Does the Opening 2025 tournament count as a league or as a National Cup? :: Olé

Hurricane and Platense will play the final of the Opening 2025 tournament this Sunday from 5:00 p.m. in the mother of cities of Santiago del Estero. The balloon will go for its 14th title, while the squid will try to lift the first in the maximum division. And the unknown that is triggered is: Does this tournament count as a league or as a National Cup?

Despite having a format identical to the Professional League Cup (with the proviso that in this one they classified only four per zone), which was counted as a National Cup, This opening will be considered a league, as it is exhibited in the regulations of this contest.

The same will happen with the Clausura Tournament, The contest that will be played in the second semester, which will have the same format as the opening and in which only the locations will be invested. Thus, already difference from the previous years, in this 2025 there will be two league champions and not one of the League and one from the National Cup, as happened in 2024 and in the previous years with the Professional League and the Professional League Cup.

It should be noted that the First Division Championships (considered leagues) have been carried out since 1891 in Argentina and uninterrupted since 1893. National Cups (In this 2025 they would be the Argentine Cup, the champions trophy, the Argentine Super Cup and the International Super Cup)on the other hand, they have been carried out since 1900 and have been discontinued over time with various names, formats and regulations.

Hurricane, then, will go in search of his sixth league (his other eight titles are national glasses) and platense for the first. In that sense, How is the ranking of the League and Cup champions? And that of national titles (leagues + glasses)?

Currently, the top leagues is River, which accumulates 38; They complete the Top 10 Boca (35), Racing (18), Independiente (16), San Lorenzo (15), Vélez (11), Newell's (6), Students of La Plata (6), Hurricane (5) and Rosario Central (4).

As for national glasses, the top winner is currently Boca, with 17 trophies; They complete the Top 10 River (16), Racing (15), Independiente (9), Hurricane (8), Rosario Central (7), Students of La Plata (5), Newell's (3), Lanús (3) and Arsenal (2).