Not only the A.V.B. organised football competitions on Aruba; in particular in the forties and fifties there was a lot of football activity around the oil refinery at Lago.
Season Champions Runners-Up
1930/31 Lago
1932-33 not held
1933/34 abandoned
1934/35 Hollandia [*1] Aruba Juniors
1935-37 not held
1938 R.C.A.
1939 R.C.A.
1940 R.C.A.
1941 R.C.A.
1942 R.C.A.
1943 Hollandia R.C.A.
1944 not known [*2]
1945 R.C.A.
1946 R.C.A.
1947 R.C.A. Aruba Juniors
1948 R.C.A.
1949 Aruba Juniors R.C.A.
1950 R.C.A. Hollandia
1951 R.C.A. Aruba Juniors
1952/53 R.C.A. Aruba Juniors
1953/54 Aruba Juniors R.C.A.
1954 R.C.A. Trappers
1955/56 Aruba Juniors R.C.A.
1956 R.C.A. San Nicolas Juniors
1957 R.C.A. Aruba Juniors
1958 Aruba Juniors Dakota
1959 R.C.A. Aruba Juniors
1960 R.C.A. Estrella
1961 Dakota Estrella
1962/63 Dakota R.C.A.
1963/64 Dakota R.C.A.
1964/65 R.C.A. Tropical
1965/66 Dakota Estrella
1966/67 Dakota Bubali
1967/68 R.C.A. Estrella
1968/69 Estrella R.C.A.
1969/70 Dakota Estrella
1970/71 Dakota Estrella
1971/72 Dakota Estrella
1973 Estrella S.C.A.
1974 Dakota Estrella
1975 Bubali 2-0 0-0 S.C.A.
1976 Dakota Estrella
1977 Estrella 0-0 2-1 R.C.A.
1978 R.C.A. 2-1 2-0 Estrella
1979 R.C.A. Dakota
1980 Dakota R.C.A.
1981 Dakota Estrella
1982 Dakota R.C.A.
1983 Dakota w/o 1-1 R.C.A.
1984 San Luis Deportivo 1-0 Dakota
1985 Estrella 3-0 1-2 1-0 abd Dakota
Championship after Status Aparte
1986 R.C.A. 2-2 2-1 Bubali
1987 R.C.A. 2-1 0-0 Estrella
1988 Estrella 0-0 2-0 Dakota
1989 Estrella not defined
1990 Estrella 3-1 3-0 Jong San Nicolas
1990 R.C.A. [*3] La Fama
1991 R.C.A. Dakota
1992 Estrella R.C.A.
1993 Riverplate 2-2 1-1 3-2 R.C.A.
1994 R.C.A. 2-2 2-1 Nacional
1995 Dakota Estrella
1996 Estrella R.C.A.
1997 Riverplate R.C.A.
1998 Estrella 2-1 Dakota
1999 Estrella 2-1 Nacional
2000 Nacional 1-1 1-1 1-0 Dakota
2001 Nacional 3-1 1-0 R.C.A.
2002 R.C.A. Nacional
2003/04 Nacional 1-0 2-1 Estrella
2004/05 Britannia 2-1 1-0 R.C.A.
2005/06 Estrella 1-0 1-4 2-1 Britannia
2006/07 Nacional 1-0 0-4 1-0 R.C.A.
2007/08 R.C.A. 2-1 2-1 Britannia
2008/09 Britannia 1-0 0-1 1-0 La Fama
2009/10 Britannia 0-1 2-0 2-0 Estrella
2010/11 R.C.A. 1-0 0-1 1-0 Nacional
2011/12 R.C.A. 1-1 4-2 La Fama
2012/13 La Fama 1-2 3-1 1-1 2-0 Britannia
2013/14 Britannia 2-1 1-2 1-1 [4-3p] R.C.A.
2014/15 R.C.A. 2-2 3-0 Estrella
2015/16 R.C.A. 1-0 1-0 Dakota
2016/17 Nacional 3-1 2-6 3-1 R.C.A.
