Tie Cup

Tie Cup Competition

The trophy awarded to champions
Organiser(s)	AFA   AUF
Founded	1900
Abolished	1919;106 years ago (1919)
Region	Buenos Aires city Greater Buenos Aires
Related competitions	Copa Competencia (Arg) Copa Competencia (Uru)
Last champions	Boca Juniors (1919)
Most championships	Alumni (6 titles)

The Tie Cup Competition (also known as Copa de Competencia Chevallier Boutell) was an international football tournament played between representatives of the Argentina and Uruguay Associations. It was one of the earliest international football tournaments played between members of different national football associations, played on an annual basis until 1919. ^[1]

History

Francis Chevallier-Boutell donated the trophy

The competition was inspired by English FA Cup, ^[2] with its trophy donated by Francis Hepburn Chevallier-Boutell, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), in 1900.

Initially, the competition included a total of four teams, with two from AFA, one from AUF and one from Liga Rosarina. That format remained until 1907, when the cup was contested between one representative each from Argentina and Uruguay. The participants were determined via qualification cups (Argentine Copa de Competencia Jockey Club and Uruguayan Copa de Competencia).

The Tie Cup was played only by First Division teams until 1918 when the Argentine Association stated that clubs from División Intermedia (the second division by then) were added to the competition. ^[2]

Format

The final matches were always played in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Buenos Aires city and Greater Buenos Aires). From 1900 to 1908, the cup was played under a single-elimination tournament format, contested by clubs from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and Rosario (Argentina), and Montevideo (Uruguay).

From 1909 until the end of the competition, the Uruguayan representative was the winner of Copa de Competencia (Uruguay), while from 1913 to 1919, the Argentine representative was the winner of Copa de Competencia Jockey Club. ^[3]

List of champions

Finals

The following list includes all the editions of the Tie Cup Competition: ^[3]

Keys

• a.e.t.: result/match won after extra time
•   Second playoff result

Ed.	Year	Champion	Final score	Runner-up	Venue	City
1	1900	Belgrano AC (1)	2–0	Rosario AC	Flores Old Ground	Buenos Aires
2	1901	Alumni (1)	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Rosario AC	Lomas A.C.	Lomas de Zamora
3	1902	Rosario AC (1)	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Alumni	Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
			1–1 (a.e.t.) [n 1]		Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
			2–1 (a.e.t.) [n 2]		Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
4	1903	Alumni (2)	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Rosario AC	Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
5	1904	Rosario AC (2)	3–2 (a.e.t.)	CURCC [n 3]	Flores Old Ground	Buenos Aires
6	1905	Rosario AC (3)	4–3 (a.e.t.)	CURCC	Sociedad Sportiva	Buenos Aires
7	1906	Alumni (3)	10–1	Belgrano AC	Quilmes A.C.	Quilmes
8	1907	Alumni (4)	3–1	CURCC	Ferro C. Oeste	Buenos Aires
9	1908	Alumni (5)	4–0	Wanderers	Belgrano A.C.	Buenos Aires
10	1909	Alumni (6)	4–0	CURCC	GEBA	Buenos Aires
11	1910	(No champion crowned) [n 4]			GEBA	Buenos Aires
12	1911	Wanderers (1)	2–0	San Isidro	GEBA	Buenos Aires
13	1912	San Isidro (1)	1–0	Nacional	Racing Club	Avellaneda
14	1913	Nacional (1)	1–0	San Isidro	Racing Club	Avellaneda
15	1914	River Plate (1)	1–0	Bristol	Ferro C. Oeste	Buenos Aires
16	1915	Nacional (2)	2–0	Porteño	GEBA	Buenos Aires
17	1916	Peñarol (1)	3–0	Rosario Central	Racing Club	Avellaneda
18	1917	Wanderers (2)	4–0	Independiente	Racing Club	Avellaneda
19	1918	Wanderers (3)	2–1	Porteño	GEBA	Buenos Aires
20	1919	Boca Juniors (1)	2–0	Nacional	Sportivo Barracas	Buenos Aires

Notes

1. First playoff
2. Second playoff
3. The football division separated from the club, changing to Club Atlético Peñarol in 1913. Peñarol has been recognized by FIFA as the continuity of CURCC. ^{[4] [5]} Nevertheless, its main rival, Club Nacional de Football, alleged that CURCC and Peñarol were different clubs which coexisted until 1915, when CURCC was definitely dissolved.
4. Estudiantes (BA) and CURCC played the final that ended in a 2–2 tie. A second game should have to be played after that, but it never happened and the tournament was therefore abandoned without proclaiming a champion.

Titles by team

Rosario A.C., 1904 winner

Argentine club Alumni (posing with the cup among other trophies) is the most winning team with 6 titles

Montevideo Wanderers with the trophy in 1911

Team	Titles	Years won
Alumni	6	1901, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
Rosario AC	3	1902, 1904, 1905
Wanderers	3	1911, 1917, 1918
Nacional	2	1913, 1915
Belgrano AC	1	1900
San Isidro	1	1912
River Plate	1	1914
Peñarol	1	1916
Boca Juniors	1	1919

Titles by country

Country	Titles	Teams
Argentina	13	Belgrano AC, Alumni, Rosario AC, San Isidro, River Plate, Boca Juniors
Uruguay	6	Wanderers, Nacional, Peñarol

Topscorers

By year

Source: ^[6]

Year	Player	Goals	Club
1900	Spencer Leonard	3	Alumni
1901	Spencer Leonard	2	Alumni
	Juan J. Moore		Alumni
	Julian Parr		Rosario AC
	Alberto Le Bas		Rosario AC
1902	Jorge Brown	4	Alumni
	Julian Parr		Rosario AC
1903	Jorge Brown	5	Alumni
1904	Arthur Wells	4	Rosario AC
1904	M.O. Wells	4	Rosario AC
1906	Charles Whaley	13	Belgrano AC
1907	Eliseo Brown	10	Alumni
1908	Charles Whaley	5	Belgrano AC
1909	Maximiliano Susan	12	Estudiantes (BA)
1910	Manuel González	11	Newell's Old Boys
1911	Juan O. Gil	6	San Isidro
1912	Julio Fernández	5	San Isidro
1913	Alberto Marcovecchio	9	Racing
1914	Alberto Marcovecchio	5	Racing
1915	Martín Garat	5	Porteño
1916	Guillermo Dannaher	4	Columbian
1917	Domingo Brisotti	4	Banfield
	Jorge Calandra		Estudiantes (LP)
	Pascual Garré		Independiente
1918	Pascual Polimeni	5	Porteño
	Humberto Libonatti		Gimnasia y Esgrima (R)
1919	Alberto Marcovecchio	7	Racing
	Ennis Hayes		Rosario Central

See also

• Copa de Competencia Jockey Club
• Copa de Competencia (Uruguay)
• Francis Hepburn Chevallier-Boutell

References

1. Cup Tie Competition by José Carluccio at Historia y Fútbol website
2. Las finales de la Copa Competencia on ViejosEstadios website
3. Cup Tie Competition - detailed tournaments - RSSSF
4. "Felicita a Peñarol" at FIFA.com, 27 September 2011
5. "Club clásico: Peñarol" at FIFA.com
6. Argentina - List of Topscorers - Domestic Cups by Pablo Kersevan and Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF