# 1931 Argentine Primera División

The 1931 Primera División season was the 40th season of top-flight football in Argentina and the first to be professional in the country, after eighteen clubs broke away from the amateur league structure to form the professional league, "Liga Argentina de Football" (LAF). The inaugural champions was Boca Juniors led by coach Mario Fortunato. The top scorer of the championship was Alberto Zozaya of Estudiantes de La Plata with 33 goals.
The official body (AFA) remained amateur under the denomination "Asociación Amateurs Argentina de Football".

## Final tables
### Asociación Argentina de Football (AFA)

The championship had originally started on May 10, 1931 with 34 teams competing. After the first run was played, 19 teams disjoined the league to move to recently created Liga Argentina de Football (professional); they were Argentinos Juniors, Atlanta, Boca Juniors, Chacarita Juniors, Defensores de Belgrano, Estudiantes LP, Ferro Carril Oeste, Gimnasia y Esgrima LP, Huracán, Independiente, Lanús, Platense, Quilmes, Racing, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Talleres (RE), Tigre, and Vélez Sarsfield.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Almagro | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 13 | +32 | 26 |
| 2 | Estudiantil Porteño | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 17 | +14 | 26 |
| 3 | Sportivo Buenos Aires | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 16 | +10 | 22 |
| 4 | El Porvenir | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 20 | +14 | 21 |
| 5 | Excursionistas | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 17 |
| 6 | Nueva Chicago | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 24 | −2 | 17 |
| 7 | Argentino (Q) | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Sportivo Palermo | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 23 | +1 | 15 |
| 9 | Sportivo Barracas | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 30 | +5 | 14 |
| 10 | Barracas Central | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 26 | −4 | 14 |
| 11 | Estudiantes (BA) | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 23 | −3 | 13 |
| 12 | Colegiales | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 26 | −6 | 13 |
| 13 | Defensores de Belgrano | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 19 | −6 | 9 |
| 14 | Banfield | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 37 | −16 | 9 |
| 15 | Argentino (B) | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 25 | −13 | 6 |
| 16 | San Fernando | 15 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 48 | −35 | 2 |
* 1 2 Championship playoff

### Championship playoff

Estudiantil Porteño and Almagro finished level on points at the top of the table, so a championship playoff was played to proclaim a champion.

#### Final

| GK | José Bolgues |
| DF | José Migliozzi |
| DF | Alberto Bellomo |
| MF | Pedro Martínez |
| MF | Fidel Corátolo |
| MF | José Gargiulo |
| FW | Raúl Costa |
| FW | Julio Bissio |
| FW | Francisco Martínez |
| FW | Oscar Mapelli |
| FW | Carlos Spadaro |
| Manager: ||
| GK | Cándido De Nicola |
| DF | Francisco Santoro |
| DF | Humberto Recantini |
| MF | Mateo Fernández |
| MF | Carlos Gros |
| MF | José Aceto |
| FW | Héctor Oro |
| FW | Vicente Pérez |
| FW | Félix Varalli |
| FW | José Ciancio |
| FW | Oscar Correa |
| Manager: ||

### Liga Argentina de Football

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Boca Juniors | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 85 | 49 | +36 | 50 |
| 2 | San Lorenzo | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 81 | 52 | +29 | 45 |
| 3 | Estudiantes (LP) | 34 | 20 | 4 | 10 | 103 | 51 | +52 | 44 |
| 4 | River Plate | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 63 | 39 | +24 | 44 |
| 5 | Racing | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 81 | 51 | +30 | 43 |
| 6 | Independiente | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 69 | 60 | +9 | 43 |
| 7 | Chacarita Juniors | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 63 | 58 | +5 | 42 |
| 8 | Huracán | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 58 | 49 | +9 | 33 |
| 9 | Vélez Sarsfield | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 63 | 68 | −5 | 33 |
| 10 | Ferro Carril Oeste | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 74 | −14 | 32 |
| 11 | Argentinos Juniors | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 49 | 61 | −12 | 31 |
| 12 | Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 42 | 64 | −22 | 30 |
| 13 | Platense | 34 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 29 |
| 14 | Quilmes | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 53 | 62 | −9 | 29 |
| 15 | Talleres (RE) | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 48 | 68 | −20 | 24 |
| 16 | Tigre | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 47 | 70 | −23 | 23 |
| 17 | Lanús | 34 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 43 | 82 | −39 | 22 |
| 18 | Atlanta | 34 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 33 | 83 | −50 | 15 |

### Top goalscorers

| Pos | Name | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Alberto Zozaya | Estudiantes (LP) | 33 |
| 2 | Alejandro Scopelli | Estudiantes (LP) | 31 |
| 3 | Francisco Varallo | Boca Juniors | 27 |