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. by José Carluccio at Historia y Fútbol website
History
The competition was inspired by English FA Cup,Las finales de la Copa Competencia on ViejosEstadios website 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.
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.
List of champions
Finals The following list includes all the editions of the Tie Cup Competition:Cup Tie Competition - detailed tournaments - RSSSF
YearChampion Final scoreRunner-up Venue City 1900 Belgrano AC Rosario AC Flores Old Ground Buenos Aires 1901 Alumni Rosario AC Lomas A.C. Lomas de Zamora 1902 Rosario AC Alumni Sociedad Sportiva Buenos Aires Sociedad Sportiva Buenos Aires Sociedad Sportiva Buenos Aires 1903 Alumni Rosario AC Sociedad Sportiva Buenos Aires 1904 Rosario AC CURCC Flores Old Ground Buenos Aires 1905 Rosario AC CURCC Sociedad Sportiva Buenos Aires 1906 Alumni Belgrano AC Quilmes A.C. Quilmes 1907 Alumni CURCC Ferro C. Oeste Buenos Aires 1908 Alumni Wanderers Belgrano A.C. Buenos Aires 1909 Alumni CURCC GEBA Buenos Aires 1910 GEBA Buenos Aires 1911 Wanderers San Isidro GEBA Buenos Aires 1912 San Isidro Nacional Racing Club Avellaneda 1913 Nacional San Isidro Racing Club Avellaneda 1914 River Plate Bristol Ferro C. Oeste Buenos Aires 1915 Nacional Porteño GEBA Buenos Aires 1916 Peñarol Rosario Central Racing Club Avellaneda 1917 Wanderers Independiente Racing Club Avellaneda 1918 Wanderers Porteño GEBA Buenos Aires 1919 Boca Juniors Nacional Sportivo Barracas Buenos Aires Notes
Titles by team
TeamTitlesYears won Alumni 1901, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 Rosario AC 1902, 1904, 1905 Wanderers 1911, 1917, 1918 Nacional 1913, 1915 Belgrano AC 1900 San Isidro 1912 River Plate 1914 Peñarol 1916 Boca Juniors 1919
Titles by country CountryTitlesTeams Argentina 13 Belgrano AC, Alumni, Rosario AC, San Isidro, River Plate, Boca Juniors Uruguay 6 Wanderers, Nacional, Peñarol
Topscorers By year Source: Argentina - List of Topscorers - Domestic Cups by Pablo Kersevan and Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF YearPlayerGoalsClub 1900 Spencer Leonard Alumni 1901 Spencer Leonard Alumni Juan J. Moore Alumni Julian Parr Rosario AC Alberto Le Bas Rosario AC 1902 Jorge Brown Alumni Julian Parr Rosario AC 1903 Jorge Brown Alumni 1904 Arthur Wells Rosario AC 1904 M.O. Wells Rosario AC 1906 Charles Whaley Belgrano AC 1907 Eliseo Brown Alumni 1908 Charles Whaley Belgrano AC 1909 Maximiliano Susan Estudiantes (BA) 1910 Manuel González Newell's Old Boys 1911 Juan O. Gil San Isidro 1912 Julio Fernández San Isidro 1913 Alberto Marcovecchio Racing 1914 Alberto Marcovecchio Racing 1915 Martín Garat Porteño 1916 Guillermo Dannaher Columbian 1917 Domingo Brisotti Banfield Jorge Calandra Estudiantes (LP) Pascual Garré Independiente 1918 Pascual Polimeni Porteño Humberto Libonatti Gimnasia y Esgrima (R) 1919 Alberto Marcovecchio Racing Ennis Hayes Rosario Central
See also Copa de Competencia Jockey Club Copa de Competencia (Uruguay) Francis Hepburn Chevallier-Boutell
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