1906 in Argentine football

Football in Argentina

Season	1906
Primera División	Alumni
Segunda División	Estudiantes (BA) II
Tercera División	Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)
Copa de Honor	Alumni
← 1905 1907 →

1906 in Argentine football saw Alumni regaining the Argentine championship for the 6th time in seven seasons. The team also won the local Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires and internationals Tie Cup and Copa de Honor Cousenier, obtaining four titles within the same year.

San Isidro, Argentino de Quilmes and San Martín made their debuts in Primera.

Primera División

The 1906 championship was expanded to include 11 teams. The teams were split into two groups with each team playing the others in their group twice. The two group winners played in a championship decider.^[1]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pts	G	W	D	L	Gf	Ga	Gd
1	Lomas AC	15	10	7	1	2	23	14	+9
2	San Martín AC (San Martín)	12	10	5	2	3	17	9	+8
3	Estudiantes (BA)	12	10	6	0	4	22	19	+3
4	San Isidro	10	10	5	0	5	23	22	+1
5	Reformer	8	10	4	0	6	30	22	+8
6	Barracas AC [2]	1	10	1	1	8	8	37	-29

Group B

Pos	Team	Pts	G	W	D	L	Gf	Ga	Gd
1	Alumni	14	8	7	0	1	28	6	+22
2	Quilmes	12	8	6	0	2	26	13	+13
3	Belgrano AC	10	8	5	0	3	23	15	+8
4	Argentino de Quilmes	2	8	1	0	7	5	19	-14
5	Belgrano AC "B"	2	8	1	0	7	9	38	-29

Championship final

Alumni v Lomas AC

7 October 1906

Alumni	4-0	Lomas AC

Palermo

Lower divisions

Primera B

• Champion: Estudiantes (BA) II

Primera C

• Champion: Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)

Domestic cup

Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires

Champion: Alumni ^[3]

Final

Alumni v Estudiantes (BA)

9 September 1906

Alumni	3-1	Estudiantes (BA)

Belgrano

International cups

Tie Cup

• Champion: Alumni ^[4]

Final

Alumni v Belgrano AC

30 August 1906

Alumni	10-1	Belgrano AC
Eliseo Brown (5) Alfredo Brown (4) Ernesto Brown	Report	C. H. Wahley

Quilmes

Copa de Honor Cousenier

• Champions: Alumni

Finals

Alumni v Nacional

16 September 1906

Alumni	2-2	Nacional

Montevideo

Alumni v Nacional

14 October 1906

Alumni	3-1	Nacional
	Report

Montevideo

Argentina national team

Argentina national team won their first trophies, on 15 August 1906 they won 3-2 against Uruguay in Montevideo to win the 2nd edition of Copa Lipton, in October they defeated Uruguay again to win the inaugural Copa Newton.

Copa Lipton

Final

Argentina  v  Uruguay

15 August 1906

Argentina	2-0	Uruguay
Brown  28' Tristan Gozalez  85'	Report

Montevideo

Copa Newton

Final

Argentina  v  Uruguay

21 October 1906

Argentina	2-1	Uruguay
Hutton  26' Brown  80'	Report	Gilberto Peralta  87'

Buenos Aires

Friendly matches

Date	Venue/City	Rival	Score	Report
9 July 1906	Buenos Aires	South Africa Combined	0-1	[5]

References

1. Argentina 1906 by Osvaldo José Gorgazzi at RSSSF
2. Had 2 points deducted
3. 1906 Copa Municipalidad de Buenos Aires at RSSSF
4. 1906 Tie Cup at RSSSF
5. Other results of Argentina national team at RSSSF