFA oficializó títulos de River y San Lorenzo de 1936, El Día, 6 Jul 2013
5. "Campeones de Primera División" at AFA website
6. Argentina Domestic Cups history - RSSSF
7. Argentina - List of Topscorers - Domestic Cups by Pablo Kersevan and Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF