Club Almagro

Almagro

Full name	Club Almagro
Nickname(s)	Tricolor
Founded	6 January 1911; 110 years ago (1911-01-06)
Ground	Estadio Tres de Febrero, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires
Capacity	19,000
Chairman	Julián Romeo
Manager	Gastón Esmerado
League	Primera B Nacional
2018–19	4th (Semi-finals Torneo Reducido)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Almagro is an Argentine sports club from José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires, although its headquarters are in the Almagro district. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

History[]

The team that won the Primera B title in 1937.

In 1968 Almagro won another title and promoted to Primera.

Almagro was founded on January 6, 1911, in the Almagro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club still has its sports facilities there for its members, but the football stadium (with a capacity of 19,000) is located in José Ingenieros, in the Tres de Febrero Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.

In 1919 there was a new splitting in Argentine football, so both leagues were played at the same time: official Asociación Argentina de Football (with one of Almagro predecessors, Columbian, as one of its teams) and dissident "Asociación Amateurs de Football". During that season, Columbian was going through a severe economic crisis, disputing its last game v. Boca Juniors in the 6th fixture. Some executives of recently promoted Club Almagro, leadered by Miguel de Zárate made Columbial a merger proposal, which was accepted.

Therefore, Almagro renamed "Sportivo Almagro" and continued playing in Primera División (debuting in the 7th fixture vs Platense) under its new denomination, which avoided the club to be disaffiliated.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Almagro played one year in first division in 1938 after winning the first second division tournament that awarded a promotion. Later the team won the 1968 second division tournament, but had to participate in the "reclasificatorio" tournament with first division teams and other second division teams and didn't win promotion.

The Tricolores played most of the time in second division, a few years in third division, but in 2000 and 2004 they won the promotion to Primera División, only to be relegated both times after only one season playing at the top level.

In 2000 Almagro returned to Primera División after beating Instituto de Córdoba by 1–0 (2–1 on aggregate) at relegation playoffs (named "Promoción" in Argentina).

Players[]

As of 17 September 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ARG Lucas Calviño — GK  ARG Fermín Holgado — GK  ARG Christian Limousin — DF  ARG Ramiro Arias — DF  ARG Nicolás Arrechea — DF  ARG Nahuel Basualdo — DF  URU Sebastián Diana — DF  ARG Marco Lambert — DF  ARG Santiago López (on loan from San Lorenzo) — DF  ARG Luis Lorenzo — DF  ARG Norberto Paparatto — MF  ARG Brian Benítez (on loan from San Lorenzo) — MF  ARG Lucas Bossio — MF  ARG Alejandro Gallego — MF  ARG Germán Herrera

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Gonzalo Jaque (on loan from San Lorenzo) — MF  ARG Iván Kabobel — MF  ARG Maxmiliano Rueda — MF  ARG Patricio Toranzo — MF  ARG Gustavo Turraca — MF  ARG Lucas Wilchez — FW  ARG Ramiro Ausa — FW  ARG Agustín Coscia — FW  ARG Ezequiel Denis (on loan from Independiente) — FW  ARG Román Martinangeli — FW  ARG Juan Manuel Martínez — FW  ARG José Méndez — FW  ARG Facundo Suarez — FW  ARG Jonathan Torres

Former players[]

• Luciano Cigno
• Leonardo Costas

Honours[]

• Primera B (2): 1937, 1968 ^[8]
• Primera C (1): 1971 ^[8]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Club Almagro.

• Official website
• Almagro 100
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