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Club Atlético Colón

Club Atlético Colón

Club Atlético Colón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko koˈlon]), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe [koˈlon de santa ˈfe], is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the first division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera División.

Colón
Full nameClub Atlético Colón
Nickname(s)Los Sabaleros[2]
FoundedMay 5, 1905 (1905-05-05)[3]
GroundEstadio B.G. Estanislao López,
(Cementerio de los Elefantes),[4]
Santa Fe
Capacity47,000
ChairmanJosé Nestor Viganatti
ManagerPablo Lavallén
LeaguePrimera División
2018–1924th
WebsiteClub website [23]
Home colours
Away colours

History

The 1965 team that won the Primera B title promoting to Primera División.

The 1965 team that won the Primera B title promoting to Primera División.

The club was founded on 5 May 1905, as "Colón Foot-ball Club" by a group of friends that were enthusiastic about football. It was named after Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus), whose biography was being studied by one of the boys at the time.[5]

In 1965 Colon won the Primera B title.[6]

The first game played by Colón in Primera was v Chacarita Juniors on 6 May 1966. After the first season in the top level Colón finished 16th,[7] but the following year the structure of Argentine football was changed so as there were two championships each season, the Metropolitano and the Nacional, with entrance to the latter originally only available to the higher placed Metropolitano teams. Colon did not qualify for the Nacional until 1968, although the squad did then managed a 6th place finish.

Colón finished 2nd in their group in the 1972 Nacional.[8]

In 1975 the team made a good campaign in the Metropolitano, finishing in 6th place. This got better two years later, when Colón finished 5th in the Metropolitano, although the team then struggled in the Nacional. In 1978 Colón reached the knockout stages of the Nacional but was beaten in the quarter-finals by Independiente.

Colon was relegated from the Metropolitana in 1981 having won only 6 games that season It was to take 14 years for Colón to return to the top division (for the 1995–96 season). During the intervening period the team came close to promotion on a number of occasions, and lost Promotion Play-off games in 1988–89 to arch-rivals Union 3–0 on aggregate, and in 1992–93 Colón lost the championship play-off, being defeated by Banfield and then failed to qualify through the secondary play-offs.

After a few mid-table finishes Colón was placed 2nd in the 1997 Clausura tournament, which is team's highest placed finish to date. As River Plate won both titles that season, a play-off was required between the two runners-up.[9] In December 1997 Colón defeated Independiente 1–0 to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 1998.[9] In the 2016-17 season, Colón drew an average home league attendance of 25,000.

South American Tournament Qualification

Colon made their South American debut in the Copa CONMEBOL 1997 against Universidad de Chile. They subsequently reached the semi-finals where they lost to fellow Argentine side Lanús.

They made their debut in South America's most prestigious club tournament (Copa Libertadores) the following season. Their first game in the group stage was a 1–2 home defeat to River Plate, although they were still to qualify for the knockout stages. After beating Olimpia on penalties they were again drawn to play River Plate, but were defeated 5–2 on aggregate in the quarter-final.

In 2003, they qualified for their 3rd different continental competition (Copa Sudamericana), and they defeated Vélez Sársfield before losing to Boca Juniors.[10]

Stadium

The club's current stadium is the Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López, which holds 33,500 spectators. The ground was inaugurated in 1946, and received a renovation in 2002.[4]

Players

Current squad

As of 17 July 2019[11]

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

No.PositionPlayer
1UruguayGKLeonardo Burián
4ArgentinaMFTomás Moschión
5ArgentinaMFMatías Fritzler
6ArgentinaDFEmanuel Olivera
8ArgentinaMFFernando Zuqui
9ArgentinaFWNicolás Leguizamón
10ArgentinaFWLuis Miguel Rodríguez
11ColombiaMFGuillermo Celis(on loan from Vitória)
12ArgentinaFWTomás Chancalay
15ArgentinaMFDamián Schmidt
16ArgentinaDFFranco Quiroz
17ArgentinaGKIgnacio Chicco
19ArgentinaDFAlex Vigo
22ArgentinaGKJoaquín Hass
23ArgentinaMFChristian Bernardi
No.PositionPlayer
24ArgentinaDFGuillermo Ortiz
26ArgentinaFWJuan Cruz Zurbriggen
27ColombiaFWWilson Morelo
28ParaguayMFMarcelo Estigarribia(on loan from Deportivo Maldonado)
29ArgentinaMFBraian Galván
30ArgentinaDFGabriel Esparza
31ArgentinaDFGonzalo Escobar
32ArgentinaFWTomás Sandoval
34ArgentinaMFMateo Hernández
37ArgentinaFWSantiago Pierotti
ArgentinaMFJuan Bauza
ArgentinaMFRodrigo Aliendro
ArgentinaDFLucas Acevedo
ArgentinaDFGastón Díaz

Out on loan

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

No.PositionPlayer

Managers

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Antonio Mohamed (2008–10)[12]

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Fernando Gamboa (2010–11?)[13]

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Mario Sciaqua (2011?–12)[14]

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Roberto Sensini (2012–13)[15]

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Rubén Forestello (2013)[16][17]

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x|Argentina|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Diego Osella (2014)[18][19]

Honours

National

  • Primera B: 1965

  • Torneo de Honor[1]: 1950 [21]

References

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