Argentina 1897

Championship


Final Table:

1. Lomas Athletic Club               12   9  2  1  55:  9  20 (championship playoff)
2. Lanús Athletic Club               12  10  0  2  39:  8  20 (championship playoff)
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3. Belgrano Athletic Club            12   9  1  2  47: 15  19
4. Flores Athletic Club              12   6  1  5  44: 22  13
5. Palermo Athletic Club             12   4  0  8  11: 50   8
6. Belgrano "B"                      12   1  1 10  10: 56   3
7. Banfield Athletic Club            12   0  1 11   6: 52   1

[May 2]
Flores Athletic Club    3: 4 Belgrano Athletic Club

[May 9]
Banfield Athletic Club  0: 6 Lomas Athletic Club
Belgrano "B"            0: 8 Flores Athletic Club

[May 16]
Belgrano Athletic Club  3: 2 Lanús Athletic Club
Flores Athletic Club   11: 0 Palermo Athletic Club
Lomas Athletic Club    10: 0 Belgrano "B"

[May 25]
Banfield Athletic Club  1: 8 Lanús Athletic Club
Belgrano Athletic Club  1: 1 Lomas Athletic Club

[May 27]
Belgrano Athletic Club  5: 1 Belgrano "B"
Lomas Athletic Club     2: 2 Flores Athletic Club

[May 30]
Flores Athletic Club    0: 4 Lanús Athletic Club
Palermo Athletic Club   0: 6 Lomas Athletic Club     [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Jun 6]
Banfield Athletic Club  1: 9 Flores Athletic Club
Belgrano Athletic Club 14: 0 Palermo Athletic Club

[Jun 13]
Belgrano "B"            1: 1 Banfield Athletic Club

[Jun 17]
Banfield Athletic Club  0: 6 Belgrano Athletic Club
Lanús Athletic Club     1: 3 Lomas Athletic Club     [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Jun 24]
Lomas Athletic Club     3: 1 Belgrano Athletic Club
Palermo Athletic Club   2: 1 Belgrano "B"

[Jun 27]
Banfield Athletic Club  1: 2 Palermo Athletic Club
Lanús Athletic Club     8: 0 Belgrano "B"

[Jun 29]
Belgrano Athletic Club  5: 1 Flores Athletic Club
Lomas Athletic Club     7: 1 Palermo Athletic Club

[Jul 4]
Flores Athletic Club    2: 0 Banfield Athletic Club
Palermo Athletic Club   0: 2 Lanús Athletic Club     [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Jul 9]
Flores Athletic Club    1: 3 Lomas Athletic Club
Lanús Athletic Club     1: 0 Belgrano Athletic Club  [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Jul 11]
Banfield Athletic Club  1: 3 Belgrano "B"

[Jul 18]
Lomas Athletic Club     5: 0 Banfield Athletic Club
Belgrano "B"            0: 2 Lanús Athletic Club

[Jul 25]
Lanús Athletic Club     2: 1 Flores Athletic Club    [at Lomas Athletic Club]
Palermo Athletic Club   0: 2 Belgrano Athletic Club

[Aug 1]
Lanús Athletic Club     2: 0 Palermo Athletic Club   [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Aug 8]
Belgrano Athletic Club  3: 1 Banfield Athletic Club
Palermo Athletic Club   1: 3 Flores Athletic Club    [at Lomas Athletic Club]

[Aug 15]
Lanús Athletic Club     6: 0 Banfield Athletic Club  [at Banfield Athletic Club]
Belgrano "B"            1: 4 Palermo Athletic Club

[Aug 22]
Palermo Athletic Club   1: 0 Banfield Athletic Club  [at Banfield Athletic Club]
Flores Athletic Club    3: 0 Belgrano "B"

[Aug 29]
Belgrano "B"            1: 9 Lomas Athletic Club

[Aug 30]
Lomas Athletic Club     0: 1 Lanús Athletic Club
Belgrano "B"            2: 3 Belgrano Athletic Club

Final Table:

1. Lomas Athletic Club               12   9  2  1  55:  9  20 (championship playoff)
2. Lanús Athletic Club               12  10  0  2  39:  8  20 (championship playoff)
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3. Belgrano Athletic Club            12   9  1  2  47: 15  19
4. Flores Athletic Club              12   6  1  5  44: 22  13
5. Palermo Athletic Club             12   4  0  8  11: 50   8
6. Belgrano "B"                      12   1  1 10  10: 56   3
7. Banfield Athletic Club            12   0  1 11   6: 52   1

Playoff
[Sep 8]
Lomas Athletic Club     1: 1 Lanús Athletic Club      [aet, lasted 90 + 30]

Second playoff
[Sep 12]
Lomas Athletic Club     0: 0 Lanús Athletic Club      [aet, lasted 60 + 30]

Third playoff
[Sep 19]
Lomas Athletic Club     1: 0 Lanús Athletic Club      [lasted 60]
   [Stirling]

Lomas Ahtletic Club won the championship in this date with the following line-ups:
Lomas Athletic Club: Percy Louis Grey Bridger, William Leslie, Joseph Edgar 
Wright, Lawrence Jacobs, Frederik Henry Jacobs, Arthur Anderson, George Mervyn 
Comber, Carlos Gibson, James Oswald Anderson (captain), William Newton Stirling,
Frank John Chevallier Boutell.
Lanús Athletic Club: Armando Coste, Thomas Bridge (captain), Walter Buchanan, 
Italo Nobili, A. A. Miller, W. Dunn, John Jame Bridge, Luis Nobili, Jorge Gibson
Brown, Héctor Munro, Charles Proby Cautley Comber.
Referee: Barrington Bloomfield Syer. Linesmen: Horace Botting, Robert Whall 
Rudd.
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list of champions.
list of cup finals.
list of final tables.
all-time tables.
list of 2nd level champions.
divisional movements.
topscorers.
About this document

Sources: Historia del Fútbol de AFA (Carlos F. Yametti), River Plate Sport and Pastime, The Standard.
Prepared and maintained by Osvaldo José Gorgazzi for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Osvaldo José Gorgazzi
Last updated: 10 Oct 2013