Almagro

Full name	Club Almagro
Nickname(s)	Tricolor
Founded	6 January 1911 (1911-01-06)
Ground	Estadio Tres de Febrero, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires
Capacity	19,000
Chairman	Julio Cucchi
Manager	Jonás Gutiérrez
League	Primera Nacional
2023	Primera Nacional Zone A, 17th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

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 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, led 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 8 June 2022

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 Cristian Aracena — GK  ARG Emilio González (loan from Estudiantes) — GK  ARG Ezequiel Navarro — DF  ARG Nahuel Basualdo — DF  ARG Dante Cardozo — DF  ARG Francisco Delorenzi — DF  ARG Nicolás Dematei — DF  ARG Leonardo Ferreyra — DF  ARG Mauricio Guzmán (loan from Estudiantes) — DF  ARG Gonzalo Jaque — DF  ARG Brian Machuca — DF  ARG Sebastián Valdez — MF  ARG Gastón Blanc — MF  ARG Federico Boasso — MF  ARG Agustín Bolívar (loan from Gimnasia LP) — MF  ARG Matías De Jesús

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Facundo Díaz — MF  ARG Facundo Fabello — MF  ARG Gonzalo Giménez — MF  ARG Gonzalo Martínez — MF  ARG Juan José Ramírez — MF  ARG Walter Rueda — MF  ARG Franco Sivetti — FW  ARG Favio Cabral (loan from Talleres) — FW  ARG Sebastián Cocimano (loan from Gimnasia LP) — FW  ARG Tomás Conechny — FW  ARG Juan Da Rosa (loan from Independiente) — FW  ARG Enzo Fernández — FW  ARG Emanuel Mercado — FW  ARG Nicolás Servetto — FW  ARG Franco Coman

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Marco Lambert (at Talleres RE until 31 December 2022)

Former players

• Luciano Cigno
• Leonardo Costas

Honours

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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Club Almagro.

• Official website
• Almagro 100
• Digital Magazine