2017/18 Dakota 0-0 4-2 Nacional
2018/19 R.C.A. 1-3 1-0 1-0 Nacional
2019/20 abandoned
2020/21 not held [*4]
2021/22 Dakota 4-2 2-2 R.C.A.
2022/23 R.C.A. 2-1 Dakota
2023/24 Britannia 1-1 [5-4p] Dakota
2024/25
[*1] an article in the Curaçao newspaper Amigoe of 8 Feb 1944 stated
that Eagle won the Rodger Shield in 1934 but that club does not
appear in the football reports in El Despertador in 1934.
[*2] the 1944 championship was won by either Aruba Juniors or Hollandia.
[*3] dissident semi-professional league (LIPROF) contested by five clubs
(R.C.A., La Fama, Bubali, Dakota and San Luis Deportivo) who had
left the A.V.B. Eredivisie out of protest against apparently
preferential treatment of Estrella in the 1989 season.
[*4] in 2021 the Torneo AVB 2021 was held to replace the league; it was
won by Nacional but does not count as an official championship.
NB: up to and including 1985, the top-2 clubs from Aruba entered the Kopa Antiano for
the championship of the Dutch Antilles;
up to and including 1974, the title was decided in a regular league season;
from 1975 onwards the champions are determined through playoffs (in varying formats).
Number of Wins (overall) (85, 1 unknown)
33 SV R.C.A. (Solito, Oranjestad) [does not include LIPROF title 1990]
17 SV Dakota (Dakota, Oranjestad)
12 SV Estrella (Papilon, Santa Cruz)
5 SV Britannia (Piedra Plat, Paradera)
SV Deportivo Nacional (Palm Beach, Noord)
4 Aruba Juniors (Oranjestad)
2 Hollandia (Oranjestad)
SV Riverplate (Madiki, Oranjestad)
1 SV Bubali (Bubali, Noord)
SV La Fama (Savaneta, Savaneta)
Lago
SV San Luis Deportivo (Savaneta, Savaneta)
R.C.A. = Racing Club Aruba
NB: the missing 1944 champions were either Aruba Juniors or Hollandia
Number of Wins 1930-1959 (24, 1 unknown)
NB: for the Captain R. Rodger Shield.
16 SV R.C.A. (Solito, Oranjestad)
4 Aruba Juniors (Oranjestad)
2 Hollandia (Oranjestad)
1 Lago
NB: the missing 1944 champions were either Aruba Juniors or Hollandia
Number of Wins 1960-1985 (25)
NB: before obtaining status aparte; number of runners-up finishes (25) between square brackets
14 [ 3] SV Dakota (Dakota, Oranjestad)
5 [ 7] SV R.C.A. (Solito, Oranjestad)
4 [11] SV Estrella (Papilon, Santa Cruz)
1 [ 1] SV Bubali (Bubali, Noord)
1 SV San Luis Deportivo (Savaneta, Savaneta)
[ 2] S.C.A.
[ 1] Tropical
Number of Wins since 1986 (36)
NB: since obtaining status aparte; number of runners-up finishes (35) between square brackets
(in 1989 the runners-up were not determined)
12 [10] SV R.C.A. (Solito, Oranjestad) [does not include LIPROF title 1990]
8 [ 5] SV Estrella (Papilon, Santa Cruz)
5 [ 6] SV Deportivo Nacional (Palm Beach, Noord)
5 [ 3] SV Britannia (Piedra Plat, Paradera)
3 [ 7] SV Dakota (Dakota, Oranjestad)
2 SV Riverplate (Madiki, Oranjestad)
1 [ 2] SV La Fama (Savaneta, Savaneta) [does not include LIPROF runners-up finish 1990]
[ 1] SV Bubali (Bubali, Noord)
[ 1] Jong San Nicolas
Main sources: Amigoe di Curaçao (available through Delpher), El Despertador (available at: Aruba National Library)
Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans and Randolf Laclé for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Authors: Karel Stokkermans and Randolf Laclé
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