Club Almagro

Almagro
Full nameClub Almagro
Nickname(s)Tricolor
Founded6 January 1911; 113 years ago (1911-01-06)
GroundEstadio Tres de Febrero, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires
Capacity19,000
ChairmanJulio Cucchi
ManagerJonás Gutiérrez
LeaguePrimera Nacional
2023Primera Nacional Zone A, 17th
Websitealmagro.club
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 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 6 January 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.[citation needed]

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).[citation needed]

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 Argentina ARG Cristian Aracena
GK Argentina ARG Emilio González (loan from Estudiantes)
GK Argentina ARG Ezequiel Navarro
DF Argentina ARG Nahuel Basualdo
DF Argentina ARG Dante Cardozo
DF Argentina ARG Francisco Delorenzi
DF Argentina ARG Nicolás Dematei
DF Argentina ARG Leonardo Ferreyra
DF Argentina ARG Mauricio Guzmán (loan from Estudiantes)
DF Argentina ARG Gonzalo Jaque
DF Argentina ARG Brian Machuca
DF Argentina ARG Sebastián Valdez
MF Argentina ARG Gastón Blanc
MF Argentina ARG Federico Boasso
MF Argentina ARG Agustín Bolívar (loan from Gimnasia LP)
MF Argentina ARG Matías De Jesús
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Argentina ARG Facundo Díaz
MF Argentina ARG Facundo Fabello
MF Argentina ARG Gonzalo Giménez
MF Argentina ARG Gonzalo Martínez
MF Argentina ARG Juan José Ramírez
MF Argentina ARG Walter Rueda
MF Argentina ARG Franco Sivetti
FW Argentina ARG Favio Cabral (loan from Talleres)
FW Argentina ARG Sebastián Cocimano (loan from Gimnasia LP)
FW Argentina ARG Tomás Conechny
FW Argentina ARG Juan Da Rosa (loan from Independiente)
FW Argentina ARG Enzo Fernández
FW Argentina ARG Emanuel Mercado
FW Argentina ARG Nicolás Servetto
FW Argentina 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 Argentina ARG Marco Lambert (at Talleres RE until 31 December 2022)

Former players

Honours

National

League

References